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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Surgery

Posted on February 28, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

I stand before my maker, becoming unmade and then made again, sometimes yielding, sometimes fighting, but always under the surgeon’s knife. Which is greater, the pain of being shaped or the pain of being left as I am?

Filed Under: Poetry

Actions speak louder than words

Posted on February 22, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

“Actions speak louder than words” is a proverb whose over use sometimes masks the truth it contains. I read in Genesis 15:6, that Abram (soon to be Abraham) “believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.” In Habakkuk 2:4, it says, “righteous shall live by his faith.” All through Scripture we find […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Abraham, Belief, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesu, Righteous, Righteousness

Checklist for Christian Service

Posted on February 21, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

What qualities must be present in the believer to be used by God to build His Church? Here is the list as I see it: Complete surrender to God That’s it. One item. Everything else follows nicely after surrender. Paul gives us a description of what this kind of surrender looks like in Philippians 3:8–11 […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Apostle Paul, Jesus, Surrender

Kicked out for our own good

Posted on February 15, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Growing up, when I read in Genesis Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, I always viewed this as a punitive action. I thought that our first parents were being punished for their sin. This morning, as I read this passage, I noticed that the goal in expelling them from the Garden was to […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Genesis, Life

Did God actually say . . . ?

Posted on February 14, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

From the first, our rebellion against God has taken the form of questioning the wisdom of His statements and prohibitions. We see this today as popular atheists are lining up to ridicule God and the Bible. To do so requires that the atheist sets himself up as the authority as to what is right and […]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Bible Reflection Tagged With: atheism

Scary Love

Posted on February 13, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Scary Love

I recently saw a pair of Tweets by @GAfamily with the hashtags #scary and #love. (For those of you who are not into Twitter, using hashtags is a way of identifying key words so that someone searching on that word will find it) It struck me that these are two words that I would not […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, Jesus, Love

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I always let the Lord Guide me

The problematic words in these translations are “always” and “continually.” I find that I have lapses when I allow my pride to take over and I think (and too often say) stupid stuff.

A reason for boasting

A reason for boasting

For the most part, I really don’t enjoy listening to postgame, on-field interviews of athletes. If the interviewee is on the winning side, too often the interview amounts to boasting about how he is faster, stronger or smarter than his opponent. We live in a day where self-promotion is encouraged and expected. This is an aspect […]

Along the right paths

One of the advantages of reading a different version of the Bible, one that you are not familiar with, is that a different reading can trigger an insight that you never saw before. This happened to me this morning as I read Psalm 23 in the Christian Standard Bible. In that translation the verse 3 […]

It’s not about do’s and don’ts

Often, by both believers and non-believers, the Christian life is viewed as adherence to a list of do’s and don’ts. The Apostle Paul offers us a new way.

Stumbling blocks: how we live matters more than our words

Parents and church leaders, the best thing we can do for the next generation is to renounce our selfishness and come to meet Jesus at the Cross in humility and submission. We need to confess where we have compromised and seek to recover the ground that was lost. We want to hear the words of Matthew 25:21, “well done good and faithful slave.” We need to live lives that point to the reality of the Gospel.

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