Well this is a red letter date on the Church Calendar.  I know you are all wondering if I mean the Eastern or Western Church, some of you no doubt may be more partial to the Anglican, I know.  In two of these today is the celebration of John the Baptist’s beheading.  But I’m not talking about that.  No one knows about that these days.  I’m talking about the beginning of College Football.  Gosh, get with the picture, that’s what’s really important.  Not on the Church calendar you might say?  I don’t celebrate a Church calendar you might say.  I beg to differ.

Romans 14:5,6 speaks of holy days.  Basically saying it is ok for some people who want to have special days, and ok for people who don’t consider one day any more special than another.  But what about people who make special days that are not about the Church?  Because today that is certainly what we have.  And don’t think I am confusing ‘religion’ with ‘entertainment’ or sports.  The fact is that we build religious worship around all of these things.  We have a posture, a liturgy and even meditation surrounding college football.  We study every athlete and all their stats, to a degree only the most pious would study the Bible. It consumes many lives, and is one of the few cultural addendums welcome at the Grace pulpit.

Just a thought.

Beheading of John the Baptist,