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Faithfulness – The currency of God’s economy

Posted on March 31, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Cash Register

God has called us to faithfulness and to leave the results in his hands. King Saul provides an example of one who did not understand this.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Christ, David, God, Samuel, Saul

Enemies of Faithfulness

Posted on March 20, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

There are many things that can be listed as potential enemies to faithfulness. For the purpose of this post I have chosen three that I think are significant. These three are: Lack of a prophetic voice Lack of discipline Lack of understanding Lack of a prophetic voice Ravi Zacharias has pointed out that one of […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: David, Faith, God, Israel, Samuel, Saul, Scripture, Solomon

Jonathan Gets a Clue

Posted on December 7, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

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In our never-take-no-for-an-answer, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps culture, perhaps it is difficult to understand Jonathan’s actions in 1 Samuel 20:12-17. We live in a world where self-promotion is expected; encouragement to “look out for #1” is covertly or overtly stated in almost every advertisement. We often look for validation in job titles, paychecks, hit counts and followers. Jonathan […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Books of Samuel, David, First Epistle to the Corinthians, God, Israel, Samuel, Saul

Abandoned by God – 1 Samuel 15:35

Posted on November 30, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

1 Samuel 15:35 (ESV) 35 And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. Saul had abandoned God and as a result, God abandons Saul. Someone once said that we have two options which […]

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The People Began to Scatter

Posted on November 28, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Fork in the Road Sign

I see in humans (principally in myself), an amazing ability to find good reasons to do the wrong thing. We (perhaps I am alone in this, but I think not) can muster arguments to do what we want even if it is not what we know is right.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Books of Samuel, Fear, God, Israel, Samuel, Saul

A Lesson From Eli – Do not let comfort keep you from doing right

Posted on November 25, 2010 Written by Mark McIntyre 3 Comments

Resisting Change

Comfort can make us resistant to necessary changes. Eli knew his sons were doing wrong but failed to offer correction. He can learn from him

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Church, God, Holy Spirit, Moses, Samuel

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On dealing with the hurt caused by churches

In short, the problem with the church stares back at me in the mirror every morning. I am the problem with the church.

Rome

Not what I would choose

In Acts 19:21, Paul expresses a desire to go to Rome as part of his missionary efforts. Paul did eventually get to Rome but it is unlikely that he envisioned that he would enter Rome as a prisoner of the state and remain there under house arrest. In the Epistles that Paul wrote while in […]

Kicked out for our own good

Growing up, when I read in Genesis Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, I always viewed this as a punitive action. I thought that our first parents were being punished for their sin. This morning, as I read this passage, I noticed that the goal in expelling them from the Garden was to […]

Longing for a home I’ve never seen, Part 2

In the internet age there is so much information flying around that a news source has to be extremely sensational to get any attention. The easiest stories to sensationalize are negative ones, ones that show mankind at its worst. Wars, shootings, traffic fatalities, child neglect and abuse, government failure and general stupidity are regularly featured.

Gasoline engines running on diesel

“From a very early age our souls are taught there is a comfort and a discomfort in the world, a good and bad if you will, a lovely and a frightening. There seemed to me to be too much frightening, and I didn’t know why it existed.”

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