Better Dads Better Kids

 

PRAY LIKE EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON GOD … WORK LIKE EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON YOU    Michael Lorenzan is one of my new favorite players.   

Prayer

Can we open in a word of prayer.    DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN…. PLEASE BE WITH US TODAY AS WE SHARE A LOVE OF BASEBALL AND A LOVE OF YOU…. FOR 108 YEARS CUB FANS WONDERED ABOUT YOUR PLAN BUT HOW GREAT IT WAS FOR THEM THAT PRAYER WAS FINALLY ANSWERED…  THANK YOU FOR ROLE MODELS LIKE BEN ZOBRIST … PLEASE BE WITH ME AND MY TECHNOLOGY AND PLEASE BE WITH TOM AS HE SHARES WITH US  TODAY … IN YOUR NAME WE PRAY AMEN 

Man Up

CAN I GET ALL THE MEN IN HERE TO SAY THAT … MAN UP  …. IT’S TIME FOR US MEN TO STEP UP AND BE THE KIND OF MEN GOD CALLED US TO BE 

BEFORE WE GET TOM UP HERE A COUPLE OF THINGS  I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU   … MAN UP IS ST PAULS MENS GROUP THAT IS HEADED UP BY MIKE PEER … MIKE CAN YOU GIVE US A WAVE… WE THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN TODAY and providing some breakfast items … THESE GUYS MEET HERE AT 7 AM ON SATURDAYS TO DISCUSS TOPICS THAT ARE PARTICULARILY IMPORTANT TO MEN … Man UP !!!   SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THAT PLEASE LOOK UP MIKE

Pastor Eric

I ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER GUY WITH NO HAIR…. HE IS A LITTLE TALLER THAN MIKE AND THAT IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR ERIC TRICKEY  

Member guest

HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE MEMBERS OF ST PAULS PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND … THOSE THAT ARE NOT MEMBERS RAISE YOUR HAND…   RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HATE IT WHEN SPEAKERS ASK YOU TO RAISE YOUR HAND  — we have put some guest cards on the table … if you are new to st pauls we would love to know that you were here and would appreciate you completing one of the cards.   If you fill out the cards and write MAN UP on the card we will put them in a hat and pull one out at the end to win a $50 MVP Card …. From Buffalo Wild Wings  card.     So this is guests only ..use your Christian principles  ….    fill out a card we will pick them up after Tom gets done speaking and draw one out for a MVP gift card.  

New to St Pauls

IF YOU ARE NEW TO ST PAUL’S WE INVITE YOU TO TAKE A TOUR OF THE BUILDING HERE… THIS IS THE OLD BACHRACHS CLOTHING WAREHOUSE THAT WE HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED TO TURN INTO A PLACE OF WORSHIP— awesome building but more awesome are the people of St Paul’s  … even those of them that are Cubs fans 

WE HAVE  CHURCH AT 6 PM THIS EVENING WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU BACK THEN …. OR TOMORROW WE HAVE SERVICES AT 8 AM AND 10;30 WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL IN BETWEEN  …. I am really enjoying Sunday school right now and would challenge you to fit that into your schedule.    

 

Kevin

DID YOU KNOW THAT ST PAULS HAS ITS VERY OWN  MAJOR LEAGUER … KEVIN KOSLOFSKI WAS A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER WITH THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS AND MILWAUKEE BREWERS WHO HAS THE CLAIM TO FAME OF HITTING A HOME RUN OFF NOLAN RYAN 

Rick 

ALSO HONORED TO HAVE MY BROTHER RICK HERE THIS MORNING … SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT RICK AND I USE TO PLAY FASTPITCH SOFTBALL FOR THE ADM AND DECATUR PRIDE TEAMS … RICK HAS BEEN ELECTED TO the AMATEUR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION NATIONAL HALL OF FAME … THE HALL OF FAME IS IN OKLAHOMA CITY BUT HE WILL ACTUALLY BE INDUCTED NEXT OCTOBER IN GREENSBORO NORTH CAROLINA… HE IS GOING IN WITH MIKE CANDREA … WHO WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS AS THE WOMEN’S SOFTBALL COACH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kurtis & Ben

THIS IS MY SON KURTIS PICTURED WITH BEN  … HE PLAYS baseball AT OLIVET NAZARENE WHICH IS WHERE BEN PLAYED AND HOW I BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THE ZOBRIST FAMILY

Walk up Song

ONE OF THE POPULAR THINGS IN BASEBALL TODAY … IS THE WALK UP SONG?   IF YOU PAY ATTENTION YOU CAN LEARN A little bit  ABOUT A PLAYER BY WHAT SONG HE CHOOSES TO PLAY WHEN HE COMES UP TO BAT ….  This is even popular in college WHEN MY SON KURTIS WENT UP TO PLAY AT OLIVET THEY HAD A PLAYER NAMED JOSH ALTMANN WHO IS NOW IN THE TEXAS RANGERS ORGANIZATION.   JOSH WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THIS TERRIFIC CHRISTIAN KID AND WAS TALKED ABOUT AS THE NEXT BEN ZOBRIST …. BUT WHEN JOSH WOULD COME UP TO BAT THIS SONG PLAYED……(start at 1:15 and end at 1:27) — . DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SAYING?   I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE ROBINSON CANO OR SOMETHING

SO I FINALLY ASKED AND THIS VIDEO WAS SHARED WITH ME… THIS MIGHT BE ALITTLE HARD ON YOU OLDER GUYS BUT THE KIDS SHOULD LIKE IT 

Stop at 2:20

Put your BIBLES IN THE AIR     and represent the king 

Kurt’s walk up

WHEN KURT HAD TO CHOOSE HIS WALK UP SONG I WAS VERY HONORED .. WHEN HE WAS A KID ONE OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CD’S THAT WE RAN INTO WAS FROM JEFF MOORE AND THE DISTANCE .. THEY HAD A SONG CALLED HOMERUN THAT WE REALLY LIKED … BUT ON THAT SAME CD WAS A SONG CALLED WHY SHOULD THE DEVIL HAVE ALL THE GOOD MUSIC… WHEN JEFF MOORE WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS SONG HE WOULD ATTRIBUTE THIS PHRASE TO MARTIN LUTHER… WHO USE TO TAKE HYMNS AND PUT THEM TO GERMAN BAR MEDLEYS to share the good news with the common man

JESUS IS THE ROCK AND HE ROLLS MY BLUES AWAY 

Ben’s Walk up

SO THAT LEADS ME UP TO BEN ZOBRISTS WALK UP SONG  — DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO SINGS HIS WALK UP SONG ?    FOR MOST OF THE YEAR IT WAS ALIVE…. THEY DID CREATE A SONG IN THE PLAYOFFS THAT WENT WITH BENNY AND THE JETS BUT FOR MOST of the year IT WAS ALIVE ….. JULIANNA TELLS A STORY THAT ONE NIGHT BEN CAME HOME AND TOLD HER THE STORY THAT A GUY THAT HE NEVER THOUGHT WOULD FIND JESUS … FOUND JESUS …   AND  the guys RESPONSE WAS  THAT HE SAID I FEEL SO ALIVE    … GOD HAS CLEANED OUT ALL MY GARBAGE HAS MADE ME NEW AND FOR THE FIRST TIME I FEEL ALIVE … LETS LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THIS SONG 

Cut off at 43 seconds  left

TO INTRODUCE YOU JUST A BIT MORE TO WHO BEN IS… .HE IS A TREMENDOUS FAMILY MAN … HE AND JULIANNA WROTE A BOOK THAT YOU CAN BUY ONLINE ENTITLED DOUBLE PLAY  WHICH WAS FROM BACK IN HIS TAMPA BAY DAYS 

There are 3 kids now  

There are lots of great F3 classes …. We have 2 weeks left of Wednesday nights … this is the sort of thing that I do in my class …. If you wish to join us this Wednesday night we are looking at Matthew West and his song forgiveness – and how that ties into preventing drunk driving  

BEN IS ALSO A STRONG MAN OF GOD ….This is a commercial for Olivet but  I THINK THIS VIDEO DOES AN AWESOME JOB OF PRESENTING BEN’S FAITH 

LUTHERAN’S HAVE A TREMENDOUS CONCORDIA COLLEGE SYSTEM THAT GAVE US PEOPLE LIKE PASTOR ERIC AND PASTOR DOUG  …. BUT WE HAVE BEEN VERY HAPPY WITH OLIVET AND IT HAS BEEN A PERFECT FIT FOR KURTIS  ….LUKE HIGHLEY… SON OF KEVIN AND CATHY HIGHLEY WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PITCHER AT OLIVET … Mike Badorek son of Ron and Virginia Badorek  was drafted by the Cardinals out of Olivet  …   The Buhr’s daughter also graduated from Olivet

 

ONE LAST THING BEFORE WE GET TOM UP HERE …  AS A CARDINAL FAN THIS IS PAINFUL FOR ME TO PLAY BUT SO HAPPY FOR SUCH A GOOD PERSON AS BEN ZOBRIST  and happy for the good people here that are Cub fans …     (skip from 2:20 to 2:35 ) 

 

Ben has had an absolutely crazy winter so as a Cardinal fan I am hoping he and other Cubs have wore themselves out celebrating …. But last week Ben gave the opening prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC  

SO HOW ABOUT A REAL WARM WELCOME FOR THE MAN WHO RAISED AN MVP     TOM ZOBRIST  

You seem like a pretty laid back ….   How did you react when Ben got the big hit? 

Is there a time recently that you would be willing to share when Ben came to you and said Dad I need your advice?