Hell Is for Real (3 of 9)
Series: You Better Believe It
Bob Ingle
Mark 9:42-48
Let's open God's Word together to Mark 9. As with most families, we at the Ingle house tease each other quite a bit. All five of us have things the other four laugh at, joke about, and make fun of. NO ONE is excluded. It's one of the privileges of being in our family. One of things we laugh about with one of our daughters, who will remain anonymous, is that she says likes baseball and loves the Chicago Cubs, BUT in reality, she doesn't know much about either. For instance:
- Through the regular season she watched exactly zero games.
- She has no idea what division they are in.
- She couldn't tell you who the owner or general manager is.
- She couldn't tell you the famous streets around Wrigley Field in right field and left field.
- She couldn't list all the names of the starters, what position they play, or where they hit in the lineup.
- She doesn't know who won a Golden Glove or whose up for the Cy Young award.
- And when she wanted to wear some Cub gear to school during the playoffs to show her deep love and devotion for her all-time favorite baseball team, she had to borrow something from her dear ole dad.
Now, if you would ask her what her favorite baseball team was, she would immediately and unashamedly say something like 'the 2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs'. Of course, I adore this girl and would do anything for her. Including buying her her own World Series shirts of her favorite baseball team.
But here's the thing, and this is what we all laugh and joke about: while she LOVES the Cubs, she really doesn't KNOW much about them. She doesn't FOLLOW them very closely. If they decided to cancel the baseball season next year, I really don't think she would even notice. Some of you are thinking, ''Bob, is this just another way for you to talk about the Cubs without talking about the Cubs?'' Maybe. But I do have a point. I think many of us d ...
Series: You Better Believe It
Bob Ingle
Mark 9:42-48
Let's open God's Word together to Mark 9. As with most families, we at the Ingle house tease each other quite a bit. All five of us have things the other four laugh at, joke about, and make fun of. NO ONE is excluded. It's one of the privileges of being in our family. One of things we laugh about with one of our daughters, who will remain anonymous, is that she says likes baseball and loves the Chicago Cubs, BUT in reality, she doesn't know much about either. For instance:
- Through the regular season she watched exactly zero games.
- She has no idea what division they are in.
- She couldn't tell you who the owner or general manager is.
- She couldn't tell you the famous streets around Wrigley Field in right field and left field.
- She couldn't list all the names of the starters, what position they play, or where they hit in the lineup.
- She doesn't know who won a Golden Glove or whose up for the Cy Young award.
- And when she wanted to wear some Cub gear to school during the playoffs to show her deep love and devotion for her all-time favorite baseball team, she had to borrow something from her dear ole dad.
Now, if you would ask her what her favorite baseball team was, she would immediately and unashamedly say something like 'the 2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs'. Of course, I adore this girl and would do anything for her. Including buying her her own World Series shirts of her favorite baseball team.
But here's the thing, and this is what we all laugh and joke about: while she LOVES the Cubs, she really doesn't KNOW much about them. She doesn't FOLLOW them very closely. If they decided to cancel the baseball season next year, I really don't think she would even notice. Some of you are thinking, ''Bob, is this just another way for you to talk about the Cubs without talking about the Cubs?'' Maybe. But I do have a point. I think many of us d ...
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