Category: Things Dad Taught Me

• “I Can Do All Things…”

  Tuesday Re-mix – I can do all things through him who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13 (NASB) I grew up with a pretty healthy dose of Zig Ziglar and Norman Vincent Peale and The Power of Positive Thinking…or at least with my Dad’s slightly more scriptural version of that philosophy.  Dad used to always say to me,…

  Blake

  October 2, 2012

  Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Gifts, Things Dad Taught Me

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• It is Always About the People

  Tuesday Re-mix – My Dad had a kind of a rule when we went on vacation.  Well, maybe it was just a strong preference or philosophy.  Sometimes those things all can sound the same with Dad.  🙂  Dad felt strongly that, when taking pictures on vacation, there should be a person in every one of…

  Blake

  September 25, 2012

  Church Unity, Genuine Community, leadership, Things Dad Taught Me

  buildings, church, people, photographs, pictures, programs, scenery, vacation

• The Routine Maintenance of Every Relationship

  Tuesday Re-mix – And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,  not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another…  Hebrews 10:24-25 As a teenager starting to drive, I spent one Saturday afternoon learning from Dad how to change the…

  Blake

  September 18, 2012

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Forgiveness, Genuine Community, leadership, Peacemakers, Reconciliation, Things Dad Taught Me

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