Thanks for Teaching Me.

Rev.Ref63 · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 19, 2002, 08:31pm

I have just concluded my second year as an official. The number of games nearly doubled this season from last. I'm looking forward to some Varsity action next season.

This forum has really been a big help to me. I have learned something new almost everytime I logged on. I appreciate the wisdom of you all who take the time to give advise or help us new guys understand an aspect of the game that we've not yet "mastered."

I'll keep checking in throughout the summer but my Pastoral duties will kick in full time now with spring and summer approaching. I am grateful to "devdog" for telling me about this site. It has been a great learning opportunity for me.

Thanks again everyone.

BktBallRef · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 19, 2002, 09:41pm

You gotta keep checking in and posting. It's the only way to keep basketball alive in the offseason!

w_sohl · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 19, 2002, 11:39pm

There is an offseason?

Rev.Ref63 · #4 (**permalink**) Tue Feb 19, 2002, 11:44pm

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You gotta keep checking in and posting. It's the only way to keep basketball alive in the offseason!

I'll definately keep checking in. Gotta keep sharp for the test coming up this year. I'm shooting for a 100% this time.

rainmaker · #5 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 02:59am

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Originally posted by Rev.Ref63

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Originally posted by BktBallRef
You gotta keep checking in and posting. It's the only way to keep basketball alive in the offseason!

I'll definately keep checking in. Gotta keep sharp for the test coming up this year. I'm shooting for a 100% this time.

You're going for, "Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect?" Are you a Quaker!?!?

Rev.Ref63 · #6 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 11:56am

You're going for, "Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect?" Are you a Quaker!?!? [/B][/QUOTE]

Not a Quaker. A "Born Again, Bought by the Blood, Baptist!"
Nice job quoting scripture. I like it. I hope to achieve perfection on the next test. I have come close but didn't make it. Without a doubt, you all on this forum will help me reach that goal.

rockyroad · #7 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 12:56pm

Just remember..."lay not up for yourself treasures on this earth where moth and rust doth corrupt"...(sorry, still remember all those verses in KJV)...the test is good, but experience on the court is better! Work spring and summer league games and polish up all those mechanics and coach-control techniques which will help you move to the next level!!

dj

ChuckElias · #8 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 03:18pm

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Just remember..."lay not up for yourself treasures on this earth where moth and rust doth corrupt"...

I had forgotten that lay-ups were mentioned in the Bible

Of course, everybody knows that God is really a big baseball fan b/c "In the big inning, God created the heavens and the earth".

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(sorry, still remember all those verses in KJV)

Don't be sorry. In fact, try to forget everything you ever read in a KJV Bible. Anything that was translated before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is virtually useless, compared to what's available now. Study up with a New American Standard (or New International Version, if you have to).

Chuck

rockyroad · #9 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 03:55pm

NIV baby...of course all sports are important in the Bible...as are motorcycles, since the "sound of David's Triumph was heard throughout all the land"...

Tim Roden · #10 (**permalink**) Wed Feb 20, 2002, 04:32pm

Just be glad that God didn't send the AMC Hornet to drive you from the land. See Joshua 23.

daves · #11 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 21, 2002, 03:22am

I thought the pastoral duties were 24 and 7.

I think God could be a golf fan too. Matthew 24:28 states
Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Rev.Ref63 · #12 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 21, 2002, 03:05pm

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Originally posted by daves
I thought the pastoral duties were 24 and 7.

I think God could be a golf fan too. Matthew 24:28 states
Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Without a doubt it is 24/7. Now I can make my hospital visits without my striped shirt and my whistle.

To remove all speculation, God is most definately a basketball fan. He gave specific instructions as to how to build the court in the Tabernacle.

Exodus 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. KJV!!

Mark Dexter · #13 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 21, 2002, 04:27pm

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Originally posted by Rev.Ref63

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Originally posted by daves
I thought the pastoral duties were 24 and 7.

I think God could be a golf fan too. Matthew 24:28 states
Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Without a doubt it is 24/7. Now I can make my hospital visits without my striped shirt and my whistle.

To remove all speculation, God is most definately a basketball fan. He gave specific instructions as to how to build the court in the Tabernacle.

Exodus 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. KJV!!

I always just thought that meant God was a tennis fan.

ChuckElias · #14 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 21, 2002, 05:10pm

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Originally posted by daves
I think God could be a golf fan too. Matthew 24:28 states
Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Obviously, God's never been part of my foursome!

Chuck

ChuckElias · #15 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 21, 2002, 05:25pm

I hope I will not offend anyone with this joke, but I golfed avidly for a while and a friend of mine from church shared this with me.

Moses, Jesus and God are playing golf one beautiful day. They come to a long par 4 with a lake right in front of the green. Moses is up first and decides to try to muscle a driver onto the green. He rips a drive straight as an arrow, but it just doesn't have enough to make it over the lake. Splash.

His partners ask if he wants a mulligan, but Moses says, "No, I'll play it from there".

Jesus steps up and doesn't learn from Moses' tee shot. He pulls out the driver and tries to cream the ball. Again, the shot is straight, but wet. Another ball in the water.

God steps up and decides to lay up. He pulls out a 3-iron and lands his tee shot right in the middle of the fairway, leaving himself a 115 yards to the pin.

The threesome makes its way toward the next shot. Moses decides to go first (even though he's not away). He stands at the edge of the lake, lifts his arms and the water parts. He walks to his ball and hits a pretty wedge onto the green, leaving 6 feet for birdie.

Jesus goes next. He walks out onto the water, takes a wedge and splashes his ball onto the green, 15 feet from the cup.

God steps up with a 9-iron from the fairway. He lets it fly, but it's way off line to the right. It heads into the woods and hits a tree. A squirrel picks up the ball and starts running away with it when an owl swoops down and grabs the squirrel. Together they fly up and up until the squirrel finally drops the ball. It sails down toward the lake where it bounces off the shell of a turtle onto the green and rolls into the cup for a picture perfect eagle!!

Jesus turns to him and says, "Look, Dad, if you're not going to play fair. . ."

Chuck