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African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
INTRODUCTION TO “ABI DEVOTIONALS”
“ABI Devotionals” are transcribed voice recordings of ABI’s daily class devotionals. They are designed primarily for ABI’s Christian student body.
Love, Fear, and Business Leadership
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But it is just the beginning, not the end.
Different cultures tend to have different perceptions of what an ideal father-son relationship looks like. And it’s easy to project our own view of what our relationship with our Heavenly Father should look like BASED upon what our relationship with our earthly father was like.
I gr ..read more
African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
Jesus Knows Both the “What” And the “Where”
John 6:1-5
“Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the sign she had performed by healing the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. The Jewish Passover Festival was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
As entrepreneurs, one of the things that drive us crazy is numbers. Right after y ..read more
African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
“ABI Devotionals” are transcribed voice recordings of ABI’s daily class devotionals. This episode is the second in a devotionals series called “Battles an Entrepreneur Will Face”
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are yet he did not sin.
One of the most common battles all entrepreneurs face is the battle with loneliness; the truth and the lie that you are alone.
It is true in the sense that being special, by default, results in loneliness, the sense of being different ..read more
African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
Introduction to “ABI Devotionals”
“ABI Devotionals” are transcribed voice recordings of ABI’s daily class devotionals. This episode is the first in a devotionals series called “Battles an Entrepreneur Will Face”.
What is “a siege”?
A siege is where an army attacks a city or a castle and instead of going in to fight face to face, they surround the city or castle, not allowing food or people or anything to come in or out. And then, they wait for years and years until the city finally gives up after having eaten everything they own. In Jerusalem in 70AD, for example, the very sad version of ..read more
African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
What is the most positive and creative idea you’ve hatched during COVID-19 lockdown? Just take a few minutes to consider this - some of the biggest companies in the world were born during times of crisis. These companies include:
Walt Disney Company during the US Great Depression
FedEx during in response to the 1970 US Recession
Microsoft during the 1973 oil shock and stock market crash
Most crises in history have overlapping similarities (e.g. economic recessions, lay offs), but each also comes with unique new normals, new needs, new ways to serve, and new ways to matte ..read more
African Business Institute Blog
3y ago
An open letter to all young Christians seeking for God’s calling in today’s Corona-stricken times.
God has clicked the “pause” button for the entire globe. For billions of people, that ever-speeding, ever-noisy, ever-stressful thing called life has suddenly taken a break. It is as if the Creator looked upon His creation, a world driving itself increasingly insane, and announced, “Be still, and know that I am God (Psalm 16:10)”. A world that was increasingly confusing motion for progress has been force-fed a “chill pill”. And for the first time for many of us, we have been given a precio ..read more