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

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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 King (Gen 49:10, 2 Sam 7:12-13 & Matt. 6:33) Chris Altrock – 6/3/18

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Life-Changing Decisions

I turned 50 in March of this year. I received the requisite birthday cards from family and friends making wisecracks about my age. And, unfortunately, I also received the requisite order from my doctor to get a colonoscopy.

The morning of that appointment Kendra and I drove to the office on Wolf River boulevard. After a short time in the waiting room, I was called to the procedure room. There an attendant asked me to sit down while she asked at least fifty health questions. I had already answered at least fifty questions on an online questionnaire before the appointment. But either I’d failed that questionaire or they were just really, really interested in my health.

When the attendant was done with her list of questions, she took out a form for me to sign. By signing the form, she said, I was making a commitment to several things. One of those commitments was put in these words:

“I will make no life-changing decisions today.”

Because I’d be going under anesthesia, and anesthesia can affect people in significant ways, they didn’t want any of their patients making life-changing decisions.Read More »The True You: The King (Gen 49:10, 2 Sam 7:12-13 & Matt. 6:33) Chris Altrock – 6/3/18

The True You: Abraham (Gen. 12:2-3) Chris Altrock – 5/20/18

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Little Library

            A couple of years ago a few of us from Highland visited Hangzhou, China. It was one of the cities we had identified as a potential site for a new mission work. We wanted to get to know the city and meet some of the local Christians in the house churches.

One evening we worshiped in a house church. Like so many of the informal gatherings of Christians in China, this one met in a small apartment. There were about twenty of us that night. Most were from Hangzhou. One was from Singapore. A few were from another country–American missionaries traveling through Hangzhou.

I remember seeing a small bookshelf in the apartment filled with Christian books. Before the worship service started, I thumbed through the books. These were this church’s church library, their resource room. It consisted of twenty or thirty books. These were the written materials forming their minds and hearts spiritually.

I was saddened by what I found.Read More »The True You: Abraham (Gen. 12:2-3) Chris Altrock – 5/20/18

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

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Take

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