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A blog by Ken Horn

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A Thought From a Super Bowl Vet

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

“Life is a game. God is the head coach. We are the players.”
— Joe Gibbs
“No Average Joe,” Eric Tiansay
Pentecostal Evangel, Super Bowl Outreach Edition, January 31, 2010

A Thought From a Super Bowl Winner

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

From Our Super Bowl Outreach Edition:
“Colossians 3:23 says, ‘Do all things as if working for the Lord and not for men.’ In the NFL, being a Christian can sometimes come with a negative connotation. You can be stereotyped as being more soft or more fragile spirited. But I believe it’s the opposite. I think that […]

Annual Super Bowl Edition Gets Slammed … Again

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Today the mail brought me a stack of returned Evangels, unopened, with a letter from a pastor, that said, in part, the following:
“I am returning these Evangels in a form of protest at the ever increasing level of worldliness of the magazine…. If I desired a Sports Illustrated I would subscribe to such a periodical. […]

Blind Golfer, 85 Years Old, Shoots Hole-in-One

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

An AP report from Green Valley, Arizona carries one of the best sports stories ever.
An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley.
Playing with a group of fellow blind veterans enrolled in a […]

Why I Won’t Be Watching the NBA All-Star Game

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

I’m a sports fan, but I don’t watch the NBA All-Star game. The NBA is enough about individual play and primadonna superstars as it is, but when you put them all together with the express purpose of seeing who can call attention to himself the most, it plays out too much like a self-love fest, […]