Everyone Loves a Comeback: The Resurrection, the 1998 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and One Tough Little Kitty
Everyone loves a comeback. In this blog post we meditate on several important comebacks. The most important one is that Jesus came back from the dead, and won our salvation by defeating death. Thus we also, as Christ's followers, will overcome death and the grave. To start us out, we discuss a comeback that many of us in Kentucky were thrilled by. I n 1998, the University of Kentucky's Men's Basketball Team was dubbed the "Comeback Cats." In their last three games of the NCAA tournament, they overcome double digit deficits to beat the opposing team. They mastered the art of the comeback, and persevered to win the tournament. The Cats 1998 season showed me that the time to give up is never. At our house, I live with my own little comeback kitty. Two years ago, my 11 pound cat (number 132 in the picture), Gabe, was hit by a car. For several months his tongue stuck ...