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Good things aboundin’

Last night something “amazing” happened. I qualify with “” because in the grand scheme of things (i.e. eternally) it doesn’t matter AT ALL, but for the here and now, it’s pretty big. The University of Virginia Cavaliers BEAT the #4 ranked Florida State Seminoles. One, this is only the second time in history UVa has beaten a top 5 team. And two, the other time was in ’95 and it was FSU. So all y’all ‘Noles, sorry to blow your chances at a national title and perhaps even an ACC title.

Speaking of football, on Friday after prayer 14 or so men from Agape played shirts and skins tackle football. As always I end up being a lineman and spend nearly the entire time pushing another person as he pushes me. So while I did other things like the tank I am, I am INCREDIBLY sore. My feet, legs, abs, shoulders, and neck all want to deny my movement. Which wasn’t ideal for yesterday as Agape people worked the concessions booth for the game making hundreds of scholarship dollars for Agape.

On Thursday night something AMAZING happened. We normally meet for Agape in the old chapel for our weekly meeting. However, this past week we invited Prof. Elzinga (famous economics professor) to express another issue of passion for himself. The topic was “Why do we need God when we have it made?” This is strikingly poignant for a campus like UVa where success is the only goal and failure is unacceptable. So Elzinga spoke about how God through Jesus allows us to conquer our fear of failure, how God through Jesus alleviates the pressure of when we fail, how God through Jesus transforms our life by turning what we want into what He wants, and how we are all going to bow to Jesus in the end anyway. There were a lot of references to scripture and his own stories of salvation and struggle were powerful. We met in the largest meeting room in the school and were overflowing! 600 people! Several dozen filled out cards about follow up and even that they wanted this Jesus for themselves! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!