Tag: friendship

• Small Groups are Key to Church Unity

  Looking back at the hundred-or-so conflicted congregations with whom I have been called to consult over the last couple of decades, here is an important observation: only a small handful (or so) of them had a strong small group ministry. The vast majority of them either had no small group ministry or they had a…

  Blake

  April 7, 2016

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, leadership, Spiritual Formation

  Christian, church, doctrine, formation, friendship, leadership, relationships, small groups, Spiritual, transformation, unity

• The Comfort of the Familar

  Tuesday Re-mix: And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.  Hebrews 10:24-25 My dog, Maile, sleeps in a kennel.  She actually prefers it.…

  Blake

  September 16, 2014

  leadership, strategic planning, the revolution

  change, Christian, church, comfort, dog, encourage, familiar, fight, forward, Freedom, friendship, Hebrew, Hebrews 10, kennel, leader, momentum, progress, sleep, stale, worship

• What’s Your Payoff for Leadership?

  Tuesday Re-mix – I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me —the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace…I have…

  Blake

  July 23, 2013

  Everyone’s a Minister, leadership, Why I Love My Pastor

  Acts 20, church, Ephesian, friendship, giving, leadership, ministry, Paul, power