Tag: sacrifice

• These Are the Times that Try Churches’ Souls

  These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him…

  Blake

  May 31, 2018

  Church/State issues, Discerning God’s Will Together, gospel, leadership, The Church’s Influence

  Abraham, church, culture, Genesis 22, Isaac, Moriah, political, politics, sacrifice, test, Thomas Paine

• Being the Anti-Worshipper

  Thursday Re-mix: Come, let us bow down in worship,     let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God     and we are the people of his pasture,     the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice, “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,     as you did that day at Massah in the…

  Blake

  May 8, 2014

  Church Unity, conflict, Worship Wars

  Christian, church, Jesus, Maribah, Massah, Moses, music, Paul, psalm 95, Romans 12, sacrifice, style, worship

• Loving Against the Grain

  Tuesday Re-mix – You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— you who have received the…

  Blake

  October 15, 2013

  Christian Accountability, Church Communications, Church/State issues, leadership, missional, The Church’s Influence

  abortion, Acts 7, church, culture, discrimination, gay, God, grace, hell, lesbian, love, murder, prayer, sacrifice, sin, sinner, Stephen, tension, truth