Month: December 2016

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks- Bowl Edition

It’s bowl season. The time of year when 64 teams play meaningless games for bragging rights and bowls of cash for their football programs. At least now two games matter, and the winners of those go for the National Championship. So, pick your favorites of the most important bowls, or at least, the ones I think are the “classic” bowls I remember from years past. The tie breaker is the semi final game between Washington and Alabama. The team scores may be as far apart as the two schools are, but who knows? And there is a second tie breaker if needed: the National Championship game January 9. (If I were in charge, there wouldn’t be any college football in January at all.)

Remember to get your guesses in by Noon EST, on Friday, December 30.

Orange Bowl (Dec 30) #6 Michigan vs. #11 Florida State
Sun Bowl (Dec 30) #18 Stanford vs. North Carolina
Liberty Bowl (Dec 30) Georgia vs. TCU

Citrus Bowl (Dec 31) #20 LSU vs. #13 Louisville

Sugar Bowl (Jan 2) #14 Auburn vs. #7 Oklahoma
Rose Bowl (Jan 2) #9 USC vs. #5 Penn State
Cotton Bowl (Jan 2) #15 Western Michigan vs. #8 Wisconsin
Outback Bowl (Jan 2) #17 Florida vs. Iowa
Semi Final: Fiesta Bowl (Dec 31) #3 Ohio State vs. #2 Clemson
Tie Breaker: Semi-final: Peach bowl (Dec 31) #4 Washington vs. #1 Alabama
2nd Tie Breaker (If needed): National Championship Jan 9

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Prayer Requests 12-28-16

It’s Wednesday, so don’t forget to pray for The Gambia, and for Ajisuun as well. 

Anyone else?

Psalm 92:1-8

1 It is good to praise the Lord
    and make music to your name, O Most High,
2 proclaiming your love in the morning
    and your faithfulness at night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
    and the melody of the harp.

4 For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;
    I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5 How great are your works, Lord,
    how profound your thoughts!
6 Senseless people do not know,
    fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.

8 But you, Lord, are forever exalted.

 

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Prayer Requests 12-27-16

Anyone have something to share?

Psalm 91:1-13

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

3 Surely he will save you
    from the fowler’s snare
    and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
    and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
    and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
    no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

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Prayer Requests 12-26-16

Anyone have something to share?

Psalm 89:1-8

1 I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever;
    with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known
    through all generations.
2 I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
    that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
3 You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
    I have sworn to David my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your line forever
    and make your throne firm through all generations.’”

5 The heavens praise your wonders, Lord,
    your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord?
    Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings?
7 In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared;
    he is more awesome than all who surround him.
8 Who is like you, Lord God Almighty?
    You, Lord, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.