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Sunday, September 19, 2004
For he's a jolly good fellow." These words, usually sung off-key, signal appreciation for a friend. But how does a fellow really do good? Jim Kallam, in Risking Church, gives examples from his community:
- "A man is doing dishes after a church dinner. I discover later he's a leading surgeon in our city.
- A businessman leaves work and gives his time to an inner-city ministry by counseling families about their finances.
- A group of retired men give one day every week to fix things around the church. (They also drink a lot of coffee.)
- A couple uses money they've inherited to pay hospital bulls for Suzi when they discover she's pregnant and has no insurance."
So jump into our jolly topic for the week.
Until next week,
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Sunday: Body Language
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Sports Spectrum
Brian Kinchen, New England Patriots
On moving from the classroom to the Super Bowl
With Rick Weber
I was teaching a seventh-grade Bible class at Parkview Baptist School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when the Patriots called me with two games left in the 2003 regular season. They had lost two long snappers to season-ending injuries, and they wanted me to try out.
Why me? Although I had retired after the 2000 season, I think head coach Bill Belichick trusted me because I had played for him in Cleveland for 5 years. Still, I had some reservations because I didn't want to go on that emotional roller coaster I had been on with failed tryouts in the years after I retired. My wife, Lori, said, "You have to go. Because if you don't go and the Patriots reach the Super Bowl, you're going to be kicking yourself."
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