Sports fans can be overly...
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Sports fans can be overly zealous in their love for their sport and their loyalty to their team. In Flushing Cemetery, near Flint, Michigan, the headstones of William Lawrey, a retired General Motors Corporation employee, and Russ Tibbets, a floor installer, feature the logo of the 2002 Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings. Tibbets' mother also decorates her son's grave every spring with a Wings' flag in the ground.
The night before the final game of the 2002 series, fans camped out all night near Joe Lewis Arena in Detroit, in the hopes of obtaining tickets to the game, even though there were no tickets for sale. Throughout the city and suburbs, fans gathered at big-screen televisions to cheer on their team. After the Stanley Cup was won, a crowd of 1.2 million people lined the streets of Detroit to cheer their heroes. And similar scenes are repeated throughout the country when home teams emerge victorious.
Sometimes, the victory celebrations turn to violence as happened when the United States soccer team defeated Russia in the World Cup series. Cars were overturned, stores looted, and passersby injured.
Jesus seemed almost fanatical in his zeal to carry out his Father's will. But his overthrowing of the moneychangers' tables and his chasing them from the scene was not an act of violence but a necessary cleansing of the temple. The havoc he wrought was an act of restoration, not one of destruction.
The night before the final game of the 2002 series, fans camped out all night near Joe Lewis Arena in Detroit, in the hopes of obtaining tickets to the game, even though there were no tickets for sale. Throughout the city and suburbs, fans gathered at big-screen televisions to cheer on their team. After the Stanley Cup was won, a crowd of 1.2 million people lined the streets of Detroit to cheer their heroes. And similar scenes are repeated throughout the country when home teams emerge victorious.
Sometimes, the victory celebrations turn to violence as happened when the United States soccer team defeated Russia in the World Cup series. Cars were overturned, stores looted, and passersby injured.
Jesus seemed almost fanatical in his zeal to carry out his Father's will. But his overthrowing of the moneychangers' tables and his chasing them from the scene was not an act of violence but a necessary cleansing of the temple. The havoc he wrought was an act of restoration, not one of destruction.
