my favorite basketball player...

http://www.newsok.com/article/3560862

“I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord,” Durant said. “It's something I always talked about, but I never really got into it.”

Cool, Kevin Durant is one of my favorite basketball players. 2-time scoring champion and also only 22 years old! He's basically my age. I could be 6'9" and scoring 30 points a game too. I should become his spiritual mentor.

An Encouragement to Fast for Hunger

"Christian fasting, at its root, is a hunger of a homesickness for God...Half of Christian fasting is that our physical appetite is lost because our homesickness for God is so intense. The other half is that our homesickness for God is threatened because our physical appetites are so intense"

"If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great."

~John Piper, A Hunger for God