In the Disney movie, Finding Nemo, Dory, the beautiful blue Regal Tang (who happens to have short-term memory loss) sings a catchy little tune to encourage Nemo’s dad to “just keep swimming.” Nemo’s dad is ready to give up the search after losing the mask he believes will lead them to his son. The exuberant, though...
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Have you ever been to the fair or an amusement park and looked at yourself in a distorted mirror? Some of the mirrors make you look very tall and super thin. Others make you look very short and extremely, um, round. The bottom line is, looking into a distorted mirror will give you a distorted view of yourself. You have to look in a...
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For the past 9 weeks, The Second Wind blog posts have considered what it means to “think on” things that are “true,” “noble” and “right.” In these final three posts, we will consider “thinking on” what is “pure.” As I was thinking about this post, it seemed necessary to begin by describing what “pure”...
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In the last part of defining the word noble, we look to the ultimate person who displayed this perfectly, Jesus. Christ did the honorable, noble, and praiseworthy act of living for us because we could not do it on our own. He did this in His life, work, death, and resurrection. What a savior we have! Wait. Does it end there? No!...
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Ken Matthews, a team leader with The Second Wind’s Rolesville Meetup group, competed in the 2012 Riverwood Golf and Athletic Club Sprint Triathlon in Clayton, NC. Ken is a second year triathlete and is an accomplished runner having recently completed the Tobacco Road Marathon with a finishing time of 3:22:07, which was fast...
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In last week’s blog post kicking off our section on “Whatever is Noble” (from Philippians 4:8), we focused on what people typically mean when discussing the word “noble” — what people see. The outward appearance is what people see but the inward appearance is what God sees. One of my favorite...
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