Gerald R. Chester

Business Consultant: consulting, coaching, teaching, and training based on the timeless universal principles of success presented in my book Beyond Babel.

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Henry Ford said: “Why is it that I always get the whole person, when what I really want is a pair of hands?” Henry did not understand that hiring a person meant hiring their worldview. He didn’t want the consequences of their worldview, he just . . .
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Early in Jesus’s final years , he spent time in Galilea, including traveling to towns on the Sea of Galilee. On one occasion, he returned to Capernaum. Upon his arrival, the local synagogue leader, was waiting with an urgent request. His daughter was . . .
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If you agree that a Christian worldview is the only correct worldview, then the Bible must guide your thinking and understanding of truth and reality. This means that organizational behavior should be regulated by Scripture. The starting point is . . .

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Early in the final few years of Jesus’ life on earth, he spent time in Galilee. On one occasion, he directed his disciples to go with him from the western shore to the eastern shore . During their journey, Jesus took a nap. While he was sleeping . . .
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The principles for building organizations man’s ways (humanistically) are starkly different from God’s ways. But in a created universe, the only correct way to build anything is God’s ways. Below are seven common workplace questions that . . .
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In the biological accounts of Jesus’s life, there are more than thirty parables. Jesus used these to convey truth and to hide truth. For example, in Luke 8:4–8, he offered the parable of the sower. His disciples were unclear about the meaning. So, He said
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In the battle for ruling the created order, mankind wrestles with God. Will it be man’s will and ways or God’s will and ways? There are four possible answers but there is only one correct—theologically sound—answer. If you are committed to . . .
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On one occasion, Jesus was invited to dinner at the home of a religious leader. Somehow a woman of the city (probably a prostitute) found out about the dinner and was able to enter the home. This set the stage for Jesus to . . .
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The difference between Genesis 1–2 and Genesis 3 is the entrance of sin into the universe by the actions of Adam and Eve. And the difference between Revelation 20 and Revelation 21–22 is the elimination of . . ..
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Dennis Peacocke wrote on the topic “Will America Ever Be Great Again?” in the January 2026 issue of The Bottom Line. His key idea: Greatness is defined by God’s standards. He noted that it takes a particular worldview to discover and obey . . .
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Adam Smith’s theory of the invisible hand states that for each product or service there is an interplay among the forces of supply and demand, competition, and self-interest. Smith, an eighteenth-century Scottish economist and philosopher, is . . .
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It is difficult to believe that Jesus ever marveled at anything. But there are occasions recorded in Scripture when he did.
The first was early in his final phase of life as an itinerant teacher.
The other account was an encounter with a Roman leader .
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If the ultimate source of truth is the Bible, we must learn how to interpret the Bible, using the methodology and theory commonly called . . .
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Forgiveness

In the 1930s, American teachers and missionaries James and Charma Covell arrived in Japan with their children: Peggy, Alice, and David. By 1940, the winds of war were stirring. For safety, the Baptist Mission Society . . .

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The good news of the kingdom of God as revealed in Scripture is the only solution to the bad news of sin and death. The state of sin and death is the abnormal state. The divine objective is to . . .
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The word beatitude is commonly translated happiness. This word is used to express some of the concepts found in the Sermon of the Mount (Mat 5) and the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6). It appears that Jesus spoke these words at the beginning of the . . .
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When Jesus died on the cross, there were two criminals who died at the same time. One responded as a skeptic. The other rebuked the skeptic, demonstrating humility by recognizing there was a . . .
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In the Creation account, the Sabbath is first mentioned as the seventh day after God finished his work. God rested and blessed this day and declared it holy, meaning “set apart.” God didn’t need rest as humans do, but he illustrated . . .
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Abraham modeled a life of faith. An illustration of walking by faith can be seen in aviation using the imagery of flying by instruments. In aviation, flying by instruments is navigating without external visual references. Similar to a walking by faith . .
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Was Jesus Evangelical?
For the past three hundred years, a significant number of professing Christians have self-identified as evangelicals. Their common convictions include:

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