“Woman finds 139-year-old baseball card in box of antiques”
Last summer, Bernice Gallego pulled an old baseball card from a box of antiques. She figured it might be worth something to someone, so she listed it on eBay. The starting bid was $10. But after getting a flurry of inquiries about whether the card was authentic or not, Gallego started to suspect she was holding something a little more valuable and immediately ended the auction. Turns out her hunch was correct. She did have something more valuable. The card she found was made in 1869 and featured the “Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati,” the sport’s first professional team. It’s considered one of the first baseball cards ever produced and its actual value could be worth more than $100,000 when she puts it back on eBay (with a higher starting price, of course). Read the whole story here!

Well done, Mr. Ryan Coenen…I am in 100% agreeance with you. I started watching Prison Break when it first came out and have been following it ever since. It is the only show that I have to watch every week. If you haven’t started watching it, I also recommend you do so.Ryan and Andy give it two thumbs up! Read what Ryan had to say below!

I have been INCREDIBLY addicted to the coolest show on TV, “PRISON BREAK”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend Ted referred me to this show and I started watching it this year starting with Season 4… but I have enjoyed it SO MUCH that I had to go spend my Christmas money getting the first 3 seasons of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe! It is THEE MOST AMAZING AND EXCITING SHOW ON TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am currently watching it with the Student Body President RIGHT NOW!!! hahaha

Well, we’re on the home stretch of the Fall 2008 semester. Actually, I believe there’s only four weeks left! It’s crazy how fast it’s gone, but I’ve been plenty busy. Track and Field is fully underway and we have our first meet in just a few weeks at MSU-Mankato. I’ve also been busy with classes, working for the Theater & Video Production staffs here on campus, and even occasionally writing for The Sword this semester. Even though it’s been a good semester, I’m anxiously awaiting WINTER BREAK!

The Concordia University intramural football season is now complete. On Sunday October 19th, four teams competed in the playoff finals to determine the overall champion. My team, the undefeated “Trackstars,” were going against the increasingly dominant “Why So Serious?” team. The game was rough and featured several heated arguments, but in the end only one team could be crowned the 2008 CU Intramural Football champs. The score remained tight until the final five minutes of play, when my team pulled ahead to take the title. The winning team consists of myself (captain Andy Wyss), fellow senior Tre Sayles, juniors Adam LeMay and Brian Kohlman, sophomores Kevin Koglin, Britt Bickert, and Andy Chaussee, DCE Intern (and my wife) Jayme Wyss, and alumni Joseph “Slim” Amundson. It was really great getting to play with all those guys. I love them all and wish the best of luck to everyone as the CU student body continues a successful intramural year.

Here’s an idea for you - subscribe to a daily devotional!  I have realized that for it to be any good you have to be into it!!  You have to WANT to read a devotional for it to be of any benefit for your spiritual life.  I have been blessed to listen to Q90fm online (my home radio station), which also points me to all kinds of spiritual food.  Check out q90fm.com today! 

 Here’s the daily devotional I received for today that I found JUST right, once again, for my life right now:

Saturday, October 25th 

Written by Janet Scott 
 

Your First Love

Revelation 2:4 & 5a
Nevertheless I have something against you, because you have left your first love.  Remember therefore where you came from and repent.
 
Sooner or later if you want the blessing of God on your life you will have to go back to the original plan He had for your life and that is for you to love Him totally and to give your life to Him completely!  No more of this attitude of; “well, I will give Him this area, but not my boyfriend or girlfriend or maybe it’s your children and then there is this addiction, I really don’t think I am ready to give Him that either, I mean what would I do if I gave it ALL to Him?”  That attitude just needs to be left on the side of the road and it is time to move forward!  How about instead asking Him today to show you what you haven’t given to Him?  Ask Him to help you to grow into being all you can be in your lifetime!  You might just shock yourself, let alone everyone around you if you allow Him to do everything He has planned for your life!  Trust me, it will be the ride of your life, there may be a few bumps in the road, but if you give them to Him as well it will all be good!  He can change your mourning into dancing!  Psalm 30:11, “You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.”  Ask Him to give you back your love for Him and the excitement of when you first gave your life to Him.  Start fresh today so you can have every blessing of God on your life!

Extra time in the Word: Revelation 2
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I just need to say how amazingly PROUD I am of these certain individuals right now!!!!  JESSICA HASENMUELLER, CARL WENDORFF, LOGAN BRENNECKE, & NATHAN THOMPSON - Congratulations for completing L1 “Leadership from the Heart” this past weekend!

 They just did an outstanding job of putting themselves on the line, trusting in the process to take them to new levels of commitment and dedication - they are some truly amazing individuals!

 For more information about the Life Skills Center for Leadership, go to http://www.lifeskills-center.org/

I am hoping to bring their new college program to Concordia by Spring 2009!  So anyone who wants to attend an amazing event, check it out or email me at coenenr@csp.edu!  THANKS!!!!

The 2008 Concordia University homecoming is just around the bend….this weekend, in fact. It seems like it’s going to be a busy weekend for everybody on campus. On Thursday, the theater students are hosting their annual “Shakespeare Under The Stars” reading. I’ve never gone to it in the past, but I might consider it this year, mostly because I designed the poster for it, and has peaked my interest. Then there’s a volleyball game on Friday, followed by a Saturday full of events. A special chapel, noon football game, alumni art exhibit, street fair/carnival, and another volleyball game to cap off the weekend. So, it should be a lot of fun! I am ending up having to work at most of the games, so I probably won’t get to enjoy all the festivities, but hopefully the rest of you do!

This weekend plans kept failing with friends and just didn’t work out like planned,  SO - I decided it was time for me to escape!!!  :)  After I met my friend on Saturday afternoon to get some things from her, I had it in my head that I needed to go up north Wisconsin to our cottage! I got up that morning and Colby looks out the window and says, “IT’S RAINING!” and sure enough, it was - BUT WHO CARES?!!!!!  

I decided to drive the 4 hours there and 4 hours back!! After I did what I needed to Saturday, I finally got out of here about 2:00pm and was there about 6:00pm.  I went to the local Elcho grocery store, IGA, and picked me up some generic Oreo’s, and a frozen pizza!  After that excursion, I decided I would go visit our friends across the lake!  After talking with them for a while, she decided to give me a 1/4 of their pumpkin pie to add to my healthy dinner ahead of me!  

I get to the cottage and figure out the lights/water pump/heater, etc.  (we’re still in the making, not completely finished retreat just yet!)  Well I get all settled in and after FINALLY figuring out that YES, I still needed to plug in the fan to the fire to actually keep it lit during this rainy mist, I sat down and watched some “Will & Grace” while I ate my delicious meal for 4!  It began to be a relaxing evening to myself and I was able to start on some homework and catch up with my devotional books.

The next morning I anxiously busted out the new Fuji bike I bought over the summer and took it around the lake for the first time!  It was an excursion figuring out the paths/roads, but it was just a little work out, so I was able to get back in less than 45 minutes amazingly and take a quick shower.  I then said SCREW IT to all the homework and went out for a pontoon boat ride!!!!!  I felt a little guilty, so I brought my book along to read on the boat!  About 3/4 around the lake I finally realized how cold I was when I exhaled the only warm air that was left in my body and could see my own breath!!!  It was still a nice ride around the lake, because I was about the only crazy one to go out there other than the 2 loons and many ducks I saw!

I got back to the cottage and sat down to my favorite movie,”On Golden Pond” and finished even more homework.  It was ridiculously funny when I decided to cook my own lunch, realizing that I had just come up north FOUR HOURS for not even 24 hours!  To say the least, it was the most relaxing time I have had to myself in a long time.  It was a much needed getaway which reminded me that God is right here - that I can experience/feel God’s presence through the beauty of nature and the cold rushing through my body as I shiver in the cool fall breeze across Moccasin Lake…

I guess that old saying is true after all, “There’s no place like home.”

If you are overwhelmed by the hubbub of school already, I suggest you find out what’s most important… It can easily be stressful and overwhelming with all that needs to be done for classes/graduation - but if I have learned ONE THING over the last 5 years at Concordia, I have learned it is most important to ENJOY LIFE before homework.  It sounds incredibly irresponsible, but in order for me to function with a clear mind, I NEED to get off-campus and explore.  I need to have that free time with friends or by myself.  

It seems all I’ve been doing lately is riding my bicycle instead of doing homework! - Tim can fend for that one!!!  … but I have realized that it is most important that your life is in order before you can begin to focus on the little tasks of life such as homework.  So don’t get too stressed out - things will fall in place if your priorities are in line.  

ENJOY IT!!! 

Philippians 3:13-14

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.