January 3, 2010

• The 2010 Sugar Bowl …

  I was able to catch a few snaps of this years Sugar Bowl featuring #4 Cincinnati Bearcats and #5 Florida Gators the other night and noticed something interesting.  Other than the smackdown the Gators were laying on the Bearcats, Tim Tebow, Florida’s QB, had marked up his anti-glare eye patches with 1 Tim 1: 15-16 which states:

  ¹⁵Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. ¹⁶But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.

  Apparently, Tebow has been doing this most of his career at Florida and “during last season’s national championship game at Land Shark Stadium, Tebow wore John 3:16 under his eyes. That night, 90 million people Googled the verse.” 

  It should also be noted that one Bearcat player (I couldn’t see his name or remember his jersey number) had marked his bicep with Ephesians 2: 8-10

  ⁸For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

  The fact that these athletes are doing this is utterly amazing to me.  It’s great to see how other Christians are reaching out and evangelizing to those among them.  Hopefully, more people will come to know Christ as their savior through whatever positive exposure all believers do.

  And how does this sound as a Christmas miracle?

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