Tag: people

• Love the Porcupines…Quills and All

  …the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater…

  Blake

  August 20, 2015

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, conflict, Corinthians, Forgiveness, I Corinthians 12, leadership, Spiritual Formation

  1 Corinthians 12, body, church, high-maintenance, leadership, love, negative, pastor, people, porcupines, projects, relationships, Rick Warren

• Intensely Personal and Critically Communal

  “You shall have no other gods before me…”  Exodus 20:3 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Exodus 20:17 God’s plan for growing a people dedicated to Him and…

  Blake

  April 23, 2015

  Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Discerning God’s Will Together, Genuine Community, missional, Spiritual Formation

  Christian, church, community, Exodus 20, Hebrew, Israel, law, Moses, people, persoanl, relationship, rules, Sinai, Ten Commandments

• Investing in a Sure Thing

  For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land. Jeremiah 32:15 “I’m not religious…but I’m spiritual.” It is the mantra of an entire young adult generation who has left the church. They would say they have not given up on God, but they have had…

  Blake

  April 17, 2014

  Matthew 18, The Church’s Influence, the revolution

  Bible, Chaldean, church, covenant, field, generations, God, Hanamel, investment, Israel, Jeremiah 32, Jerusalem, Matthew 16, Matthew 18, people, promise