Tag: Israel

• The God-Forsaken Church

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her. And about the time of her death the women…

  Blake

  February 18, 2016

  Church Unity, Discerning God’s Will Together, gospel, prayer, Reconciliation, The Church’s Influence

  1 Samuel 4, church, crucifixion, departed, Eli, forsaken, glory, humiliation, Ichabod, Israel, Jesus, Matthew 27, painful, prayer, rebellion

• Intensely Personal and Critically Communal

  “You shall have no other gods before me…”  Exodus 20:3 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Exodus 20:17 God’s plan for growing a people dedicated to Him and…

  Blake

  April 23, 2015

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Discerning God’s Will Together, Genuine Community, missional, Spiritual Formation

  Christian, church, community, Exodus 20, Hebrew, Israel, law, Moses, people, persoanl, relationship, rules, Sinai, Ten Commandments

• Church Leaders and Our Hard Hearts

  Tuesday Re-mix: So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion,     during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me,     though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with…

  Blake

  August 26, 2014

  leadership, prayer

  Christ, church, communication, faith, hardening, heart, Hebrews 3, humility, Israel, leader, pastor, prayer, psalm 95, rest, sermon, shepherd, Spirit, Word