Tag: shepherd

• Seeing Through the Flaws in Your Shepherd

  Thursday Re-mix: The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.  1 Samuel 16:7b Most of the church conflicts into which I get called are swirling (at one level or another) around a pastor.  And most of the opposition parties I […]

  Blake

  July 17, 2014

  Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, Pastor Search

  1 Samuel 16, church, David, dysfunction, failure, family, leadership, pastor, relationships, shepherd

• Confession and Your Leadership

  Then I will teach transgressors your ways,     and sinners will return to you… For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;     you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;     a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:13, 16-17 I […]

  Blake

  June 3, 2014

  Christian Accountability, Forgiveness, leadership

  Bathsheba, church, confession, contrite, David, Forgiveness, grace, grief, humiliation, leader, mercy, pastor, Psalm 51, repentance, shepherd

• Creating a Culture of Bible Study

  All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.  2 Timothy 3:16-17 After some 40 years of studying the Bible and some 25 (or so) years of teaching it, I can safely say I am more thirsty […]

  Blake

  May 27, 2014

  leadership, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation, Why I Love My Pastor

  2 Timothy 3, Bible, church, correction, culture, devotional, discipline, inspired, leadership, pastor, reproof, ReVerse, routine, scripture, shepherd, teaching, vision, Word of God, worldview