Today's One Big Idea:  

Jesus the man was a fighter.  That is our heritage and that's who we come from.

 "If a boy is to become a man, if a man is to know he is one, this is not an option.  A man has to know where he comes from and what he's made of." - Wild at Heart

Where do you come from?  Who do you come from?

Those are good questions to ask.

I come from a man who was super nice - but also had a tough-guy streak in him apparently, too.

One of my favorite thoughts of my dad was that he was a golden-glove boxer in high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  He is a southpaw, lefty and he's got fast hands.  I always imagined that he was probably a great boxer when he was younger.

Me?  Well, I was good at other things, I suppose, but getting punched in the face and taking on a fight was never one of my finer skillsets or ambitions.

In fact, anyone who knows me well knows I was VERY wimpy as a kid.  I was afraid of...