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Blaze: Present (Matt. 6:19-34) Chris Altrock – January 22, 2017

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No Tomorrow

Lauren Oliver is the author of Before I Fall. The New York Times bestseller tells the story of Samantha Kingston, a senior high student at Thomas Jefferson High. In a way, Samantha, or Sam, has based her life of a line from the broadway film “Annie”:

The sun will come out tomorrow

Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow

There’ll be sun…

Just thinkin’ about tomorrow

Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow

’til there’s none…

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow

You’re always a day away!Read More »Blaze: Present (Matt. 6:19-34) Chris Altrock – January 22, 2017

Making Room: Delight (Matt. 2:1-12) Chris Altrock – December 25, 2016

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Is life with a baby or young child something that is wonderful and full of joy? Or is it something that is challenging and full of frustration? It probably depends on who you talk to or what day you talk to them. Different people have different perspectives on what life is like with little people.

Rachel D’Apice is a comic who uses humor to talk about life with youngsters. She says you might think that taking a walk with a toddler would be a marvelous to do. In truth, it can be a maddening thing to do. D’Apice uses an imaginative play on Google Maps to illustrate. Google Maps will give you directions from one place to another. Imagine a Google Maps that described the way young children get to a park.[1]:Read More »Making Room: Delight (Matt. 2:1-12) Chris Altrock – December 25, 2016

Making Room: Majoring in the Margins (Matt. 2:13-23) Chris Altrock – December 18, 2016

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An online journal called “The Richest” posted an article on the most expensive places to give birth.[1]

  1. There is a clinic in Switzerland that costs $2,140 per night.[2] It is the most popular private clinic in Switzerland. Among the many services they offer, they take pride in a chef with a Michelin star offering 24-hour room service to your private room.
  2. The Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles costs $4,000 per day.[3] Offering deluxe maternity suites, you get a three-room suite with two bathrooms, fresh fruit, muffins, and chilled juices. In addition, they offer bedside salon services, like hairstyling, manicures, and pedicures.
  3. And the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York charges $4,000 per day.[4] The luxury suites offer views of Central Park and Manhattan. They include blankets made from Muslin cotton and massage therapy. They have bathrooms with Italian glass tiles and include tea and cookies served in the afternoons.

These are some of the most expensive places to give birth.

But Matthew goes to great lengths to reveal how Jesus chose to be born in radically different circumstances:Read More »Making Room: Majoring in the Margins (Matt. 2:13-23) Chris Altrock – December 18, 2016

Making Room: Present (Matt. 1:18-25) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2016

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In the 1850’s thousands of homeless children lived on the streets of New York City.[1] Many sold matches, rags, or newspapers to survive. For protection against street violence, they banded together and formed gangs. There were almost no social services for these homeless children.

A young minister, Charles Brace, took up their cause. He founded the Children’s Aid Society. Brace worked to get the homeless children out of the city and into the country. He used trains to do this. His desire was to get farmers and others in the midwest to adopt the children–to give them homes and a more healthy way of life.

More than 100,000 children were sent, via “orphan trains,” from New York City to homes in rural midwest America.[2] The children often boarded the train having no idea where they were headed or if they would even be adopted. They were leaving the only place they knew for places and people they’d never seen before.

Read More »Making Room: Present (Matt. 1:18-25) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2016