“There is neither Jew nor Gentile,neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one, in Christ Jesus.”~ Paul, the Apostle, to Galatians, 3:28 2024 EC Summer Keynote by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) Paul’s crucial synopsis to Galatians sums up his rebuttal of his own former rejection of…
by Steven Schimmele 2024 EC Summer Keynote (PDF version available here.) Introduction I’m very thankful to Dr. Ralph Blair for asking me to provide a talk for Evangelicals Concerned’s (EC’s) 2024 connECtion. Dr. Blair, or Ralph, is a significant person in my life. I met Ralph several years before I moved to New York in…
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…
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”,…
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…
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…
by Ralph Blair “Gifted with GOD’s Way as Our Way!” is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 78th EC Summer ConnECtion, June 1-3, 2018 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. (For PDF version click here.) Who knows folks who think everything needs to go their way? Anyone come to mind? …
by Dr. Ralph Blair Based on Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtions2000, Evangelicals Concerned’s summer conferences at Kirkridge in Pennsylvania and at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. A couple months ago, in Uganda, under the banner of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, more than a thousand men, women and…