We can indeed engage the Great Commission wherever we go – even in the marketplace. What does that look like for you?
There's a self-soothing saying I've heard for most of my life: "God will never give you more than you can handle." It's a bit of psychological gamesmanship, a way of shoring up our courage when we are facing a difficult season – I can do this! If God allowed it, I...
Today we saw how many of the marketplace skills that we have as believers can fit into God’s story and work in the world
Perhaps your office wall is already wallpapered with certificates, diplomas, and other marketplace achievements. Regardless of how many skills you've mastered in your career, here's one I'm going to challenge you to brush up on: Prayer. In fact, I believe that prayer...
The B4T Canvas is a template for mapping Business as Missions (BAM) structures that are focused on reaching Unreached People Groups (UPGs).
When we begin to reimagine the marketplace, business, and entrepreneurship through the lens of the Gospel, we will see the opportunity to proclaim the name of Jesus through business.
As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered these words I wrote nine years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. I hope it encourages you. Momentary affliction is our current reality, but resurrection is our eternal promise. And resurrection dawns in the...
Do you find yourself striving for success, looking for certain markers to prove that you have arrived? What if everything you thought about success, achievement, and high performance was skewed? Well in this week’s video, we are discussing the secret to high performance and how to achieve it with ease, but it might not be at all what you are thinking. Let’s dive in.
If there is a mantra of the modern world, it's "be true to yourself." It's the spoken and unspoken worldview that drives so much of our culture today. It can even infect how we follow Jesus, embracing faith as a self-help strategy to live our best lives now....
In the 1987 cult classic The Princess Bride, Vizzini, the Sicilian mastermind, is constantly outmatched by heroic Wesley. Every time his new scheme is thwarted, he looks at his hired henchman and declares with a lisp, “inconceivable!” This happens again and again as...
My name is Sanford Swanson. I know it's hard to believe with this baby face, but for 18 and a half years, I've been a police officer. For the last 8 and a half years, I’ve been in West Lafayette, Indiana, where I get the privilege of raising my family alongside my...
We just got back from a whirlwind three days in Peru, up in the Andes Mountains, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. I've almost recovered the oxygen I lost during that trip. While we were there, we got to talk to my new friend, missionary Bob Holloway,...
I'll go back to Philippians 4:6-7: "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace." So that means, basically, the more time you spend with God, the more peace...