Tag: Jerusalem

• [GULP!] …I Might Have Been a Legalist

  The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving…

  Blake

  October 26, 2017

  Acts 15, Church Unity, conflict, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership

  Acts 15, argument, Barnabas, church, circumcision, conflict, council, discernment, evidence, Hebrew, James, Jerusalem, Judaizer, justice, Paul, Peter

• Investing in a Sure Thing

  For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land. Jeremiah 32:15 “I’m not religious…but I’m spiritual.” It is the mantra of an entire young adult generation who has left the church. They would say they have not given up on God, but they have had…

  Blake

  April 17, 2014

  Matthew 18, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  Bible, Chaldean, church, covenant, field, generations, God, Hanamel, investment, Israel, Jeremiah 32, Jerusalem, Matthew 16, Matthew 18, people, promise

• [GULP!] …I Might Have Been a Judaizer

  Tuesday Re-mix: The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them…

  Blake

  November 19, 2013

  Acts 15, Church Unity, conflict, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership

  Acts 15, baptism, Barnabas, church, circumcision, council, evidence, Gentile, Hebrew, James, Jerusalem, Judaizer, lawyer, Paul, Peter, proof, scripture