Newchurchlive.tv: Pastor Chuck Blair

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Transformational vs. Transactional There are few more cornerstone concepts than the idea that love is transformative, not transactional.  How does that look in our lives?  It looks like loving people so that they can change in the way they hear God’s calling them to, versus a transactional love that holds they will only be loved if they change.  Loved so that change is possible vs. Loved only if change happens - now there is a wonderful idea! 8/21/22

1 Goal for the Weekend....  Let's go into this weekend smiling, and with one goal! Secrets of Heaven 551 #goal #thegiftofinefficiency #takeawalk

Everyone. Always. We are all God's children.  And, few concepts are more easily made saccharine.  There is work in the idea of a shared core.  Secrets of Heaven 551

We Will Exhaust Our Friends If We Fail To….. Self-centeredness shares nothing but itself. Let remember to share more than just that. Secrets of Heaven 549 #Noah #listening #askquestions

Giving And Receiving All in One Paradoxically – when we even come to love others more than ourselves, we find our truest selves. Secrets of Heaven

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life The Common Good Isn’t it interesting how, with rare exception, we all know what a good thing looks like.  We see someone help another and we know, “That is good.”  Let's look more closely at what it looks like not just to see the common good, but to contribute to it. 8/14/22

How Angels Find Joy A lot of the joy is around service, AND a lot is around openness. Secrets of Heaven 544 #angels #heaven #joy

How Angels Become Angels Joy, Peace, Openness - now there is path we can walk on! Secrets of Heaven 540 #angels

What Gets Born Out of Failure? Out of a string of failure, good things can be born. Gen. 5:30 Secrets Heaven 536

Mistakes on the Journey Home In life over the course of the years, for most people arrive at few key "knowns".  Mistakes are every bit as important on this journey as failures. Gen. 5 Secrets Heaven 468

Trusting Our Gut Can we really trust our gut?  Gen. 5:23 Secrets Heaven 521

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Creation Never Ends Creation is eternal and perpetual.  Everything then is in a sense of movement and growth… including us! 8/7/22

Is There Any Way to be Comfortable with Change?

How Do Love and Truth Connect I had a conversation with Scarlett Lewis...

The Case for Simple Life too complicated?  Try a simple heart.     Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 589

What is Beneath the Surface? Often love lies beneath anger.     Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 587

The Importance of Not Knowing  Sometimes our biggest challenges come from what we "know."    Gen. 6 Secrets of Heaven 586

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Love Above All Else A key Christian New Church concept is that we are to “Love above all the other commandments.” Seeing God in others even in the darker corners of our lives. 7/31/2022

It's good that we're different! A complex machine like a car or a computer needs many different parts working in tandem to accomplish amazing things. God intends for the human race to be the ultimate complex machine—all of us working together using our different skills, minds, and hearts to accomplish the ultimate goal: the happiness of all. 7/24/2022 with Curtis Childs

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm Beauty in heaven comes down to one word... thoughtfulness. Secrets of Heaven 553