Blogs

The following is a listing of all the blogs by Richard Spann posted to date. The table is fully searchable by key word in the title or by date posted.  To access the blog, simply click on the title. These blogs can be used in many ways, including personal devotions, one-on-one discipling relationships or small groups (including church life groups, Sunday School, etc.). These contain Biblical and practical wisdom that the Kansas Communities Ministry has been blessed with for over 50 years. (Click here for the legacy blog page.)

Blogs

Date PostedBlog Title
5/11/10Of Goads and Nails
5/18/10Intentionality Lived Out
6/1/10Proclaiming the Word to the World
6/15/10Starting Where You Are
6/28/10The Ability God Requires
7/21/10The Ministry: Prayer
8/5/10Whatever is Not of God
8/9/10Thoughts on Leadership
9/6/10Grace Teaches Our Hearts to Fear
9/22/10Enoch Walked With God
10/21/10Be There
11/8/10If I Feel Like Reading My Bible ...
11/16/10As You Have Therefore Received Christ Jesus as Lord
11/30/10Faithful, Not Successful
12/11/10God’s Desire — Our Obedience
1/10/11Good Things in Christ
1/20/11Sow a Thought
1/31/11My Objective
2/15/11Come Apart or Your Will Come Apart
2/28/11Five Elements of a Team
3/23/11Wild-Eyed Fanatics
3/28/11Deep Water Fishing
4/15/11Discipleship
4/22/11God Is Our Shield
5/9/11More Good Things
5/22/11On Holiness
6/12/11God Doesn’t Give Up On Usl
6/27/11El Roi
7/15/11You May Impress From a Distance, But
8/4/11Resting in God Alone
8/17/11Lessons in Listening
9/14/11God’s Gracious Provision
9/30/11Do the Right Thing
11/19/11The Power of Example
12/17/11WDJD: What Did Jesus Do
1/3/12His Grace is Sufficient
1/15/12The Need is Not the Calll
2/2/12Still More Good Things
2/16/12Even More Good Thingsl
3/20/12Emotion is No Substitute for Activity
4/9/12Many Start Well; Few Finish Well
4/18/12Expression Deepens Impression
5/6/12Harvest is Plentiful, Workers are Few
5/27/12Success is Never Final; Failure is Never Fatall
6/12/12Willing to be Willing to be Willing
6/26/12Through Troubles: Dwell in the Secret Place
7/15/12The Harvestl
8/12/12John 13:34-35
10/3/12Belonging to the Lord
10/24/12Trusting in the Lord
10/27/12Depend on God Daily
11/25/12Turning Our Eyes to Jesus
11/25/12Real Teaching Not Just Telling
12/28/12Don’t Delay to Obey
1/17/13Walking in God’s Word
2/4/13Who Do You Say That I Am
2/21/13Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
3/6/13Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
4/26/13Be a Running Brook
4/26/13Making Christ Visible
6/16/13We ARE the Message
6/16/13Though the Fig Tree Does Not Bud, Yet I Will Rejoice in the Lord!
7/6/13The Peanut Butter Jar
8/14/13Do You Love Me More Than These?
8/14/13The Worries of This Life
9/3/13Tell Archippus
10/25/13Well Done
11/19/13Problem Or Promise
12/7/13This Book Will Keep You From Sin, Or...
1/1/14The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
1/6/14Does Your Outgo Exceed Your Intake?
1/25/14Speaking to the Heart
2/1/14Tell Them Why, Keep Them At It
2/22/14Peace is the Presence of the Lord
3/11/141 Corinthians 15:58
4/10/14One Thing
5/5/14Colossians 3:23-24
5/18/14As You Sent Me Into the Word, I Have Sent Them Into the World
6/1/14Missing Links
6/24/14Be Merciful to Those Who Doubt
7/7/14Make Disciples
8/4/14Develop Laborers
8/18/14At All Times, Under Any Conditions
10/16/14Leadership Development
11/22/14This is the Day
12/10/14Mark or Blur
12/17/14Not Yet Obtained
1/16/15Hope, Joy, Crown, Glory
1/31/15Our Security is Based on God’s Grip On Us, Not Our Grip on Him
2/13/15Hearts Set on Pilgrimage
2/28/15God’s Love; Christ’s Perseverance
3/14/15The Battle is the Lord’s
4/16/15Hebrews 3:13
6/19/15Hearing What God Has Done for Us
7/4/15Finding Delight
7/12/15Transformation
8/8/15Evangelism is a Process
8/22/15Men of Ephraim
9/12/15Redeem the Time
10/4/15Prioritize Your Life
10/19/15Don’t Wait For Perfect Conditions
11/14/15Keeping Elephants Off Your Air Hose
12/6/15God’s Promises to Us
12/14/15Freely Accept them
1/11/16Preach the Gospel Daily
2/1/16Aim for the Ripple
2/14/16Be Shepherds of God’s Flock
2/28/16If Not Me Then Who
3/30/16Everybody Can Help Somebody
4/17/16Resentment Destroys Its Own Container
5/7/16Is Jesus Enough
6/6/16If My People
6/30/16What is That to You
8/5/16Two Kinds of People
9/22/16Rest Remember Refresh
10/17/16Righteous Peace and Joy
11/8/16We Have Found the Enemy
12/17/16Lifeline Illustration
1/22/17As Close to God as We Choose
2/18/17Faithful, Available, Teachable
3/8/17Deliver Me? or Glorify Yourself!
3/27/17Float Your Boat in Deep Waters
5/27/17Knowing the Outcome
6/12/17Mission, Method, Motive
7/24/17The Urgent and the Important
9/4/17Interruptions — Obstacles or Opportunities?
12/3/17Why Memorize Scripture?
12/26/17Matthew 6:33
3/29/18Two Steps in Making Disciples
5/5/18Men of Issachar
7/29/18Battle
8/6/18The Truth is What God Says About You
9/3/18God Gives Discernment
10/14/18Dirt in the Heart
11/5/18Don’t Get Hung Up on Motives
1/2/19Don’t Seek the Word of the Lord
1/10/19The Promises of God Prompt Prayers
1/24/19What We Do in the Moments
2/22/19The People are Crying for Bread
3/31/19We Are Looking to Be Comfortable
5/19/19And He Spake a Parable
8/11/19It is More Important to Talk to God About Men
8/11/19The Test of a Movement
9/15/19If You Are Suffering Without Succeeding
9/15/19However When the Son of Man Comes
11/9/19Do Not Fret
11/16/19Love the Lord Your God
11/23/19Store Up Treasures for Yourselves
11/30/19Navigating through the Grey Areas of Life
12/7/19Your Leadership is Not Determined
12/14/19Deep Down in Your Soul
2/10/20If You Don’t Believe in the Sovereignty of God
2/24/20God Does Not Tell Us to Break Habits
3/9/20The God-Centered Life
3/21/20Walking in Darkness
3/23/20Habakkuk 2:3
4/4/20When God Hides Himself
4/6/20What is a Disciple?
4/20/20Lessons to be Learned
9/17/20The Walk of Faith
10/20/20Fear or Faith?
11/8/20Who Are You, Lord? What Shall I Do, Lord?
11/9/20The Biblical Response to Governing Authority
3/23/21The Last Enemy
7/26/21Do You Really Believe That What You Believe is Really Real?
2/6/22God Will Become All You Need Him to Be
2/28/22Running the Race
4/17/22Not By Bread Alone
5/7/22He Must Become Greater
6/30/22Living By Faith
10/3/22Embraced By the Infinite Love of God
11/17/22Matthew 9:36-38
11/17/22What’s the Hurry?
11/17/22Forgetting What is Behind
1/27/23Because He Lives
1/27/23The High Places
2/27/23Created to See
4/4/23Come Near to God
5/29/23If the Mind is Closed …
3/3/25Come Near to God
3/3/25Motivation
3/3/25If Your Natural Life is Spiritual …
3/3/25The Perfection of God’s Plan for Us
3/3/25Christmas Letter 2021 — Joy and Peace
3/3/25For Even the Son of Man
3/3/25The Joy of the Lord
3/3/25We ARE saved by the Object of Our Faith
3/3/25Gifts for the King
3/3/25Luke 6:38
3/3/25Releasing Control
3/3/25Exceedingly Abundantly Above
3/3/25The Great Commission
3/3/25Sin
3/3/25Shrewd As Snakes
3/3/25The Longest Journey
3/3/25When His Answer is “No”
3/3/25If
3/3/25The Extravagant Life
3/3/25The Mind of Christ