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49ers Studied Biblical Themes of Hope and Trust During Season, Chaplain Says

Michael Foust ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Friday, January 31, 2020
49ers Studied Biblical Themes of Hope and Trust During Season, Chaplain Says

49ERS STUDIED BIBLICAL THEMES OF HOPE AND TRUST DURING SEASON, CHAPLAIN SAYS


San Francisco’s ability to embrace an attitude of selflessness was the key to the 49ers’ drive to the Super Bowl, according to team chaplain Earl Smith, who also says that theme was mirrored in the team’s Bible studies over the past year.
The 49ers will face Kansas City Sunday in Super Bowl 54. 
Smith told Sports Spectrum the 49ers’ season reminded him of the selflessness exhibited by the NBA’s Golden State Warriors when they won their championship in 2015. Both teams played as “one unit,” he said.  
“[The 49er players] were happy for each other, and it wasn't just a personal happiness, but there was a joy among the guys, the coaches, the administration, and for me, that's really what it was about,” Smith said. “… These guys are just one. They're not selfish. They really want each other to do well. And I was really proud to see that. I was really happy and blessed that I could see that materialize on the field.”
The players, Smith said, studied “hope, trust and accountability” during Bible studies with him during the season. 
“We spent like a month – a series – on each of those things,” he told Sports Spectrum. 
They also studied the Lord’s Prayer and the theme of what “the Lord is.”
“Because if you look at David's story, he continuously talked about who the Lord was to him – in so many different ways beyond just being the Good Shepherd,” Smith said. “And so telling the guys to find a personal way to explain and express who God is for them was really a point this year.”
Faith became a central theme during the season when the brother of backup quarterback C. J. Beathard was stabbed and killed in December. Beathard and his family, Smith said, relied on their faith. 
“I grieved for C.J., and I still do, yet I know that C.J. has a faith that's bigger than the incident that happened to his brother,” Smith said. “And his family does [have that faith]. … It was really a learning lesson for me to watch them – to watch that family stand up and acknowledge their faith before a group of people and say that it was our faith that has kept us together. [They said,] ‘It hurts, we're in pain, but our faith is secure.’
“When you hear someone share that – what an encouragement,” Smith said.
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity TodayThe Christian PostThe Leaf-ChronicletheToronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

Dem derangement: Chuck and Nancy will refuse to accept acquittal, says Fox


Sen. Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are stubbornly refusing to accept the possibility of Senate acquittal of President Donald Trump. (Screen snip, YouTube, Fox News)
Leading Capitol Hill Democrats are apparently drifting toward delusion as Fox News is reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer will “simply refuse to accept (President Donald Trump’s) all-but-certain acquittal because his “sham” trial lacked proper witnesses and evidence.”

The report came as Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday she will oppose extending the Senate’s impeachment trial in order to hear more witnesses, a move that essentially dooms the year-long effort by Democrats to remove Trump from office. According to the Washington Times, with Murkowski’s announcement, Senate Republicans “believe they have at least 51 votes to close the trial down and move to a final vote acquitting the president.”
But that will not sit well with Pelosi, who declared, “You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial, and you don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation and that.”
And Schumer, quoted by Fox News, insisted, “The president’s acquittal will be meaningless, because it will be the result of a sham trial. If there are no witnesses, no documents in this trial, there will be a permanent asterisk next to the acquittal of President Trump written in permanent ink.”
Democrats have reason to panic, as CNBC is reporting that Sen. Bernie Sanders has “jumped into a virtual tie with Joe Biden nationally,” citing an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken the lead nationally among Democratic presidential candidates. (Screen snip, YouTube, CNN)
Sanders has the support of 27 percent of Democrat primary voters, according to the story, which is up 6 points since December. Biden, meanwhile, trails slightly at 26 percent, which is down two 2 percentage points since last month.
This is shaping up like the perfect storm of politics, with the president’s State of the Union address coming up on Tuesday, in the House chamber with Pelosi having to sit directly behind Trump as he could easily talk to the nation about the impeachment “sham,” as he has called it. Democrats have been talking about impeachment virtually since the day after Trump was elected in 2016, and it was one of the talking points in the 2018 elections that saw several new Democrats come to the House, shifting the majority and putting Pelosi back in the Speaker’s chair.
With a strong economy, low unemployment and increasing anger in middle America about impeachment, extremist gun control efforts, and the widening gap between conservatives and the radical left, Pelosi’s Democrats have much to think about with the national elections just 10 months away.
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