This may not be the most popular blogpost on this site, but I felt like it needed to be said, and I know that none of my posting buddies will be opposed to anything I say.
We here at TSIB appreciate every reader that we get. The days when we have more than 1,000 are better than the days we have less than 200, but every reader means a lot to us. I promise you, we can’t believe it when 150 people read what we write and 10 people comment. On our good days, our minds are surely blown.
And one thing that it universally important to us and hopefully to the people who will stop by every once in a while is our faith. It doesn’t always get mentioned because it doesn’t get the laughs or the links that every blogsite needs to keep its head above water. But we do this for us and hope that others will enjoy our viewpoints. We’ll cut up about Travis Henry’s nine kids or Jimmy Clausen’s questionable sexual nature (I keed, I keed) and things of the like, of course. It’s what we do. Our verbal conversations many times mirror our posts.
So, with that said, I thought this needed to be said.
The Appalachian State story this weekend was absolutely terrific for college football. No matter who you are, if you love the game, you turned to somebody, texted somebody or called somebody and said a variation of, “MICHIGAN just lost to freakin’ Appy State.” Then, you probably had to repeat it or fanned the other person when he/she passed out.
But something that shone through in almost every story I read about the game was the Mountaineers invoking the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In all of the stories, it mentioned they got together and prayed prior to their celebration. Coach Jerry Moore — one of the classiest men I’ve ever gotten to know — spoke of prayer and intervention and all those good things. I’m not sure that God cares about a football game, but when as much God-mentioning goes on as it did after that game and after the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl, you DO have to wonder. In one of the stories, an Appy player grouped his teammates together and said, “We didn’t do this. Jesus Christ did this.”
We need to all remember that. Or learn that.
So, if you came here looking for nasty language of nekkid women, you just need to look somewhere else. God may not always shine through all of our posts, but He should. Appalachian State took a stand not only against Michigan, but against what is viewed as being acceptable in media.
I worked for the print media full-time or on an internship basis for six years. It was considered cliche for athletes to thank God or mention the Lord’s name. We always fast-forward through those quotes, or we do most of the time unless we saw a pattern developing. Then, we sometimes built our whole story around it. We were ignorant to ignore. Now, I see that it’s not only important, but it’s Biblical. We’re supposed to always exalt the Lord’s name.
If we’re writers, we need to look for ways to minister. If we’re athletes, we need to look for ways to minister. If we’re teachers, we need to look for ways to minister, etc.
For those of you who read the site that are Christians, I am happy you are here. For those who aren’t, I hope something can be read here that makes you laugh and occasionally makes you think. For me, I just hope I don’t ever say or write anything stupid enough to embarrass what I stand for.
Thankfully, people like the Mountaineers’ players take a stand when thousands of people can be reached. By doing that, they’ve already won.
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