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Fantasy Sports Pro

Rob — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +0000

I’m in a fantasy football league over on Yahoo with a bunch of preachers, bloggers, and missionaries. I’m doing pretty good this year, with Eli as my quarterback. I always do the NCAA basketball pick’em at Yahoo, too. I was digging around my profile over there and found I have trophy case, with a trophy in it! Check it out.

Looks like I got 3rd place in the NCAAs last spring. That’s third out of 495 in my league. Some of us are multi-talented!

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Flashbacks to a Long Time Ago

Rob — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:58 +0000

Tuesday night our students had a swim party and cookout. Big turnout. Of course, being one who has just recently graduated out of the student ministry (ha) I was there. As the party progressed, several of us gravitated toward a basketball goal. I was the oldest guy there by like a hundred years but decided to jump in a game. I forgot how much I loved the game. It was fast, it was furious, and I loved every minute of it. Sweated like crazy. Couldn’t breathe. But it felt great. I was feeling fine.

Wednesday was a different story. Knees on fire. I’m eventually going to need foot surgery and I think I advanced the timeline considerably with the basketball game. Some of the muscles hurting are ones I thought had checked out a long time ago.

Can’t wait to do it again!

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Daytona Wow!

Rob — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:47:08 +0000

What a finish! .005 seconds win for Jamie McMurray. It was not the typical restrictor plate racing of the past, but is was good racing. If anybody deserved to win, it was Jamie. He had won his first race in only his second try. Took 162 more until he got his next one. That’s perseverance.

The Bible talks alot about perseverance, lasting, holding out, staying true when everybody else says “You’re crazy!”, standing when you should be falling. Abraham knew about perseverance. Moses knew about perseverance. Paul and Peter knew about perseverance. And of course, Jesus Christ knew perseverance.

I’m learning about perseverance. Perseverance comes from faith. It comes from knowing that you trust somebody so much that you will hold out, stay strong, even when some are saying “It won’t happen. You’re crazy. Go find a normal church to preach at if you’re even called to preach at all.”

Perseverance comes from faith. But that faith has to be in someone that has no trouble coming through. And that someone has to be someone that you can take at their word. I think I’ve found a place for my faith to rest. God has called me to Amory to start LifePointe Church. He will have no trouble doing what He sets His mind to do. He will always be true to is Word.

God has called, God is working, and God has a plan for LifePointe Church. I believe that. I faith that. So I keep going. I keep talking. I keep seeing the vision God has given for LifePointe.

Perseverance cames from faith. I keep pressing on, knowing that what God has determined to do with me, our launch team, and our community will happen. Perseverence, hanging on, trusting, until God comes through with what He has said He will do.

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