Three Presentations
We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!
All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering.
Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands
400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags
Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity?
Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years.
by
Ralph Blair
(PDF version available here) EC’s 40th Eastern ConnECtion met via EC’s website over June 5-7. We’d planned to be in the Pennsylvania mountains where we’d met each summer since 1980. It was EC’s 80th summer ConnECtion, counting our Eastern, Mid-western and Western ConnECtions across the country. Though physically apart, we connected together in Christ’s ever-abiding…
This material was originally presented by Dr. Ralph Blair at connECtion 1980, the summer conference of Evangelicals Concerned, Inc. I am going to begin with a neglected passage from Ecclesiastes 4:1 and 4:8-12. Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were crying, and no one would…
The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage by Erwin W. Lutzer (Moody Publishers, 2004, 115 pp.). “Love Supreme: Gay nuptials and the making of modern marriage” by Adam Haslett, The New Yorker, May 31, 2004. Angry traditionalists in Massachusetts launched an effort to stop what they said was a fatal blow to marriage, the family and childrearing…
By Jean Elizabeth Klee 2024 2024 EC Summer Keynote (PDF version available here.) Asked to share my thoughts about Christian Discipleship by my friend Steve, I’ve been remembering times the Holy Spirit was clear and true with his love for me. Truth is a big part of my faith. God is here, and he loves…
A Sermon Preached by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, New York, on June 24, 2001 It’s June – the month of brides. And the oldest of all brides is here today in church. She is church. She’s us. As scripture says: We are the Bride of Christ. From the creeds that lie behind the…
Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands 400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags by Ralph Blair(PDF version available here) After surviving the dreadful storms of their Atlantic crossing, The Mayflower’s Pilgrims were swept to a safe harbor far to the north of their expected landfall in Virginia. It was just in time to shelter…