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chrisaltrock

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.

Don’t Worry

A recent news magazine includes a photo taken on Wall Street.[1]  Amidst business men and women stands a person wearing a white mask.  The person appears to be a woman.  She holds up a sign.  The sign says, “You have every reason to worry.”  The message continues on another sign hung around her neck: “No end in sight.”  In the heat of the economic meltdown, here was one person’s conclusion: “You have every reason to worry.  No end in sight.”  Read More »Don’t Worry

The Simple Way: People Who Are Sent to Save (Matt. 5:13-16)

One of the movies Kendra and I used to watch with Jordan and Jacob was called An Extremely Goofy Movie.[1]  The story centers on Goofy struggling with the empty-nest-syndrome caused when his son Max leaves home for college.  Goofy misses Max so much that he enrolls in Max’s college just to get near him.  Max, however, wants nothing to do with his dad.  In class one day Goofy daydreams about happier times with Max.  The soundtrack to the dream is a song by the Partridge Family called “Come on Get Happy!” [2]: Traveling along there’s a song that we’re singing, “Come on get happy!” A whole lot of loving is what we’ll be bringing.  We’ll make you happy!  While the song plays, Max appears as a young boy in love again with his dad.  Together Max and Goofy float in the clouds.  Everything is right.  But then Goofy is dragged back into the painful reality.  Read More »The Simple Way: People Who Are Sent to Save (Matt. 5:13-16)