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Filthy Fast Balls and Forgiveness

April 23, 2019October 16, 2019 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations

Dirty. That’s how I felt the next morning after our son’s baseball game. The night before we played a team obviously above our caliber. It’s obvious to everyone in the league they’re using us as practice squads. They were baseball kids. Our team is kids who play baseball. There’s a huge difference. They practice hours a day. We practice an hour per week. Their starting pitcher might as well have […]

Moonlight Graham & Christ’s Field of Dreams

January 1, 2015January 1, 2015 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Christian Life, Philippians, Romans, The Gospel, Theology

Archibald Wright “Moonlight” Graham was a baseball player. He was also a doctor. He was immortalized in the classic American baseball film Field of Dreams. And he can illustrate the glorious mystery of Christ’s incarnation. Moonlight Graham spent seven seasons in the minor leagues, even having a cup of coffee with the Memphis Egyptians in 1906. His claim to fame, however, was not what he did in the minor leagues. […]