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XIV Super Bowl XLIV Questions Part II

Part 2 of our Super Bowl XLIV survey. You can read Part 1 here.
8. What or who is going to be the X Factor in the game?
TJ: I’ll start by saying that each team has an X-Factor player, and both of them are directly related.
INDIANAPOLIS … DE Dwight Freeney
This one’s a gimmie. Freeney is [...]

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The Church and the Super Bowl

Editor’s note: This is T.J. Cofield’s response to the question “How should the church respond to the Super Bowl?” from our Super Bowl XLIV survey.
This question falls under a larger umbrella of a question, which is, “How should the church respond to our culture?” One of the best Christian responses to this question is [...]

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XIV Super Bowl XLIV Questions Part I

In just a few short hours, hundreds of millions around the world will sit down to watch Super Bowl XLIV (that’s 44 for anyone that’s not a Roman numeral buff). In honor of the big game, I decided to send out a Super Bowl survey to a couple of big sports fans/Amalgamblog contributors (Randy Belk [...]

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Unfinished T10T: Random Things We Liked About 2009

In a couple of days, we’ll close the book on 2009 and move into the new year. As every year does, this one had its ups and downs. While it would be easy to do a best of 2009 list, we figured we would list some of the things about the last 12 months that [...]

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It’s OK to wish me Happy Holidays

I personally really like “Merry Christmas.” But it’s OK to wish me “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Hanukah” or even “Festivus For The Rest of Us.”  I promise not to think less of you, bite your head off, or respond with a terse sounding “Merry CHRISTmas” in a condescending, rebuking tone.
I don’t expect [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Christmas Special All-Stars

December is here and that means that it is about time for Christmas specials to make their way onto the airwaves. Christmas specials/movies are a mixed bag. Some are legendary, some are decent, some are so cheesy that they work, and some are overglorified commercials from ad agencies that want you want to think of [...]