Easter Break

The Rocky Mount Gryphons fresh off a shutout of Hunt on Friday night headed to Pitt County on Saturday night to take part in the Pitt County Easter Tournament. Spurred by the pitching performance of Spenser Ramsey on Friday coach Kent Cox used Will Edwards for the first time this year coming off a foot injury. Edwards who just started practicing this week pitched into the fifth inning before getting help from Sam Lilley.  Lilley gave way to Cody Smith in the seventh but by the time the last out was made Rocky Mount had beaten North Pitt 7-5.

This gives the Gryphons a two game winning streak and  and they will head into Monday and Tuesday Easter tournament games with all of the available pitchers healthy for the first time this year.  They will tangle with West Craven at noon Monday at North Pitt High School and will play Greene Central at 10am Tuesday at Guy Smith Stadium in Greenville.  The halfway point in the high school season the Gryphons stand at 6-5 and 2-1 in Big East play.

Today is the biggest church attendance day of all Sunday's during the year.  Today is Easter and the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.  We have come to live in a world of Political correctness.  Sin is every where and every where you turn people are denying that they know who Jesus Christ is and don't believe in him.  Yet today they make their annual pilgrimage to make up for their sins because apparently they do believe or they otherwise would not show their face in any house of the Lord that they have denied.

Jesus died for all mankind sins and he told us that if you believe in him you will have everlasting life. He rose on this day to prove to the world  that he was the son of God.  If he proved that to the world some 2,000 years ago why are there so many who deny him today? Yet today many will be in a house of worship thinking that they can be forgiven their sins.  Yes they can be forgiven as long as they truly ask forgiveness. 

Asking forgiveness truly means that tomorrow you will honor God to the best of your ability not just today while you are in a church..  We all sin every day and if you really are a believer you will ask for forgiveness every day not just this Easter Sunday.

Our country and our world fall farther  and farther away from Jesus.  We all who believe need to tell others there is a better way.  The more and more we rely on the government to give us what we need the world gets further from Christ.  Today is a good day to start to stand on your own feet and bow down to a God.  He can give you that inner feeling of happiness that no government can.  All you have today  is ask for forgiveness.  Now is a good time to start!