Category: Matthew 18

• Of Drownings and Gouged Eyes

  Tuesday Re-mix – This is a popular post from the past, updated and resubmitted for your consideration and comments. Little boy sleepovers and little girl slumber parties are two pretty different things. I learned this as a father of girls, whose wildest conversations in the slumber parties we hosted don’t even register on the “grotesqueness”…

  Blake

  November 15, 2016

  Genuine Community, Matthew 18, Spiritual Formation

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• The Lion, the Sheep and the Bathrobe

  Tuesday Re-mix: I have a sort of recurring day dream about my first appearance before God at Judgment time. It’s probably horrible theology on a number of levels, but I just can’t seem to shake the picture, and it is all because of a cool little comment Jesus makes in John 17:12… While I was with…

  Blake

  November 18, 2014

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, Matthew 18

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• Investing in a Sure Thing

  For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land. Jeremiah 32:15 “I’m not religious…but I’m spiritual.” It is the mantra of an entire young adult generation who has left the church. They would say they have not given up on God, but they have had…

  Blake

  April 17, 2014

  Matthew 18, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

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