Tag: 1 Samuel 16

• Who Gets to Determine Our Identity?

  So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.” 1 Samuel 16:10 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because…

  Blake

  June 18, 2015

  Christian Accountability, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, millennials, missional, Spiritual Formation

  1 Samuel 16, black, clay, conservative, David, father, female, gender, identity, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesse, king, liberal, male, potter, Psalm 139, race, Samuel, sexual, white

• Seeing Through the Flaws in Your Shepherd

  Thursday Re-mix: The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.  1 Samuel 16:7b Most of the church conflicts into which I get called are swirling (at one level or another) around a pastor.  And most of the opposition parties I…

  Blake

  July 17, 2014

  Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, Pastor Search

  1 Samuel 16, church, David, dysfunction, failure, family, leadership, pastor, relationships, shepherd