Archived Postings

0116 — New Testament Sectarianism

I ran across an old article by Joe Beam I thought you might be interested in.  Unfortunately, it is still timely. 

Behold the Sectarian Pattern

 

By: Joe Beam

 

0115 — How does GOD see me?

Shamelessly stolen (well, shared) from Jay Guin’s and James Martin’s postings:

It may be the best example of the how God sees us–and the way that the world often doesn’t.

Ms. Boyle, a matronly 48-year-old unemployed woman, who touchingly described herself on camera as “never been married, never been kissed,” lives in a small Scottish village in the flat where she was [...]

0114 — Bicentennial (rerun)

[NOTE:  A "rerun" means that the old-timers who were originally on the IronSharpensIron EMAIL list have already seen this posting.]

 

Quick:  It’s been 200 years since what?

Answer:  1809, of course.

0113 — God Has Forgotten Me

From Patrick Mead

…love somebody until they ask you WHY??? and THEN tell them about Jesus!

CLICK HERE for the 1.2 minute audio clip.

Enjoy! And THINK about it.

–Mark

0112 — Tulsa 2009 Highlights

Don’t have time to dawdle just now, but wanted to let you know my Tulsa 2009 talks, AND [short] HIGHLIGHTS, are now posted. You can get to them by http://wwjdtoday.com Red Page Collected Sermons Tulsa 2009

or http://wwjdtoday.com/Tulsa2009

LET ME KNOW please if you find any broken links!

Grace and Peace, Mark

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0111 — Let There Be Light!

I heard a wonderful talk by Marvin Phillips last month at Tulsa — The Wonder-Working Power!

Listen to this short clip from his talk…

LET THERE BE LIGHT

0110 — Use Those Cell Phones, Teens!

This is something I picked up 3rd-hand, so unfortunately I can not properly credit the source – but he (The Source) was brilliant!

Picture this: He was speaking to a large youth event, probably 500 or so teens. Just after he is introduced he takes the microphone and says: “Everyone, please get your cell phone. [...]

0109 — Conversation Requires Lock-step Agreement?

Ran across this while searching for something else on the Internet.

I guess one way to keep “pure” is never to associate with anyone who can’t prove his own “pureness?” (The punch line is in the last [...]

0108 — Baptism, by a Baptist

I’ve posted a PDF file on baptism… a rather interesting paper by a rather interesting Baptist, Robert H. Stein, who is the Mildred Hogan Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

 

The purpose of this article is [...]

0107 — Authority

I heard a Bruce Utley sermon this morning.  On Elders.  It was kind of interesting, because I was pondering a particular question when what do you know? — that was the very next issue Bruce brought up.  That kind of got my attention in itself.

 Anyway, I was wondering how Bruce would address the scriptural [...]