Woo Pig Sooie!

“Lord…it’s hard to be humble…when your an Arkansas Razorback fan.”  Another week of college football…and the underdog takes the win.  This was one of the best college football games I have watched all season…so thank you LSU for an exciting game.  So many crazy things have happened this year, there is no telling what is going to happen tomorrow or the rest of the season.  But I will share some predictions with you that I made several weeks ago after Oregon’s lose.  (I figured I would document these predictions after I was accused of false predictions earlier this weekend.)

Since it is obvious that the #1 and #2 teams cannot hold their position this year, I predicted that LSU would lose to either Arkansas today or to Georgia in the SEC championship since Tennessee will lose to Kentucky tomorrow.  Oregon having lost several weeks ago, puts Kansas in the #2 spot going into tomorrow’s game.  Bad news for you Kansas, I predict that you will be upset tomorrow by Missouri.  This puts Missouri and Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship and sorry Missouri, your National Title hopes will end there with a loss to Oklahoma.  What does all this mean?  It means that West Virginia and Ohio St. will be playing for the National Championship.  West Virginia has a tough two games ahead of them which makes me nervous, but I have confidence that they will pull through.

 My prediction: West Virginia vs. Ohio St.

Let me know who you think will be playing for the National Championship on January 7 in New Orleans. 

Homework or Football?

Neyland Stadium

At 11:30 pm Friday night I received a call from a friend of mine.  She asked me if I wanted to go to the Arkansas game.  Normally I wouldn’t debate on whether I wanted to go or not.  But this game started at 12:30 pm ET on Saturday in Knoxville, TN.  It is an 8 hour drive there and I have several papers I need to writing.  So, after much deliberation, I decided to be a diligent student and go to the game.  This is how I spent my weekend.  Driving 16 hours in a car for a 4 hour game, but it was completely worth it.  Yes, Arkansas got dominated and that’s only because Houston Nutt is a complete idiot.  But, it is not often you get to watch a football game with 104,435 screaming fans.  Nealand Stadium is the loudest stadium I have ever been too.  I can’t even describe to you how awesome an environment it is.  So, if you ever have a chance to watch a game in Knoxville I would encourage you to do so.  The only bad part about taking this trip…I still have papers to write.

Salvation

I came to the realization at the beginning of this semester that I wasn’t completely sure of all the things that I claimed that I believed.  It wasn’t that I didn’t believe them, it was more of the fact that I didn’t know why I believed the things I did.  I have grown up in church all my life and I have heard all there is to hear.  So, I set this semester aside to sort some things out theologically.  I have a question to ask all of you.  Several friends and I have been talking about this question for some time now and are still struggling to come up with a set definition.  So, any of you with a theological background (and those of you without one) I pose this question.  What is salvation?  I don’t want any of you to think that I am doubting my salvation, because I am not.  Everything is just fine.  I am just curious to know if we actually know how to communicate salvation appropriately.  I think I know what salvation is, but I honestly don’t know if I can communicate it in a way that does justice to the actual process of salvation.  It is here that I think we as Christians fail to do a good job.  I think we all know what salvation is, but do we know how to communicate it appropriately?  And if we don’t know how to communicate it appropriately, does the problem really lie in our definition.  I am still sorting through all of this myself, but I would like to see what some of you have to say about this.  So, I pose the question to you: What is salvation?  And if you have a definition, do you communicate that definition appropriately?

Ridiculous!

I hate to put out two videos in a row, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share this with you guys.  I don’t know what you have to do in order to be considered a guitar expert, but I’m pretty sure this guy would be in the running for that title.  His name is Andy McKee and he has two cd’s and a dvd out (as far as I know of).  This guy is ridiculous!

theory of evolution…anyone?

My roomate introduced me to a video today and I thought I would share it with all of you. Some of you might find this video offensive, but I found it rather hilarious.  Anyway, I was reminded how glad I am that I do not believe in the theory of evolution.  So, those of you that are believers in the old theory, here is one of your ancestors.  Enjoy!

fresh on the scene

i was reading daniel’s blog the other day and was inspired.  so here i am giving this whole blog thing a try.  i dont really know what im doing yet, but hopefully soon i will get the ball rolling soon.  anyone who wants to give some advice (cough…blake…cough) it would be much appreciated.  hopefully ill have these blogs rolling out soon.