Comments on: Running

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:59:00 +0000

Mike - I’ll be glad to visit with you. I’m doing the keynote Tuesday evening and am trying to keep that day open, but I’ll be happy to fly up to OC to visit later. Of course, there’s not much on my January 14 blog except a bare-bones mentioning of what happened. There’s much more in the Christian Chronicle. Thanks.

By: Mike E. O'Neal

Mike E. O'Neal — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:50:00 +0000

Mike, I have left you a comment on your January 14 blog. Hope you will read it and we can talk. I plan to be in Abilene from about 11:30 until 3:30 next Tuesday, the 21st of February. If you happen to be near the ACU campus during the right time, it would be great to see you. I don’t have your email, so hopefully this blog comment will get to you. Thanks. Mike E. O’Neal, mike.oneal@oc.edu

By: Amy Boone

Amy Boone — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:29:00 +0000

I am completely cracking up! This past weekend I completed (read: walked) my first (and probably only!) half marathon. I’ve been feeling so proud of myself until I just read about Mr. Speedy Gonzalez Cope running a FULL marathon in the time I finished the half this weekend! Hilarious! So, if you’ll now excuse me, I need to tend to my black and blue toenail and opposing blister!

By: Beaner

Beaner — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:19:00 +0000

Run, Forrest, Run!!!!!

By: Keith Brenton

Keith Brenton — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:41:00 +0000

I am a dedicated sitter. I have been sitting for longer than I can remember, and I rarely have shin splints as a result.

I believe that God invented running as a means from getting away from predators - which He also created - or for catching small fast things in order to eat them - for which He created them.

Running is so modern. In this post-modern age, God has created McDonald’s to serve slow-moving food to fast-moving people who are sitting down while driving their cars past.

But, Eric Liddell notwithstanding, there is no evidence that when you run you must feel His pleasure.

It is optional, and only happens when the endorphins kick in to kill the pain from the punishment you are giving your legs, contrary to God’s will.

I would pontificate more, but I have to very slowly and carefully get up now and shuffle to the bathroom to try and find my Preparation H.

By: Ed Harrell

Ed Harrell — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:27:00 +0000

I have trouble with many of the concepts in the sermon on the mount. They truly challenge the way our society lives and believes.

Your times are phenominal! I’m still working to get to an 18 minute 2 mile and you were doing over 3 in 19! Man, you rock!

Are you getting excited about the upcoming world baseball chalenge? I know I am!

Blessings,

By: annie

annie — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:21:00 +0000

Will your Sunday lesson of 2/19 be available to buy? Will the Zoe Singers be on the CD also? I’m so envious that I can’t be there in person to hear you & them.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:46:00 +0000

Thank you Mike for that gift and the admonishment/encouragement to “slow down, to read carefully, and to face head-on what is being said.” I look forward to Sunday but I will not be running anytime soon.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:28:00 +0000

A couple of others have mentioned it as well, but I’d like to emphasize you may be at that stage of life where cycling needs to replace running — and most all the “age-related converts” I know now wish they’d “switched” before they incurred the damage that required the switch. It is just a better activity in almost every way, except that it requires gear that is not required for running. Otherwise, you don’t incur “impact” damage; you travel farther; see more; create your own breeze/cooling; as well as other aesthetic and practical benefits.

Sure wish I could hear you Sunday. Will have to get the recording. Thanks, Mike, for all you do for all of us out here in the wilderness.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:27:00 +0000

Mike,

Have you read Matt. 5:43-48 in the message translation? It reads really well…I think.

Blessings on you brother for Sunday!

I’m a runner too…yeah I run to bathroom, the fidge, from angry people and dogs, to the store, to my wife, away from the dentist.

Have a great weekend.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:27:00 +0000

A couple of others have mentioned it as well, but I’d like to emphasize you may be at that stage of life where cycling needs to replace running — and most all the “age-related converts” I know now wish they’d “switched” before they incurred the damage that required the switch. It is just a better activity in almost every way, except that it requires gear that is not required for running. Otherwise, you don’t incur “impact” damage; you travel farther, and more comfortably (after you and your seat make friends, at least); see more; create your own breeze/cooling; as well as other aesthetic and practical benefits.

Sure wish I could hear you Sunday. Will have to get the recording. Thanks, Mike, for all you do for all of us out here in the wilderness.

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:17:00 +0000

mike the eyeguy I can relate, my new passage is James 4:14 Life is but a vapor.

By: mike the eyeguy

mike the eyeguy — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:40:00 +0000

As a “formerly fast” runner (”Back in ‘82″), I took up the slogan “to finish is to win” when I trained for and completed a marathon a few years back. Since my back surgery two years ago, my motto has been “to move is to win.”

A favorite passage of mine these days is 2 Corinthians 4:16: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”

By: jds

jds — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:56:00 +0000

I used to run (nothing like marathon distances), but somewhere in my mid-30’s I stopped enjoying it.

Now cycling, that’s where it’s at. I figure I can take that into my 60’s (if I last that long). I find I enjoy the faster speeds of a bike more than running.

Now on the more important part of the post, it seems to me that loving our enemies is a big part of what separates us from the Rotary Club or Kiwanis. Because really, what’s the difference between us and them if our only aim is to love and serve those in the church? Now the Rotary and Kiwanis are good organizations, but there should be a difference between us because of Jesus.

Jonathan

By: Michael Summers

Michael Summers — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:17:00 +0000

Mike,
Once a runner, always a wannabe runner at the least. I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in ‘97. Separated from my teammates, I asked two runners who like me were wearing Leukemia Society shirts if I could run with them. Somewhere between miles 3 and 5 we discovered that we were both preachers for churches of Christ in Tennessee. Who would have thought it on a Sunday in Washington, D.C. We ran together for 17 miles and both finished. An Army division chaplain once told me as we compared marathon notes, “Once you’ve run a marathon, no one can tell you can or cannot do. You know.”