Major Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones wanted to serve in WW2 but had trouble getting in the action. He was first assigned to stateside duties, training volunteers how to spot airplanes. Even when he transferred overseas, he had light duty interviewing bomber pilots about their flights. Finally he landed in a foxhole at Normandy the day after D-Day, and later served near the front, experiencing firsthand being shot at. 

Augusta National was closed after the 1942 Masters, and cows grazed on the golf course. The superintendent raised turkeys, and Roberts sent them to members, taking a loss.

Speaking of golf, sounds like after this morning’s crash, Tiger Woods will never break Jack Nicklaus’ records. Prayers for a full recovery.

Worked past 5:30, then a good small group discussion on John 12, after the triumphant entry but before the Last Supper – Jesus’ final public sermons. And what was the result? 

I can’t remember sermons, so I take notes. Then when I read back over them, I remember the sermon. Once in small group one of the guys was talking. He looked at me and asked what I was writing. I was taking notes. Or on my phone I will peck out an email with notes, or take a picture of the Bible verse. That’s what I did last night for those verses in John. Then I might post the notes here on my blog. Some preachers structure their sermons “better” than others, so it’s easier to take notes. Louie Giglio preaches great sermons, but it’s hard to take notes.

Stayed up late to watch a Hallmark Channel movie “Bottled With Love” kind of a cross between “You’ve Got Mail” and “Message in a Bottle.”

Freddie Freeman’s wife gave birth to twins.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30947236/twins-twist-how-freddie-chelsea-freeman-grew-their-family-five

Wilt Chamberlain said he was an 80% free throw shooter in high school. What happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8fn1IaTMQM&feature=youtu.be

Denison: Abraham Lincoln said: “Character is essential to democracy. A free people can govern each other only if they can govern themselves.” George Washington stated in 1796, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” What God said to the children of Israel he says to us today: “If you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish” (Deuteronomy 8:19).

JOE GIRARDI [SABR Bio] was the catcher for David Cone's perfect game. Cone’s perfecto 18-Jul-1899. When Girardi played for the Cubs, Sammy Sosa was famous for blasting his music in the Cubs’ old cramped Wrigley Field clubhouse. Most teammates just tolerated it. However, one day in 2002 Girardi turned down the volume on Sosa’s boombox and raised the volume on the main clubhouse stereo. There were reports that the two then had to be separated.  But later they said there was no trouble and Girardi said they have a “fine” relationship. Girardi was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, a city long held by marketing executives to best represent and, in a sense, speak for, the American consumer (“Will it play in Peoria?”). Girardi attended high school at Spalding Catholic, to date, its only MLB alum.