I once prayed with a convicted crack dealer before his probation violation hearing where he was facing five years and a judge who hated drug dealers. He was truly sorry for his crimes. He only got a month in jail and a discharge from probation.
Jesus promises our daily bread, and he gives it. That does not mean that God promises or gives immunity from existential pain. He only helps people weather their storms, rather than giving them continual good weather. Of course, I believe that if a person were to live a Godly life, that he would eliminate all sorts of needless problems and pains from his life.
It's funny how the life-and-death situations strip away the veneer and reveal to us our true convictions. Mojo, I would pay to get an article from you on "Dying Declarations" ...
My thoughts on Divine intervention in baseball (May not be proper divinity): I don't believe that God ordinarily interferes in organized sports because he doesn't favor one team over another. ... To favor one team means to disfavor another, as sports are a situation where every win is another team's loss.
However, God may make a special example out of one team or person or another. For example, the Tampa Bay Rays have been tearing it up ever since the franchise dropped the "Devil" from the title notwithstanding the team's lowly payroll and fearsome opposition. With respect to Tim Tebow, this could also be occurring. Maybe Tebow is supercharged with divine success because he gives God credit for it, and practically begs for a miracle when one would not ordinarily be warranted.
Hadn't considered the D-Rays thing, and would be inclined to go the other way on that one ... but as we're talking here it strikes me that a "one-year intervention" would carry some logic to it.