Category: Discerning God’s Will Together

• Life Change as the Measure of Ministry

  And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.  They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked…

  Blake

  January 14, 2020

  leadership, missional, strategic planning

  000, 5, baskets, bread, church, feeding, fish, goals, Jesus, loaves, Matthew 14, ministry, mission, objectives, planning, strategic, vision

• The Weapons of Outrage (and Why They Won’t Work in the Church)

  For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ… 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 A Broken Culture I don’t…

  Blake

  November 15, 2018

  Church Unity, Church/State issues, conflict, Corinthians, Discerning God’s Will Together, gospel, prayer

  2 Corinthians 10, church, culture wars, discourse, identity, mediation, outrage, Paul, politics, social, weapons

• These Are the Times that Try Churches’ Souls

  These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him…

  Blake

  May 31, 2018

  Church/State issues, Discerning God’s Will Together, gospel, leadership, The Church’s Influence

  Abraham, church, culture, Genesis 22, Isaac, Moriah, political, politics, sacrifice, test, Thomas Paine