stevebag | June 29, 2009
How about this for incentive: Pay your daughter to not get pregnant.
There is actually a program called College Bound Sisters at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. The goals of the program are to help girls graduate high school, enroll in college while avoiding pregnancy and they incentivize the girls with a $7 a week [...]
stevebag | June 24, 2009
The United States played an impressive 90 minutes to beat the number 1 team in the world and earn a spot in the finals of the Confederations Cup in South Africa. This is a great win for US Soccer against the premier soccer team in international competition. The US will most likely face a formidable [...]
stevebag | June 24, 2009
As a legendary and long term youth baseball coach I have witnessed my share of fascinating parental behavior. Not the most extreme is the ongoing phenomenon of parents paying their children for hitting home runs. I am baffled by that behavior. As a lifelong baseball/softball player, home runs have never been my forte. I have [...]
stevebag | June 23, 2009
Some things need to be said in an extreme manner. Many Christians are having casual sex with God.
I got a late start on the reading of the Shack, really thought that it was an innocuous work of fiction. But since I have read it, reviewed it, and talked to people about it, more needs to [...]
stevebag | June 15, 2009
Quite the bicycle ride this morning, 50 miles and three major climbs, one flat, an unexpected road closure, great lunch at Ono Hawaiin BBQ, and how about this post, a little twitterish.
Give me a break, its my day off.
stevebag | June 12, 2009
First, here is Ben Witherington’s review of The Shack (pretty sharp guy).
Ben Witherington is a worthy critic who gives a mostly positive but cautious review of the book. If you have read the book and are not theologically trained, I would almost insist that you follow up your reading with a [...]
stevebag | June 12, 2009
5 “I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me;
6 That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,
7 [...]
stevebag | June 12, 2009
Well, I almost lost my complete blog tonight, but managed to save most of it. Hope you like the new look, not sure it is the last version. I have a lot of work to do to restore some of my widgets and what not.
