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The Truth About Life: Your Calendar’s Most Frequently Recurring Event (Rev. 1:4-8) Chris Altrock – 5/17/15

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The movie and book The Time Traveler’s Wife tell the story of a man whose greatest challenge is his calendar. The man, Henry DeTamble, was born with a genetic disorder. This disorder causes Henry to time-travel. Usually during times of stress, Henry will disappear and then reappear, for example, five years into the future, or, ten years into the past, and then eventually make his way back to the present. Henry will often see younger or older versions of himself as he travels along his life’s timeline. Eventually, he falls in love a woman named Claire. Claire has to learn how to live with this man who floats in between present, past and future. It is the story of someone whose greatest challenge is his calendar.Read More »The Truth About Life: Your Calendar’s Most Frequently Recurring Event (Rev. 1:4-8) Chris Altrock – 5/17/15

Missing Mary’s Eyes (John 12 & 20) Chris Altrock – 5/10/15

 

Here is a recurring event in the Altrock household:

Let’s say that it’s Saturday afternoon. I’m hungry. I want a snack. So, I walk over to our pantry. I open the door and I look inside. I’m looking for one particular snack. I’m drooling for the bright red box of Chips Ahoy Chewy Chocolate Chip and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cookies. I look top to bottom, left to right, but I do not see the bright red box of Chips Ahoy Chewy Chocolate Chip and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cookies. So, I say,” Kendra? Do you know if Jacob ate all of the cookies? I don’t see them anywhere in the pantry.” And, Kendra says, “They are right there in the pantry.” And I respond, saying,” I’m standing at the pantry. I’m looking in the pantry. And I do not see any Chips Ahoy Chewy Chocolate Chip and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cookies. We must be out.” Then, Kendra walks over and immediately puts her hand on a full box of cookies on a shelf in the pantry. I was looking right at them. But I did not see them.Read More »Missing Mary’s Eyes (John 12 & 20) Chris Altrock – 5/10/15

Go: Encircled (Acts 18:1-11 ) Chris Altrock & Lawana Maxwell – 4/19/15

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Tyler Edwards is the author of a book called Zombie Church. He warns that too many churches are like zombies – undead; not truly alive; consuming everything and contributing nothing. The cure for zombie churches, he proposes, is love. You’ve got to restart the heart.

At one point he realized his own church was a zombie church. It was contributing nothing to the people and neighborhoods around it. It needed to restart its heart. It needed to rediscover how to love those nearby. Edwards wrote this helpful line:Read More »Go: Encircled (Acts 18:1-11 ) Chris Altrock & Lawana Maxwell – 4/19/15

Uncommon: Reading Wrong (Luke 14:1-6 ESV) Chris Altrock – 4/12/15

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I recall one year when I was a student at Harding School of Theology. The school hosted an annual seminar on a biblical topic. That particular year the topic was “grace, faith and works.” The seminar focused on the tension between Scriptures that talk about being saved by grace through faith—saved by nothing that we do, and Scriptures that stress the importance of putting your faith to work. Several faculty members from HST were invited to participate. In addition, a leader from another local school participated. Each speaker had an assigned topic and time.

I remember when the local school leader came to the stage to deliver his presentation. Instead of speaking on his assigned topic, he verbally attacked one of the other presenters for thirty minutes. He showed slide after slide of things the other presenter had written in publications, and did his best to show how those writings were blasphemous and sinful. In reality, they were not.Read More »Uncommon: Reading Wrong (Luke 14:1-6 ESV) Chris Altrock – 4/12/15