It is not blind faith

Posted on December 22, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

In response to the idea that religious faith is blind faith, I ran across this paragraph from John Lennox and thought I would it with you.

K. P. Yohannan on willingness to suffer

K. P. Yohannan offers a challenge to us about being willing to suffer for the cause of Jesus Christ. A short post containing a quotation from “Against the Wind.”

Allowing God to be mysterious

As I have grown older, I have become increasingly comfortable with allowing God to be mysterious. This has relieved me of some of the pressure to provide explanations for particular events.

Doubt and Confusion

The question I have to ask myself is this, “if John the Baptist, arguably the greatest prophet sent before Christ, experienced doubt and confusion, why would I assume that I should be exempt?”

Os Guinness – In the World but not of the World

But when the church, through its faithfulness and its discernment of the times, lives truly ‘in’ but ‘not of’ the world, and is therefore the City of God engaging the City of Man, it touches off the secret of its culture-shaping power.

On being caught in adultery

My point in all this is that we are bren people living in a bren culture and we are called to minister to people like us who have made a mess of life. We must invite them into relationship with Jesus without laying on them the impossible task of cleaning themselves up first.

In what did Christ’s humiliation consist?

We can also be encouraged by the thought that through his death on our behalf, Jesus also secured the ultimate defeat of our enemy. He will one day return to complete the victory over evil and make everything right.

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