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Growing by imitation

Posted on June 10, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Imitation

For the modern believer, there is no other way to understand who Christ is and what he has done than by the study of Scripture. If Christ is the ultimate example of how a godly life is to be lived then it is important for the reader to study the life of Christ.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: imitate, imitation, Paul

Content but not satisfied

Posted on October 1, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 5 Comments

Discontent

The Apostle Paul had learned to be content in his circumstances. He also expressed dissatisfaction and a desire to press on. How do we reconcile these two?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: content, dissatisfied, Paul

What you build and how you build it matters to God

Posted on July 8, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Build Stone Wall

With 60% of young people walking away from the church, we must evaluate the foundation on which we build and how well we build upon it. The eternal destiny of the next generation is at stake and we cannot afford to continue with such a high failure rate. We must do better.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: build, Christ, Christianity, Church, discontent, Foundation, God, gold, hay, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Paul, precious stones, silver, straw, stubble, wood

Social media and the need for validation

Posted on July 2, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

Twitter Follow Me Bird

I read a where a social media guru recently said something to the effect of, “there are two types of people involved in social media, those who want more followers and those who are lying about it.” With the advent of social media, there is a danger in finding our validation in follower counts. Where should our validation come from?

Filed Under: Bible Reflection, Social Media Tagged With: Christ, Christianity, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Paul, Religion and Spirituality, Social Media

Character, darkness and secrets revealed

Posted on June 5, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Mask

Character is doing the right thing even when no-one is looking, yet God always sees and eventually the truth will win out. Stay the course and victory is assured.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christ, God, Jesu, Lord, Paul

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

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A Pattern for Discipleship

Ezra 7:10 (ESV) “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.” I like when things can be simplified. Why make things more complicated than they need to be? As a result, when I read this verse, I […]

Justice

Waiting . . .

Recently, a news story broke that implicated many world leaders in hiding billions of dollars of money in off-shore corporations. In my country, trust in the government is at an all time low because many (most?) of them make decisions that line their own pockets regardless of the consequences. Our leaders have betrayed our trust […]

Success & Failure

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 […]

Question 7

What are the decrees of God?

There is nothing that happens in the world that takes God by surprise. When our first parents rebelled against God by eating the fruit, God had a plan already in place to send Jesus to fix the resulting mess.

Pilate

Pilate – Asking The Question for the 21st Century

“What is truth?” is the question that Pilate asked Jesus at the conclusion of his interview. Was this question asked in an effort to push aside what must have been a very uncomfortable meeting? Or, was this a real question, coming from one who had seen and been wounded by the collision of world views […]

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