Keynote address by Dr. Blair at connECtions
Keynote for EC’s 2023 ConnECtion by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Twenty centuries ago, the Apostle Paul mentored early Christians in the Greek city of Philippi, giving them pragmatically spiritual support that we all still need today. He warned that, as Christians, we’ll be persecuted. Still, as he tells us all: “Don’t be…
“From Creation & Insurrection to Redemption & Resurrection: God’s Grace Overcomes All of Our Self-Destructive Self-Deceptions.”by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Through all of the ages of God’s Gracious Revelations to humanity, from generously Creating us in His Image to flourish as human beings, through all of the ages of our ungrateful responses…
Ralph Blair’s 2022 EC ConnECtion Keynote (PDF version available here.) Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Hermon, was more than an eight-hours walk from Galilee. Its stone cliffs were pockmarked with pagan shrines in honor of Zeus, Nemesis, Pan and The Dancing Goats in risqué fertility rites of bestiality, along with “The Gates of Hades”,…
Three Presentations We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. (Read Presentation here.) Pilgrims Enlighten the Dawn Lands400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving with the Wampanoags (Read Presentation here.) Our 21st Year in the 21st Century: Maturity?Making it to Maturity Means Much More than Amassing More Years. (Read Presentation here.) by…
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) “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” That’s a very ancient riddle. It’s a philosophical puzzle on the world’s beginnings and a question about all sorts of other sequences…
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…
We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!All Thanksgiving, already and thankfully is, a Togethering. by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Each year, in late October or early November, it’s usually singles, who’re asked a friendly question many find awkward to answer. Yet, in 2020, given lockdowns and social distancing restrictions, it wasn’t so awkward to…
connECtion 2021 Keynoteby EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here) All real love is the most profound of all connections and it is generated and energized by the One Who is, Himself, Love, The Eternally Triune God. Yet, lovingly created in God’s Image and called to connect with one another by love, we fail…
The 17th Annual Octoberfest of Evangelicals Concerned EC’s 2020 Octoberfest Keynote by EC founderRalph Blair (PDF version available here.) “What’s the matter?” Have you ever been asked this question by anyone? Has anyone ever asked this of you? What does the question mean? What’s meant in the mind of the one who asks? What’s meant…
ConnECtion2020EC’s 80th ConnECtion over 40 Summers By Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) “When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them. He saw they were anxious and as helpless as lost sheep without a shepherd.” (Matt 9:36) Jesus saw what Hebrew Prophets and the Psalmist saw and grieved over, so many centuries earlier: “All, like…