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Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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What church should be

Posted on September 3, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 9 Comments

I know what hurt has come from some of my own church experience. I have seen the damage done to others by inappropriate treatment within a church. Quite frankly sometimes it makes me want to find the reset button and see if we can begin again with this whole thing we call church.

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: abuse, Church, Leader, minister, ministry

Abusive Churches

Posted on February 6, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

Some thoughts on abusive churches prompted by an article by Pat Zukeran of the same title.

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: abuse, abusive, Church, Leader, leadership

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A prayer for today

This morning, I have been reading the opening chapters of With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray. In it, I found this prayer and thought I would reprint it for the benefit of my readers.

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How did Christ, the Son of God, become man?

The first observation that I need to make is that there is mystery here. We must acknowledge that complete understanding of this is beyond our reach as humans.

Beware the Leaven

Formalism on the one hand, and rationalism on the other, which are but other names for the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, have in every age been the Church’s insidious enemies.

Rome

Not what I would choose

In Acts 19:21, Paul expresses a desire to go to Rome as part of his missionary efforts. Paul did eventually get to Rome but it is unlikely that he envisioned that he would enter Rome as a prisoner of the state and remain there under house arrest. In the Epistles that Paul wrote while in […]

Clueless

They’re still clueless

It turns out that those popular kids in High School really were as clueless as me; they were just better at hiding it. Now the popular kids are elected officials and still clueless. I came upon this thought as I wondered why the decisions made by our government representatives seem to be getting less rational. […]

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