Tag: king

• The Lure of Approval

  And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?… Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of…

  Blake

  April 5, 2018

  Christian Accountability, Everyone’s a Minister, leadership

  approval, church, congregation, facebook, God, king, leadership, presidential, Samuel, Saul, shepherd, social media, truth, twitter

• Who Gets to Determine Our Identity?

  So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.” 1 Samuel 16:10 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because…

  Blake

  June 18, 2015

  Christian Accountability, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, millennials, missional, Spiritual Formation

  1 Samuel 16, black, clay, conservative, David, father, female, gender, identity, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesse, king, liberal, male, potter, Psalm 139, race, Samuel, sexual, white

• God’s Rule of Persistence

  Tuesday Re-mix –  Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.  He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.  And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant…

  Blake

  October 23, 2012

  Christian Accountability, Corinthians, Matthew 18

  1 Corinthians 5, 1 Samuel 8, C.S. Lewis, Israel, Jesus, justice, king, Luke 18, parable, persistence, rule, widow