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Fearless: Present (Matt. 25:31-46) Chris Altrock – March 19, 2017

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A few weeks ago we sat in a restaurant in Shanghai with three Christians who worship in a house church. One of the Christians we’ll call Hank. Hank teaches mathematics. We asked him to tell us about his conversion to Christ. He said that it was one thing to believe in God. But it was an entirely different thing to believe in Jesus. To believe that God could become a man. To believe that God could be present on the earth in human form. He said he had to think for a very long time about it that. Because, for him, as a mathematician, he had to work through the logic of it all.

For many of us, we are so familiar with the idea of Jesus, that this issue doesn’t perplex us. But it is one which the Gospels are very interested in. How is God present through Jesus? How is Jesus present on earth? What does it mean for God to be present in Jesus on the earth?Read More »Fearless: Present (Matt. 25:31-46) Chris Altrock – March 19, 2017

Blaze: Present (Matt. 6:19-34) Chris Altrock – January 22, 2017

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No Tomorrow

Lauren Oliver is the author of Before I Fall. The New York Times bestseller tells the story of Samantha Kingston, a senior high student at Thomas Jefferson High. In a way, Samantha, or Sam, has based her life of a line from the broadway film “Annie”:

The sun will come out tomorrow

Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow

There’ll be sun…

Just thinkin’ about tomorrow

Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow

’til there’s none…

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow

You’re always a day away!Read More »Blaze: Present (Matt. 6:19-34) Chris Altrock – January 22, 2017

Making Room: Present (Matt. 1:18-25) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2016

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In the 1850’s thousands of homeless children lived on the streets of New York City.[1] Many sold matches, rags, or newspapers to survive. For protection against street violence, they banded together and formed gangs. There were almost no social services for these homeless children.

A young minister, Charles Brace, took up their cause. He founded the Children’s Aid Society. Brace worked to get the homeless children out of the city and into the country. He used trains to do this. His desire was to get farmers and others in the midwest to adopt the children–to give them homes and a more healthy way of life.

More than 100,000 children were sent, via “orphan trains,” from New York City to homes in rural midwest America.[2] The children often boarded the train having no idea where they were headed or if they would even be adopted. They were leaving the only place they knew for places and people they’d never seen before.

Read More »Making Room: Present (Matt. 1:18-25) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2016