Tag: pain

• Church Discipline: Finishing What We Start

  Now, regarding the one who started all this—the person in question who caused all this pain—I want you to know that I am not the one injured in this as much as, with a few exceptions, all of you. So I don’t want to come down too hard. What the majority of you agreed to…

  Blake

  October 25, 2018

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

  2 Corinthians 2, church, discipline, finishing, forgive, pain, punishment, race, Reconciliation, running, transition, triathlon

• Hope for the Barren Church

  Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. 1 Samuel 1:6-7 In ancient times, being barren was a major affliction. I suppose it…

  Blake

  March 1, 2018

  conflict, prayer

  1 Samuel 1, barren, conflict, despair, desperation, destitute, Hannah, hope, humility, pain, prayer, womb

• The Blinding Power of Bitterness

  Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Genesis 4:6-7 At the very…

  Blake

  April 13, 2017

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, conflict, Forgiveness, Reconciliation

  Able, anger, bitterness, blind, blinded, Cain, conflict, Genesis 4, pain