tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post8733655085097223342..comments2024-02-13T08:49:07.287-04:00Comments on 'Thought & Humor!': Bar Service!Professor Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189934292678757335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-3402839175728066182008-06-10T10:03:00.000-03:002008-06-10T10:03:00.000-03:00In an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-...In an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-league <BR/>baseball teams were changing their names so often that the <BR/>sport's governing body now limits franchises to team name <BR/>changes every three years. <BR/><BR/> *** <BR/><BR/>The first perfect nine innings baseball game was achieved by <BR/>John Lee Richmond on June 12, 1880. <BR/><BR/> *** <BR/>Baseball ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when <BR/>inter league play begin for the first time. This means that <BR/>teams from the American league can play National league <BR/>teams during the regular season. The first inter league <BR/>game was played on June 12, 1997.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-40970188172408442792008-06-10T09:59:00.000-03:002008-06-10T09:59:00.000-03:00The inventor of baseball is also credited with fir...The inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the <BR/>first Union shot of Civil war. <BR/><BR/> *** <BR/><BR/>The baseball tradition of spring training came about because <BR/>in 1885 the Chicago White Stockings went to Hot Springs in <BR/>Arkansas to prepare for the new season. <BR/><BR/> *** <BR/><BR/>In July 1934, Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return <BR/>of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-89121437143494298712008-06-10T09:57:00.000-03:002008-06-10T09:57:00.000-03:00Anyone who has ever been to a baseball game has un...Anyone who has ever been to a baseball game has undoubtedly <BR/>heard the familiar lyrics, "Take me out to the ball game, <BR/>take me out with the crowd..." However, I bet you never <BR/>knew that this classic tune was created in 1908 when <BR/>entertainer/songwriter Jack Norworth scribbled some lyrics <BR/>on scrap paper during a train ride to Manhattan, New York. <BR/> <BR/>Norworth later gave the lyrics to Albert Von Tilzer who <BR/>composed the music, and the song went on to be published by <BR/>the New York Music Company. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" <BR/>was a hit before the year was over! It took Norworth a total <BR/>of 15 minutes to write a song that has been sung during the <BR/>seventh inning stretch at nearly every baseball game in the <BR/>country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-41727223194270799072008-06-10T09:55:00.000-03:002008-06-10T09:55:00.000-03:00On my first day at seminary, I met my husband in t...On my first day at seminary, I met my husband in the cafeteria. We were<BR/>married a year and a half later. What I remember about our first meeting<BR/>was my husband's long, black hair tucked neatly under his New York Yankees<BR/>baseball cap. The bits and pieces of our first conversation have faded<BR/>quite a bit. But I do remember, as we dined on institutional fare, that<BR/>we spoke of our favorite movies, places we had visited, and our plans<BR/>after seminary. I learned enough about my future husband that night to<BR/>know I liked him and hoped I would be able to dine with him again,<BR/>preferably over better food. <BR/><BR/>On that night, fifteen years ago, I received but a glimpse into the depths<BR/>of this person. But real knowledge, really knowing him, has been an<BR/>unfolding process. Certainly, learning facts about my husband helped me<BR/>to get to know him, but facts about him do not encompass my<BR/>knowledge of him. Knowing him emerged as we forged a life together--a<BR/>life filled with ups and downs, challenges and opportunities. And real<BR/>knowledge emerged when I stopped looking at my husband, and began<BR/>to look through him, understanding the world through his<BR/>perspective, seeing the world through his eyes. Knowing him and loving<BR/>him became inseparable qualities. <BR/><BR/>The knowledge that can arise in a marriage relationship is a helpful<BR/>picture for understanding the phrase "Truth is a person." Truth is not<BR/>simply arriving at all the right facts about a subject, nor is it<BR/>exclusively contained within the world of philosophical systems,<BR/>theological constructs, or clever argumentation. When the author of<BR/>Hebrews explains that "in these last days God has spoken to us in the<BR/>Son," there is the underlying assumption that this person is God's<BR/>definitive Word to humanity--God's truth revealed in the person of Jesus<BR/>(Hebrews 1:1-2). When we know Jesus we know the truth, and that truth is<BR/>bound up in the very person of Jesus.<BR/><BR/>The temptation, of course, is to equate knowledge with facts about someone<BR/>or something. When we think we know certain things about someone, or<BR/>certain ideas about something, we think we know the truth. This kind of<BR/>knowledge breeds arrogance, as the apostle Paul suggests in 1 Corinthians<BR/>8:1-3. "If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known<BR/>as he ought to know; but if anyone loves God, he is known by God." How<BR/>does one come to love God? Is it by accumulating doctrines and principles<BR/>and ideas about God? Or is it by knowing God in the person of Jesus,<BR/>knowing that truth is a person? Knowledge, Paul suggests, is bound up in<BR/>love for God. More than knowing the facts about the God revealed in<BR/>Jesus, true knowledge colors our vision, informs our living, and<BR/>penetrates our very being so that we begin to see truth through knowing<BR/>Jesus. And as we truly know Jesus, just as in any relationship, we begin<BR/>to see the world through the eyes of the beloved. <BR/><BR/>My husband no longer has long hair, and he rarely dons his Yankees cap. <BR/>These two "facts" that identified him to me long ago, no longer reflect<BR/>the knowledge I now have of him. I've learned a great deal about him in<BR/>the fifteen years of our life together. Granted, my knowledge of my<BR/>husband encompasses certain "facts" I know about him, but truly knowing<BR/>him comes from loving him. In the same way, truly knowing God comes in<BR/>loving God--indeed, as we love God "we are known by God" in return.<BR/> In this sense, we have a new understanding, and are on our way to a new<BR/>definition of knowledge as love. As N.T. Wright has written about the<BR/>search for knowledge, "We might perhaps expect that in studying Jesus<BR/>himself we would find the clue to understanding not only the object we can<BR/>see through the telescope, the voice we can hear on the telephone, but<BR/>the nature of sight and hearing themselves. Studying Jesus, in other<BR/>words, might lead to a reappraisal of the theory of knowledge itself."(1)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Indeed, knowing Jesus means loving Jesus, and loving Jesus alters the<BR/>nature of knowledge from simply being the pursuit of an object to the<BR/>transformation of the subject itself. With knowledge as love, we stop<BR/>looking at Jesus, and start looking through him.<BR/><BR/>Margaret Manning is associate writer at Ravi Zacharias International<BR/>Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.<BR/><BR/>(1) N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God<BR/>(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), 96.<BR/><BR/><BR/>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/> Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM)<BR/>"A Slice of Infinity" is aimed at reaching into the culture with words of<BR/>challenge, words of truth, and words of hope. If you know of others who<BR/>would enjoy receiving "A Slice of Infinity" in their email box each day,<BR/>tell them they can sign up on our website at<BR/>http://www.rzim.org/slice/slice.php. If they do not have access to the<BR/>World Wide Web, please call 1-877-88SLICE (1-877-887-5423).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com