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Alien Ethics: Be Content (Heb. 13:5) Chris Altrock July 27, 2014

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My mother recently visited me and my family in Memphis. While she was here, I took her to the Memphis Botanic Garden.  I’ve spent a lot of time there in the past. Last summer I visited the Garden almost every day for thirty days. Many things caught my attention during those visits. One of them was the grounds crew. I often arrived at the Garden in the morning and the grounds crew was already hard at work.Read More »Alien Ethics: Be Content (Heb. 13:5) Chris Altrock July 27, 2014

Loaded: Exchanging Your Life of Craving for One of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:11-16)

We live in a culture characterized by craving.  In his book Things Unseen, Mark Buchanan writes about this: I saw this close-up … when my children first got to that age when the essence of Christmas becomes The Day of Getting. There were mounds of gifts beneath our tree, and our son led the way in that favorite childhood (and, more subtly, adult) game, How Many Are for Me? But the telling moment came Christmas morning when the gifts were handed out. The children ripped through them, shredding and scattering the wrappings like jungle plants before a well-wielded machete…When the ransacking was finished, my son, standing amid a tumultuous sea of boxes and bright crumpled paper and exotic trappings, asked plaintively, “Is this all there is?“[1]Read More »Loaded: Exchanging Your Life of Craving for One of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:11-16)