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Clay pointed out this quiz on his blog today. I took a few minutes to check it out, and think I would agree with the large majority of the results.

I think I can agree with most of this. Check it out. What do you think?

Just in case you haven’t noticed, Major League Baseball started back up this week… and it has been awesome!  The ‘Stros have been less than impressive, but at least their one win keeps them just above the worst record in baseball. Sorry, Tigers.

I was thinking last night as I watched their one win against the Padres about the fact that there are still coaches in major league sports. The Astros have fourteen managers, coaches, and trainers working on everything from base running to pitching to conditioning to hitting. That’s a lot of coaches for some forty men who are supposed to be professional players! Why do they still need coaches after all these years?

If you can’t already see where I’m going with this, the number of coaches per major league team got me to thinking about the need I have for “coaching” in my own life. I need the wisdom of men older than me and friends more aware than me. There are times (a lot of times) when something is terribly wrong in my life and I can’t see it. There are even times (surprise, surprise) when I ignore the very thing I know is wrong.

I guess what I’m saying is that I hope I never start to believe that I’ve outgrown the need for coaching. If you’re reading this and you’ve had any hand in “coaching” me - thank you. Be patient with me. I am learning.

I know YouTube videos aren’t supposed to count as blog posts (according to some people), but this one was too good to pass up.

Yeah, I know. I’ve been gone for quite some time now. If you and I have talked in the past little while, you know that the past few weeks have been stressful to say the least. But… that’s not what this post is about. That may come later. And yes, I know that some of you will find this a lame “welcome back” post. Oh well…

Check out what Hillary Clinton had to say to the New York Times’ Michael Luo early last summer about her faith. You can real the whole transcript here.

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Senator Clinton: I believe in the father, son, and Holy Spirit, and I have felt the presence of the Holy Spirit on many occasions in my years on this earth.

Reporter: Can I ask you theologically, do you believe that the resurrection of Jesus actually happened, that it actually historically did happen?

Senator Clinton: Yes, I do.

Reporter:  And, do you believe on the salvation issue — and this is controversial too — that belief in Christ is needed for going to heaven?

Senator Clinton: That one I’m a little more open to. I think that it is, as we understand our relationship to God as Christians, it is how we see our way forward, and it is the way. But, ever since I was a little girl, I’ve asked every Sunday school teacher I’ve ever had, I asked every theologian I’ve ever talked with, whether that meant that there was no salvation, there was no heaven for people who did not accept Christ. And, you’re well aware that there are a lot of answers to that. There are people who are totally rooted in the fact that, no, that’s why there are missionaries, that’s why you have to try to convert. And, then there are a lot of other people who are deeply faithful and deeply Christ-centered who say, that’s how we understand it and who are we to read God’s mind about such a weighty decision as that.

Reporter:  And your attitude toward the Bible about how literally people should take it.

Senator Clinton:  I think the whole Bible is real. The whole Bible gives you a glimpse of God and God’s desire for a personal relationship, but we can’t possibly understand every way God is communicating with us. I’ve always felt that people who try to shoehorn in their cultural and social understandings of the time into the Bible might be actually missing the larger point that we’re supposed to take from the Bible.

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What do you think?

Here’s a little something to get your hump day started off well.

Micah as a book isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. His message was at time devastating, and he pulled no punches when exposing the sins of Israel. However, there are reminders of current and future hope throughout. The books ends on this note in Micah 7:18-20, and it has been an incredible encouragement to me today -

Now this is just plain weird. Don’t worry, it’s a short one.

Have a good weekend wherever you are.

Some verses have haunted my thoughts the past few days like nothing has in a long time. This is from Hosea 11:8-9.

Ran across this today. It may be the most foolish and errant thing I have read in quite a while. Someone remind me to scratch Candler School of Theology at Emory University off the list of possible places to further my education.

Luke Timothy Johnson, New Testament professor at Emory University, has openly admitted what few liberal Christian defenders of homosexuality will: “I think it important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to another authority when we declare that same-sex unions can be holy and good. We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to, which tells us that to claim our own sexual orientation is in fact to accept the way in which God has created us.”

HT: JT

Does this seem absolutely unacceptable to anyone else? Or am I just crazy?

I’m not a huge fan on the quotes on Starbucks cups. They seem like a waste of space to me, and most of them are rather lame. I’d prefer to have a cool piece of art to gaze at while I sip some hot tea. But, I did see this one last night and it scared me just a little bit.

Just in case you can’t make that out (sorry for the fuzzy camera phone picture) it says, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” It came from Former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. She scares me too. I think this man would be forced to help her if she looked at me like that.

P.S. - I have the Chocomint gum in my possession. A video of the taste test will be produced and posted in the near future. Maybe three months or so.