If it’s been a minute since the last Happy Monday post, this week notwithstanding, then it’s been a few minutes since the last Satur-deja Vu. I started last night to organize and got overwhelmed so this one almost didn’t happen either. Deep breath, I’ve got all day, here we go. Nice and easy.
Let’s start with Calhoun High School’s State Championship win this week. Calhoun has made it to the big game 10 times in the last 20 years but there has been something of a drought in recent years.
The College Football Playoffs have started. Notre Dame decisively knocked out Indiana last night and will now face Georgia at the Sugar Bowl January 1st. I expect Tennessee to eliminate The Ohio State tonight then face Oregon at the Rose Bowl.
Point:
Counter Point: In Genesis 2, every person on earth lived in a much small circle than that. The small area of land joining Europe, Africa and Asia is the linchpin on which every major event of world history turns, and it continues to be today. Inside that red circle is the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ancient Egypt, the Old Kingdom, was the world’s first empire and the Silk Roads of Persia connected the Far East to mid-east and thus European trade routes. Later the empire of Alexander the Great would begin in the Greek islands and spread to most of the known world. The library at Alexandria contained clay tablets with literature and legal codes older at that time than the works of Shakespeare are now. The Roman Empire continued where the Greeks left off. That red circle encompasses most of the Mediterranean. The Romans controlled territory all the way to the British Isles and built aqueducts that brought melting snow and ice all the way from the Alps into Rome.
So even if you don’t believe there were many writers of the Bible but the author is God, you must still acknowledge that the New Testament writers of the first century A.D. lived at the epicenter of all knowledge of the world and its history. The Apostle Paul reasoned with the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers in Athens (Acts 17:18), I mean come on.
Why would a cow wear a VR headset? Because in the winter months when cows cannot roam the fields and graze, miik production decreases. Let’s call it seasonal depression because if you show dairy cows images of green pastures and sunny skies they give more milk. The truth is stranger than fiction.
I posted this image to Facebook earlier this week. On the left is Mark Hoagies of Universal Basic Guys, on the right is Josh Heupel, head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. It didn’t exactly blow up the internet with only three post likes:
The first two are Facebook friends of mine. Adam Malamut, on the other hand, is one of the co-creators of Universal Basic Guys and the voice talent behind Mark Hoagies. He liked the post, no word yet from Coach Heupel.
And finally…
There have been other posts at The Master’s Table even while the Satur-deja Vu was hitting snooze. There was a three part series titled Look at Jesus and an observation about Mary and Joseph seemingly following the Christmas star to Bethlehem. Advent messages appear in the RSS feed from Unity Baptist, the last one of those will be posted tomorrow. Merry Christmas friends and neighbors, peace and God bless.
The Master's Table 
I don’t expect to hear from Josh Heupel. The comparison is not exactly flattering and I’m a big UGA fan. We probably don’t have much to talk about.
I wrote about the Christmas song Mary Did You Know some years back after being surprised to learn it was written by Mark Lowry, best known for his stand up comedy and antics at Bill Gather reunions. I was contacted by Buddy Greene’s publicist who curtly informed me that Lowry wrote the words as a poem and that his client composed the music and needed to be recognized. He stopped short of threatening a cease and desist order.
I had a much more pleasant interaction with John Burstein after commenting on a Slim Goodbody post. He’s a good guy still out there trying to make a difference.