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Prayer Requests 12-14-21

Anyone have something to share?

Psalm 126

A song of ascents.

1 When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
    we were like those who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
    our tongues with songs of joy.
   Then it was said among the nations,
    “The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us,
    and we are filled with joy.

4 Restore our fortunes, Lord,
    like streams in the Negev.
5 Those who sow with tears
    will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
    carrying seed to sow,
   will return with songs of joy,
    carrying sheaves with them.

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Prayer Requests 12-7-21

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Psalm 120

A song of ascents.

1 I call on the Lord in my distress,
    and he answers me.
2 Save me, Lord,
    from lying lips
    and from deceitful tongues.

3 What will he do to you,
    and what more besides,
    you deceitful tongue?
4 He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek,
    that I live among the tents of Kedar!
6 Too long have I lived
    among those who hate peace.
7 I am for peace;
    but when I speak, they are for war.

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks 2021 Week 14

It’s the week a lot of teams hope to play, but don’t get to. It’s Conference Championship weekend. It all starts Friday evening when the Conference USA gets it going. Pick your teams and see how well you do. I included the records for all the teams, overall and conference. But don’t let the numbers fool you. In college football anything can happen. (Rankings are the College Football Playoff rankings, not the AP rankings.)

So here they are, complete with a few editorial comments. Feel free to agree or disagree, just make sure to pick and post by 7:00 EST, Friday, December 3.

  1  Conference USA: Western Kentucky (8-4, 7-1) @ Texas – San Antonio (11-1, 7-1)

  2 PAC-12: #10 Oregon (10-2, 7-2) vs #17 Utah (9-3, 8-1)

  3 Big 12: #9 Baylor (10-2, 7-2) vs #5 Oklahoma State (11-1, 8-1) (should be ranked  higher than Alabama)

  4 MAC: Kent State (7-5, 6-2) vs Northern Illinois (8-4, 6-2)

  5 Mountain West: Utah State (9-3, 6-2) @ #19 San Diego State (11-1, 7-1)

  6 Sun Belt: Appalachian State (10-2, 7-1) @ #24 Louisiana (11-1, 8-0)

  7 American Athletic: #21 Houston (11-1, 8-0) @ #4 Cincinnati (12-0, 8-0) (should be ranked higher than Alabama)

  8 B1G 10: #2 Michigan (11-1, 8-1) vs #13 Iowa (10-2, 7-2)

  9 Atlantic Coast: #15 Pittsburgh vs #16 Wake Forest (both 10-2, 7-1)

10 Tiebreaker: Pick winner & final score: SEC: #1 Georgia (12-0) vs #3 Alabama (11-1) (should be #6 or #7 after almost losing to Auburn)

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Prayer Requests 11-30-21

Let’s keep 6 Arrows and her family in prayer as they grieve the loss of her mother in law.

Anyone else have something to share?

Psalm 114

1 When Israel came out of Egypt,
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.

3 The sea looked and fled,
    the Jordan turned back;
4 the mountains leaped like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled?
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks 2021 Week 13

Hello Pigskin Pickers. I hope your Thanksgiving goes/is going/went well. It’s Week 13, the last week of the regular season for most teams. This is “Rivalry Week”, so most of these games are for in-state bragging rights.

Next week is the conference championships, but a couple of those could be considered as done this week. Kevin won it last week and picked the B1G 10 de facto “Championship” between Ohio State and Michigan.

Get your picks in early, before 7PM EST Friday, November 26, when the first game starts.

  1 North Carolina @ #20 NC State

  2 Florida State @ Florida

  3 Kentucky @ Louisville    

  4 #2 Alabama @ Auburn

  5 Northwestern @ Illinois

  6 Indiana @ Purdue

  7 Virginia Tech @ Virginia

  8 #13 Oklahoma State @ #9 Oklahoma

  9 Clemson @ South Carolina

10 Tiebreaker pick winner and final score: #4 Ohio State @ #6 Michigan

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Prayer Requests 11-23-21

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Psalm 109

1 My God, whom I praise,
    do not remain silent,
2 for people who are wicked and deceitful
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
3 With words of hatred they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.
4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.
5 They repay me evil for good,
    and hatred for my friendship.

6 Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;
    let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty,
    and may his prayers condemn him.
8 May his days be few;
    may another take his place of leadership.
9 May his children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow.
10 May his children be wandering beggars;
    may they be driven from their ruined homes.
11 May a creditor seize all he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12 May no one extend kindness to him
    or take pity on his fatherless children.
13 May his descendants be cut off,
    their names blotted out from the next generation.
14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15 May their sins always remain before the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name from the earth.

16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy and the brokenhearted.
17 He loved to pronounce a curse—
    may it come back on him.
   He found no pleasure in blessing—
    may it be far from him.
18 He wore cursing as his garment;
    it entered into his body like water,
    into his bones like oil.
19 May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
    like a belt tied forever around him.
20 May this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers,
    to those who speak evil of me.

21 But you, Sovereign Lord,
    help me for your name’s sake;
    out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow;
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees give way from fasting;
    my body is thin and gaunt.
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.

26 Help me, Lord my God;
    save me according to your unfailing love.
27 Let them know that it is your hand,
    that you, Lord, have done it.
28 While they curse, may you bless;
    may those who attack me be put to shame,
    but may your servant rejoice.
29 May my accusers be clothed with disgrace
    and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

30 With my mouth I will greatly extol the Lord;
    in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.
31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy,
    to save their lives from those who would condemn them.

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks 2021 Week 12

Here we are at week twelve. You’d think this would be the last week of college football since the regular season is 12 games for each team. But no. There are 2 more weeks because of bye weeks, plus the conference championships. So we get at least three more weeks to get a perfect 10 correct. Think someone will do that? Wait and see.

Janice won last week and picked two lesser known schools for the tiebreaker. Be sure to get in your entry by NOON Saturday, November 20.

  1  #7 Michigan State @ #4 Ohio State

  2 #10 Wake Forest @ Clemson

  3 Florida State @ Boston College

  4 #21 Arkansas @ #2 Alabama

  5 East Carolina @ Navy

  6 Florida @ Missouri

  7 UCLA @ USC

  8 Auburn @ South Carolina

  9 #11 Baylor @ Kansas State

 10 Tie breaker (pick winner and final score) : Arkansas State @ Georgia State

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Prayer Requests 11-16-21

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Psalm 99

1 The Lord reigns,
    let the nations tremble;
   he sits enthroned between the cherubim,
    let the earth shake.
2 Great is the Lord in Zion;
    he is exalted over all the nations.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name—
    he is holy.

4 The King is mighty, he loves justice—
    you have established equity;
   in Jacob you have done
    what is just and right.
5 Exalt the Lord our God
    and worship at his footstool;
    he is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel was among those who called on his name;
   they called on the Lord
    and he answered them.
7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;
    they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.

8 Lord our God,
    you answered them;
   you were to Israel a forgiving God,
    though you punished their misdeeds.
9 Exalt the Lord our God
    and worship at his holy mountain,
    for the Lord our God is holy.

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks 2021 Week 11

Here we are, 11 weeks into the college football season. It’s not been good for us, as only 4 times has the winner gotten 8 or better, and we’ve yet to see a perfect score. Upsets haven’t helped us. Let’s see if we can do better.

AJ won last week and chose a challenging game for the tie breaker.  And we have a Friday game, so remember not to dilly-dally.

No matter what strategy (or lack thereof) you use, get your guesses in by FRIDAY, November 12 @ 8PM EST, when the first game starts.

  1 Wyoming @ Boise State

  2 Charleston Southern @ Gardner-Webb

  3 Miami @ Florida State

  4 #11 Texas A&M @ #15 Ole Miss

  5 #25 Arkansas @ LSU

  6 Texas-El Paso @ North Texas

  7 Air Force @ Colorado State

  8 #8 Oklahoma @ #13 Baylor

  9 B1G 10 Pillow Fight: Rutgers (1-5) @ Indiana (0-6)

10 Tie breaker: Pick winner and final score: #6 Michigan @ Penn State

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Prayer Requests 11-9-21

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Psalm 93

1 The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;
    the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength;
    indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
2 Your throne was established long ago;
    you are from all eternity.

3 The seas have lifted up, Lord,
    the seas have lifted up their voice;
    the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,
    mightier than the breakers of the sea—
    the Lord on high is mighty.

5 Your statutes, Lord, stand firm;
    holiness adorns your house
    for endless days.