Tag: Baptist

• Being One of the Seven

  Tuesday Re-mix –  those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in…

  Blake

  October 8, 2013

  Everyone’s a Minister, leadership

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• Stumbling over the “Stumbling Block” Metaphor

  Tuesday Re-mix – Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.  1 Corinthians 8:9 I do not drink alcohol.  I do have plenty of friends who believe I should…and there was a time in my life when I did.  But when I got out of…

  Blake

  October 30, 2012

  5 Principles of Unity, Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Corinthians, Genuine Community, Spiritual Formation, the revolution

  1 Corinthians 8, alcohol, Baptist, block, church, drinking, idols, Jewish, meat, Paul, preference, revolution, sacrifice, stumbling, truth, weak-minded

• Theology as God

  Tuesday Re-mix – “Theology is the science of religion, an intellectual attempt to systematize the consciousness of God. If we take the doctrine of the Trinity (which is a noble attempt of the mind of man to put into a theological formula the Godhead as revealed in the Bible) and say – ‘That is God,’…

  Blake

  April 3, 2012

  Church Unity, conflict, Spiritual Formation

  Baptist, Christianity, church, construct, deification, denomination, doctrine, election, idolatry, illustration, intellectual, Jesus, Lutheran, metaphor, Oswald Chambers, predestination, theology, Trinity