I have never lived in a place that allowed anyone under the age of 16 to obtain a driver's license. In fact, ever since obtaining my license after my sophmore year of high school, I have heard more and more talk about states trying to increase the age for this teenage rite of passage. That's all changed now. In North Dakota, you can get your permit upon turning 14 and your driver's license six months later. That's means that if you have a late birthday, you can show up for freshman orientation needing to acquire a parking pass along with your book list! As unbelievable (and frightening) as this may seem to those of us who've lived in big cities most our life, in farm based communities, the need to have kids being able to drive as early as possible is a necessity. A couple months ago I was driving back from visiting a family who lives on a farm a few miles west of town and saw a high school freshman from the church driving a hay-bailer down the road...and you thought the authorities needed to be alerted when your sixteen year old began driving!
As of Saturday I am only 800 wins behind Coach K (who as of the writing of this blog has 801 in his career). I coached the Frosh/Soph team in a tournament this Saturday to a one and one record. We got blown out by Buelah but then came back to beat Garrison in the second game. Now to cut myself some slack, Buelah is about three time the size of Underwood and was playing in division A (the higher of the two division in ND high school hoops) until a couple years ago. For those of you in the Chicago area, it would essentially be like Glencoe taking on Evanston Township (instead of teaming up with the other north shore communities to form the sports power that is New Trier). In LA, it would be similar to Harbor City taking on the combined powers of the four Torrance high schools. It was a great learning experience for me and the kids seemed to have fun (especially after winning the second game). However, I did feel the enormous pressure of being the head coach and am completly content to remain as an assistant coach and allow Coach K to build up an even bigger lead.
Harmony made the front page of the Underwood paper this week in her taking over the head librarian role with her current boss having retired at the end of December. Click on the following link to see a brief recap of the article http://www.nd-bhginc.com/underwood.htm.
This Sunday I preached through Ezra chapter 4 and we saw that "God's People should Expect Spiritual Attacks." I am continually amazed at the depth and riches of God's Word as I have been studying Ezra for this preaching series. I can easily quickly read through large sections of Scripture without having the foggiest idea of why God put them in the Bible or what they mean for Christians today. However, as I have been spending more time digging into the Word, it has been eye-opening to see the purpose behind and relevance today of the Bible. If you'd like to listen to this week's sermon, it should be posted here by tomorrow.
By God's Grace, Jeff
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