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Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Love without qualifications

Posted on April 26, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

No Love

We are commanded to love, that love is not to be conditioned upon any response. Can we do this?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Church, Love, Paul, Peter

Why are you provoked? A Lesson from the Apostle Paul

Posted on December 9, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Acts 17:16 records that when the Apostle Paul arrived in Athens, “his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.” Lots of things provoke me; I assume that is true for you also. The challenge that I get from reading about the Apostle Paul is that I […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: humility, Love, Paul

The balance between worship, service and fellowship

Posted on December 3, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Church Triangle

The Balance For a church to be healthy, each believer must have opportunity to participate in worship, service and fellowship. Some definitions are in order. First, when I refer to worship, I am speaking of the activities of the congregation when we come together on Sunday morning. We worship through singing and the teaching of […]

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: fellowship, Love, teaching, Worship

The Goal of Christian Teaching – Love From a Pure Heart

Posted on July 12, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Heart

Confused About the Goal In Matthew 22:37-39 and Mark 12:29-31, Jesus tells us that the two great commands are to love God with our entire being and love our neighbors. The concept is simple but the execution is difficult. Only two commands and if we’re honest, we admit that we cannot keep either one of […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection, Christianity and Culture, Church Leadership Tagged With: Christ, Church, Love, teaching

Growth in trees or believers

Posted on May 18, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Blue Spruce Seedling

The Observation I walked through our yard yesterday to check out the 25 Colorado Blue Spruce trees I planted a few weeks ago. They were bare root seedlings similar to what is shown in the picture to the left. I was looking at the trees to see if I could observe any growth. Bare root […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christian, Church, God, Jesus, Love, obedience

Unrighteous Indignation

Posted on March 23, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

I am reminded of James 1:20 which tells me that my anger does not produce the righteousness of God. What prompts the mention of this verse is that I found myself a couple of times this week regretting some comments I made on articles and blog posts. My issue is not so much what I […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection, Christianity and Culture Tagged With: anger, Holy Spirit, Love, Truth

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Humility wins the day – The humble will be exalted

Luke 18 records the story of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. Only one of them left the Temple forgiven, the one who expressed humility

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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.

Liar

The accusation of lying – what politics reveals about our need for truth

Politicians often accuse their opponents of lying. What does the effectiveness of this accusation show us about our need for truth?

Swimming Upstream

Going against the flow

In reading the book of Isaiah, I get the sense that with the advent of electronic media, we have improved the speed of communication but not the quality of the content. Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun and this passage confirms it. Isaiah describes a nation that is in the midst of […]

Easter

An Easter Meditation for 2016

If ever I felt the need to appreciate and appropriate the meaning and the power of The Resurrection, it is today. I thought that perhaps you would also benefit from this meditation as we consider the empty tomb.

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