Tag: culture

• Loving Against the Grain

  Tuesday Re-mix – You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— you who have received the […]

  Blake

  October 15, 2013

  Christian Accountability, Church Communications, Church/State issues, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence

  abortion, Acts 7, church, culture, discrimination, gay, God, grace, hell, lesbian, love, murder, prayer, sacrifice, sin, sinner, Stephen, tension, truth

• Being One of the Cool Kids

  Tuesday Re-mix – Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the Lord.  Isaiah 31:1 I pay $4.00 for a cup of Starbucks […]

  Blake

  May 14, 2013

  leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  alliances, church, consumers, cool, culture, Egypt, Godin, gospel, Hyatt, Isaiah 31, Israel, kids, relevance, secular, security, Starbucks

• The Sins of Community

  Tuesday Re-mix – “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,” declares the Sovereign LORD. […]

  Blake

  March 19, 2013

  Anonymity Anonymous, Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, Spiritual Formation

  accountability, Amos 4, church, community, culture, intimacy, prophecy, relationship, sin, transparency, worship