Has the NFL Become a Puppet for Disney?

I pulled up the ESPN app this afternoon, and went looking for video highlights of Stephen A. and Max. I don’t watch First Take live, but I do scroll through their video feeds on ESPN and Youtube, to see what the talking points are for the day.

What is becoming increasingly disturbing to me is how much coverage First Take is giving to the on and off field issues relating to a brewing American Civil War.

While Max’s speech was eloquent and well thought out, I couldn’t help but feel it was orchestrated. You’re welcome to watch it and share your thoughts.

There has not been enough research yet as to whether the protestors in Charlottesville, VA were paid or not – though Alex Jones has already come out saying so.

The whole thing smells of the Deep State pushing the normalcy of these protests into the American psyche while the economic foundations continue to crumble.

I am not going to go on and on about the conspiracy theories, and the reality that surrounds these issues – each of us could write our own book on those views.

What I will share is an excerpt of a letter from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his friend Eberhard Bethge – both men lived through a time that is eerily similar. My prayer is that we each seek the truth of what is going on, and prepare our families accordingly.

”I discovered later, and I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith….. One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous man or unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one. By this worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences, and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world – watching with Christ in Gethsemane. That, I think, is faith; that is metanoia (Greek for repentance), and that is how one becomes a man and a Christian (Jeremiah 45). How can success make us arrogant, or failure lead us astray, when we share in God’s sufferings through a life of this kind?

I think you see what I mean, even though I put it so briefly, I’m glad to have been able to learn this, and I know I’ve been able to do so only along the road I’ve travelled. So I’m grateful for the past and present, and content with them……

May God in His mercy lead us through these times, but above all, may He lead us to Himself…..

Goodbye. Keep well, and don’t lose hope that we shall all meet again soon. I always think of you in faithfulness and gratitude.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer (excerpt from Eric Metaxas’ book Bonhoeffer

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Video Source: Max's Final Take