Famous Fictional Athletes

Favorite fictional athletes, in alphabetical order.

KC Carr (Raquel Welch) Kansas City Bomber

Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars & Motor Kings

Billy Chapel (Kevin Cosner) For the Love of the Game

Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) The Longest Yard

Crash Davis (Kevin Cosner) Bull Durham

Lucy Draper (Kathy Ireland) Necessary Roughness

Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) North Dallas Forty

Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) The Replacements

Sidd Finch, Sports Illustrated

Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler)

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) football, ping pong, running

Reno Hightower (Kurt Russell) The Best of Times

Dottie Hinson (Gena Davis) A League of Their Own

Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) The Natural

John Kinsella (Dwier Brown) Field of Dreams

Travis McKinley, Miracle on the 17th Green  

Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) The Slugger's Wife

Benny The Jet Rodriguez (Mike Vitar) The Sandlot

Pablo Sanchez, Backyard Baseball

Shake Tiller (Kris Kristofferson) Semi Tough (above)

Gil Thorpe

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The two best teams in baseball are playing this weekend, so naturally ESPN Sunday Night Baseball is airing the Yankees and Red Sox. Next week? Red Sox vs. Yankees. Currently they occupy last place in the AL East, and next to last place. Current record of 97-85 compared to the Braves & Rays record of 118-64. I swear if NYY & BSN were playing the same night as the World Series, ESPN would show NYY vs BSN.

Shivonne went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean today.  

Clay Smith JFBC

Galatians 2:20 is a life verse

Summer Essentials

99 professions of faith in VBS this past week.

Verses foundational to our faith.

V19-20 I have died to the law so that I may live for God…I have been crucified with Christ.

These verses remind us is the power of the gospel, the entire plan of God's salvation. The declaration of Christian independence.

In Galatians people were living in the freedom of Christ then false teachers came in saying old customs still needed to be kept.

Righteousness - being right and doing right in God's eyes, God's standard.

The gospel protects us in 2 ways…

1. It covers the penalty of sin. The law shows us our own hearts. The law teaches us and leads us into righteousness.

Earlier in chapter 2 Peter loved food, and the freedom to eat unlike allowed by the old law. When the false teachers Peter quit eating those things, until he realized that he had fallen back into the law.

We have died to our old selves. The gospel covers our old sin, and allows us to live in freedom in Christ. The problem with living sacrifices is that they keep trying to climb off the altar.

2. The gospel covers our need to perform. Faith alone saves us, but true faith provoked us to serve God. It's not about achieving things for God. That doesn't get us into heaven. Not good people but forgiven people get into heaven.

The gospel gives us two traits. Perhaps not immediately, but when we become a Christian God give us…

1. the ability to see. We live by faith, seeing as God sees. After we've been crucified with Christ. Might mean simply living by faith. Might not mean trying to do great things for God. Means rejecting the ways of the world. See people an situations the way God wants me to see.

2. God gives us protection from discouragement. Jesus loved me and gave himself up for me. 

Matt 23 the parable of the wedding. The king throwing the wedding but his friends wouldn't come. So the king sent his men to bring in commoners to attend and wear the robes. One person wouldn't wear the robe the king provided. The king threw the man out. So us when we reject the things God provides for us to live a Christian life, we are rejecting God when we do that. I am fully loved by my Heavenly Father.