Are you ready for some…

Fooled you! If you’ve come to this blog for talk of football, you’ve come to the wrong place.

What I’m wondering is, are you ready for some talk of the end times? That’s much more sustaining than a Bud Lite and a plate of beef nachos, don’t you think?

My good man Tony has tagged me for that ubiquitous book meme.

I remembered this fact the other morning as I slogged along on the treadmill. Such a random thought seemed fitting for such a random meme, so here we go then.

The book that was nearest the treadmill is one from my grad school days: The Letters of James and Peter by William Barclay.

The rules of the meme are:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

From the book:

Human speculation about the time of the Second Coming is not only useless, it is blasphemous; for surely no man should seek to gain a knowledge which is hidden from Jesus Christ himself and resides only in the mind of God. The one thing that the New Testament does say about the Second Coming is that it will be as sudden as the lightning and as unexpected as a thief in the night (Matthew 24:27, 37, 39). We cannot wait to get ready when it comes; we must be ready for its coming.

In other words, don’t wait for half-time!

Ad Jesum per Mariam,

PS. Don’t be impressed by that reference to grad school, by the way. I never finished. (But I did have my first of many babies that year—the world’s cutest, I was certain—and I have not looked back.)

PPS. I tag you & you & you & you & you.