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Tebow’s team goes down to defeat, what next?

December 18, 2011 – 11:39 pm

I knew this day would come soon. I was asked this morning if I thought God was pulling for the Broncos and I responded, “No I do not. Many think that and for them it will be said that that devil Tom Brady brings the Tebow winning streak to a halt.”

Sure enough New England was victorious. I think that Tebow will continue to be an inspiration to his team and a good witness for Christ.

I read in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on 12-18-11 an article b y Otis L. Sanford (Sanford holds the Hardin Chair of Excellence in Journalism at the University of Memphis and is a columnist for The Commercial Appeal. Contact him at (901) 678-3669 or at o.sanford@memphis.edu). In this article he noted:

Even for the most ardent believers, it sometimes may be God’s will that we lose in order that we might gain a more important life lesson.
Tim Tebow understands this. Despite his outspoken Christian beliefs, he’s never claimed that God has a direct hand in causing the Broncos to win and their opponents to inexplicably fall apart at the end of games.
He does not demonize his opponents, and he does not assert that others aren’t capable of doing the job.
His explanation for success is that his faith gives him comfort and confidence when he’s on the football field.
“If you believe, then unbelievable things can sometimes be possible,” he said after his team’s comeback win against the Chicago Bears last Sunday.
That’s why I respect Tebow as a player and as a person. It’s why I’m becoming a fan.
And it’s why I’ll be watching this afternoon.

 

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The Gospel According to Tebow

A selection of the biblical verses that Tim Tebow wrote in his eyeblack during his college football days.

John 3:16
Jan. 8, 2009 vs. Oklahoma Sooners:

  • “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Ephesians 4:32
Oct. 24, 2009 vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs:

  • “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

Romans 1:16
Nov. 21, 2009 vs. Florida International Golden Panthers:

  • “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

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Tim Tebow verses and interviews

Another good article I read on Tebow: By PATTON DODD On a brisk Thursday evening in mid-November, I sat high in the stands at a Denver Broncos home game, covering the ears of my 4-year-old son as the fans around us launched f-bombs at Tim Tebow, the Broncos’ struggling second-year quarterback. Mr. Tebow was ineffective […]

What is God doing with Tim Tebow? Fellowship Bible pastor of Little Rock ponders…

Everyone is wondering if this amazing fourth quarter comeback streak will end for the Denver Broncos and their quarterback Tim Tebow. At the December 11, 2011 early service at Fellowship Bible Church, pastor Mark Henry noted: How many of you have been watching the drama behind Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow is the starting quarterback for […]

Brummett wants Charter schools to show public schools how to do it

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Ron Paul’s Pro-life view

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Tim Tebow’s Christian faith not abandoned in locker room

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Tim Tebow’s Faith (Part 3)

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Tim Tebow’s Faith (Part 2)

  This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” June 3, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS GUEST HOST: In the “Back of the Book” segment tonight, Tim Tebow is a quarterback for the Denver Broncos and a man of deep faith. That faith […]

Tim Tebow’s faith (Part 1)

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Tim Tebow rallies the Broncos and may be a starter soon

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Evangelicals react to Christopher Hitchens’ death plus video clips of Hitchens debate (part 2)

December 17, 2011 – 9:32 am

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Below are some reactions of evangelical leaders to the news of Christopher Hitchens’ death:

Posted on Dec 16, 2011 | by Michael Foust

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Author and speaker Christopher Hitchens, a leader of an aggressive form of atheism that eventually was dubbed “New Atheism,” died Thursday from pneumonia, a complication of his oesophageal cancer. He was 62.

Hitchens’ interests were varied and he wrote extensively about politics, but it was his outspoken, confrontational words on God’s existence that caught the attention of the Christian community. Hitchens and other members of the New Atheism movement — such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris — went beyond the centuries-old arguments against God and religion. Hitchens wasn’t simply arguing against God’s existence; he said that the world’s greatest problems were caused by religion. Society, he argued, should cleanse itself of all religious beliefs. Hitchens’ most famous book on the subject summed up his thoughts in the title: “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”

He once said of families who raise their children to believe in God: “How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by the compulsory inculcation of faith?”

He wrote that religion was “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.”

Hitchens, who had dual British and U.S. citizenship, regularly took part in debates over God’s existence. For example, in November 2010 he debated Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor William Dembski and in April 2009 he sparred with Christian apologist William Lane Craig.

After Hitchens’ death, Christian leaders were mostly gracious in their response….

Pastor and author Douglas Wilson, who participated in a series of written debates with Hitchens over God’s existence that were put in book form, wrote a tribute to Hitchens at ChristianityToday.com.

“Christopher knew that faithful Christians believe that it is appointed to man once to die, and after that the Judgment,” Wilson wrote. “He knew that we believe what Jesus taught about the reality of damnation. He also knew that we believe — for I told him — that in this life, the door of repentance is always open.”

But Hitchens tried to explain away any potential death-bed conversion, Wilson said.

“Christopher was worried about this, and was afraid of letting down the infidel team,” Wilson wrote. “In a number of interviews during the course of his cancer treatments, he discussed the prospect of a ‘death bed’ conversion, and it was clear that he was concerned about the prospect. But, he assured interviewers, if anything like that ever happened, we should all be certain that the cancer or the chemo or something had gotten to his brain.”

After Hitchens died, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. also commented, saying in a Tweet: “The death tonight of Christopher Hitchens is an excruciating reminder of the consequences of unbelief. We can only pray others will believe.” Mohler added, “The point about Christopher Hitchens is not that he died of unbelief, but that his unbelief is all that matters now. Unspeakably sad.”

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The best soccer goal of the year in 2011? (Soccer Saturday)

December 17, 2011 – 12:26 am

The best soccer goal of the year in 2011?

Yahoo Sports reported:

The rivalry between the Seattle Sounders and the Vancouver Whitecaps goes back to their days in the old NASL in the 1970s, but the final 10 minutes of their first MLS match against each other on Saturday night might have been the best yet. The Sounders’ Mauro Rosales pulled the score even at 1-1 with a goal in the 81st minute and Osvaldo Alonso put them up 2-1 in the 84th. Just one minute later, Vancoucer’s Eric Hassli equalized with his second goal of the night and it just might prove to be the goal of the season in MLS.

Hassli chipped the ball over the defender and ran around him to volley it into the far side of the net from the edge of the box. The match would end 2-2 and showed exactly why Vancouver made the largely unknown Frenchman their highest paid player.

With six goals and three red cards in 10 matches so far, Hassli has had a strange yet productive season that, to this point, has been highlighted by the fact that he was sent off after celebrating a goal by removing his jersey to reveal the exact same jersey. Now it’s highlighted by that and a pretty great goal.

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Evangelicals react to Christopher Hitchens’ death plus video clips of Hitchens debate (part 1)

December 16, 2011 – 9:51 pm

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Below are some reactions of evangelical leaders to the news of Christopher Hitchens’ death:

Posted on Dec 16, 2011 | by Michael Foust

Author and speaker Christopher Hitchens, a leader of an aggressive form of atheism that eventually was dubbed “New Atheism,” died Thursday from pneumonia, a complication of his oesophageal cancer. He was 62.

Hitchens’ interests were varied and he wrote extensively about politics, but it was his outspoken, confrontational words on God’s existence that caught the attention of the Christian community. Hitchens and other members of the New Atheism movement — such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris — went beyond the centuries-old arguments against God and religion. Hitchens wasn’t simply arguing against God’s existence; he said that the world’s greatest problems were caused by religion. Society, he argued, should cleanse itself of all religious beliefs. Hitchens’ most famous book on the subject summed up his thoughts in the title: “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”

He once said of families who raise their children to believe in God: “How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by the compulsory inculcation of faith?”

He wrote that religion was “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.”

Hitchens, who had dual British and U.S. citizenship, regularly took part in debates over God’s existence. For example, in November 2010 he debated Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor William Dembski and in April 2009 he sparred with Christian apologist William Lane Craig.

After Hitchens’ death, Christian leaders were mostly gracious in their response….

“When my dad died, Chris Hitchens had horrible things to say,” Jonathan Falwell, pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., wrote in a Tweet. “All I can say is that I’m praying for Mr. Hitchens’ family in their loss.”

Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California, said Hitchens was a friend.

“I loved & prayed for him constantly & grieve his loss. He knows the Truth now,” Warren wrote in a Tweet.

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Below is a reaction from a Christian about the news concerning the death of Christopher Hitchens:

December 15, 2011

Christopher Hitchens Has Died

I really had hope that he was just contrary enough to defy everyone and become a Christian before the end. So much so, that I was actually shocked when I heard he died. I was praying for him just this morning and thinking how strange it would be when one of the “Four Horsemen” was gone.

I’m not really sure why I have such affection for him, but I think it has something to do with what’s on the video Justin Taylor posted tonight after hearing the news. It’s a moment from Collision (a documentary about Hitchens’s series of debates with Doug Wilson) that I think of pretty much every time I think of Hitchens.

He didn’t want to leave behind his rebellion against the One whom he saw as “a celestial dictator,” and in truth, it’s literally a miracle that anyone does. Without God’s grace, none of us would see Him as He is.

Here’s a post I wrote a while back about the contribution Hitchens and the rest of the Four Horsemen have made to apologetics:

Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris are actually doing us a favor. The thing I appreciate about these men is that they don’t view religion as a relativistic, subjective enterprise. They take the claims of Christianity seriously by addressing them as truth claims, not preferences. In the first ten minutes of a video they’ve titled The Four Horsemen, they express frustration about the fact that people have made religion untouchable–that if a person tries to argue against the truthfulness of a religion, even the non-religious will shake a finger at him for criticizing it. I couldn’t agree more with their frustration. Religions make claims about reality, and we must examine them rigorously in that light, not talk about them with a wink and a nudge as if we’re comparing Middle-earth to Narnia. If Christianity is not worthy of attempts to prove it wrong, then it’s not worthy of my life or anyone else’s.

So let these men shake up our culture’s view of religion. Even though they’re arguing that Christianity is false, saying it’s false is still a step up from saying it’s “true for you” (which is really just a way of saying all religions are false). They’re bringing the discussion back up to a level of truth and falsehood, and that is where a discussion of reality needs to be.

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“Friedman Friday” (“Free to Choose” episode 3 – Anatomy of a Crisis. part 1of 7)

December 16, 2011 – 12:04 am

Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose (1980), episode 3 – Anatomy of a Crisis. part 1

FREE TO CHOOSE: Anatomy of Crisis
Friedman Delancy Street in New York’s lower east side, hardly one of the city’s best known sites, yet what happened in this street nearly 50 years ago continues to effect all of us today. Wall Street. Most of us know what happened here 50 years ago. Inside the Stock Exchange on October 29, 1929, the market collapsed. It came to be known as Black Thursday. The Wall Street crash was followed by the worst depression in American history. That depression has been blamed on the failure of capitalism. It was no such thing but the myth lives on. What really happened was very different.
Although things looked healthy on the surface, business had begun to turn down in mid 1929. The crash intensified the recession. So did continuing bank failures in the south and Midwest. But the recession only became a crisis when these failures spread to New York and in particular to this building, then the headquarters of the Bank of United States. The failure of this bank had far reaching effects and need never have happened.
It was something of a historical accident that this particular bank played the role it did. Why did it fail? It was a perfectly good bank. Banks that were in far worse financial shape had come under difficulties before it did and had, through the cooperation of other banks, been saved. The reason why it wasn’t saved has to do with its rather special character. First its name, Bank of United States, a name that made immigrants believe it was an official governmental bank although in fact it was an ordinary commercial bank. Second its ownership, Jewish, both its name and the character of its ownership which had so much to do with attracting the large number of depositors from the many Jewish businessmen in the city of New York. Both of them also had the effect of alienating other bankers who did not like the special advantage of the name and did not like the character of the ownership. As a result, other banks were all too ready to spread rumors, to help promote an atmosphere in which runs got started on the bank and which it came into difficulty. And they were less then usually willing to cooperate in the efforts that were made to save it.
Only a few blocks away is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It was here that the Bank of United States could have been saved. Indeed, the Federal Reserve System had been set up 17 years earlier precisely to prevent the worst consequences of bank failures.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose directors today meet in this room, devised a plan in cooperation with the superintendent of banking of the State of New York to save the Bank of United States. Their plan called for merging the Bank of United States with several other banks and also providing a guarantee fund to be subscribed to by still other bankers to assure the depositors that the assets of the Bank of United States were safe and sound. The Reserve Bank called meeting after meeting to try to put the plan into effect. It was on again, off again. But finally, after an all night meeting on December 10, 1930, the other bankers, including in particular John Pierpont Morgan, refused to subscribe to the guarantee fund and the plan was off. The next day the Bank of United States closed its doors, never again to open for business. For its depositors who saw their savings tied up and their businesses destroyed, the closing was tragic. Yet when the bank was finally liquidated, in the worst years of the depression, it paid back 92.5 cents on the dollar. Had the other banks cooperated to save it, no one would have lost a penny.
For the other New York banks, they thought closing the Bank of United States would have purely local effects. They were wrong. Partly because it had so many depositors, partly because so many of the depositors were small businessmen, partly because it was the largest bank that had ever been permitted to fail in the United States up to this time, the effects were far reaching. Depositors all over the country were frightened about the safety of their funds and rushed to withdraw them. There were runs. There were failures of banks by the droves. And all the time the Federal Reserve System stood idly by when it had the power and the duty and the responsibility to provide the cash that would have enabled the banks to meet the insistent demands of their depositors without closing their doors.
The way runs on banks can spread and can be stopped is a consequence of the way our bank system works. You may think that when you take some cash to a bank and deposit it, the bank takes that money and sticks it in a vault somewhere to wait until you need it again to turn it back over to you.
Bank teller: Okay, how would you like this? Two tens, one five and five ones. Okay.
Friedman: The bank does no such thing with it. It immediately takes a large part of what you put in and lends it out to somebody else. How do you suppose it earns interest, to pay its expenses, or pay you something for the use of your money? The result is that if all depositors in all the banks tried all at once to convert their deposits into cash, there wouldn’t be anything like enough cash in the banks of the country to meet their demands. In order to prevent such an outcome, in order to cut short a run, it is necessary to have some way either to stop people from asking for it, or to have some additional source from which cash can be obtained. That was intended to be the purpose of the Federal Reserve System. It was to provide the additional cash to meet the demands of the depositors when a run arose.
A classic example of how this system could and did work properly can be found over 2,000 miles from New York near the great Salt Lake in Utah.
In the early 30’s some banks in Salt Lake City and surrounding towns began to get into difficulties. The owners of one them were smart enough to see what had to be done to keep their banks open and courageous enough to do it. When fearful depositors began to clamor to withdraw all their money, one of George Eccles jobs was to brief his cashiers on how to handle the run.
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What were the values of George W. Bush? (Part 2)

December 15, 2011 – 12:04 pm

Recently heard Timothy Goeglein on American Family Radio and he shared this story that is in the video clip above.

Below is a review of Goeglein’s book which on Bush’s values.

The Man in the Middle by Timothy S. Goeglein

An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era

Timothy Goeglein spent nearly eight years in the White House as President George W. Bush’s key point of contact to American conservatives and the faith-based world and was frequently profiled in the national news media. But when a plagiarism scandal prompted his resignation, Goeglein chose not to dodge it but confront it, and was shown remarkable grace by the president. In fact, Bush showed more concern for Goeglein and his family than any personal political standing. So begins The Man in the Middle, Goeglein’s unique insider account of why he believes most of the 43rd president’s in-office decisions were made for the greater good, and how many of those decisions could serve as a blueprint for the emergence of a thoughtful, confident conservatism. From a fresh perspective, Goeglein gives behind-the-scenes accounts of key events during that historic two-term administration, reflecting on what was right and best about the Bush years. He was in Florida for the 2000 election recount, at the White House on 9/11, and watched Bush become a reluctant but effective wartime president. Goeglein, now the vice president with Focus on the Family, also looks back at how Bush handled matters like stem cell research, faith-based initiatives, the emergence of the Values Voters, the nominations of both Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito-in which Goeglein had a direct role-and debates over the definition of marriage. 

In all, The Man in the Middle backs historians who view the legacy of President George W. Bush in a favorable light, recognizing his conservative ideas worth upholding in order to better shape our nation and change the world.

 
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What were the values of George W. Bush?

December 14, 2011 – 11:50 am

What’s It Like to be the “Man in the Middle” in the George W Bush White House?

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Faith & Freedom: Tuesday December 13, 2011

Matt Barber and Special Guest Tim Goeglein, former special assistant to President George W. Bush, former deputy of the White House Office of Public Liaison & former aide to Karl Rove, define grace & mercy personified, love & forgiveness at the most personal level!

When the United States Congress votes on a law to make it the law of the land, President Obama does not have authority to pick & choose what is law & what is not … he cannot unilaterally declare any law unconstitutional.

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Recently I heard  Tim Goeglein on American Family Radio and I wanted to share some things that he said. Some of them are in this article below:

‘The Man in the Middle’ Testifies to the Faith of George W. Bush

by Sarah Saunders
10/12/2011

Timothy Goeglein​’s political memoir  The Man in the Middle is an intimate account of nearly a decade of working for former president George W. Bush.  From director of media coalitions for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign to deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, Goeglein was in the President’s inner circle for key events such as the Florida ballot recount, 9/11, and the nomination of two Supreme Court justices.
 
In his role in the Office of Public Liaison, Goeglein’s stated job was “communicating and conveying the President’s key agenda items with crystal clarity to people of influence,” as well as being the middleman between the President and conservative and faith-based communities.  In doing so, Goeglein consistently observed Bush’s strong character, moral fortitude and Christian faith, not just in his personal life, but in his decisions as President of the United States​.
 
“His Christian faith, he believed, was relevant to good public policy, and from that principle, he would not, and could not, waver.”
 
Goeglein shares a poignant moment during a difficult week of a troop surge in Iraq, when he informed Bush that many people wanted to tell the President that they were praying for him.  Bush responded, “Tim, that is the most important thing I have heard this week.  Please thank them and tell them their prayers mean a lot to me.”
 
Goeglein describes the President’s composure in crisis situations, unwavering confidence in his controversial policy decisions, such as banning new stem-cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, and his commitment to securing the trust and respect of the developing “values voters” community.
 
George W. Bush was not just a political machine, Goeglein relates, but a loving and devoted family man.  Some of the most touching parts of the book are his accounts of visits to the White House, where he was privileged to witness the first family outside the public spotlight.
 
“Laura and George W. Bush just go together, and it is wonderful to see them together, as I often did, in private settings.  They are the same in private as they are in public—able verbally to poke and prod each other in a loving, playful manner … able to tenderly hug or kiss each other in a way that was respectful and appropriate but sincerely felt.  The President’s love of family—and most especially his wonderful and tender relationships with his “girls,” as he always called his daughters—was real.”
 
 The Man in the Middle is more than just a tribute to a man whom the author is proud to call “his favorite President.”  It provides delightful anecdotes of relationships and interactions with high-profile individuals such as Karl Rove, Russell Kirk​ and Condoleezza Rice, and a fascinating personal peek into the complicated internal workings of the White House staff from a man who dealt with every branch.
 
Goeglein remembers his naiveté in his early years at the White House, asking a Secret Service agent whether it would be possible for the President to make it on time to a dinner engagement in Maryland, in 30 minutes, during D.C. rush-hour traffic.  The agent responded, “You’re new here, aren’t  you?”  And almost exactly 30 minutes later, Goeglein arrived at the dinner in the President’s motorcade.
 
While it doesn’t contain any groundbreaking revelations about George W. Bush behind closed doors,  The Man in the Middleprovides a glimpse of the real man, away from microphones and cameras.  Goeglein shows that the man in private was the same as the man in public, dealing with crises big and small with the same compassion and confidence, both in himself and in his God.

Sarah Saunders is an intern at Human Events through the National Journalism Center. She is a senior journalism major at Patrick Henry College.

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The good character of new Arkansas St Coach Gus Malzahn

December 14, 2011 – 6:52 am

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Gus Malzahn is the new Arkansas State Football Coach and will paid 850,000 per year according to the Arkansas Times Blog and not 750,000 like other outlets reported earlier.  Arkansas 360 is reporting that Ark St has a press conference scheduled for 3:30pm today. Malzahn replaces his good friend Hugh Freeze as the new Ark St coach. Malzahn won the Broyles Award last year. (I heard Kevin Kelly of PA may be on Ark St staff.)

Since 1998 I have known firsthand what a great man and coach Gus Malzahn is. The 1998 Ark Bapt team featured a huge line with the Witcher brothers (Sam and Ben) in the secordary and the eagles faced Gus Malzahn’s Shiloh Christian’s team in the quarterfinals. Gus Malzahn took Shiloh’s quarterback Josh Floyd who did not run much the whole year and put in the quarterback draw play. He ran it continually and forced Ark Baptist with their two future all conference defensive backs at Henderson (the Witcher brothers) to come up. Then he hit the long pass on them. It was a brilliant move. They knocked Ark Bapt out of the playoffs and Shiloh went on to win their first of many state championships. As far as his character goes check this out below.

Gus Malzahn:7 Characteristics of a Champion, Part I

Set High Goals

On Tuesday, November 17th East Alabama Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) held the Third Annual Prayer Breakfast at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum on the Auburn University campus. It was a large turnout with close to 1500 students and supporters in attendance. The coliseum was full of notable Auburn Athletic Department employees showing their support for this great cause. Auburn University Defensive Coordinator Ted Roof was recognized from the podium, Athletic Director Jay Jacobs gave the Invocation, and Receiver Coach and Assistant Head Coach Trooper Taylor emceed the event in his normal, energetic, Trooper style. It was great seeing the support from Auburn for the former Auburn defensive linemanWayne Dickens. Dickens is currently the FCA Area Representative for East Alabama. Guests heard both student and coach testimonies of what FCA is doing in area schools, but the highlight of the event was definitely the keynote speaker, Gus Malzahn-first year Offensive Coordinator for Auburn University. His speech was short and to the point, but he challenged the entire room with the 7 (+1) characteristics of a champion. In this series, we will touch on these 7 (+1) characteristics that he discussed, and then spend a little time talking about each.

The first characteristic of a champion is to set high goals. In 14 years of coaching high school football, Malzahn led his team to seven state championships. His offenses at University of Tulsa set both conference and national records during his short tenure, and his first Auburn team sits at number 18 in the nation in total offense and 13 in the nation in scoring offense. None of this would be possible without setting high goals for himself. Coach Malzahn noted that most people pass away without living up to their full potential. The main cause of this is that they do not set high enough goals to challenge themselves to reach this potential which leads to never truly knowing they are capable of.

I completely agree with what Coach Malzahn was saying and have just a few things to add to it. These goals must have measurable results. One can set lofty goals, but without measurable results and a plan to achieve those goals, they are nothing but dreams. Don’t get me wrong, I love to dream, but these dreams will never become achievable goals without a plan that includes measurable short term and long term goals.

Finally, how do your goals line up with Christ? Do they intersect at all? The goal ofFCA is displayed in the Mission Statement, “to present to athletes and coaches and all whom they influence the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of the church”. Do you have goals? What are you doing to reach these goals? In these actions, how are you affecting others?

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I first knew that Gus Malzahn was a great coach when in 1998 he brought his Shiloh Christian Saints into Little Rock and beat my Arkansas Baptist Eagles at Eagle Field. In this clip below you will see that the Arkansas Baptist Eagles in the red uniforms had the much bigger team. In fact, many of the Arkansas Baptist players went on to play college ball.

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12 Questions for Woody Allen (Woody Wednesday)

December 14, 2011 – 12:57 am

Above is a clip of 12 questions for Woody Allen. Below is a list of some of his movies.

WOODY’S FINEST: Philip French’s favourite five

Annie Hall (1977)
In his first fully achieved masterwork, a semi-autobiographical comedy in which his ex-lover Diane Keaton and best friend Tony Roberts play versions of themselves, Allen created a new genre, the “relationship movie”.

Manhattan (1979)
Allen’s wryly comic film captures the magic of his home town with help from a fine cast, Gordon Willis’s monochrome widescreen images and 13 Gershwin songs. His pursuit of a much younger woman was to become a career obsession.

Zelig (1983) (above)
Dazzling satire on America’s permanent identity crisis in the form of a wholly convincing, wholly fake documentary about Leonard Zelig, a prewar celebrity known as the “Human Chameleon”. Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag and Bruno Bettelheim appear as witnesses.

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Allen’s wittiest disquisition on love, life and death in Manhattan with a great ensemble cast that includes Michael Caine, Mia Farrow and Max von Sydow. The 1986 Cannes jury would have given it the Palme d’Or unanimously had it been in competition.

Radio Days (1987)
Taking as his model Fellini’s similarly episodic autobiographical Amarcord, Allen as writer-director-narrator looks back with warmth, wit and insight to the great days of sound broadcasting in the 1930s and 40s. A varied succession of often hilarious anecdotes bathed in a golden glow.

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“Tip Tuesday” Advice to Gene Simmons

December 13, 2011 – 7:36 am

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Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Shannon Tweed, 54 yrs old, has been with Gene Simmons 27 years and raised two children with him.

The series I have been doing on “Advice to Gene Simmons” that I am starting what I am calling “Tip Tuesday.” For the next few months we will be looking at the Simmons family.

The Sacrificing Husband (John MacArthur)

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http://www.gty.org/Blog …The world tells husbands, “Don’t let anyone tell you what to do. Be a macho man. Grab the gusto. Live for the moment.” The Bible’s message to husbands is exactly the opposite—”Crucify yourself.” Here’s how Paul put it in Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for her.” That raises a question: Even a great Christian husband, on his best day, can’t match Christ’s loving sacrifice for the church. What does Paul expect? John MacArthur answers…

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In his therapy session with Dr. Ann Wexler, Gene continued to make the point that his behavior is defensible because his meeting was, at the end of the day, something that would result in more money in the bank.  

Dr. Wexler saw it differently.

“I think that lots of times when you do things when you’re not considering her or other people, you use making money as an excuse. As a defense.  It’s like, if you’re making money then a lot of your behavior is excused.   

And I don’t think making money excuses a lot of your behavior.”

“You don’t?” asks Gene in disbelief.

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What is going on here with Gene Simmons is very clear. He goes on tours and is guilty of having affairs and he justifies it because he is keeping up the hard rock image that he has always had. This brings in money and that is why he keeps pointing that out and trying to say that by bringing in the money he is showing his love toward his family. However, the truth is that he is using as an excuse to have affairs.

 Now it seems his whole world is caving in on him because his wife has left him and his kids have condemned him for not doing the right thing.

On these tours he is putting himself in a position that makes it easy for him to fall morally. That should be avoided at all costs. My former pastor Adrian Rogers used to have a sign on his desk which said, “If you don’t want to fall then don’t walk in slippery places.”

Brandon Barnard, who is a teaching pastor at Fellowship Bible Church here in Little Rock in his message on July 24, 2011 made the point that we should WORK TO ELIMINATE EXPOSURE TO SEXUAL PRESSURES AND INCREASINGLY EMBRACE THE PROMISES OF GOD.

Then Brandon read through the following scriptures.

 

Philippians 4:8-9

English Standard Version (ESV) 

 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Matthew 5:27-30

English Standard Version (ESV)

 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Job 31:1

Amplified Bible (AMP) 

Job 31

 1I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl?

Psalm 101:3

English Standard Version (ESV)

3I will not set before my eyes
   anything that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
   it shall not cling to me.

Matthew 5:8

English Standard Version (ESV) 

 8“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Romans 8:6

English Standard Version (ESV)

6For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

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