Bøger af Greg Lucas

Major league baseball came to Houston, Texas in 1962 when the expansion franchise was born as the Houston Colt 45s. The team evolved into the Astros after moving to the Astrodome, sometimes called "The Eighth Wonder of the World." With more than 50 years in the MLB, the Astros created legendary players, games, and moments. The great Nolan Ryan established records during his Houston years. Both Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell became the first Astro legends elected to the Hall of Fame. Astro pitchers have authored eleven no hitters, one involving six pitchers and another featuring a pitcher who lost the game. J.R. Richards' career was cut short by a stroke after the careers of Jim Umbricht and Don Wilson were cut short by death. The Astros won two of the greatest games in World Series history in 2017 and an 18-inning playoff game in 2005 on a home run by an unlikely candidate. The Astros best reliever of all time, Billy Wagner, pitched his entire career with the wrong arm. And their second winningest starter, Roy Oswalt, may have saved his career by nearly being electrocuted. Colt 45 third baseman Bob Aspromonte promised a young boy he would try to hit a homer for him and succeeded three different times. Jimmy Wynn hit a homer in his hometown of Cincinnati that went so far it almost wound up in the yard of his boyhood home. The men who brought the major leagues to Houston and those who build the Astrodome plus many of the most unusual and great games are part of the Astros Legends. There are more than 103 Astros Legends included. The number a legend itself--the most games won by the franchise in a single season, achieved in 2018. Recently updated, the second edition of Astro Legends will include recent trades, wins, seasons, and more.

"It sounded at first like something out of an old horror movie. I thought maybe someone was just playing around, but then I heard it again and again, a loud piercing cry, and less like Hollywood every time. The windows were down in my police cruiser on that warm fall day, but I still couldn''t tell where the sounds came from. I began looking around for the unlikely sight of someone being disemboweled in a mall parking lot on a Saturday afternoon. Seeing nothing, and still hearing the screams, I called in a ''disturbance.'' Around the next corner I found the source of the commotion."So begins Greg Lucas'' captivating account of life as a husband, a police officer, and Jake''s dad. Jake Lucas, the first of four children, lives with severe physical and mental challenges. Caring for him each day is an ordeal few of us can imagine, and this story of Jake''s first 17 years is not one you will soon forget. But the remarkable thing is how the whole narrative is saturated with wonder at the grace and goodness of God, who brings hope and promise through his Son into the darkest of circumstances.In this book, we see that Jake''s problems are our problems, only bigger, and the challenges of caring for him carry profound lessons about God''s care for us. Wrestling with an Angel is about tragedy and laughter and pain and joy. It is about faith and grace and endurance and God''s unfailing, loving wisdom daily being worked out in each of our lives, whatever the nature or extent of our difficulties. Here is a book that may explain faith to you in ways you never quite grasped, through a life few of us can relate to. When it is all done, we come away better able to live as Christ calls us to live.