Tag: parable

• The Parable of the Bricks

  By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. I Corinthians 3:10 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to…

  Blake

  September 6, 2018

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Corinthians, Genuine Community, I Corinthians 12, leadership, Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Gifts

  1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 3, bricks, build, church, foundation, leadership, mortar, parable

• The Lion, the Sheep and the Bathrobe

  Tuesday Re-mix: I have a sort of recurring day dream about my first appearance before God at Judgment time. It’s probably horrible theology on a number of levels, but I just can’t seem to shake the picture, and it is all because of a cool little comment Jesus makes in John 17:12… While I was with…

  Blake

  November 18, 2014

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, Matthew 18

  . protection, accountability, church, confrontation, enemy, flock, herd, Jesus, lion, lost, parable, sheep, shepherd, vulnerability

• The Shrewd Servant Church

  But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. Matthew 25:26-27 Honestly, I have always felt…

  Blake

  August 5, 2014

  Church Unity, Everyone’s a Minister, Genuine Community, leadership, Spiritual Gifts, strategic planning

  Andy Stanley, church, experiences, gifts, human, Jesus, laity, manager, Matthew 25, ministry, mobilization, parable, resources, Rick Warren, shrewd, slothful, systems, wicked