Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now now we're learning how to follow Jesus by working our way through the Gospel of Luke

I'm recording this on a Monday morning and that's significant because yesterday afternoon I watch

the NFL with my boys. I love to watch football with just about anybody but it's

especially fun to do it with my boys. I love almost everything about football, but there are some things

that I've developed kind of this love-hate relationship with, and one of those are the celebrations

that take place on the field during a game.

Now some of the celebrations are pretty cool,

the ones that are creative, the ones that involve teammates,

the ones that maybe celebrate are really important touchdown.

But some of the celebrations seem more self-exalting.

They are done away from the team.

They're done in a way that draws attention to one person.

And a lot of times they're done when a team is losing or when a player has only done their job, nothing exceptional.

And it reminded me of this NPR interview I heard with David Brooks, who writes for the New York Times but has also

written a really good book called The Road to Character and he was just

discussing how different things are now than they were a few decades ago. And he was pointing out how after the

United States defeated Japan in World War II and kind of the whole war came to an end.

That the singer Bing Crosby was on this radio program

and the news had been announced and he was announcing it to some people

for the very first time that this huge world war had finally come

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