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Over Our Heads: Accept One Another (Rom. 15:7) Chris Altrock – Sept. 3, 2017

This entry is part [part not set] of 4 in the series Over Our Heads

All the Same

Last year at about this time of year I spoke at a retreat of church leaders up in the northeast. We were studying the gospel together. When I say “gospel” I mean what the Bible means–the story of Jesus and the significance of his birth, life, death, resurrection and return. This was core stuff we were plowing through together.

In the midst of our study, one of those church leaders stopped me and started debating my Bible translation. I was using the ESV. Others in our group had the NIV. But he had the KJV. In the midst of our study of the gospel, this church leader launched into an argument about why the Bible translations the rest of us were using were flawed and why the church must use the translation he was using. Everyone in the church, he demanded, must not only believe the gospel. Everyone must also read from the KJV.Read More »Over Our Heads: Accept One Another (Rom. 15:7) Chris Altrock – Sept. 3, 2017

Over Our Heads: Life in the Golden Triangle (Rom. 5:1-5) Chris Altrock – Aug. 6, 2017

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Guts

We were standing in line to board our flight from Atlanta to Memphis when I saw the t-shirt.

It was the end of a long week. We had said our goodbye’s to Kendra’s mother after her long battle with MS and cancer. We were returning from Arizona home to Memphis after the funeral. Standing in line ahead of us as we were boarding our final leg home was a young man with a t-shirt that read “Being human takes guts.” I thought, “Boy, that’s right.” Being human takes guts. It’s hard to be human. Life is hard.Read More »Over Our Heads: Life in the Golden Triangle (Rom. 5:1-5) Chris Altrock – Aug. 6, 2017