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A Christmas Family Tree: A Perfect Pedigree (Matt. 1:1-17) Chris Altrock – December 11, 2011

The popular sci-fi movie “Star Wars” featured a planet called Tatooine on which Luke Skywalker lived.  This planet orbited around two suns.  And earlier this year astronomers discovered a real Tatooine.  They located a real planet orbiting around two suns.  This video shows a planet named Kepler 16b crusing around a smaller red sun and a larger orange sun.  The planet takes 229 days to make the circuit.  Scientists were thrilled to find this—a two-sun solar system.Read More »A Christmas Family Tree: A Perfect Pedigree (Matt. 1:1-17) Chris Altrock – December 11, 2011

Loaded: Getting Rich by Giving Away Your Wealth (1 Tim. 6:11-21) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2011

Occupy Wall Street is a series of demonstrations in New York City and elsewhere.[1] The participants are protesting social and economic inequalities which they believe are the result of corporate greed.  Their slogan is “We are the 99%.”   It refers to the claim that the top 1% in America controls about 40% of the wealth.  The rest of the wealth is distributed among the 99%.  Protestors claim that while unemployment is at one of its highest levels since the Depression, corporate profits are also at one of their highest levels.  Protestors believe that Corporate America, the 1%, is mishandling money and thus harming the 99%–the rest of America.Read More »Loaded: Getting Rich by Giving Away Your Wealth (1 Tim. 6:11-21) Chris Altrock – December 4, 2011

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)