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.

Where the wild things are . . . worshipping

I noticed a reference to wild beasts in Mark 1:13: And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him. (NKJV) While in the wilderness, Jesus was with the wild animals. Do you suppose that the animals recognized Jesus as their […]

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.

Parasites vs. Producers – From Nebuchadnezzar to Wall Street

There have always been human parasites. God hates injustice and the church needs to know that parasites gather around political power.

Where mercy and justice meet

God does not have to reconcile his justice with his mercy because there was a plan in place from eternity to provide a means of reconciliation that is both perfectly merciful and perfectly just. It is the Cross of Christ that makes this possible. It is at the Cross of Jesus Christ that justice and mercy meet and neither is compromised.

Herod was conflicted about John the Baptist

Mark 6:20 is an interesting verse. The best manuscripts of this verse tell us that Herod was conflicted about what to do with John the Baptist. Herod’s wife, Herodias, wanted John dead, but Herod feared John and was at the same time intrigued and confused by John. (Note that the KJV and NKJV tell us […]

The call and the gift

I heard a speaker recently talk about ministry as a fusion of calling and gifting. Both the call and the gifting are given by God to those he chooses to minister to his church. And both the calling and the gifting must be operational for ministry to be effective.