Tag: persecution

• Our Place in the Culture Wars

  About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Acts 12:1-3 There is a fair amount of debate these days over just what the accurate number is of…

  Blake

  August 16, 2018

  Church/State issues, gospel, missional, prayer, the revolution

  church, conflict, conservative, culture, liberal, persecution, politics, prayer, religious, wars, worldviews

• Gospel Centered Worldview: God’s Plan for His Church

  In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered…

  Blake

  October 1, 2015

  Books that Changed Me, gospel, leadership, prayer, the revolution

  Abraham, Christian, church, fear, God, Insanity of God, ISIS, Mathew 16, mongering, Nik Ripken, persecution, prayer, promises, Romans 4, Voice of the Martyrs

• Pastor Sisyphus’ Bad Day

  “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you,     how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting,     what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?  Jeremiah 12:5 Church leadership, especially the pastorate, can feel a little like the plight of Sisyphus…forever pushing…

  Blake

  March 20, 2014

  conflict, Everyone’s a Minister, leadership, Why I Love My Pastor

  assignment, boulder, burden, calling, Jeremiah 12, message, obedience, persecution, preaching, prophecy, sermon, Sisyphus, speaking, stress, struggle, teaching, truth