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Warmer: Heating Through Healing (Acts 5:12-16) Chris Altrock – 1/21/18

This entry is part [part not set] of 3 in the series Warmer

People in Pain

Last Sunday Eric told you a story about waiting to eat enchiladas while he was in Texas. He made a big point out of the fact that he was eating enchiladas in Texas, as if Texas is the place where you get really good Mexican food.

Now, I’ll admit you can get some decent Mexican food in Texas. But the reason I was gone last Sunday is that I was in New Mexico at a family event. My youngest step-sister was getting married. And New Mexico is where you go if you want to eat really good Mexican food. While I was there, I had a green chili cheeseburger and a green chili quesadilla–with chili from Hatch, New Mexico. I had chile verde gorditas. I had posole. It was really good Mexican food!Read More »Warmer: Heating Through Healing (Acts 5:12-16) Chris Altrock – 1/21/18

Thriving: Caught by Surprise (Jn. 5:1-17) Chris Altrock – January 17, 2016

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On Sunday mornings, we are making our way through John’s Gospel.

  • Two Sundays ago I shared how this gospel is focused on the topic of “thriving.” In Jesus, John writes, we gain the capacity not simply to be alive, but to thrive. We saw how that theme of thriving is woven into the beginning of John in Jn. 1 and the end of John in Jn. 20.
  • One Sunday ago, Eric spoke about one of the most profound statements in John’s Gospel. It’s found in Jn. 3 where John the Baptist says, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” (Jn. 3:30 ESV)
  • This morning we come to chapters 4-5 which contain a story of Jewish Jesus interacting with a Samaritan woman, Jesus healing the son of an important official, and Jesus teaching about religious authority. Chapter 5 is where we find the story which is our focus this morning: Read More »Thriving: Caught by Surprise (Jn. 5:1-17) Chris Altrock – January 17, 2016

Toxic: The Poison of Despair (James 5:7-20) Chris Altrock – December 2, 2012 – Sunday Morning Message

David Ralston, one of our elders, recently shared with me the story of Evelyn.  David met Evelyn during his work in Kiev, Ukraine where we support the Ukrainian Education Center—one of our ministries to the nations.  Evelyn seemed doomed from the start to suffer despair.  Her father did not want her.  In fact, he asked her mother to have an abortion.  Her mother refused and the marriage dissolved.  After Evelyn’s birth, her mom had to leave Evelyn with grandparents in Ukraine while she travelled to Italy to find work.  Her grandfather frequently got drunk on vodka and beat the grandmother.  It was a horrible living situation for a young girl.  Evelyn’s mother eventually returned to Ukraine and was reunited with Evelyn.  The two of them tried to live with her ex-husband.  But after a tumultuous three years, Evelyn and her mother were kicked out.  Evelyn eventually graduated from school and enrolled in a university in Kiev.  Eager to learn English, she joined an English conversation club.  But the man who ran the club took advantage of her and slept with her.  Evelyn became pregnant and learned that this man had seven children with five different women.  He persuaded her to have an abortion and then promised to break things off with all the other women if Evelyn would stay with him.  She did.  He didn’t.  Evelyn’s life was filled with despair. Read More »Toxic: The Poison of Despair (James 5:7-20) Chris Altrock – December 2, 2012 – Sunday Morning Message