Sports analysts and coaches frequently...
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Sports analysts and coaches frequently refer to "turning points" in a game. Sometimes they are rather obvious ...
... The home run in the sixth inning with the bases loaded when the team was behind by three runs.
... The goal line stand when the opponent threatened to take the lead just before the half.
... The steal and fast-break lay up at the three-minute mark, being fouled in the process of making the basket, when the game was still "anybody's game."
And at other times the "turning point" is not nearly so obvious at the moment, although later it is clearly an important moment that turns the tide ...
... A double play in the first inning squelching an early threat.
... A first down on a third and twenty-five at mid-field early in the third quarter.
... A time-out that took the wind out of the opposition's momentum early in the fourth quarter.
Anyone watching world events from an objective position over the centuries would hardly have spoken of the birth of a Child in Bethlehem as a "turning point." Nor would they have said the "turning point" was when that Child, now grown, hung on the Cross. Yet by that time "the corner had been turned." The Resurrection, though, is clearly a "turning point," for if death has lost its grip, what still holds securely in this world? "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" after destroying every other rule! The "turning point" has been reached!
... The home run in the sixth inning with the bases loaded when the team was behind by three runs.
... The goal line stand when the opponent threatened to take the lead just before the half.
... The steal and fast-break lay up at the three-minute mark, being fouled in the process of making the basket, when the game was still "anybody's game."
And at other times the "turning point" is not nearly so obvious at the moment, although later it is clearly an important moment that turns the tide ...
... A double play in the first inning squelching an early threat.
... A first down on a third and twenty-five at mid-field early in the third quarter.
... A time-out that took the wind out of the opposition's momentum early in the fourth quarter.
Anyone watching world events from an objective position over the centuries would hardly have spoken of the birth of a Child in Bethlehem as a "turning point." Nor would they have said the "turning point" was when that Child, now grown, hung on the Cross. Yet by that time "the corner had been turned." The Resurrection, though, is clearly a "turning point," for if death has lost its grip, what still holds securely in this world? "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" after destroying every other rule! The "turning point" has been reached!
