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The True You: Glory (Rom. 3:21-26) Chris Altrock – 7/8/18

This entry is part [part not set] of 7 in the series The True You

In June of this year Chadwick Boseman won the MTV Movie Award for Best Hero. You may not know about the MTV Movie Awards. You may not know who Chadwick Boseman is. He plays the Black Panther. His first movie as the Black Panther was phenomenally successful.  It is one of just over 30 movies to pull in over $1 billion.

The interesting thing is that when Boseman was given this award, he was grateful for it, but he immediately gave it away to someone else. In the audience that night was James Shaw Jr. Shaw had been in a Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, TN when a man shot four people dead. Shaw risked his life to stop the man from shooting more. Boseman invited Shaw to the stage at the MTV Movie Awards and gave the Best Hero award to him. He said, “It’s one thing to play a hero in a movie. It’s another to be a hero in real life.”

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The True You: The Fall and Redemption Promised (Gen. 3:6-7, 15) Chris Altrock – 5/13/18

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Every time I see a bag of nacho cheese flavored Doritos I’m reminded of a central event in my life. That Doritos bag doesn’t just represent a food item. It represents a time when things suddenly went south in my relationship with my parents.

I was about six years old. My brother Craig and I and our best friend Robert were hanging in the hood in Sunspot, NM. The few other kids in Sunspot were still in school in Cloudcroft.They had taken the school bus or had been driven by their parents to the school in Cloudcroft.

It was the afternoon. And we three were hungry. I’d been casing a joint just down from my house. The Dickson’s house. It’s where Dee Dee lived. She was an older woman. Elementary school. Not long ago I’d seen her mom pull out to go pick up Dee Dee at school in Cloudcroft. I knew the house was empty. So, the three of us walked over to the Dickson’s (Sunspot was a verysmall town, hence the reason a trio of six year olds could walk around unsupervised). We pulled open their screen door. It was open. We tried their front door. It was unlocked. Hardly anyone locked their doors in this tiny town.Read More »The True You: The Fall and Redemption Promised (Gen. 3:6-7, 15) Chris Altrock – 5/13/18