I like football. I despise the FACT that they have made it a Sunday pasttime for the godless who have thrown the notion of a Supreme Being to the curb. We all decide whom we will follow based on our actions. If it were strictly a Saturday thing, I would have no problem. It is amazing that I can talk about who won what game on the Lord’s day at any time at work without recrimination – but heaven forbid me talking about what I did that was really important on Sunday. I now just mock people and ask if the Penguins were able to beat the Mariners….. Blank stares…..
It is also funny that people call me fanatical for being so into what I am into on this blog – but have no problem dying their hair to match team colors and having full-on parties in their homes costing hundreds of dollars to worship a little brown oblong ball. Nuts.
I thought this was interesting commentary from our PS&Rs:
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up; did you know that prophets have given specific counsel about it?
“My behavior on the Sabbath constitutes my sign to the Lord of my regard for him and for my covenants with him. If, on the one hand, my interests on the Sabbath day are turned to activities such as pro football games or worldly movies, the sign from me to him would clearly be that my devotions do not favor him. If, on the other hand, my Sabbath interests are focused on the Lord and his teachings, on the family, or on folks who are sick or poor or needy, that sign would likewise be evident to God. I have concluded that our activities on the Sabbath will be appropriate when we honestly consider them to be our personal sign of our commitment to the Lord.
– Elder Russell M. Nelson
(“Reflection and Resolution,” BYU Fireside, Jan. 7, 1990)
“The Sabbath of the Lord is becoming the play day of the people. It is a day of golf and football on television, of buying and selling in our stores and markets. Are we moving to mainstream America as some observers believe? In this I fear we are. What a telling thing it is to see the parking lots of the markets filled on Sunday in communities that are predominately LDS. Our strength for the future, our resolution to grow the Church across the world, will be weakened if we violate the will of the Lord in this important matter. He has so very clearly spoken anciently and again in modern revelation. We cannot disregard with impunity that which He has said”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
(Ensign, Nov. 1997).
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I like football. I despise the FACT that they have made it a Sunday pasttime for the godless who have thrown the notion of a Supreme Being to the curb. We all decide whom we will follow based on our actions. If it were strictly a Saturday thing, I would have no problem. It is amazing that I can talk about who won what game on the Lord’s day at any time at work without recrimination – but heaven forbid me talking about what I did that was really important on Sunday. I now just mock people and ask if the Penguins were able to beat the Mariners….. Blank stares…..
It is also funny that people call me fanatical for being so into what I am into on this blog – but have no problem dying their hair to match team colors and having full-on parties in their homes costing hundreds of dollars to worship a little brown oblong ball. Nuts.
I thought this was interesting commentary from our PS&Rs:
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up; did you know that prophets have given specific counsel about it?
“My behavior on the Sabbath constitutes my sign to the Lord of my regard for him and for my covenants with him. If, on the one hand, my interests on the Sabbath day are turned to activities such as pro football games or worldly movies, the sign from me to him would clearly be that my devotions do not favor him. If, on the other hand, my Sabbath interests are focused on the Lord and his teachings, on the family, or on folks who are sick or poor or needy, that sign would likewise be evident to God. I have concluded that our activities on the Sabbath will be appropriate when we honestly consider them to be our personal sign of our commitment to the Lord.
– Elder Russell M. Nelson
(“Reflection and Resolution,” BYU Fireside, Jan. 7, 1990)
“The Sabbath of the Lord is becoming the play day of the people. It is a day of golf and football on television, of buying and selling in our stores and markets. Are we moving to mainstream America as some observers believe? In this I fear we are. What a telling thing it is to see the parking lots of the markets filled on Sunday in communities that are predominately LDS. Our strength for the future, our resolution to grow the Church across the world, will be weakened if we violate the will of the Lord in this important matter. He has so very clearly spoken anciently and again in modern revelation. We cannot disregard with impunity that which He has said”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
(Ensign, Nov. 1997).
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