Living Truth in A Lying World

Has there ever been a time in your life when you really wanted something?  You would wait for it day after day, hoping that today would be the day when that desire became a reality?  In church, people would often say, "just pray about it, one day it will happen."  After all, Jesus said, "Ask and you shall receive." I think most of us would say this has happened at least once in our lives.  Sometimes it maybe a small thing, while other times it maybe a bigger thing.  Having graduated from college approximately five years ago, I can relate.  I created an image for how my life would look.  I would have a job that I love, a wife, and children.  I would be working somewhere in ministry, doing the work of Christ.  I knew exactly what I wanted to do. As I stepped out of college, I was offered a job where I interned.  I accepted it, and began working full time in the business field.  As I went further and further into that field, I realized that my passion was not where

Currently, we live in a world filled with video games, sports, pop culture, music, art, movies.  You name it, we probably have it.  Growing up, video games were becoming more and more popular.  I would excitedly await the release of the new Madden or MLB game.  When I wasn't playing sports on the PlayStation, I was either watching it on TV or playing it.  My brothers and I would spend hours in the backyard playing sports.  We would bowl on Saturdays, Baseball in the evenings.  Every year my family goes to a different baseball stadium for our vacation.  My grandparents would get tickets to see the Brickyard 400 (NASCAR racing) and the Indy 500 (Indy Racing).  We would go every year.  Though we weren't always playing sports, we were regularly doing something involving sports. Many of those things we did were good things.  My brothers and I spent hours together enjoying wiffle ball in the yard.  Many of these experiences and events created memories for our family to look back on