The role of a play-by-play announcer in a sports broadcast is a delicate one.The good ones strike this balance of emotional detachment and personal involvement. They're not supposed to betray who they want to win nor even offer many opinions on what is occuring on the...
I learned this weekend what people who prefer traditional worship over contemporary and post-modern worship feel like.And it was tennis that taught me that lesson.Yesterday featured what many experts are calling one of the greatest, if not the greatest, tennis match...
It seems as if everybody knows the story of Adam, Eve, and the Garden.But few people have actually read it.Which is why I love teaching it to a group of people.Such was the case last night in our First Step class for people considering church membership.We realized...
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a presentation our staff heard from Asbury Seminary professor Ben Witherington. And then the day after that presentation, Witherington's 32-year-old daughter died of a pulmonary embolism.Dr. Witherington has had a couple of...
Joe Paterno's death this past Sunday got me thinking about coaches and coaching (which is probably better than a lot of the other things you could think about JoePa, Penn State, and football culture over the last couple of months).In my time as a tennis player, I had...
I have recently posted on my fondness for Paul Simon's music.So my eyebrows got raised when I saw this in Saturday's Charlotte Observer:Paul Simon's meandering spiritual journeyBy Kim LawtonReligion & Ethics NewsWeeklyBy Kim Lawton Posted: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012Paul...
So is this what it looked like when the waters divided on the Red Sea?Is this how Moses did it?And maybe more to the point, exactly where did the children of Israel think they were going once they got to the other side?As we head towards Week Three of Delivered, those...
The other night I received a series of text messages from my 19 year old son Riley, a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill.Riley: What verses dominate Calvinism? (Meaning, what verses best answer or refute Calvinism.)Dad: I Timothy 2:3-4 and 2 Peter 3:9Riley: And how do you...
In honor of this year's Australian Open, I'm devoting this week's Top Five list to tennis, the sport that will not let me go.And to books, the pastime that sometimes consumes me.Books about tennis have ranged from the avant garde -- The Inner Game Of Tennis by Timothy...
One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses:The Spiritual By-PassWhat is that? It's the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE...