Tag: agenda

• Bracing for a 16-Month Season of Rants

  Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to…

  Blake

  August 13, 2015

  Church Communications, conflict, leadership, missional

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• Foreigners in Our Own Country

  Tuesday Re-mix: …live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.  1 Peter 1:17 Every year my ministry takes a team to South Africa. It is always a Spirit-filled time with old friends and new friends alike. Over my years of making this trip, I have come to know some things about that country…things about it’s people, it’s society, and…

  Blake

  September 23, 2014

  Church/State issues, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

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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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