by Patrick Lai | Apr 27, 2021 | Coaches, Discipleship, Leadership
In the book “If It Ain’t Broke … Break It!” Robert Kriegel shares a story I’ve never forgotten. I knew all about focusing on strengths and not emphasizing weaknesses, I had read the research, I had even written about it. Yet it slipped my mind when dealing...
by Patrick Lai | Mar 11, 2019 | Coaches, Discipleship, Leadership, Strategy
Part 1 of a series of blogs on discipleship. Thanks to Jim Petersen for many of these ideas in this series of blogs, and to Mike Kotecki who originally discipled me. In Matthew 9, we read that Jesus was traveling and teaching around Galilee. One day He stopped and...
by Patrick Lai | Dec 4, 2018 | Coaches, Strategy, Success
We actually know little from Matthew about these men, but speculation is rampant about their names, homeland, how many of them there actually were. The three (perhaps) Magi who traveled (possibly) 1,000 miles, for (likely) many weeks, on a quest to meet the “King of...
by Patrick Lai | Aug 14, 2017 | Coaches, Discipleship
Imagine a coach trying to develop a world class soccer (football) team. Where would he invest most of his time—in the classroom or on the playing field? Would he have his team studying books about the soccer techniques of Pele? No! He would have them out on the...
by Patrick Lai | Aug 7, 2017 | B4T, Coaches, Leadership
Training. With Jesus as our model, we walk away from a structured approach to training. Jesus dealt with people, including His disciples, as individuals. He had no cookie cutter approach to discipleship. There were no programs. No one was sent off to Bible school to...
by Patrick Lai | Jul 2, 2017 | B4T, Coaches
The following is written by one of our coaches. At 60 years of age, he and his wife moved to the Middle East where he coaches B4T businesses around the Arab world. Twenty-Four hours ago there was a bombing, the city my wife and I currently call home, as well as a...
