Once again the Olympics are upon us!  I love the Olympics.  Maybe because I was an old track and field guy (that’s  what you do when you have no hand/eye coordination- you run).    For two weeks I’ll be following the events in China.  Can Michael Phelps beat the record of 7 swimming golds set by Mark Spitz?  (I’m old enough to remember him- a joke back in that day was, “How does Mark Spitz fill a swimming pool?  The answer:  Mark Spitz.”)  Can Ryan Hall be a legitimate marathon medalist for the USA after a long drought?

Connie ordered some Olympic prayer bands from the organization “Voice of the Martyrs” that are to serve as a reminder for us to pray for the persecuted church in China while our attention is on that land during the Olympic games.   Let’s remember to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are right now suffering for their faith in China.

As an aside, I’ve always been irritated by eschatological debates on whether Christians will go through “the Great Tribulation”.  I’m sure our brothers and sisters in Rwanda, the Sudan, Islamic nations, and China find comfort in knowing they’ll miss it (note heavy use of sarcasm).