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Faith, Grace, & Football

9/24/2018

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They played the oddest game in high school football history in the 2008-2009 season down in Grapevine, Texas.
 
It was Grapevine Faith vs. Gainesville State School and everything about it was upside down. For instance, when Gainesville came out to take the field, the Faith fans made a 40-yard spirit line for them to run through.
 
Did you hear that? The other team's fans?
 
They even made a banner for players to crash through at the end. It said, "Go Tornadoes!" Which is also weird, because Faith is the Lions.
  
It was rivers running uphill and cats petting dogs. More than 200 Faith fans sat on the Gainesville side and kept cheering the Gainesville players on-by name.
 
"I never in my life thought I'd hear people cheering for us to hit their kids," recalls Gainesville 's QB and middle linebacker, Isaiah. "I wouldn't expect another parent to tell somebody to hit their kids. But they wanted us to!"

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I Can't Tell You How I'm Really Feeling

9/17/2018

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I find myself having the same conversation with people almost every day. And I know I am not the only one. It’s the one that goes like this:

“Hey Tyler, how are you today?”

Without even skipping a beat, let alone stopping to think about how I am feeling in that very moment, I reply, “I am good. How are you?”

Now in this moment, am I truly concerned with how this person is doing? The answer is maybe or maybe not, usually depending on how I myself am actually feeling or how busy I am at the time. Sometimes, it comes down to how much I am truly invested in that person’s life. The same typically goes for the person on the other end as well.

The truth is this is something we feel we must do to be polite. We have to ask the other person how they are feeling, how are their families, how is their job, etc. The real question is… have we prepared ourselves for a bad answer?

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God Keeps It 100

9/10/2018

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Pretend I was offering you a crisp and brand new hundred dollar bill. I’m pretty sure you’d take it.

Now, pretend I crumpled it up in my hand. Would you still want it? Of course you would.

Now, let’s say that after I crumpled it up, I threw it in the dirt and stomped on it. Then, I ripped some pieces of it off. Then, I took a lighter and singed some of the edges. Then, I took a marker and drew glasses and freckles on Ben Franklin.

Would you still want the hundred dollar bill then?

The answer, of course, is still “yes.”

Why?

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