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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Ashley Madison and Matthew 5

Posted on September 13, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Some have expressed surprise and dismay that Christian leaders have been found to have their names on the list. But I don’t think that we should be surprised. The church is not filled with people who have it all together. We know this because they let us in and we do not have it all together. Whether our failures are obvious to others or not, we all fail.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: adultery, Ashley Madison, Gospel, Grace, stone

No man, Lord – Reflections on John 8

Posted on June 24, 2013 Written by Michael Andrzejewski 6 Comments

John 8 teaches us that the memory of our own sins should be a sufficient deterrent against judgment of others. If it is not, we better start remembering before we start casting stones.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection, Guest Post Tagged With: Sin, stone

On the need for a heart transplant

Posted on September 3, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Heart of Stone

Preaching that does not call the hearers to repentance will not affect the heart of the hearers. Real change requires a change of heart.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: flesh, Gospel, heart, stone

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Fail

Built to fail

The church is not an organization that is built to eventually fail. In fact, when Jesus gave us our mission of making disciples, he also told us that he would be with us as we do it. Jesus began it, Jesus sustains it, and Jesus will complete what he started.

Self-pity

No room for self-pity

I do a lot of whining to God. One one hand, God is the perfect target of whining because he can take it, and he can bring correct to me and the situation that I’m whining about. But in thinking about this, I realize that there is no room for self-pity in Christian maturity.

Value

Of infinite value

If we fail to properly value the individual people in our charge we are failing in our mission thus demonstrating a gap between how God views those people and how we do.

Hymnal

Actual vs Aspirational

So while what we are singing may not describe what is actually true of us in the moment, it can be an accurate description of our desire. Our voice can express what is aspirational even though it may not be wholly or even partially true in the moment.

Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Sayers on the Incarnation

I’m re-reading Dorothy Sayers’ book Creed or Chaos? and have to share another quote with you: “It is not true at all that dogma is ‘hopelessly irrelevant’ to the life and thought of the average man. What is true is that ministers of the Christian religion often assert that it is, present it for consideration […]

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