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Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Why are you amazed?

Posted on October 9, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 7 Comments

Amazed

I can read about miracles in the Bible and not be amazed. The flannel graph presentations of my youth have made the stories so familiar that too often I do not connect with how radical the events actually were. This healing should amaze me but its familiarity masks how marvelous it really is.

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Thank God for the children

In my last post, I wrote about some church leaders’ misunderstanding of the role of the building in worship. This was in response to a note that I had gotten from a reader. In that note, the writer also said that the pastor of the church he visited made a comment about not allowing children […]

Ed Stetzer, Jeremy Myers, Terry Jones and the Apostle Paul

On Saturday, I saw this Tweet from Ed Stetzer: I agree with Ed and apparently so do others since this was retweeted 100 times to date. I also appreciated Jeremy Myers’ response in his blog. This morning I read in Acts 17 where Paul proclaimed the Living God at the Areopagus in Athens. Perhaps Terry […]

Church Membership – A Response to Matt Chandler

Matt Chandler makes the claim that church membership is necessary for optimum growth of a believer. I provide a counter perspective in this blog post.

Be courageous

The question is how can we be courageous when we don’t really feel that way?

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How does Christ fill the office of a prophet?

Question 24 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks, How does Christ fill the office of a prophet? The answer given is, Christ fills the office of a prophet in revealing to us by his Word and Spirit the will of God for our complete salvation. The purpose of a prophet is to speak the words […]

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