Growing up in a less formal, Pentecostal worship environment as a young Christian, I don’t recall the Advent season ever being spoken of as such. I knew nothing about the lighting of Advent candles or that there was any special meaning attached to them during the four Sundays leading up to Christmas and the following […]
Three Strikes and He is Still Not Out
Jesús Alejandro Montero Lopez, at age 17, was signed in 2006 by the New York Yankees, and received a $1.6 million signing bonus. In 2012, he spent his major league rookie year with the Yankees before being traded to the Seattle Mariners. In 2013, his season ended with a 50-game suspension for his involvement in […]