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When God Hides: Engaged (Esther 3-4) Chris Altrock – June 5, 2016

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Sometimes Hard Things Happen

A few years ago a series of books hit the best-seller list. The series was called The Hunger Games. They told the story of a post-apocalyptic earth when children from districts were chosen each year to fight to the death in “the hunger games.” These novels, along with millions of others, were available in electronic forms. And in 2014, the most highlighted passage in all electronic books came from The Hunger Games. Here’s the line that more readers underlined that year than any other line in any other electronic book: Read More »When God Hides: Engaged (Esther 3-4) Chris Altrock – June 5, 2016

Living in a World Without God (Esther 1-2) Chris Altrock – May 22, 2016

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That Kind of Relationship

Several  years ago a movie focused on professional athletes and their agents. The movie was called Jerry Maguire.[1] Most athletes and agents portrayed in the movie had relationships we would characterize as “professional.” They were cool and distant. But at the end of the movie Jerry Maguire and his one client, a professional football player, had endured so much in a shared journey that their relationship was something we might call “unprofessional.” They were more like family. In a closing scene, in front of a mob of reporters, they hugged tightly.

Another athlete, standing nearby with his agent, saw this intimacy. He turned to his agent and asked, “Why don’t we have that kind of relationship?”Read More »Living in a World Without God (Esther 1-2) Chris Altrock – May 22, 2016