Tag: Matthew 18

• Of Drownings and Gouged Eyes

  Tuesday Re-mix – This is a popular post from the past, updated and resubmitted for your consideration and comments. Little boy sleepovers and little girl slumber parties are two pretty different things. I learned this as a father of girls, whose wildest conversations in the slumber parties we hosted don’t even register on the “grotesqueness”…

  Blake

  November 15, 2016

  Genuine Community, Matthew 18, Spiritual Formation

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• The Key to Your Church’s Strength

  And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.” Judges 16:17…

  Blake

  May 19, 2016

  5 Principles of Unity, Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, Reconciliation

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• The Parable of the Unmerciful Driver

  Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. Matthew 18:21-22 The kingdom of Heaven is like when you’re driving home on Friday evening…

  Blake

  January 28, 2016

  5 Principles of Unity, Christian Accountability, Church Unity, conflict, Ephesians 4, Forgiveness, Genuine Community, gospel, Reconciliation

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