by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
A century ago, men were following with bated breath the march of Napoleon and waiting feverishly for news of the war. And all the while in their own homes, babies were being born. But who could think about babies? Everybody was thinking about battles. In one year,...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In an interview with MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, Megan Garber asks what makes in-person conversation unique, compared to all the other ways we communicate these days: Conversations, as they tend to play out in person, are messy—full of pauses and interruptions and...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
As he reflected on his life’s work, the famed author of Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, and many others, Victor Hugo describes what he believed about life after death, that heaven would actually entail a continuation of his life’s work: I feel within me...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Pride, and its more serious cousin, narcissism, really shouldn’t have any place in leadership circles in the church. When I became a serious follower of Jesus at a teenager, Philippians 2 became one of my favorite passages. It taught me that being a disciple of Jesus...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Devils Logic [Part 1 of 2] Think for a second what it would be like if Satan were to tell the truth when he tempted people? Could you picture what that would look like? Imagine if Satan tried to tempt us honestly; it might go something like this: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SATAN:...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 3, 2020 | Culture, Love, Sacrifice, Sermon Illustrations, Uncategorized
In the old American South (and in many places in the American North) a European American who invited an African American as a guest to an expensive restaurant in a white section of town would subject himself to intense hostility from the community by doing so. In the...
