Now that both of my fantasy football drafts are completed, I thought you might like to know who is on my team. I’m only posting my “Hitmen” team, since that is the league I’ve been in the longest, and since it is the better team. Here’s the list of guys you should be pulling for every week: QB: Tony Romo Brett FavreRB: Brian Westbrook Darren McFadden Thomas Jones Reggie BushWR: T.J. Houshmandzedah Roy Williams Laverneus Coles Hines Ward Santana Moss Tony GonzalezK: Shayne Graham Jason HansonD: Indianapolis Chicago If you’re not familiar with fantasy football, just know that I will only play half my team every week. Assume that the…

At noon Central time tomorrow, the poll above will be taken down. If you are interested in a podcast where preachers are interviewed about all sorts of topics, please indicate with a vote of “yes.” If not, vote no. So far, the vote is going about like I thought it would percentage-wise, but I’m a bit disappointed in the number of votes. If you wait until the last day to do everything…this is it! For the original post about this possibility, click here.

Winford Claiborne’s short volume entitled Books, Books, & More Books is a series of bibliographies with some brief reviews that he used when asked to speak on this topic several years ago. The books are divided into topics and Claiborne gives anywhere from 1 to 15 books that fit the categories, ranging from abortion to the Catholic Church to the occult. Each book is listed with full documentation so you can search for the book by publisher, author, or title if you are interested. For those who do not know, brother Claiborne reads about 300 books each year (I’m happy to finish 40!), and owns around 13,000 volumes. He reads…

Yes, as you might expect, I subscribe to several podcasts from churches of Christ. I must admit, though, that I am saddened that there are not that many, and many (as you will see) do not update very often. Here are the ones to which I keep a subscription, even if they do not update often. 1. International Gospel Hour: 15 Gospel Minutes. The IGH has a daily radio program all over the United States. These podcasts are the radio programs put on iTunes in bulk. If you like listening to the Gospel preached, you will greatly enjoy Winford Claiborne’s lessons. (Release: weekly programs posted at the beginning of the…

This 389-page collection of radio addresses from Winford Claiborne is a wonderful book to add to your library. Each lessons stays very connected to the title and is filled with information. There are two things I appreciated most about this book. First, Claiborne points out several times that “preaching Christ” does not only mean preaching about love and forgiveness. Certainly those things are included, but Christ preached some hard things and Paul, who wrote those words in First Corinthians, definitely preached some hard things. There are also some preacher pointers you will find helpful. Also, I liked that, since these were originally radio addresses, each took about the same amount…

With new coach Bo, the Cornhuskers are looking to at least begin to move back up to respectability in college football. It was nice to see a win on Saturday over Western Michigan. This video played on the huge screen at Memorial Stadium before the game. The song is fitting! It’s impossible to get enough of the catch by Davidson against Missouri, or the run by Tommy Frazier against Florida!

What a way to end a month and move into September! As with any holiday weekend, you never really know what to expect. We thought our numbers would be down a bit, partly because we had 24 people at a young family’s retreat that lasted from Friday night through Sunday afternoon. Also, we thought maybe some of our folks might be traveling away. We did have some folks away… …but… we were still blessed to have 379 in attendance Sunday morning! If you add in the 24 that were on our retreat, we had 403 Sunday morning! In addition, with the 24 counted in, we had 301 in Bible classes.…

Sunday night after our worship services, some of our guys will be meeting to have a fantasy football draft. Last Saturday was so much fun, drafting with “the Hitmen.” My team is already being made fun of through emails and games haven’t even started yet. This can’t be a good sign. Is anybody else excited that college football has kicked off? Most of the games last night were terrible, but Saturday’s games look to be better. In local news, I may actually get heard on Sunday since Vanderbilt played Thursday night (instead of the night before Sunday), and Tennessee doesn’t play until Monday. I’d better make this sermon a good…

Above these posts, there is a poll that I would really like all readers to participate in. Here is the premise: I have found a website where I can have conversations with folks and have them digitally recorded for free. Also, after two shows are done, the shows can be uploaded to iTunes. After the first episode the shows could be listed here and on my Facebook page for anyone to listen to. I am thinking of having a weekly program (although I’m leaning toward bi-weekly) where I simply interview preachers about the Bible, the life of a preacher, current events, etc. My goal would be to have each episode…

Last year, Matt Reaves and I did a college football top 25 together. Reaves just got married a couple of weeks ago, so we’re not doing that this year. We’ll probably do an NCAA tournament preview in March together. I’m not going to give you the top 25. I’m just going to give you the major conference champions and a couple storylines to watch. Then I’ll give you the major bowl game predictions. Here you go: ACC Champion: Clemson. I know this is the “hot” pick, but this team is, by far, the most talented in the conference. If they don’t produce, Tommy could be in severe trouble. Also watch:…