2023 Evangelicals Concerned Fall Festival

“Temptations!”Our Foolishly Flawed Fantasies & Our Father’s Faithful Facts of Life by Ralph Blair (PDF version available here)    Temptations are conceived in self-centered cravings for selfishly driven satisfactions, while ignoring others’ welfare, and with a dire lack of gratitude for the most gracious gift of all, God’s Incarnation of Himself in Jesus, who willingly…

“The Peace that Transcends Mere Human Understanding”

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…

2021 Evangelicals Concerned Fall Festival

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?

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…

We’re Never Alone at Thanksgiving!

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…

The Meanings of Words & The Word of All Meaning

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…

Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience

Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…

“Liberty – therefore, Gratitude”

Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…

“Liberty – therefore, Humility”

Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…