Chris Altrock is an author, spiritual director and preacher, serving as the Senior Minister at the Stamford Church of Christ. He and his wife Kendra are parents to Jordan and Jacob.
If you are a football player in the NFL, you have one professional goal that overshadows all others—win the Super Bowl. If you are a student, one academic goal dominates your time: graduation. In many areas of life, it is easy to identify your core goal.
But what is the goal of life? Read More »The Goal of the Spiritual Life/ The Role of Spiritual Disciplines
In his book “Prayers” (Sheed & Ward, 1963, 90-92) Michel Quoist prays with thanksgiving for the way in which a lecturer’s bald head reminds him of Jesus’ promise in Luke 12:7: “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” It is a prayer thanking God for how he has made us each unique. It is a prayer calling us to recognize the uniqueness of one another and to be as mindful of each other as God is mindful of us.Read More »Bald Head Prayer
A Psalm I prayed through today is Ps. 112. It is a Psalm of Orientation–one of the Psalms which addresses the routine, ordinary, and day-to-day… Read More »Psalm of the Day