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Dr. Luke Investigates

Posted on November 15, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Medical Symbol

Our pastor is preaching through the Gospel of Luke on Sunday Mornings. During the sermon yesterday a thought struck me. Luke was a physician which is why he sometimes gives very detailed descriptions of the infirmities of those who came to Jesus for healing. The “aha” moment for me yesterday was when I realized that […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Healing, Luke

The Fellowship of the Obtuse

Posted on August 28, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

You Just Don't Get It

I am comforted that the men who God used to turn the world upside down had moments when they just did not get it. They, at times, were just as obtuse and blind as I often am.

Filed Under: Apologetics Tagged With: English Standard Version, God, Gospel, Jesus, Luke, New Testament

Ask, Seek and Knock

Posted on August 21, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Knock

Luke 11:9–10 (ESV) 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. In response to these […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christianity, English Standard Version, God, Jesu, Luke, prayer, Religion and Spirituality

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Failure: The Unintended Consequence of Success

This is a guest post by Todd Pylant whose biographical information appears in the author box below this post. If you would like to provide a guest post to Attempts at Honesty, please see the guest post guidelines and contact me if you are interested in providing a post. The writer of Hebrews demonstrated faith […]

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

Five

5 Reasons why I moved to self-hosted WordPress Blog

If you are reading this you found my new blog home. I’ve moved from WordPress.com to an external hosting service and thought I’d share the reasons why. Javascript – There are widgets that I’d like to add to my blog that contain Javascript that WordPress.com does not allow. This reduces the capabilities of my blog […]

On viruses and great support

A little while ago, I got a tweet in response to one of my posts, letting me know that a reader’s protection software identified Attempts at Honesty as being infected with a virus. In checking on this, it was found to be true. Thanks to the excellent support of Nate at Davis Services Group, we […]

War Horse

A lesson on the culture war from “War Horse”

Too often, we fight the culture war by digging a trench and lobbing arguments at the enemy trench. Better we meet between the trenches.

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