Check out this box score: Texas Rangers 30, Baltimore Orioles 3. The Rangers set an American League record and became the first major league team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game.
And how crazy is this? Texas pitcher Wes Littleton actually got credit for a save.
Rawlings has announced the results for the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team. Here’s how the team looks:
1st base:Wes Parker
2nd base: Joe Morgan
3rd base: Brooks Robinson
Shortstop: Ozzie Smith
Outfield: Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Ken Griffey Jr.
Pitcher: Greg Maddux
Catcher: Johnny Bench
Justin Taylor has provided a handy-dandy compilation of the ongoing paedobaptist-credobaptist-communion-baptism debate involving John Piper, Wayne Grudem, Mark Dever, Sam Storms, Albert Mohler, Ligon Duncan, et al.
For what it’s worth, I’m in agreement with Justin, who agrees with “old Piper, new Grudem, and unchanging Storms.”
A southwest suburban Southern Baptist congregation allowed a convicted child sex offender to preach for the last few years — despite his past, and a warning from his previous church that he might still be dangerous, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. …
“In our church, we believe in forgiveness,” said Del Kirkpatrick, one of the deacons who hired Hannah.
What on earth is the matter with people in this church?
See also this story, which reports that Jeff Hannah, the convicted sex offender who was preaching at the church above, invited another convicted sex offender to lead in special music during a service.
A new survey shows that one out of four adults didn’t read a single book last year.
Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former national leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, called on his followers to pray for the deaths of two leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The request was in response to the liberal group’s urging the IRS on Tuesday to investigate Drake’s church’s nonprofit status because Drake endorsed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president on church letterhead and during a church-affiliated Internet radio show.
Good article by Jerram Barrs about why so many kids today seem to be bored with life — and what parents can do to reverse that trend.
A new study shows that for young adults ages 13-24, time spent with family is what makes them happy.
“I accidentally cross-dressed today.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”
Christianity Today’s Ted Olson cites an interesting Times of London story that reports on some of the plans the South Korean government has considered to free the South Korean hostages from the Taliban.
One of the plans involved kidnapping family members of the Taliban “as a way of applying pressure.”
Olsen denounces this idea.
“It’s hard to imagine, even if kidnapping innocents to secure the release of the aid workers had ‘worked,’ that the Christian aid workers would be very pleased,” Olsen writes. “It’s hard to imagine Paul writing to the Corinthians, ‘When persecuted, we persecute; when kidnapped, we kidnap…’”
Is Olsen right in his assessment? Is it possible for Christians to support such a tactic?
For all of Michael Vick’s faults, I don’t think he’s a terrorist. But evidently an inmate in South Carolina does.
Jonathan Lee Riches is suing Vick for — get this — stealing his two pit bulls, selling them on eBay and using the proceeds to buy missiles from Iran.
I don’t know what the going rate is for pit bulls, but if Vick is selling them to buy missiles — well, either those dogs have a Warren Buffet-type touch in the stock market, or those are some really lousy missiles.
Riches is seeking $63 billion in damages — or, as he put it in his handwritten lawsuit, “$63,000,000,000 billion.”
My grandpa died tonight. He was, to use a biblical description, old and full of days.
Far from being a sorrowful experience, his death is an occasion of joy for his family and friends. Pawpaw had for a long time been ready to go on home to heaven. Over the last few years, his health had deteriorated considerably. He lived in a nursing home. He couldn’t hear hardly at all, so it was difficult to talk to him. His eyesight was bad, so he couldn’t read (something he loved to do). You could tell by being around him that his life wasn’t very happy or very pleasant.
A few days ago, my mom told me that he didn’t have much time left. He was almost in a coma and his blood pressure had been dropping steadily. Early Wednesday morning, he simply passed from this life into the next, peacefully and painlessly, with four of his children and other family members gathered around him. For that, I am indeed grateful to God for the mercy He showed to Pawpaw.
I didn’t have any biological connections to the man, but he was still my Pawpaw nonetheless. My mom’s biological father was a sailor who died in World War II while her mother was pregnant with her. My mom was still a little girl when her mother married Pawpaw. He was the only dad my mom ever knew, and he was a good one — always treating her as if she were his very own.
Pawpaw was a farmer. A simple man, really — but one who had a robust faith in Jesus Christ and the saving power of God. A few years ago I was ordained as a deacon. I don’t remember much about the service, but the one thing I do remember — and always will — was the “laying on of hands” part, especially when it was Pawpaw’s turn to pray over me. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was for me to carry the same title of “deacon” as Pawpaw did. I’m not in his league of holiness and faithfulness, and probably never will be.
My relationship with Pawpaw hasn’t been the same in recent years as it used to be. I moved away and saw him infrequently. When I did, conversations were short and superficial. But I am glad that my children got to know him, at least a little bit. That is yet another kindness from God.
About 12:30 Wednesday morning, my mom and her brothers heard only silence in Pawpaw’s room at the nursing home as he breathed his last. Pawpaw, however, heard something drastically different — a hearty “Well done!” from the Savior he has served so faithfully.
Mary Winkler, who shot and killed her husband while he slept, is a free woman.
She was sentenced in June to three years in prison. But the judge required her to serve only 19 percent of that - 210 days.
With 143 days of credit for time served, her sentenced boiled down to 67 days in jail. The judge gave her the option of serving 60 days of that in a mental health facility.
Her attorneys’ efforts to find a facility for her delayed her leaving jail. So, she served 12 days in jail and will have spent 55 days in the mental health facility.
What an outrageous injustice.
From Honey for a Child’s Heart, by Gladys Hunt:
What do books bring a child? A recap is in order: a big world with all its possibilities — people to know and understand, places to imagine, eyes to see beyond the obvious, words to stretch the mind and heart, and a lasting stewardship of language used in the right way.
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