RICH MOUW CLEVER re FOOTBALL "..Certainly need to approach such events with prayers for discernment. But we should also allow a football game to be itself, and often a very good “self”: an athletic contest in which we see amazing 80 yard runs spectacular pass receptions, and a coach’s wise use of time-outs in the final minutes of the game. The old anti-Freudian remark that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar has its parallel here. Sometimes a football game is just a football game ..."
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us…”