Chris Altrock is an author, spiritual director and preacher, serving as the Senior Minister at the Stamford Church of Christ. He and his wife Kendra are parents to Jordan and Jacob.
Adele Calhoun writes about 62 spiritual disciplines in her book Spiritual Disciplines Handbook. Disciplines #1 – #6 relate to the general idea of WORSHIP. Here’s… Read More »Spiritual Discipline of the Week: #3 Holy Communion
In his book Choosing Your Faith Mark Mittelberg writes this:[1]
Think about your day so far. This morning, you got up and, by faith, had breakfast, trusting that nobody in the house had laced your food with poison. You stopped at a coffee shop and somehow trusted those characters behind the counter…not to put some kind of harmful or spoiled substance in your triple-shot, extra foam, grande latte. You got to work–maybe even took the elevator?–and sat in a chair, by faith, without testing it first to see if it was still strong enough to hold you up…At lunch, you went out for a walk and paused to bend down and pat a stranger’s dog, believing you wouldn’t become one of the 4.7 million Americans bitten by a dog each year…Then, at the end of the workday, you aimed your car toward home and drove down the street, trusting-but-not-really-knowing that some sixteen-year-old NASCAR wannabe driver wouldn’t be out drag-racing his friends, careening toward you at a high rate of speed. No doubt about it–you live your life by faith every day…
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Paul writes that the goal of the Christian faith is to become “mature” (Eph. 4:13). But what is spiritual maturity? How do we define it? … Read More »Oh Grow Up! What is Spiritual Maturity?
Is music just something pleasant to enjoy or something more? Is music a peripheral we could do with or without, or is it at the… Read More »The Purpose of Music