Are you ready for some Football?

by Lowell Chilton

Despite the tagline on my blog suggesting I write about sports, I really don't seem to write about sports all that often.

Today I am.

See for the last 5 seasons I've had season tickets to the Seattle Seahawks with my friend Andy. We got tickets the year that Pete Carroll came to coach the team, and people were very down on them that year.

Boy were they wrong. That was the season of the making the playoffs with a losing record, defeating the reigning champs, and creating an earthquake in the process.

I've gotten to see two NFC championship wins in person, lots of wiener dog races, and partied in the streets after a Super Bowl victory.

This year I'm hoping for another party in the streets, but one that I want be able to attend, because I'll be at the game.

I'll be at the Super Bowl!

Check Back on Monday for pictures from the day.

The Light Shines in the Darkness

by Lowell Chilton

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. Everything came into being through the Word and without the Word not one thing came into being. What came into being through the Word was life, and the life was the light for all people.

The Light was in the world, and the world came into being through the light, but the world did not recognize the light.

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Can we risk for God?

by Lowell Chilton

Sometimes we are all a bit like Barak. Sometimes we are like the servant who received the single talent. Sometimes we want to be safe and bunker down and not take risks.

The problem is that when we bunker down, we miss out on the bigger picture. When we try to hold onto the way things were, we get in the way of letting things become the way they could be. We get in the way of the gospel.

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Perhaps we're all a little bit Satan

by Lowell Chilton

Perhaps we’re all a little bit of the devil.

In our Gospel lesson today, Peter is doing one of the things he does best and not getting it. This time it is a little surprising because he had just seemed to get it when he declared Jesus the Christ and the Son of the living God.

Now however, Peter objects to the very idea of Jesus needing to die.

“Get behind me Satan! You are a stone that could make me stumble, for you are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts!”

This is Peter, the rock on whom Jesus’s church is to be built, and he is called Satan!

If Peter is Satan, thinking human thoughts and not godly thoughts, then perhaps we’re all a bit of Satan.

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