A rookie getting his first MLB start gives me goosebumps every time. Seeing them succeed and their family’s response in stands? Moist eyes, every time.
Brett Callahan first MLB pitch a 2 RBI triple. Beautiful.
Jesus washed Judas’s feet.
Knowing what was coming.
That’s the whole point of Christian love — it doesn’t wait to be earned.
New post: “The Way Down” (John 13)
The Way Down
Listen to the unabridged sermon here: The Way Down
There’s a scene in The Princess Bride — you know the one — where the pastor stands before the gathered crowd and announces, “Love, true love, is why we are gathered here today.” It’s a great line for a wedding. But it’s also, in its own strange way, the right line for John 13.
Because as we turn to this chapter, we are gathered around something too: love. True love. Except the love we find here isn’t the happy, easy, effortless kind the world likes to sell us. The love we find in John 13 is discomforting. And that discomfort is the whole point.
We tend to measure love by how easy it feels. If the relationship is smooth, we’re “in love.” If it gets hard, something must be wrong. But Scripture tells a different story. The love of Jesus is self-sacrificial. It asks things of us that the world calls shameful. It is not the love of greeting cards. It is the love of a cross.
Today was so fun! Eight guys on the golf course for a round of golf and dinner after. My face hurts from laughing all afternoon.
There is something amazing about a group of men going and doing a thing together.
Life is good.
A huge Detroit baseball weekend begins tonight. Sweep the Southsiders and the boys are in first place! #BlessYouBoys
Baseball was fun today! Caught the end of the Tigers game after a cruise on river in Detroit at Atwater Brewery with a cute date.
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I dream of the day when the Detroit Tigers have an excellent bullpen.
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The #OldGal kept her streak alive, barely.
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“Gobsmacked” is a cool word and needs to be used more often, I shall endeavor to do so!
I stumbled across this quote again and it is too good not to share.
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Yikes. Sure didn’t see it today. The #OldGal had no problem.
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This quote from Viktor Frankl referring to surviving the holocaust… 🥺
“Only the suffering God can help.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (361)
I am running into a problem. I LOVE the Libby app and borrowing e-books from the library. But, it doesn’t have complete sets of major series (Dungeon Crawler Carl) or the wait times are ridiculously long.
Sigh.
Hopefully, the physical books are available at the Library.