From my church’s blog yesterday–some thoughts on March Madness and on shame.
Philippians 3:19, “Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.”
As I write this blog post in advance of April, March Madness is still ongoing, down to the last two teams. By the time you read it, you will know whether North Carolina or Gonzaga prevailed in the final!
I was recently pondering the nature of shame, particularly as I was reading Ed Welch’s “Shame Interrupted.” (I will put the usual statement here that his book does not agree with everything I—and my church—hold to theologically, but it is pretty awesome in its discussion of shame, which I was trying to understand.) Using some thoughts in the book as a starting point, let me ask a couple of questions.
Would you say that all fifteen of the Sweet Sixteen teams who did *not win the championship should be…
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