I recently watched a 60 minutes interview with Bill Gates. During the interview, Charlie Rose asked Bill about his relationship with Steve Jobs, which led to discussion about their conversations late in Steve’s life.
If you come to the conclusion that MMA is too violent for Christians to be using as an outreach tool then where do you draw the line? How about boxing? Football? What about cheerleading?…
f you are involved in adult sports and are looking for ideas to move your ministry to greater effectiveness, watch the video below.
We were speechless. We didn’t know whether to keep shooting or just to end practice. It was sweet, man.
And so you ask, “How may I know
My name is in the Book?
May I beseech my God to show
The page where I may look?”
I came across this article from the Wall Street Journal and it has some really good research. Below are the stats: From 2000 to 2009, the latest year for which figures are available, the number of kids aged 7 to 17 playing baseball fell 24%, according to the National Sporting Goods Association, an industry trade group. Despite…
Tim Briggs came across the below excerpt at J.D. Greear’s blog and, to give a little context, this is his first point on his criticism of children’s curriculum: Most “new-church-friendly” children’s curriculum speaks more to behavior modification rather than heart-changeThe first request is that children’s curriculum really focus on cultivating a Gospel-centered approach to stories…
Dallas Willard talks about the gospel is not just the minimum requirements to get into heaven and how grace is not just for sinners.
As many workers in the field of sports ministry in the context of the local church, I’m a staff of one. I am part of the larger church staff, of course, yet in regards to leading the sports ministry, I work alone. I represent a Silo.
I plan to write further about this but right now I just feel sad, almost sick as I try to grasp what happened here.