These admittedly are random, but I needed a break this week.  These are also said lightly and just for fun.

1. What does it say about a sport if one of the most manly costumes worn consists of a pink sweater vest?
2. Male pair figure skaters are not considered to be really macho, yet who among us can hoist our wives over our heads with one arm?
3. Maybe a better question: Why does anyone standing on a slippery surface want to hoist a woman wearing 10″ blades above their head?  I would have liked to have been in the meeting where that was first purposed as a beautiful and good idea.
4. Is it really a sport (curling) if the rules state there needs to be snacks and beer at each end of the court?
5. How come snowboarders have to wear team uniforms but figure skaters don’t?
6. Chris Collinsworth as a key commentator on the Winter Olympics?  Is football in the Olympics?
7. Then again, I think I would take Chris Collinsworth and throw in Billy Packer calling the figure skating over the people they have sighing it disgust throughout the program.

I love gathering with the Body of Christ, particularly I love gathering with the Body at Edgewood.    Particularly, the Lord’s Day or Christian Sabbath is a delight and refreshment as we gather and use the day.   JC Ryle gives us a good reminder about observing and guarding the 4th Commandment to keep the Sabbath.

We live in days when anything like strict Sabbath observance is loudly denounced, in some quarters, as a remnant of Jewish superstition. We are boldly told by some people, that to keep the Sabbath holy is legal, and that to enforce the fourth commandment on Christians, is going back to bondage. Let it suffice us to remember, when we hear such things, that assertions are not proofs, and that vague talk like this has no confirmation in the word of God. Let us settle it in our minds, that the fourth commandment has never been repealed by Christ, and that we have no more right to break the Sabbath day, under the Gospel, than we have to murder and to steal.

The architect who repairs a building, and restores it to its proper use, is not the destroyer of it, but the preserver. The Savior who redeemed the Sabbath from Jewish traditions, and so frequently explained its true meaning, ought never to be regarded as the enemy of the fourth commandment. On the contrary, He has “magnified it, and made it honorable.”

Let us cling to our Sabbath, as the best safeguard of our Country’s religion. Let us defend it against the assaults of ignorant and mistaken men, who would gladly turn the day of God into a day of business and pleasure. Above all, let us each strive to keep the day holy ourselves. Much of our spiritual prosperity depends, under God, on the manner in which we employ our Sundays.

JC RYLE

Pet owner killed by dogs after saving them from death
Reuters

Wed Feb 3, 1:05 pm ET

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said Wednesday.

“Three dogs bit their 52-year-old owner to death in Ljubljana yesterday,” police spokeswoman Maja Adlesic said.

Four years ago, the three bullmastiffs attacked and seriously injured a passer-by outside their owner’s house. They spent years in custody pending legal hearings, but when one of them attacked a dog handler, authorities ordered them to be put down.

Their owner, a doctor, succeeded last June in his legal appeals to get the dogs back, sparking a national controversy. After his death, an opposition party said the agriculture minister should resign for failing to stop the dogs from being released.

The dogs attacked the man in his garden Tuesday, killing him before the police arrived. All three dogs were put down following the attack.