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Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Rethinking Church

Posted on September 5, 2020 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

I wonder if the money spent on the large venue is the best use of the resources provided to the church. Not only do you have the expense of building the large venue, there is also a large increase of the maintenance and operating budgets to support the building.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: breaking of bread, fellowship, large, prayer, teaching

Keller on prayer and Scripture

Posted on May 9, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Keller on Prayer

In his book on prayer, Tim Keller writes this about the importance of having Scripture as the foundation of our prayer life: “Without immersion in God’s words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality. We may be responding not to the real God but to what we wish […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Keller, prayer

Give God no rest

Posted on April 27, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Give God no rest

God is telling us that he wants us to bring our concerns to him. He wants us to pray for, long for, a day of ultimate peace. He wants us to beg for the ultimate establishment of his kingdom.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: kingdom, Peace, prayer, rest

A longing for justice

Posted on April 9, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Justice

This verse in Isaiah encourages me that at some point justice will be established. We will no longer experience terrorism, disease, or government corruption. We have a hope that rises higher than any flood of bad news that comes our way.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Isaiah, justice, longing, prayer, Scripture

Your Father knows what you need, then why ask?

Posted on April 6, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Father and son painting a room

The question is, why should we pray if God already knows what we need? It is not like I am going to provide God with a missing piece of data without which he could not make a good choice.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: painting, prayer, privilege, Sermon on the Mount

A prayer for today

Posted on October 2, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Daniel Praying

We can learn a lesson from Daniel’s prayer. Daniel earnestly interceded on behalf of his people and asked God to intervene and do something about it. God has responded in a most amazing way by sending Jesus.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Daniel, prayer, today

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The drive to worship is deep in the heart of humanity. For evidence of this we need to look no further than any stadium in which an NFL game is being played. The energy behind the worship of the professional football team in the city near which I live is impressive. On game day during […]

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On the Command to Keep the Sabbath

A Christian understanding of keeping the Sabbath should involve rest, assembling together for worship and instruction and doing good works for the benefit of others.

Righteousness, Scribes and Pharisees

Jesus told his disciples that to enter Heaven, their righteousness would have to surpass that of the Pharisees. How could this be done? Should we throw in the towel or is there an answer to this problem?

Please God alone

My greatest struggle in being part of the church has been when leaders possessed a certitude about how things should be done that borders on presumption. If I have learned one thing about humanity, it is that we are all inherently flawed. I have ample evidence in myself and others of the depravity of man. We are broken and that brokenness affects everything that we touch. As a result, we should have a healthy distrust of ourselves and a confidence in God alone.

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After about 3 minutes of internet research on the subject, I decided to no longer use the Disqus comment system on this blog. I had no serious problems with Disqus. The service was free and it worked well. Yet, I found some reasons to turn off Disqus and I think they are strong enough to […]

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