Masters

So, I may be taking a visit to The Masters College this weekend!  I was supposed to go two weekends from now, but it may get bumped up a week.  I am so excited for it!  I cannot wait.  I will be hanging out with the baseball team and seeing what they are all about, and I will get to see my brother!!!

Discipline!!!!

Lately I have been convicted of the fact that my self-discipline sucks!  I feel that God can meet me where I am at and that He can do immeasurably more than I think or understand, but I have to have the discipline to meet with Him.  Is this an easy problem to fix?  Maybe, maybe not.  I can either man-up and figure it out, or I can keep pressing the snooze button.

 

How is your self-discipline today?

Are you striving to meet the Father???

College…

So, once again I have started to think about where I think God wants me to go to college next year.  Yes, this will be my third college!  HAHA!!!  I would not have it any other way.  Anyways, I am thinking about going out to Cali to go to The Masters College.  If not there then anywhere I can play baseball and continue to use ball as my ministry would be the second option.  If that is not what God has for me either…then I do not have a clue!  But there is a certain comfort in the fact that God is, well, SOVEREIGN!!!!!!  That being said, I am completely confident in the fact that I will be right where He wants me.

Anyone got any advice for me???

Man was I wrong…

The Tampa Bay Rays won the ALCS last night.  For those of you who are not big fans, that means they are going to the World Series…along with the Philadelphia Phillies.  I did not pick either one of them.  I was completely wrong.  Not the first time and it will not be the last.  But with the baseball season winding down, that also means that the holiday season is not far off!!!  I cannot wait to go home to the mountains of North Carolina.  There is just something about being home that you cannot replace with any other feeling.  Mom’s cookin’ and just hanging out with the family.  Oh and a bed that I can actually fit in!  HAHA!!!

Matthew 4

Today in church I was totally rocked!!!  The talk was on Matthew 4: 1-11 which talks about Jesus being tempted by satan in the dessert!  What got me is the way the dude presented the situation.  At the end of the talk he explained how to deal with temptation by using God’s Word.  Then he straight up said something that blew me away.  It was something to the effect of, “you cannot go toe-to-toe with satan and win.”  He meant that there is no way that I can try to defeat temptation on my own and succeed unless I run to Jesus Christ for help.  I heard this many times before, but I guess it was one of those things that just struck a chord with me today.  Lately I do not think I have been doing a good job with running to my savior!?!?!!  What in the junk?  Who am I to do that?  Change is needed

Why does some stuff not settle in with us right away sometimes as Christians?

What’s on your blog today???

Lets talk about poverty…

What do you guys think is the major cause of poverty in todays world?  I do not even know if you can pinpoint one thing.

Be Real? Whaaaaat????

Lately I have been struggling with this issue….being real!  I mean, why do I always tell people that I’m “doin’ well” when I might be struggling on any given day?  I know that not everyone wants to hear what I am going through each day, but the people who I know want to challenge me and help me grow should get an honest answer out of me.  It has become second nature to me to just say “I’m doin’ good today bro.”  Why is that?  Am I worried that my closest friends will say something that will challenge me or might say something that I know is true but just don’t want to hear it?  I guess I just don’t even think about what I should say when I am talking to people.  My goal is to become more real and authentic today…tomorrow…hopefully everyday.

Check this and see what the Word says about it.  Let’s start being real!  How can we expect others to be a leveraging influence on us if we don’t tell them what’s up???

Bowden out…

So today, Tommy Bowden “stepped down” as the head coach of the Clemson football program.  That basically means to me that the AD, Terry Don Phillips, told him that he would probably be fired if he did not step down.  Anyways, Bowden had an overall good record for the Tigers, but just never seemed to win the “big game.”  Although I don’t necessarily agree with that statement.  I mean he did win at least one big game each year it seemed.  As much as I hate to say it, I do agree with his stepping down.  I hate it because he is a good, Christian man, who is not scared to stand for his faith.  I also hate it because I do believe the program got better in his ten years. 

Who will the Tigers get next???……

I pick world series champs like Ed Reed picks passes…

So, with the divisional series of the playoffs already gone by…I will now make my World Series pick to win it all.  I will start out by saying that I am fascinated by the Ray’s season!  Unreal what those kids have done down there.  I also love what Manny has done for the Dodgers.  Actually looks like they enjoy baseball out there again.  But that brings me to my picks to be in the World Series; the match-up will be between the Bo-Sox and the Dodgers.  This series will be over in six games to the reigning World Champs, the Red Sox.  In a few short weeks they will be repeat champs!  Mark it down…

The Sox

Ok…so I think that as I grow older and I am around baseball more and more, I am starting to see that I like the way the Boston Red Sox organization is run as a whole.  I mean, they let their players go out and play, have fun while they are at it, and they don’t have any problem with guys who look like Grizzly Adams (Kevin Youkilis).  I love that.  As a player, I’m not gonna say I wouldn’t play for someone who has regulations on that kind of stuff (Yankees), but does it really matter?  I like the “free-spirited” ways of the Red Sox.