Spring Training is underway. Opening Day is only a few days away. Baseball season is here again. Hope springs eternal. I\u2019m not quite the fanatic as Rogers Hornsby who said, \u201cPeople ask me what I do in the winter when there is no baseball. I\u2019ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.\u201d But I am close. It started when I was ten years old. Would have started earlier but back then we had no t-ball, coach-pitch, etc. Little League \u2013 Pirates, then Yankees, then National Bank of Commerce Giants, and I was hooked. Early on, I was a St. Louis Cardinal fan because we lived in Houston, where the Cardinal\u2019s Texas League team, the Houston Buffaloes, played. When I was around ten, my soon-to-be favorite player came to our church and spoke to a group of Royal Ambassadors. I still have the 8\u00d710 black and white picture with his own handwriting, \u201cGood luck, Dan. Alvin Dark.\u201d I also have every baseball card ever printed of his (except his 1948 rookie card \u2013 too expensive). He was known for quoting Romans 1:16 with an ad lib, \u201cFor I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek\u201d then he added, \u201cand to baseball players.\u201d I asked God to let me be a professional baseball player like Alvin Dark. God had a better idea. What was your childhood dream, and did God have a better idea for you?<\/p>\n
Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Pray for Martha\u2019s ministry in Germany where 1.1 million refugees\/immigrants arrived last fall, adjusting the 2-3% Germans who have a personal relationship with Jesus.
\n\u2022 Pray for Danilo and his family as they travel to a remote part of Columbia on March 18-24 to visit with a group of people interested in starting a church.
\n\u2022 Pray for Mary\u2019s ministry with Russian speaking Jews, especially on March 8, International Women\u2019s Day, a very important holiday throughout the Russian speaking world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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