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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Preaching with impact

Posted on August 25, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

Preaching doesn’t need to be flashy or entertaining to be effective. Here are some thoughts on which preachers have made an impact on me and why.

Filed Under: Christianity and Culture, Preaching Tagged With: preacher, preaching, sermon, sword

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on True Christians and the Sermon on the Mount

Posted on February 19, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment

A comment made by Martyn Lloyd-Jones in the introduction to a collection of his sermons on the Sermon on the Mount is still relevant today. We need to be honest about the Church’s failures, repent and begin again.

Filed Under: Quotation Tagged With: Christian, Christianity, Evangelism, Jesus, sermon, Sermon on the Mount

The blessing of being poor (in spirit) – Matthew 5:3

Posted on November 6, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 4 Comments

Matthew 5:3 reads: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (NASB) One must assume that Jesus knew what he was doing when he put this Beatitude first in the list. Blessed are the poor in Spirit. Luke’s record shortens this saying to simply, “blessed are you who are poor” […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: blessed, blessing, Heaven, kingdom, mount, resources, sermon

Introduction to the Beatitudes – Sermon on the Mount #3

Posted on November 2, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Before examining the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-11, it would be helpful to offer a few words on the meaning of the word translated “blessed” in our English Bibles. The word in the original is makarios, which in Homer denoted the “transcendent happiness of a life beyond care, labor and death.” (Theological Dictionary of the New […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: Beatitude, blessing, mount, sermon

He sat down to teach – Sermon on the Mount Series #2

Posted on October 21, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

The beginning of the Sermon on the Mount:  1 When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. 2 He opened His mouth and began to teach them . . .” (Matthew 5:1-2 NASB) At the end of chapter 4, Matthew informs us […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: crowd, Healing, Jesus, mount, sermon, teaching

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An AHA moment

The only problem with this distortion is that in a fallen, broken world, there is a lot of stuff to be angry about. Even as very young children we encounter things that should make us angry.

18 Words

J. I. Packer on our response to Scripture

This reminds me that the goal of reading Scripture is not the gathering of knowledge for its own sake. The goal of theology should not be understanding for its own sake.

The Assurance of our Salvation

Martyn Lloyd-Jones again on Prayer

Life as a flawed human in a flawed world is often difficult. But, for the Christian, we have the assurance that God will see us through to the end. I don’t think it is possible to over emphasize what Paul tells us in Philippians 1:6.

Liberty

Shaw on Civil and Religious Liberty

The civil government appears to be impelled by something like infatuation, and is introducing, or giving countenance to, measures that are darkly ominous to both civil and religious liberty, as if hastening onward to a crisis which all may shudder to contemplate.

Preaching

Righteousness, self control and the judgment to come

It may be true that the church has been out of balance the the preaching of “hellfire and judgment” to an unhealthy degree. What does Scripture say?

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