Tag: kingdom

• Foreigners in Our Own Country

  Tuesday Re-mix: …live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.  1 Peter 1:17 Every year my ministry takes a team to South Africa. It is always a Spirit-filled time with old friends and new friends alike. Over my years of making this trip, I have come to know some things about that country…things about it’s people, it’s society, and…

  Blake

  September 23, 2014

  Church/State issues, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  1 Peter 1, agenda, ambassador, church, country, culture, facebook, foreign, Freedom, influence, kingdom, leader, media, minister, national, pastor, peace, politics, privileges, rights, social, South Africa, visitor, war

• “Look How They Love Each Other!”

  And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4:21 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. Colossians 3:15 This Summer, my younger daughter is living with my older daughter (and her husband and their dog) while she does…

  Blake

  July 1, 2014

  Church Unity, conflict, Genuine Community, missional, The Church’s Influence

  1 John 4, Aramaic, brother, Christian, church, colossians 3, discipline, father, Greek, John, kingdom, Latin, love, parent, Paul, Pax Christi, Pax Romana, peace, Rome, sister

• Good-sized Vision v. God-sized Vision

  Tuesday Re-mix – Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”  Acts 1:6 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”  Acts…

  Blake

  September 10, 2013

  Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, strategic planning, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  Acts 1, apostles, Christianity, church, disciples, God, Israel, Jesus, kingdom, Luke, revolution, Rome, vision