{"id":8326,"date":"2017-02-16T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T04:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2017-02-16T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T04:49:47","slug":"7-quick-takes-church-invitations-rich-mullins-and-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8326","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Church Invitations, Rich Mullins, and Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy being vulnerable, Batman!<\/strong> A guy in my Accounting class and I have been talking about faith things so I asked him if he wanted to come to church with me on Sunday&#8230; by passing him a note with the name, address, and worship time for my church and the words &#8220;let&#8217;s pretend I actually had the guts to say this in person&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; I&#8217;m really that awkward. Thankfully, he&#8217;s interested in possibly coming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rich Mullins.<\/strong> A few nights ago, I was answering a <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\">Reddit<\/a> question on my favorite song lyrics that mean something to me and I had to look up the lyrics for chorus of &#8220;If I Stand&#8221;. That led to listening to a bunch of Rich Mullins songs that I really love as well as a few Third Day ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hit by holy 2&#215;4.<\/strong> I was sitting in my Accounting classroom alone on Tuesday afternoon doing homework when I was hit by the strong feeling that I needed to be praying for my classmates. I spent some time praying for the people whose needs I knew&#8230; and learned about a whole host of other ones this morning.  I think it&#8217;s probably a good thing that I&#8217;m open to the smackings upside the head of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Invoicing Rep. Jason Chaffetz.<\/strong> Said congressional rep accused the protestors at his town hall of being &#8220;paid protestors&#8221; so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/2\/13\/1633252\/-After-accusing-protesters-of-being-paid-Utah-rep-is-getting-invoices-from-protesters\">people are invoicing him for their time at the protest<\/a>. I shouldn&#8217;t be laughing&#8230; but I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Trump&#8217;s immigrant ban is anti-Biblical.<\/strong> I am very fond of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/americamag\/status\/831537023420882944\">this video<\/a> from James Martin, S.J.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite baseball take.<\/strong> SPRING TRAINING HAS STARTED! SPRING TRAINING HAS STARTED! SPRING TRAINING HAS STARTED! *cheers on the Giants and boos the Dodgers*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Change in practice.<\/strong> I&#8217;m not raffling off the right to pick my Lenten discipline this year. I know what I&#8217;ll be doing but I won&#8217;t be revealing it until Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Holy being vulnerable, Batman! 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