One recent Sunday morning I met a man visiting our church. His wife Jane had stayed home while he and his boys attended worship. When I asked him about Jane, he said, “She wasn’t raised in any faith. That’s why she’s not here.” Two hours later I rejoiced with Orion’s mother as Orion was baptized into Christ. [...]
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Irreligious: Forsaking Religion and Finding Jesus’ Lord (Mk. 12:35-37)
Chris Altrock – August 15, 2010 Robin Meyers grew up in Churches of Christ.[i] Along his journey, however, he became disenchanted not only with Churches of Christ, but with all theologically conservative groups. In his book Saving Jesus From the Church Meyers describes this disenchantment as him rejecting Christ but embracing Jesus. In fact, the [...]
Irreligious: Forsaking Religion and Finding Jesus’ Law (Mk. 12:28-34) Chris Altrock – August 8, 2010
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” (Mk. 12:28 ESV) A scribe approaches Jesus in the temple. This scribe joins a long list of people at the temple who have been [...]
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