And the Winner is......

Okay. It has been a while since I have written in my blog, and I am sorry for the two of you the actually read this thing.

It is Saturday, a.k.a. College Football Gameday, and there have been some amazing upsets so far this week. The #1 team in the nation, USC, lost to the unranked Oregon State Beavers on Thursday. The #4 Florida Gators lost to Ole Miss, and even the #9 Wisconsin Badgers lost to Michigan. I guess you could say that it was a weekend of upsets in the college football world.

These unranked teams that have beaten ranked quality football teams are called "sleeper teams." No one knows they are going to win. They catch the other team metaphorically "sleeping," and end up beating them. These teams are what make college football exciting.

But on a serious note...some people believe that Christianity is a lost cause, a team that won't win. It is just a religion of "do's and do not's." Christianity is not relevant with today's culture. It is for people who are weak and have nothing else to do with their lives. But let me tell you this stereotype is wrong! We, Christians, are not a people who live with a lost cause. Its a religion of love and spiritual warfare. The truths of the Bible are timeless principles. And Christians are warriors fighting in the trenches of saving souls. Christianity is not a weak man's religion.

I guess you could say that Christianity is a "sleeper team." People believe that this way of life Christians are called to follow is futile. It all comes to nothing in the end. No one can beat death. But let me tell you, Christians, we will beat death, because our Lord and Savior defeated death almost 2,00o years ago. We already know the outcome of this life and its not death. Even Satan knows Christ is going to reign over the earth victorious, but he wants to take us down with him. One of Satan's greatest lies is that we can't beat death. People think they have sinned too much that they have gotten too far away form God's grace...thats not true at all!! We are winning this battle. We are going to win. Thank God Almighty for counting me worthy enough to play on his team, the "sleeper team."