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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Root causes of legalism

Posted on July 13, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre 5 Comments

Legalism

The result of legalism is that those who are in the system cannot become what God intends them to be. Rather than a deepening understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, legalists are satisfied with rule keeping.

Filed Under: Christian Life Tagged With: bondage, freedom, Gospel, legalism

Tim Keller on Freedom

Posted on April 12, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

“Luther preached that there was nothing more important for a person than to see that he or she could contribute nothing whatsoever to one’s own salvation. We can be fully accepted and counted legally righteous in God’s sight through faith in Christ, solely by free grace. To understand and grasp this is to finally know […]

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: freedom, Grace, pain, suffering, Tim Keller

Selective grace in the church

Posted on May 22, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 24 Comments

We all want grace, but sometimes struggle to give it when it is most needed. We are in constant danger of offering selective grace by offering it to some and withholding it from others.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Church, freedom, Grace, selective

Does the church bring freedom or coercion?

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

Handcuffs

The church is sometimes charged with using coercion to bring people into conformity with the Bible. Is this true? How should we respond?

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

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2nd Place

Second place is first winner

In leading the church, we need to understand that second place is first winner when we surrender to Christ and allow him to build his church. We win because Jesus can make something more beautiful than we can even imagine.

Boxing Gloves

Herod vs. God

Herod sought to eliminate a threat to his power, but that threat represented God’s plan for the salvation of humanity, a plan that God would not allow to fail.

On rationalization of sin

Perhaps the story of Achan in the book of Joshua makes us uncomfortable because we share in this sin. It is only by grace that we do not end up under a heap of stones.

On the Kindness of God

In the same way, we need to present God as the loving father who is waiting for all of us to turn to him. But our turning to him is initiated by our repentance. With proper understanding of the kindness and the holiness of God, repentance is the only reasonable response.

Talent

Value vs. Talent

Jesus told the story of a man who went away and gave three servants money to work with while he was gone (Matt. 25: 14-30). The idea is that each servant differed in his ability to handle the money so they each got a different amount to work with. But, they were all required to […]

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