How To Be A Team Player

Here is Lance Berkman accepting the Sports Personality of the Year award from the Missouri Athletic Club. 

Lance Berkman

He explains the how and the why of his success as a team player.  This is an outstanding few moments for anyone to watch.  I highly recommend it!  He tells some stories to make his points, and they are a lot of fun to hear.

I found this on Pete Scribner's Sola Gratia blog (recommended!) and that's where the link takes you.  You can also pull it up in YouTube if you prefer.  Thanks for posting this, Pete!

Credit Where It Is Due

I erred in not giving credit in my last post as to where I first saw the Voca People video.  I saw it on the Sola Gratia blog (Pete Scribner).  What's worse, Pete is a fellow St. Louis Cardinals fan, and one shouldn't steal stuff from a fellow Cards fan...it's been a hard year.  But we are happy tonight!!

Sorry for stealing your stuff, Pete!

A New Blog I've Enjoyed Reading

Sometimes we need to get away from the usual for something different.  I have about 20 blogs I read regularly, and most of them are well-established and popular sites.  A couple aren't that big (yet).  I've pointed you to Pete Scribner's blog in the past, and I'd like to point you to another one now.  I think both will grow, because both are very good.

Aimee Byrd is writing a relatively new blog called, The Housewife Theologian.  I really like the direction she's taking (finding how the gospel interrupts the ordinary in life), and she's a talented writer.  Go check it out.

We Don't Understand "Wonderful"

When a popular praise-song writer introduced a re-make of the old hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross a few years ago, I was struck by how badly the writer seemed to misunderstand the term 'wondrous'.  It seemed, from the context of the song, that he was viewing the cross as a really cool thing (the contemporary view of 'wonderful', confused with the real meaning of 'wondrous').  The real meaning of the word has to do with the idea of the inability to understand God's condescending grace toward us as fallen sinners, not the idea that Jesus is our homeboy who bails us out in a pinch.  It's a good song if you mentally twist the words to mean what they meant in a classical sense.  Maybe that's the meaning the author intended, but if you ask anyone under about 50 after the worship service what it means, they'll give you the homeboy definition.

Pete Scribner posted this blog article yesterday, and it has a bit of artwork that I absolutely love.  I don't love it for the content it expresses, but the irony.  It smacks around one of the popular views of the Christian life these days; a view that needs to be smacked around.

Pete does a good job describing the irony.  Go give it a read here.

To all those who are suffering, I would send you to First Peter.  It is the best place I know in the Bible to get an understanding of what the real Christian life (not the Americanized-Finneyist/Osteen version) looks like.