In Motherhood For Life

Keith and Donielle Wilde are expecting their tenth child, now 17 weeks in gestation, and the baby is already a hero. Thanks to the pregnancy, doctors discovered an ovarian tumor which then revealed her breast cancer had returned after a nine-year remission. Her doctors have asked her to consider an abortion because the baby will not survive Donielle's cancer treatment. Donielle's reaction: Cancer treatment will have to wait until the baby is born, resulting in critical time lost in the effective treatment of her breast cancer.

Donielle's response should be an inspiration to businessmen and women who risk home and business when putting principle over personal welfare.

Matthew 16:24
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

For full story: http://www.lifenews.com/2014/07/18/mother-pregnant-with-her-10th-child-refuses-cancer-treatment-and-abortion/

In Business For Death?

I scream, you scream, we all scream for....?

A business is evidently trying to make the world a better place for death. The Oregon-based What's the Scoop ice cream parlor is offering "Rose City Revolution" ice cream as a limited-edition flavor to commemorate legal abortion and rally area abortion rights supporters.

Any Portland, Oregon pro-life businesses out there interested in a counter offer that is really worthy screaming for, instead of against?

https://www.facebook.com/events/528120617309820

Family business says "No" to anti-family practice

32 year-old Brother Frommeyer unwittingly contracted his New Orleans-based company, River Parish Disposal, to help prepare a site for a "medical complex" only to later find a poison pill in this deal -- babies would be aborted. Read this inspiring story by Peter Finney, Jr., in the Clarion Herald.

CEOs against cancer

"It's a good idea, but it won't cure cancer."

Phrases like that represent the magnitude of the disease called cancer; the affliction is so massive and so complex that its cure is deeply embedded in our lexicon of skepticism. Everybody wants cancer cured but precious few have the personal, professional and economic margin to commit to something so elusive and seemingly inevitable, and that is why In Business For Life finds Warner Baxter intriguing. Leaders tend to take on challenges that they can reasonably see solved in a finite period or season of time, but cancer is something that requires being content with small yardage instead of quick scores. 

There are similar causes in this category: curing AIDS and a host of crippling diseases known mostly to third world country remains a hard slog, but there are other long term problems that get less visibility that IBFL readers might consider adopting. Adoption (and especially cross-cultural, cross-ethnic adoption) come to mind. Opposing the opening and sustenance of abortion clinics is another hard slog. 

IBFL commends Warner Baxter, CEO of Ameren Missouri, of leveraging his personal and professional margin for a hard slog of a cause. 

CEOs Against Cancer site: http://www.acsworkplacesolutions.com/ceosagainstcancer.asp. 

Active or Passive Witness? Bible says: Yep.

Chris Patton at Christian Faith at Work writes a helpful, concise post about two competing schools of thought that really should not be competing: whether believers should be active (evangelizing by the initiative spoken word) or passive (evangelizing by life style and example). If the "active" school is too aggressive and the "passive" school too quiet, Patton's essay is a refreshing reminder that the Bible calls us to be doers in word and deed.

He commends the active:

"Barna reports that roughly 40% of the U.S. adult population is unchurched. That means there are plenty of people around you in the workplace that need what you have. They need you to share your faith."

He commends the passive:

"This means your business practices are to be above reproach. You are to walk what you talk! You are to live out all that Jesus has commanded us – in every facet of your life. You are not free to live as you please simply because you are good at approaching complete strangers with the truth of the gospel.