Tag: sin

• 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

• The Sins of Community

  Tuesday Re-mix – “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,” declares the Sovereign LORD.…

  Blake

  March 19, 2013

  Anonymity Anonymous, Christian Accountability, Church Unity, Genuine Community, Spiritual Formation

  accountability, Amos 4, church, community, culture, intimacy, prophecy, relationship, sin, transparency, worship

• Log Removal Plans

  Tuesday Re-mix – How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.…

  Blake

  January 29, 2013

  Christian Accountability, Forgiveness, Peacemakers, Reconciliation

  brother, Forgiveness, glasses, Jesus, judgmental, log, Matthew 7, pain, plank, Reconciliation, sin, speck, splinter, tweezers, vision