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Month: April 2010

Worthless pursuits

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 30, 2010August 29, 2018
  • Blogging

I’ve been thinking about ‘internet idolatry’ lately and Proverbs 28:19 speaks well to this: Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. (Proverbs […]

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The laser-guided Word

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 26, 2010August 29, 2018
  • Christianity

I’m generally not enthusiastic about daily devotionals, the idea of someone else’s predigested thoughts on a scripture passage as a substitute for getting it straight from the source doesn’t appeal to me (yes, I do […]

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Blog envy

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 24, 2010August 29, 2018
  • Blogging

Even if you think blogs are boring, this guy has some good stuff to say about covetousness: Trevin Wax talking about covetousness in blogging at the 2010 Band of Bloggers meeting at the T4G conference. […]

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Is Jesus interesting enough?

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 22, 2010August 29, 2018
  • Blogging

Jared Wilson at Band of Bloggers The Band of Bloggers is a group of Christian folks who write blogs and get together for a workshop every second year at the Together for the Gospel conferences. Jared Wilson comments in this short video […]

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Are we a fruitless vine?

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 20, 2010August 31, 2018
  • Christianity

Yesterday morning I read Jeremiah 8:8-13, which describes how the teachers of Judah had twisted and distorted God’s word to serve their own purposes. In Jeremiah 8:13 God finds no fruit on His vine (Israel) […]

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Real faith, terrifyingly fragile

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 18, 2010August 31, 2018
  • Christianity

Sermon delivered on Sunday 18 April, 2010 The book of Romans was written to a church comprising both Gentile and Jewish believers. In the opening chapters of this book Paul addresses these two groups in […]

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God as a jam baron

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 15, 2010August 31, 2018
  • Christianity

Perhaps it was the raspberry jam on my toast that caused Jeremiah 6:20 to stick with me this morning. While waiting for my toast to pop I had glanced at the jar of Woolworths jam […]

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100 iPod free days

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 11, 2010August 31, 2018
  • Everyday Life

I made a resolution yesterday. I was considering how I use my iPod to fill in odd snippets of time such as waiting for the bus, walking the dogs or doing odd jobs around home, and realized how little time I leave without […]

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Forced to think by lack of a little rubber thingy

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 10, 2010August 29, 2018
  • Things

I took the dogs for a walk this afternoon, anticipating listening to my iPod while puffing up Signal Hill. However, when I pulled said device from my pocket it was missing one of the little rubber things that make the ‘in-ear’ earbuds fit […]

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