Category: Why I Love My Pastor

• Relationships: the Building Blocks of God’s Work

  Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 1 Corinthians 3:12-13 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the…

  Blake

  June 14, 2018

  Church Unity, Everyone’s a Minister, Genuine Community, gospel, missional, Why I Love My Pastor

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• That the World Might See

   “I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope…

  Blake

  September 4, 2014

  Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence, Why I Love My Pastor

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• Loving Obedience is Caught, not Taught

  Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices     as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice,     and to heed is better than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22 My dear (now deceased) friend and Board member, Warren Clark, loved telling a story about teaching some of our materials on reconciliation in a church…

  Blake

  July 8, 2014

  Church/State issues, leadership, missional, prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation, Why I Love My Pastor

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