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I sweat black and gold
About Me
- Michel Sauret
- I'm a Christian and I'm a Steelers fanatic. Often these two passions are at great odds, especially when my favorite team happens to play most games during my favorite day of the week: The Lord's day. This blog will serve as a posting forum to discuss these two great passions. I'm 24 years old and a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army. I'm happily married to my beautiful wife, Heather, going on our second year now. In 2008, I deployed to Iraq with the 354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment as an Army journalist, where I wrote stories and captured photos of Soldiers and Iraqi people.
4 comments:
I'm so excited to be following your blog. Your pitch in the beginning of the semester captivated my imagination.
I only care about 2 professional sports teams; the Steeler's, by family tradition and the Red Sox because there is serious soul on that team. Still, that Kansas City game was the only one I watched this season.
But talking about religion is a serious hobby of mine. I've been a Christian in the more devout sense of the term (regularly reading the Bible, praying to find what work God wanted me to do, seeking advice form His word at every turn, attempting to help people by sharing my faith). I've lived in a Christian Commune (which was one of the happiest times of my life).
I stopped believing as a result of some serious reflection on the Old Testament. But of course, it's an important question that I try to reevaluate as often as I can.
That was sort of an introductory comment. I look forward to reading.
Also.
If you want the video to fit neatly into that column...when you paste in the embedded code, you can change the dimensions. The dimensions are in the code twice: in the beginning and end. Just delete the number inside of the quotes and replace it with a dimension that fits. It takes me a little trial and error each time, because I never write it down.
Wonderful Ellen!
Thanks so much for your comments, and especially thanks for the tip on making the videos fit. That was bothering me and didn't know what I could do about it.
You've posed an interesting question about the OT, and you gave me a little motivation to address that.
I will say that unfortunately many churches and many Christians have left the OT behind thinking 1) it is no longer relevant and 2) it is too brutal and offensive, which will in turn send away potential believers.
That is a great shame and injustice to God's word and Character, but I can certainly understand the unease in approaching and reading the OT (which one of the elders at my church likes to call the Old(er) Testament).
I will definitely post on these issues, and I hope to address some of your concerns and worries. But I especially hope to generate a discussion and conversation, especially with you since you've given me a new sense of what material I can write about.
I really look forward to following your blog, too!
I'm away from my apartment for thanksgiving so my Bible isn't around.
I'll wait to see what you have to say before I say too much. It finally seemed clear to me that the OT was constructed as a political text to unify the tribes of Israel with a common history.
Previously, I had thought of the whole Bible as the word of God. When I lost that view it lost its authority and became another religious text, equal to the others.
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