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Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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On the Command to Keep the Sabbath

Posted on October 17, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

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.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: commandment, rest, Sabbath

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

Working to get what we already have

Posted on December 29, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

Rest Area

The main point is that I don’t have to strive to achieve holiness; it is something that has already been granted to me. I don’t have to work to get holiness; I already have it by being in Christ. I had been working to get something that I already have.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: holiness, rest, work, working

A much needed rest

Posted on December 16, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 7 Comments

Overburdened

Jesus’ yoke is easy and the burden light. If the burden is not light, if service is difficult, then I need to consider that the yoke is not Jesus’ yoke.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: activity, rest, work, yoke

The way to find rest

Posted on January 18, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Rest Area

Jesus offers to provide rest to all who come to him. This post provides a brief look at Jesus’ offer of rest as recorded in Matthew 11:28.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: heavy-laden, Jesus, rest, weary

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The Skill of the Craftsman

I was reading Augustine’s Confessions this morning where he mentions a treatise by Cicero called Hortensius as the means by which God began to change Augustine’s heart. Thinking that it would be interesting to read this work, I searched for a copy only to find out that Hortensius is a lost work. My initial reaction […]

N. T. Wright on Death and Tyrants

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated.

Listen to your friend

On being Job’s friend

One of the lessons to be learned from reading the book of Job is that we should be very careful when counseling someone who is going through a difficulty. Job’s friends felt compelled to give advice to Job which ended up being not very helpful.

The LORD and the LORD alone is my shepherd

Human leaders will fail us, no matter how good their intentions. Psalm 23 reminds us that God alone is the shepherd that will care for us no matter what.

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Timothy Keller on Renewal

Gospel renewal is a life-changing recovery of the gospel. Personal gospel renewal means the gospel doctrines of sin and grace are actually experienced, not just known intellectually.

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