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Living in the not yet: dealing with a stony heart

Posted on January 27, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Stony Heart

So living in the not yet, we struggle with the pieces of the world (including ourselves) that are not in submission to Christ. That is the bad news.

The good news is that one day Jesus will return and set everything right, including my stony heart.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christ, heart, not yet, rebellion, stony, submission

Can we stop pointing fingers?

Posted on December 3, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Finger Pointing

God wants our hearts to reflect his heart. What would our world look like if they did? We would probably do less finger pointing and more work to bring healing and reconciliation.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: finger pointing, heart, justice, race, racial

Tune my heart . . .

Posted on September 15, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 3 Comments

It is precisely because Jesus died and rose again that I can have hope to be other than I am. For what could I pray if there was no hope that my sin has been conquered? For what could I pray if Jesus did not rise and demonstrate that sin and death are vanquished? What hope have I without the Cross and the empty tomb?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Belief, heart, prayer

Pursue the reality beyond

Posted on June 30, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 5 Comments

Reality Beyond

For my generation, I would also offer the hope that it is never too late to return and see the reality that you’ve been ignoring. I must constantly remind myself that there is a reality beyond the thing that consumes me at the moment. I must, as the psalmist reminds me, “prepare my heart” to be conscious of the eternal. I must not let good things become ultimate things in my life.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: beyond, confidence, heart, mind, reality, trust

Foolish and slow of heart

Posted on March 22, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Perhaps my reader cannot relate to this, but I often feel that I am foolish and slow of heart to believe. In fact, I know that I am. Like those travelers to Emmaus, I can feel that God’s plan has been derailed and I can often think that I am the villain that derailed it. It is sometimes difficult to look past my failures to see God.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Cross, crucifixion, foolish, heart, Jesus, plan, slow

Nancey Pearcey on Worldviews as Idols

Posted on March 18, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

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Humans are inherently religious, and when they deny the Creator, they will fasten on to something within creation and elevate it to an object of worship. In practical life, people who reject God will seek some substitute emotional fulfillment: power, profit, or pleasure. In intellectual life, they will seek some substitute to play the role of the divine in their thinking – the ultimate reality, the source of everything else. Worldviews are idols of the heart (Ezekiel 14:3)

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: heart, idol, worldview

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