Tag: baseball
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Saturday Links
1. Building Congregations Around Art Galleries and Cafes as Spirituality Wanes "… Although the number of evangelical churches in the United States declined for many years, the trend reversed in 2006, with more new churches opening each year since, according to the Leadership Network's most recent surveys. This wave of "church planting" has been highest…
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Hope and Change Comes to Washington …
… Washington Nationals that is. KansasCity.com: Phenom! Strasburg strikes out 14 in Nats debut Stephen Strasburg struck out 14 batters in his first game, took three shaving cream pies to the face, donned a silver Elvis wig – then compared it all to getting married. What could he possibly do for an encore? Baseball's newest…
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They’re Back!
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once…
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Way to go Tigers!
"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!" Revelation 18:2 Way to go, Tigers! Since the Twins croaked, I guess I will now be pulling for a Detroit vs. St. Louis World Series.
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Flirting with Disaster
Well, they went to the brink. My beloved Royals nearly tied the American League record for consecutive losses at 20. Things had gotten really bad. Owner David Glass was storing his classic cars in the Royals’ batting cages because nothing got hit there. Also, do you know what the Royals and Michael Jackson have in…
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Baseball and Theology
The other day, for some reason, my mind drifted back to a baseball game I attended seventeen years ago when I lived in Philadelphia. I think it was in the summer of 1988 that I went with some rabid Cubs fans to see the Phillies take on the Cubs. The Cubs were behind late in…