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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Putting on our “game face”

Posted on January 16, 2023 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

One of the things that I struggle with in church is the pressure that we feel to put on the churchy version of game face when we come on Sunday. If you’ve been in the church at all you probably know what I’m talking about. Game face is a look intended to convey that everything […]

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O Come, All Ye Faithful

Posted on December 20, 2022 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

This Christmas, may we look beyond the normal holiday stuff to see how the baby in a manger has caused the light of eternity to break into the darkness to give us hope in the midst of our current struggle.

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No stumbling blocks

Posted on November 30, 2022 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Let Scripture be the offense, not the way we present it. Let Jesus as The Way, The Truth, and The Life, be the offense, not how we follow Him.

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Can’t go back to Egypt

Posted on August 13, 2022 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

When we are faced with difficulty or uncertainty in our current situation, we can wish that we could go back to some other time and place that seemed like Paradise compared to what we currently face. Like the Israelites, we can forget about the discontent, stress and other annoyances that caused to move on.

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A Follow-up Prayer

Posted on August 9, 2022 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

That is what I need today; to be left with wanting only Jesus . . .

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Do not be anxious

Posted on August 8, 2022 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

The problem is that often I don’t even realize that I am getting anxious. In those times, I lose sight of what is really important in the press of the urgent stuff around me.

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Hammer and Anvil

Between the hammer and the anvil

The iron goes into the fire to be heated and then is moved to the anvil to be hammered into the desire form. The process is repeated until the smith is satisfied with the result.

KP on Suffering

K. P. Yohannan on willingness to suffer

K. P. Yohannan offers a challenge to us about being willing to suffer for the cause of Jesus Christ. A short post containing a quotation from “Against the Wind.”

A note of warning

But the writer of Proverbs warns us that such deception does not go unnoticed by God. Deception is, and always be, an abomination to The LORD.

Father and son painting a room

Your Father knows what you need, then why ask?

The question is, why should we pray if God already knows what we need? It is not like I am going to provide God with a missing piece of data without which he could not make a good choice.

Salt Shaker

You are the salt of the earth

Jesus tells us that believers are the salt of the earth. What does it mean to be salt and what should it look like in 2012?

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