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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Muggeridge on modern money-changers

Posted on May 30, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Somehow it gave me an extraordinarily vivid sense of what it must have been like all those years ago in the Temple at Jerusalem, when the money-changers were chased out, and their tables overturned.

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: Media, money, money changer, Mother Teresa, Muggeridge

On forced moral reform

Posted on August 11, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 3 Comments

Moral reform is the most difficult and delicate branch of statesmanship; few rulers have dared to attempt it; most rulers have left it to hypocrites and saints.

Filed Under: Commentary Tagged With: Ceasar, moral reform, morality, Muggeridge

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This morning I read an article entitled Christianity’s Image Problem which prompted some thoughts. Because we live out the Christian life imperfectly, we give non-believers plenty of opportunities to criticize our hypocrisy. Matt Appling, the author of the article, brings this out in his post. Christianity has an image problem because of Christians. This is […]

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones on True Christians and the Sermon on the Mount

A comment made by Martyn Lloyd-Jones in the introduction to a collection of his sermons on the Sermon on the Mount is still relevant today. We need to be honest about the Church’s failures, repent and begin again.

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