Wonder what he will do in the NFL?
Like fishing stories told on front porches at dusk or tall tales traded around barstools after last call, the legend of Tim Tebow seems likely to only grow larger in this part of the country.
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Thousands of fans wore eye black as a tribute, as the Bible passages scrawled below Tebow’s eyes have become a trademark. He seemed to respond with a message back to the fans, as the verse inscribed on his eye black — Hebrews 12:1-2 — read, in part, “We are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses.”
No. 1 Florida 37, Florida State 10 – Tebow Adds a Flourish in His Finale at Florida – NYTimes.com.
I reckon I don’t get it, or maybe I am not meant to. Who knows…
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Hearing about how Christian this guy is makes me sick for some reason. Its almost too good to be true, like we are being being told some fairytale. I felt like the game commentators were preaching at the audience, trying to find and read the bible passage from the sticker that he wore on his face.
Ugh!
Hearing about how Christian this guy is makes me sick for some reason. Its almost too good to be true, like we are being being told some fairytale. I felt like the game commentators were preaching at the audience, trying to find and read the bible passage from the sticker that he wore on his face.
Ugh!