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God’s Crime Scene – Book Endorsement

Posted on October 11, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

God's Crime Scene

God’s Crime Scene is a book that I know I will re-read and refer to as part of my apologetics library. If you have any interest at all in knowing where the evidence point with regard to the beginning of the universe, I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of this book.

Filed Under: Book Review Tagged With: beginning, creator, crime, scene, universe

You reap what you sow – values and the criminal element

Posted on July 12, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Apple with worm hole

A Chicago politician appeals to the values of gang members in his city in response to the accidental shooting of a 7 year old girl. Why? On what basis would this appeal be effective?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: crime, God

What CSI Tells Us About Our Desire for Truth

Posted on September 10, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

CSI

I recently read a post by Jill Carattini of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. In the post she discusses the reason for the popularity of forensic criminal science dramas on television such as CSI, NCIS and Bones. The shows center around the desire to find out what really happened to the victim and to bring the […]

Filed Under: Christianity and Culture Tagged With: crime, murder, Truth

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What the church should be about

We are not called to ratchet up the rhetoric in the culture war. We need to see how Jesus used respectful dialog to point people in a different direction.

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Intentional about Grace

The Church of Jesus Christ should be the most gracious place on the planet but often it is not. If we are not consistently preaching the Gospel, if we are not reinforcing our need for a savior, if we are not intentional about living under grace, then we will become what the world thinks we are.

Evil and Death

Evil and death

I ran across this quotation from Nicholas Wolterstorff while reading Philip Yancey’s book Vanishing Grace: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer heat with air-conditioning – when we have overcome all these and much more besides, then there will abide two things with which we must cope: the evil in […]

Love, duty, honor

Love, duty and honor

When a pump tries to put out more water than it takes in, it experiences a condition called cavitation. The end result is that the internal turbulence caused by the cavitation tears up the pump and eventually renders the pump useless. The pump only works well when it takes in as much as it tries […]

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A mediation on Psalm 1

I have read this psalm many times, but this morning I came away with a different impression than I have ever had before.

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