Tag: independence

• 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

• …So That We Can Comfort Those in Trouble

  Tuesday Re-mix – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Step 12: Having had…

  Blake

  July 17, 2012

  Anonymity Anonymous, Genuine Community

  12-steps, 2 Corinthians 1, addiction, church, comfort, group, hole, independence, journey, pathway, prayer, recovery, self-reliance, support

• Step 8: Owning the Damage I Have Done

  Tuesday Re-mix – Step 8: We made a list of all persons we have harmed and we are willing to make amends to them all. [I am using these Tuesday Re-mixes for a few weeks to think (again) about addiction to self-reliance and how that addiction is one of the biggest challenges to genuine community…

  Blake

  June 26, 2012

  Anonymity Anonymous

  12-steps, addiction, amends, church, conflict, damage, healing, independence, recovery, self-reliance