Tag: arrogance

• The Missing Piece in our Social Discourse

  “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and…

  Blake

  August 24, 2017

  Church Communications, Church Unity, conflict, Genuine Community, Reconciliation, Spiritual Gifts, The Church’s Influence

  arrogance, attitude, church, conflict, conversation, discourse, division, humility, Jesus, Paul, Philippians 2, social media

• I Want Maturity (and I Want it Now)

  Thursday Re-mix: Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother…

  Blake

  June 5, 2014

  leadership, Spiritual Formation

  arrogance, character, church, clergy, education, elder, Gen X, Genesis 37, growth, Joseph, leader, learning, maturity, pastor, truth, youth

• Pride and Prejudice

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. Luke 18:10-11 There is perhaps no smaller thinking in the church than when…

  Blake

  January 9, 2014

  leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence

  arrogance, Bible, church, gospel, homosexual, humility, Luke 18, prayer, pride, traditional