The following is a guest post, contributed by one of the OPEN Services team members in USA. I watched a Ted talk the other day, about how simple interactions can be more far-reaching than you know. The speaker told a story about how handing out a lollipop on Freshman...
This is post 9 of 9 in a series about the book of Jeremiah. Data is a tricky thing. When people say, “the data doesn’t lie,” I often wonder how hard they’ve looked. True, the bare facts of the data technically don’t lie, but it’s actually fairly easy to make a large...
This is part 2 of 9 in a series about Jeremiah. Jeremiah was appointed to be a prophet before he was formed in the womb (1:5) and he was assigned his role at a very early age. Jeremiah rebutted, “I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth” (1:6). God replied,...
This is part 7 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. When you have made significant progress in God’s work, the enemy will have no choice but to do his worst to stop you. After suffering through culture shock, mastering the local language, and building a network of locals...
This is part 6 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. The startup phase is not just busy—it’s downright tumultuous. A good entrepreneur knows that sometimes she needs to lift her head up and work “on” the business and not just “in” the business. As such, if we aren’t...
This is part 5 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. Nehemiah gains momentum, and then in 4:1-3 the opposition arrives. It comes via some traditional enemies of the Jews, but as is often the case—like the Jewish tax collectors in Rome 450 years later—there are Jewish...
There are few closed doors to doing business. The opportunities are as wide as a man's ingenuity, as deep as his character, and as high as his faith in God.
