Tag: American

• What Does Your Church Need God For?

  Tuesday Re-mix: Sell your possessions, and give to the needy… For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  Luke 12:33-34 The parable of the rich fool is, I think, a difficult lesson for the American church…a bit like teaching personal hygiene to a rodent…where do you even begin?  Let’s be honest here, the American…

  Blake

  December 16, 2014

  Church Communications, leadership, prayer, Spiritual Formation, strategic planning, The Church’s Influence

  American, budget, building, Christmas, church, Jesus, Luke 12, material, pageant, prayer, rich, wealth

• Truth, Bias, and the American Way

  Tuesday Re-mix: Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.  2 Peter 1:20-21 As a trial attorney, I suppose I…

  Blake

  October 21, 2014

  Church Communications, conflict, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence

  2 Peter 1, American, bias, church, culture, gay, gender, homosexual, journalism, juror, jury, LGBT, media, news, scripture, secular, Spiritual, truth, voir dire

• 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

  agenda, American, Christian, church, faithfulness, Hobby Lobby, independence, inspire, leadership, obedience, political, Samuel, Saul, social