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Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Asking Questions (Mk 10) Chris Altrock – Sept. 24, 2017

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series Go 901

Questions Shaped my Life

Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?

         Would you preach this Sunday night?

In many ways, those two questions shaped my life from 1984 to the present.

In 1984 Marlon McWilliams asked me that first question as we stood in the baptistry on a Sunday night at the Cloudcroft Church of Christ: “Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?” I answered “Yes!” and Marlon baptized me. That one question gave birth to my salvation.

Later, in 1986, Wesley Lane asked the second question: Would you preach this Sunday night? He wondered if I’d be willing to deliver the Sunday evening message at the services of the Cloudcroft Church of Christ. Barely a Christian a couple of years, but eager to give it a go, I answered “Yes!”

It was my first sermon. I prepared diligently. I hand wrote pages of notes. I was certain it would take up the full 30 minutes I’d been allotted. My delivery was a blur because I was so nervous. When I stepped down, and we sang the invitation song, and I looked at the clock on the back wall, barely ten minutes had passed from the time I began my sermon to the time we sat down after the invitation song. Still, it was my first taste of preaching. Something I’ve done now for 25 years.Read More »Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Asking Questions (Mk 10) Chris Altrock – Sept. 24, 2017

Body and Soul, Heaven and Earth (Gen. 14)

This entry is part [part not set] of 32 in the series Genesis Devo

 

17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” (Gen. 14:17-20 ESV)

Melchizedek is a unique figure. Of the many kings mentioned in Genesis fourteen, he is the one king who is also a priest. He is the king of Salem. He is also the priest of God Most High.

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Go:901 Love Shows (Rom. 5:8) Chris Altrock – Sept. 11, 2016

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I Agree

If you’ve ever bought a new app for your phone or updated software on our iPad or on your computer, or if you’ve ever signed up for a new loyalty card online, you’ve seen a lengthy legal terms of service agreement. Before you could proceed with the software update or the purchase of the loyalty card, you had to indicate that you read that statement and click the button that said “agree.”

Raise your hand if you’ve ever read it before you clicked the button that said “agree.”

Jonathan Obar at York University says that it would take the average person 40 minutes a day, every day, for a year to fully read all of these legal service agreement statements which we encounter. Thus, most of us never read them. We just click, “Agree.”

To test this, Obar and a colleague conducted an experiment where they tried to get people to sign up for a new social network site called “Name Drop.” When people signed up, there was a typical service agreement that popped up on the computer screen. The user had to click “agree” in order to use the service. Buried in the agreement were two disclosures. Read More »Go:901 Love Shows (Rom. 5:8) Chris Altrock – Sept. 11, 2016