Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. I read a Canadian newspaper article that explained how difficult it is for elite amateur athletes in Canada to get by financially. Carded athletes’ average income was around $30,000 in 2008, but their average […]
An Alternative History
1 Corinthians 15:13-14 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. Alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events unfold differently than they occurred in […]
Boast About This
Galatians 6: 14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. In 1991 after breaking Lou Brock’s Major League Baseball (MLB) record by stealing his 937th base, Oakland Athletics’ Ricky Henderson addressed both Brock and the crowd by saying: […]
Dying to Live
2 Timothy 2: 11 Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him; we will also reign with him One of my passions is trail running. For me nothing quite matches running on my own in a forest enjoying God’s creation and communing with God in this quiet time. While some people can’t quite compute […]
Paying the Penalty
Romans 5: 15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many. I recall watching a clip from an NFL American […]
The Worst of Sinners
1 Timothy 1: 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. The Apostle Paul is such a model to me of a right understanding of our place as Christians. Paul was handpicked by God to be the man to lead […]
