What happens when a bent, white-haired, old man gets called into action from the sidelines of an inner city basketball court?
He destroys them… if he’s Uncle Drew!
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Why Tim Tebow Needs Prayers
A word I heard:
“You worry about the depth of your life, and God will worry about the breadth.”
The point? Spend your efforts and energy on the substance of your life. Focus on your faith, your character, your core. God will do the work of creating your stage, providing your realms for influence, and increasing them as He sees fit. Our faithfulness in the first venture will receive God’s selected best in the second.
Thoughts like that impact my little life.
The also impact spotlight-dwellers like Tim Tebow.
Like or dislike Tebow, a few facts stand:
He never asked to be born athletic or handsome or charismatic or left-handed. He never got a vote to be placed into a missionary family or to be granted some skills that prove fruitful within America’s chosen obsession. But he DOES set himself on being a man of substance, one in whom kindness appears genuine, humility seems sincere, and purity is said to be authentic.
To be the people we need to be, we all need prayer enveloping us, power in play to counter and guard against every force eager to sabotage our efforts toward godliness and goodness.
But high-profile believers like Tebow often live with skin-covered enemies, hopeful to see his downfall, bent on helping it arrive. Don’t believe me? Check out what Noel Biderman is willing to throw a truckload of money toward. Obviously, rich folks get to do what they choose with their money, and no doubt, slick businessmen know that any publicity is good publicity. But neither of those are the point here.
The point is: Powerful and skeptical people disbelieve that life of real substance can even exist. With no experience of a reality where “the one in you is greater than the one in the world”, they go beyond cynical to outright attacking the impossible possibility that people like Tebow claim (and appear) to personify.
And that is why Tim Tebow needs prayers.
Today, when you seek God’s strength for yourself, for your church, for your loved ones…
Add a New York quarterback to your list, that God will continue to strengthen His servants, WHEREVER He places us, to live lives that reflect His glory.
NHL Playoffs: Round One
Are you or a loved-but-currently-lost one consumed by this year’s NHL playoffs?
Here is my interested-but-not-immersed approach to time-efficient fan-dom:
1) First three games of all series: Maybe catch minutes here and there. Mostly follow series score through TSN’s iPhone app.
2) Game four, a few minutes of viewing is supplemented by morning edition of SportsCentre. (More attention is given if a sweep could happen.)
3) Game five, a period may be viewed, especially a third one. At this point, overtime becomes nearly mandatory viewing.
4) By game six, I may commit to watching two-thirds of a game, and overtime has become must-see TV.
5) Game seven: I follow the flow loosely until the third period, when a close game will hook me in for the duration.
Now that you know how to view the playoffs. Place your votes on the big-money question for the first round:
How about you? Any playoff routines or rituals? Is this “the most wonderful time of the year”, or a waste of ten weeks?
Now That is Honest
Yesterday’s NBA action saw the San Antonio Spurs defeat the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers. If you care for specifics, the game summary is here.
More interesting is the game roster that was submitted by Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. Perennial all-star Tim Duncan sat this contest out. Check the reason given by oh-so-honest Coach “Pop”…
Team Saskatchewan’s Sarah Slywka
Our good friend Sarah has been on our TV all week.
TSN’s broadcasts from the Scotties Tournament of Hearts have beamed faces from the Slywka family into our living room, none more often than Sarah.
While Team Saskatchewan failed to qualify for playoffs, they finished with a middle-of-the-pack record of 5-6, and were in serious contention until a rough second-last day of the round robin. Finishing strong, they dominated Team Canada in their final match last night.
The Leader-Post did a great article on Sarah and her first experience at the Scotties. If you haven’t already seen it, it is certainly worth a read.
Congratulations to these ladies for winning the right to represent Saskatchewan at the Scotties and for representing our province well.