How I’m Getting Fit by Punching Stuff

July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I just completed day four of my boxing fitness class. Since my first few tweets about my new workout, I’ve been getting questions from everyone I talk to. It seems that a little geek like me taking swings drums up some interest.

Day four was the hardest yet, probably a result of a nasty cold I have right now. It may also have something to do with the couple pints of Guinness I drank last night with Mark and Phil or the big breakfast I ate this morning at Lizard’s Thicket with my Sunday school guys group. However, Guinness is one of the best beers you can drink. It is low in calories and high in vitamins. At Lizard’s Thicket I skipped the carbs (do you know how hard it is skipping grits?) and stuck to the protein. I’ve been pumping protein into my body like a champ recently. Still, today was a tough one.

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There’s No Place Like the SC Lowcountry

July 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We were sitting in Adirondack chairs. Elizabeth was drinking a margarita lightly salted. I was enjoying a Blue Moon with an orange. The sun was going down over the Beaufort County inlet when she looked at me and said, “we can travel the world, but there is no place like the South Carolina lowcountry.”

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Glad to See Some Gamecocks with their Heads on Straight

July 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The last 36 hours have been a nonstop whirlwind. It all started Wednesday midmorning when Elizabeth’s mother called saying that her grandfather, Daddy Bill, who she is extremely close with, took a sharp turn downward in health. In fact, the doctors did not think he would make it through the day.

We rushed to Charleston and throughout the day, 87-year-old Daddy Bill battled back, joking that he had to get out of the hospital to train for the bridge run. All the prayers from friends, church members, family and online buddies must have worked because by yesterday morning, Daddy Bill had rallied and surprised everyone. I think that as long as Daddy Bill is in good enough health to watch Fox News and yell at President Obama, he’s in pretty good spirits. Thank God for miracles.

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Thirst for righteousness and show it

July 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Thursday night’s REAL Men event at First Baptist Church of Columbia inspired me. Four young gamecock football players, led by star running back Marcus Lattimore, discussed their faith on and off the field. All four said that they use their talents to glorify God and to spread his message to their friends, teammates and fans.

Center T.J. Johnson said that every time he snaps the ball, he does so for Christ, asking for “hands for war and fingers to fight. (Psalm 144:1).”  If our center snaps the ball for Christ, why am I not blogging, tweeting and facebooking for Christ? I have a platform to reach people online and I work with the people that make laws for our state and nation. If I do not work for the glory of Christ, what am I working for?  Money, fame, power?
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Christianity and my Vodka Tonic

July 25, 2011 By 3 Comments

Today I continued my study of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I am not just reading, but taking the time to research, pray and reflect.  Today I began book three and studied the 4 cardinal rules:

  1. Prudence: sound judgment
  2. Justice: moral rightness
  3. Temperance: moderation ion action, thought or feeling
  4. Fortitude: ability to control fear, pain, danger, uncertainty and intimidation

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How Demons Will Use Word of Mouth

July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This was a post I put on my Tumblr a couple months back. I am reposting it here because this is one of the best books I’ve ever read and I REALLY hope you will take the time to read it. It is about a demon who is working to tempt a man into damnation. It has a strong emphasis on the temptations that ruin so many of us. Please take the time to read this one.

Years after writing his famous “Screwtape Letters,” C.S. Lewis wrote again in the voice of Screwtape, an undersecretary to the devil. This time Screwtape was not writing to his nephew Wormwood, who was probably eaten for failing to deliver a soul, but was giving a speech in Hell at the annual dinner of the Tempters’ Training College for young Devils.

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