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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places?

Posted on March 6, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 6 Comments

Blessing in the Heavenlies

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ," (Ephesians 1:3, NASB) When I read this verse, there is something that haunts me. Paul tells me that I … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: blessing, heavenlies, heavens

Miles Stanford on Christian maturity

Posted on March 4, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Miles Stanford

"It is a mistake to measure spiritual maturity merely by the presence of gifts. By themselves they are an inadequate basis for a man's lasting influence for God. They may be present and they may be valuable, but the Spirit's object is something far … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: Christian, Cross, maturity, Stanford

That pesky sense of oughtness

Posted on March 1, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Right and Wrong

Science has done an admirable job of exploring and describing the processes and functions of the things I see around me. I am not an astrophysicist but because of advances in science, it is possible for me to know more about the composition and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Apologetics Tagged With: ought, oughtness, pesky

Does the church bring freedom or coercion?

Posted on February 27, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Handcuffs

A common perception of Christians is that we are a bunch of people who want to impose our form of Sharia law on the rest of the world. In other words, we are viewed as people who use coercion to get people to conform to a set of laws to which they … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: bondage, coercion, freedom, law, Sharia

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