November 8, 2008 was
the thirtieth anniversary
of one of the most unusual basketball game s in
NBA history. When
officials upheld a protest, the Philadelphia
76ers and the New Jersey Nets
had to replay the final seventeen minutes and
fifty seconds of a November
23, 1979 game. What made the replay
significant was that at
the beginning of the game played back in
March, “Harvey Catchings
and Ralph Simpson played for the 76ers and Eric
Money and Al Skinner played
for the nets when the game began but were traded
to the opposing teams
by the time the game resumed. It is the
only time in the history
of major professional sports, according to the
NBA, that anyone played
for both teams in the same game.”
--USA Today Friday
November 7, 2008 page
10C Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger
Russell
It may have only happened one
time in professional
sports but every time a person becomes a
believer in Jesus Christ he switches
sides. The person who once served as a
slave to sin is now a slave
to righteousness. The one whose
allegiance was to self, now
has an allegiance to the savior.
Romans 6:16-18 (HCSB) 16 Do
you not know that if you
offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of that
one you obey—either of sin leading to death or
of obedience leading to
righteousness? 17 But thank God that, although
you used to be slaves of
sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of
teaching you were entrusted
to, 18 and having been liberated from sin, you
became enslaved to righteousness.
ALLEGIANCE
Dull,
Scotland and Boring, Oregon
are two communities united by unexciting
names, have now joined with a third
community Bland Shire, Australia as sister
communities. Dull and Boring became
sister communities in 2012 and then hosted the
mayor of the region of Bland
Shire to celebrate the third member of what
they call “The League of
Extraordinary Communities.” Dennis Melloy, the
provost of the region around
Dull said the alliance has created a “real
feel-good factor for their
communities with quirky names.” The alliance
may expand in the near future
because Melloy said the American communities
of Ordinary and Dreary could join
in the near future.—Jim L. Wilson & Jim
Sandell
