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When I was 9 years old I remember, at a family camp in the Californian mountains, finding a book on the upper bunk.

“Dave Dravecky, Comeback!” I exclaimed.

I had wanted to read it for a number of reasons — it was about a Christian, who played baseball, and had a profound story. And he was, no less, a San Francisco Giant.

Dave Dravecky’s story is long, and painful, with what seems to be a defeat.

He published “When You Can’t Comeback” not long after the first book — after having his arm break when throwing a sixth-inning pitch, finding out that months upon months of painful physical rehab had not solved his problem. His cancer came back and they had to amputate his arm.

Well, I just found on the Desiring God Blog a three-part YouTube interview they conducted with him.

Watch them.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

The Resurgence’s Gary Shavey has a good interview with Justin Taylor.

Two things:

One, I mixed it up a bit.  A few things inspired me. First, I just celebrated a one month-blog-iversary. Second, I was inspired by this guy. And third, I wanted to be able to customize the feed option, and the other template wouldn’t let me.

That brings me to the second thing: the feed.

If you look to the right side-bar, you’ll see a pitifully neglected little light-blue box. It has a very low number right now. But if you sign up for my feed, it will feel better.

You can sign up with a feed-reader (Google reader is the bomb…) or you can have it delivered to your custom home page (iGoogle is the bomb…)

Sign up and support the (big) little guy.

This post is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time.

A quote:

But the longer I am on this journey, the more I realize that head knowledge is easy. Debating Calvinism and eschatology and ecclesiology is easy. What is difficult is being a faithful father, husband, pastor, and Christ-follower. What is difficult is living out the gospel in everyday life. What is difficult is serving the people in my community without an agenda. What is difficult is loving the unlovely people in our city. What is difficult is being a good neighbor. What is difficult is being intentional about meeting and befriending people who do not have a relationship with God. What is difficult is trying to teach people in a 30-minute-a-week window how to follow Jesus 7 days a week.