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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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On baskets, bread and the next generation

Posted on June 27, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Bread

All the disciples were required to do was to get bread from Jesus and carry it in baskets to the people. We need to carry the gospel to our youth. We need to possess it and understand it before we can impart it to the next generation.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Bible, Christianity, disciple, God, Jesus, Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters, Mercy and the Fifth Beatitude

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

Mercy

The fifth Beatitude tells us that those who are merciful will receive mercy. At first reading this sounds right to us. If you do good to others they will do good to you. It seem natural, like the popular concept of karma. Yet we see that this does not always hold true. How then should we understand this Beatitude?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Beatitude, God, Gospel of Matthew, Jesus, Muddy Waters, pharisee, Sermon on the Mount

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Confessing the Faith

Van Dixhoorn on the Ministry of the Word

In studying for a class on the Westminster Confession of Faith, it was recommended to me that I get a copy of Chad Van Dixhoorn’s commentary on the confession, entitled Confessing the Faith. I began by reading the commentary on Chapter 14 of the confession (since this is the beginning of the session that we will […]

Forgotten God

Francis Chan on the Holy Spirit

I would like to share the following quotation from Forgotten God, by Francis Chan: “I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know that I couldn’t be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that […]

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.

School of prayer book cover

A prayer for today

This morning, I have been reading the opening chapters of With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray. In it, I found this prayer and thought I would reprint it for the benefit of my readers.

Listen While You Wait

This is a guest post by my daughter, Abby McIntyre, who is a recent graduate of Grand Canyon University. This post was originally published on the website for Living Streams Church where she works as a children’s ministry assistant. “As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of […]

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