I am teaching a basic parenting conference “Parenting in Freedom” at FBC Tyler’s South Campus Tuesday night, Sept 18th from 7-9:30 pm. Cost: $10 per person, $15 per couple. Come on! Learn about how grace and freedom can ease the stress and conflict of parenting! Q&A time included.
Author: chris legg
Rites of Passages – How our Family does them – Part II
Rites of passages plans for for my sons: Age 7 – Page (following the medieval knighthood model)…event: trip to Medieval Times with another friend and dad. Gift: Leatherman (kept in a drawer that they get permission to carry.) Message: you are not just a child anymore, but a contributing member of the family. You are…Continue reading Rites of Passages – How our Family does them – Part II
Upcoming Speaking and Events!
I will be speaking some to our FBC South Youth August 29th at 6:30pm Pine Cove Labor Day Conference Labor Day Weekend at the Woods www.pinecove.com Sept 5th – Womenary Starts! 9-11am Systematic Theology (great time to start Womenary) www.womenary.com Sept 5th – FBC Tyler South – How to read the Bible – Dinner at…Continue reading Upcoming Speaking and Events!
Rites of passages – how our family does them – Part I
I have spent many years researching, speaking and writing about, and engaging with Rites of Passages. I think of rites of passages as being events or activities meant to communicate (within a given relationship or community) a change in status, responsibility and/or identity. I know that sounds technical, but it isn’t. In fact, it feels…Continue reading Rites of passages – how our family does them – Part I
Anxiety and other emotions – Part 3
A final word about anxiety that might help you: It is not possible to see the positive while in the midst of feeling anxiety. Anxiety isn’t looking for good things, it is looking for threats – so it ignores anything good or nice. Can you imagine looking into a dark alley, heart racing, palms sweating,…Continue reading Anxiety and other emotions – Part 3
Anxiety and other Emotions – Part 2
Some people feel medium and even high levels of anxiety all the time… Which means they are ALWAYS in the state of looking for a threat to fix. Remember that is what anxiety is? “Something is wrong, find it and fix it…” So the soul is in a constant state of being SOOO sure that…Continue reading Anxiety and other Emotions – Part 2
Anxiety (and other emotions) Part I
I have a new way of understanding emotions that has been working itself out in my head for a while… Emotions are a way for our body to communicate with itself, specifically about the allocation of energy, I now think. This would make sense from a design perspective – the usage of energy is vital…Continue reading Anxiety (and other emotions) Part I
How to not keep being traumatized by difficult people you love
It is amazing what we as humans can deal with when we see things in different perspectives. Imagine that you chose to work at a camp for helping Down’s Syndrome kids. Imagine that at some point, a big teenage DS boy walks up to you in the cafeteria and touched you in a sexually inappropriate…Continue reading How to not keep being traumatized by difficult people you love
The Taming of Fantasies
I have a good friend who is publishing a book on the errors surrounding the role of fantasy in the lives of Christians. When it comes out, I will tout it here! She asked me for my thoughts and one powerful concept came to my mind that I wanted to link to my conversations on…Continue reading The Taming of Fantasies
Teaching on Adoption this Sunday!
I am teaching on the biblical doctrine of adoption this Sunday at South Campus at 9am. Please come pack this place out! Hook: come meet my adopted son, Michael!
Calvinism, predestination, middle knowledge and does God know the future – whew! – Part 2
Notice that God tells David what would happen if he stayed, but he didn’t stay! God described a future that didn’t happen. So, God looks down through all the possible futures of all of the possible worlds and creations He could create within whatever bounds He had chosen for Himself. I imagine that in some…Continue reading Calvinism, predestination, middle knowledge and does God know the future – whew! – Part 2
Calvinism, predestination, middle knowledge and does God know the future – whew! – Part 1
I believe in the law of non-contradiction. Two oppositional things cannot both be true at the same time and in the same way. I believe that this is an axiom. There are no square circles. The Bible is clear in regard to the doctrine of election. God chooses. God predestines. (check out Ephesians 1:3-11) The…Continue reading Calvinism, predestination, middle knowledge and does God know the future – whew! – Part 1
Upcoming Speaking Events
May 30th: The Last MIGHTY night. Even if you haven’t been to a single MIGHTY event – come anyway! 6:30-7:30. Wear a blade! June 3rd: Preaching at FBC South. Topic: Weird Things Christians Do: Heaven & Hell June 10th: Pike and I are planning to preach together on WTCD: Worship June 17th: Preaching at FBC…Continue reading Upcoming Speaking Events
Upcoming Speaking dates
Preaching at FBC South Campus: June 3rd – Weird Things Christians Do: Tell others. June 17th – The Theology of Adoption June 24th? Maybe then too. 3 more (including tonight) Wednesday nights for men. Tonight: Husbands. Next: Brothers… then our final session for this year – May 30th.
Men Be Motivated – challenge from EVERCLEAR
Watch This First. Many of you have seen this already, I know… Men, please be motivated by this. Are we angered by what angers God? Are we moved by what moves Him? I am filled with what feels like rage when I watch this, if rage is pain and anger mixed with grief. We MUST…Continue reading Men Be Motivated – challenge from EVERCLEAR
An Experiment in Creation. Genesis 1 – Part II
God, speaking to Moses (or maybe it was Adam and passed down to Moses), decides to reveal to him the creation of the Earth… and it is shown to him from the perspective of Earth. Moses, in his own mind (or maybe in God’s great video screening room with actual 360 degree visual and sound)…Continue reading An Experiment in Creation. Genesis 1 – Part II
An Experiment in Creation. Genesis 1 – Part I
I am in awe of the deep Old Testament. There is such raw power and yet a simplicity like teaching to a child… However, there are times that I am not sure how to treat or appreciate it – and sometimes even how to let the Truths there speak to me… but I want to…Continue reading An Experiment in Creation. Genesis 1 – Part I
Mighty Men not meeting April 4th!
All Wed night events and activities are cancelled at FBC South the week of April 4th (for Easter) come instead to the Seder Meal on the 5th! We will reconvene on April 11th – swords drawn.
Greatest Musical Intros of all Times – Part II "The list"
20. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin (53 seconds). I don’t particularly love this intro or song, but it is so iconic that I cannot imagine leaving it out. Plus the many “cult” references to it (like “Wayne’s World”) make it a must… but don’t play it in the guitar store. 19. Angel by…Continue reading Greatest Musical Intros of all Times – Part II "The list"