Tag: prophet

• In Way Over Our Heads

  Tuesday Re-mix: What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.  Psalm 8:4-5 Back in 1985, when I came out of law school and started work as a very wet-behind-the-ears lawyer, I expected to be stuck…

  Blake

  March 4, 2014

  Everyone’s a Minister, leadership, Spiritual Formation, The Church’s Influence

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• Speaking Without Seeing

  The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied. Jeremiah 1:11 “Learn that simple lesson well, O you who try to speak for God! You must be seers before you can be speakers.” Charles Spurgeon It’s the first rule of communication: know what you want…

  Blake

  February 27, 2014

  Church Communications, Discerning God’s Will Together, Everyone’s a Minister, leadership, missional, prayer, The Church’s Influence

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• God’s Annoying, Relentless Pursuit

  Tuesday Re-mix – So people will be brought low     and everyone humbled,     the eyes of the arrogant humbled.  But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice,     and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.  Isaiah 5:15-16 Have you ever taught through the book of Isaiah?  It is the same lesson,…

  Blake

  April 30, 2013

  Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership

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