About Mitchell Hailstone

I am currently a Senior at The King's College in New York City. I study Politics, philosophy, and economics and have a thriving interest in the human condition and theology. I watch movies, read books, listen to music, and want to travel the world feeding and developing these interests. In short, I'm looking for truth and conviction through God's perspective and living by it. I've gotten the chance to visit Israel and Palestine and am looking for opportunities to go back.

Context, back-story and knowing God

Posted on November 19, 2012 Written by Mitchell Hailstone Leave a Comment

A hip hop lyric illustrates the need for context in relationships. This is as true of our relationship with God as it is in human relationships.

Why are you amazed?

I can read about miracles in the Bible and not be amazed. The flannel graph presentations of my youth have made the stories so familiar that too often I do not connect with how radical the events actually were. This healing should amaze me but its familiarity masks how marvelous it really is.

Oh be careful little mouth what you say

Can we be honest and admit that sometimes it seems to be a chore to read through the regulations in the opening books of the Bible. But every once in a while (perhaps less often than it should) I find a connection that makes the reading seem worth while. For example, this morning I read […]

Being right or being loving . . .

It seems to me that if we are forced to make a choice between being right (winning the argument) and being loving, we should always chose the latter. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case with the Christian Church.

No money in the revenge business

A line from the movie The Princess Bride got me thinking about revenge and forgiveness and what the Bible has to say about them.

On being caught in adultery

My point in all this is that we are broken people living in a broken culture and we are called to minister to people like us who have made a mess of life. We must invite them into relationship with Jesus without laying on them the impossible task of cleaning themselves up first.

Don’t play the Korah card

I have been in a couple of situations where concerns were brought to a pastor who then likened the one who brought the concern to Korah attacking Moses. While I understand the temptation for a leader to deal with a complaint in this way, that temptation must be resisted. Not only is it inappropriate, it does nothing to fix the situation (unless of course the leader’s goal is to eliminate any other opinion than his own).