Random Notes From What I’m Reading

Man, I’m having a ton of great new blogs find their way into my RSS Feeds this week. The latest is a great podcast called Bored-Again Christian which has a weekly podcast with some Christian artists that aren’t lame and I’ve found myself blasting some of these tunes on my iPod. For a nice change I’ve even shared some of these artists with my non-Christian friends without feeling lame.

After reading through Donald Miller’s book Blue Like Jazz I did a quick Google search for his home church and came across some great Podcasts from Imago Dei’s sermons. You can check ‘em out by clicking here.

This winter I had the chance to attend an amazing church in Ottawa called Cedarview Alliance Church and I wanted to post a link to the online version of their sermons as Podcast. If you want to add some more sermons to your iPod click here for their RSS Feed.

Just a quick heads up that Ligonier Ministries is providing people with a chance to view the Contending For The Truth conference for free online. John MacArthur, Al Mohler, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, and Ravi Zacharias are all schedule to speak at this conference and provide Christians with ways to defend their faith.

Click here to register for the free webcast of this conference.

This winter I had the pleasure of chatting with former NBA player Bay Forrest. While that name may not be familiar to a lot of basketball fans this interview is worth listening to because he had a lot of interesting stories about his basketball career such as turning down UCLA and North Carolina to play for a small Christian college with his brothers and being the first player to turn down a NBA contract to play amateur ball for a year.Some of the topics that we covered in our chat were:

* Why he choose Grand Canyon College over big-name schools like UCLA, Duke and North Carolina

* Being a three time All-American at Grand Canyon College

* What is was like to play win a National Championship with his younger and older brother at Grand Canyon

*Why he turned down a contract worth $625,000 by the Kansas City Kings following his junior season

* Why he decided to turn down the Seattle Supersonics after they drafted him following his senior season with the #19th overall pick

* Being the first player in the history of the NBA to turn down a contract to play with an amateur team.

* His experiences playing for Athletes in Action

* His experiences playing for the Phoenix Suns

* The work he is doing with Focus Ministries

Click here to listen to this Podcast.