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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Francis Chan on the Holy Spirit

Posted on November 27, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Forgotten God

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 […]

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: Christian, Christianity, God, Holy Spirit, holyspirit, Jesus, Religion & Spirituality

Living in the Not Yet

Posted on January 4, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Not Yet

There are many places in Scripture where the phrase “how long, oh Lord” is expressed. This phrase exhibits a longing for change and protection. As I listen to news of the day I connect with this sentiment. There is much in our world that appears out of control and evil seems to win the day […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christ, Christianity, God, Jesus, Lord, prayer, Religion & Spirituality

They’re still clueless

Posted on December 31, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Clueless

It turns out that those popular kids in High School really were as clueless as me; they were just better at hiding it. Now the popular kids are elected officials and still clueless. I came upon this thought as I wondered why the decisions made by our government representatives seem to be getting less rational. […]

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Already Compromised

Already Compromised – What You Should Know About Educating Your Child

The Opportunity I have seen some students emerge from Christian colleges with a passion to live for Jesus Christ. I have seen others come away from their learning experience discouraged and disillusioned about their faith. As a result of this, when given an opportunity to read Already Compromised on the condition that I do a […]

A word on church culture

For me it boils down to two choices. Either we have a church culture centered on the gospel or we have something else that looks like the church but is not.

Greatest Apologetic

The Greatest Apologetic?

If we claim to be spending time in fellowship and service of Jesus, like those he healed in the Gospels, we should be eternally affected and it should show to those around us.

Perhaps the effect that Jesus has had upon us is the greatest apologetic.

Weird – Because normal isn’t working – Book Review

A Weird Contest Won   One day I saw a tweet which announced a contest to win a new book called Weird. Since free is my favorite price and the title intrigued me, I decided to check it out. One of the ways to win a copy was to promise to write a review of […]

Embarrassing

Skipping the embarrassing parts . . .

I’m learning to be increasingly comfortable with the embarrassing bits of Scripture because they teach me a lesson that I struggle to hear, that of grace.

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