{"id":2755,"date":"2007-10-20T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/weekly-meanderings-71.html"},"modified":"2007-10-20T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:10:18","slug":"weekly-meanderings-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/weekly-meanderings-71.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone other than the Cubs had to win, it&#8217;s nice to see it was the Rockies.<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/rockies.jpg\" title=\"rockies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/rockies.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"rockies.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline-->Now we begin our annual reminder that baseball (as it was meant to be) officially ends when the NLCS is over; the World Series is a game between real baseball (National League) and fake baseball (American League) because the AL insists on playing &#8220;hitball&#8221;. When they let their pitchers bat we&#8217;ll see the World Series as the climactic series of the year. So, between you and me, the Colorado Rockies are this year&#8217;s best baseball team.Hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=lA78OzIv1-k\">YouTube of the Week<\/a>: make sure you watch it all. (HT: Luke)<a href=\"http:\/\/sleepydoctor.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/what-day.html\">Jen&#8217;s story<\/a> down in Haiti is a must-read.I had no idea <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmichaeltalbot.blogspot.com\/\">my favorite singer<\/a> has a blog. I thanked JMT in my first book for enveloping my study with worshipful praise.We&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankimball.com\/vintage_faith\/2007\/10\/life-is-fragile.html\">praying for Dan<\/a> all week &#8212; and today here in Austin we&#8217;ll be praying for him again. We had hoped to be with Dan again.Chicago &#8212; gotta love this place:<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/chicago-preserve.jpg\" title=\"chicago-preserve.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/chicago-preserve.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"chicago-preserve.jpg\" \/><\/a>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeycrisp.com\/?gclid=CJ611Lftjo8CFQwsOAod6m2Feg\">Honeycrisp <\/a>apples are the real deal.Do you purchase and listen to MP3s?<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=jescre-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=13&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=mp3&#038;banner=049KFEESVHAF56XHD5R2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wqad.com\/Global\/link.asp?L=259460\">political ally <\/a>&#8230;1. Art Boulet has started a series on Bruce Waltke&#8217;s OT theology: <a href=\"http:\/\/aboulet.wordpress.com\/\">Wednesdays with Waltke<\/a>.2. <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientevangelicalfuture.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/whats-fuss-about-recapitulation.html\">David Neff <\/a>has a nice post on the rise of recapitulation as a sufficient theory of atonement.3. Thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/galleries\/2007\/moneymag\/0710\/gallery.retirement_myths.moneymag\/index.html\">retirement<\/a>?4. <a href=\"http:\/\/estcumest.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/scud-missiles.html\">Kent <\/a>on &#8220;scud missle&#8221; forms of communication. Good one.5. On CNN&#8217;s Young people who rock, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/exchange\/blogs\/ypwr\/\">here<\/a> is the story of a young woman who decided to try something new every day for one year. Only blogs make such things public.6. This from one of our pastors, <a href=\"http:\/\/nancybeach.typepad.com\/nancy_beach\/2007\/10\/the-autumn-that.html\">Nancy Beach<\/a> &#8212; and I have to say that is one nice looking blog Nancy.7. We need to think about Ecclesiastes more often &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/jesustheradicalpastor.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/ecclesiastes-reality-check.html\">John Frye&#8217;<\/a>s got a nice post on &#8220;meaninglessness.&#8221;8. <a href=\"http:\/\/krusekronicle.typepad.com\/kruse_kronicle\/2007\/10\/household-exc-1.html\">Michael Kruse<\/a> has uber-substance on his blog.9. <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2007\/10\/on-being-who-we.html\">I once fished with this guy<\/a> &#8212; and we&#8217;ve eaten salmon he&#8217;s caught &#8212; and he&#8217;s still at it. And I like how he says the prayers in his Anglican church.10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/offbeat\/2007\/10\/18\/swaby.weird.laws.koat\">Laws still on the books<\/a>.Sports:Way too much of this scene: Adrian Peterson running and Bears left grabbing the grass.<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/peterson.jpg\" title=\"peterson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/10\/peterson.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"peterson.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone other than the Cubs had to win, it&#8217;s nice to see it was the Rockies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meanderings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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