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God’s Common Cure for Pain (Esther 9) Chris Altrock – Oct. 15, 2017

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Crying Out

            In October 2017, the day after what was then the worst mass shooting in America, Bishop Joseph Pepe of Las Vegas hosted a prayer service to mourn the 59 dead, to pray for the more than 500 injured. More than 800 people attended.[1]

When we are crushed by affliction, we instinctively cry out to the Almighty. We often do not know what else to do. Unable to make sense of what’s happened on earth, we reach out to heaven.Read More »God’s Common Cure for Pain (Esther 9) Chris Altrock – Oct. 15, 2017

Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017

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Praying for Cesar

A few weeks ago I ate Mexican food with Doug, a friend of mine, in Selmer, TN. Selmer is a small town in middle TN. Perhaps fifteen years ago, that might have been an impossibility–eating authentic Mexican food in a small town in middle TN–unless you count Taco Bell as authentic Mexican food. But these days Selmer boasts three family owned Mexican food restaurants.

Doug introduced me to Paula, whose family ran this restaurant. They moved to Selmer from Mexico. Paula introduced us to her daughter, Jessica, an eighth grader, who helped around the restaurant. She introduced us to her son, Cesar, a senior. Cesar played football for the local high school. My friend Doug had taught both Jessica and Cesar in school. Cesar had recently been coming to the church Doug works part time for. A fellow teenager at school, a member of that church’s youth group, had reached out to Cesar and invited Cesar to start coming to church with him.Read More »Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017

Over Our Heads: Accept One Another (Rom. 15:7) Chris Altrock – Sept. 3, 2017

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All the Same

Last year at about this time of year I spoke at a retreat of church leaders up in the northeast. We were studying the gospel together. When I say “gospel” I mean what the Bible means–the story of Jesus and the significance of his birth, life, death, resurrection and return. This was core stuff we were plowing through together.

In the midst of our study, one of those church leaders stopped me and started debating my Bible translation. I was using the ESV. Others in our group had the NIV. But he had the KJV. In the midst of our study of the gospel, this church leader launched into an argument about why the Bible translations the rest of us were using were flawed and why the church must use the translation he was using. Everyone in the church, he demanded, must not only believe the gospel. Everyone must also read from the KJV.Read More »Over Our Heads: Accept One Another (Rom. 15:7) Chris Altrock – Sept. 3, 2017

Over Our Heads: Life from Within (Rom. 8:9-11) Chris Altrock – Aug. 13, 2017

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Genetic Challenges

Recently an international team of scientists reported they had figured out a way to successfully edit DNA in human embryos.[1] The research was aimed at helping families plagued by genetic diseases. These scientists used a gene-editing technique to correct a genetic defect causing a heart disorder that leads seemingly healthy young people to die from heart failure. Scientists say the same approach could be used to prevent a host of inheritable diseases like Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis, an inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease and cases of breast and ovarian cancer caused by mutations in the genes.Read More »Over Our Heads: Life from Within (Rom. 8:9-11) Chris Altrock – Aug. 13, 2017