Entries from October 2008

October 29, 2008

Uncomfortable Honesty

The church is a strange organism.  The church is a strange mix of divergent people who choose to live together.  The scriptures tell us that we are one body with many members.  We are the family of God, and we are brothers and sisters together.  Now, I hear that there are two things that you [...]

October 21, 2008

Our New Head Coach: Mike Singletary

I like Mike.  Singletary that is.  I had like all 49ers fans had seen enough of the Mike Nolan era to realize he was not the man to lead us back to the Super Bowl.  I used to be a Nolan apologist, and with some good reason.  He had moved the 49ers back to a [...]

October 14, 2008

Knowing Fully, Loving Anyway

George Strait has a song entitled “You Know Me Better Than That.”  It is a song written to an old girlfriend about his new girlfriend.  This new girlfriend “She thinks I’m perfect, I swear, She likes my body, my class and my charm.  She says I’ve got a confident aire… Oh, she tells her friends [...]

October 1, 2008

Why I am an Optimistic and Hopeful Cubs Fan

I’m 24.  I am not a long-suffering Cubs fan.  I am a suffering Cubs fan, however, but one thing we Cubs fan have no matter what is hope.  A good Christian Cubs fan believes and hopes two things: that Jesus will return and the Cubs will win a World Series.  It won’t happen in that order, [...]