5 Questions to Evaluate Sports Ministries
What if your church evaluated your sports ministry by these rules below? What if your participants did as well?…
A Leader, Yet Insecure?
This blog post, inspired from Ron Edmondson, was spot on with what I deal with too often. With my friends, sadly I am notorious for how much I worry and am insecure. It’s simple yet so profound. Every leader struggles, because they’re all human. And for that matter, whether you think you lead or…
Prayer and the Busyness of a Sports Minister
The job of a sports minister is one of the most logistically-demanding jobs in ministry. As a result, many of the “spiritual and ministry” priorities of the job (and as an individual) are left neglected, especially prayer…
Is Humble Football Possible?
My boss wrote a blog post a few years ago about the celebrations of athletes. It is more relevant now there are these stories between Cam Newton and Peyton Manning, QB’s of Super Bowl Sunday last week. One from Huffingtonpost.com points out the time that Manning left the field before congratulating any of the New Orleans Saints…
Handling the Truth is Tough
The truth sure hurts sometimes. What’s more, we have to choose how to react to it. Depending on what it reveals may reveal something for which we aren’t prepared. This guest post hit home for me today as I realized how desperately I need the Truth. Without it, how will I change? The following paragraph is an excerpt from…
Why come to REACHgathering?
REACHgathering is for sports ministers in local churches. We launched REACH with the desire to catalyze and further unite the movement of local church sports ministries and ministers (both vocational and volunteer) that God is establishing around the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Can God Use Me?
Think about what God has called us (Sports Outreach Leaders) to do! God has called us to be a part of changing people’s lives. Can we do that? Absolutely not! Only God can change lives. The best we can do is influence people…
Confusion About Sports in the Church
The Church ends up with two extremes – either thinking playing like Christ is to play “nice” or to think that playing to the glory of God is not really an issue, not important, or achievable…
Resources For Your Basketball Practice
Here are a couple of posts from the past that may help you with your upcoming basketball practices. Enjoy!…
The 3 Styles of Evangelism: Relational Evangelism
The following is a short video excerpt (1 min., 45 sec.) of Bob Dyar and Bob Schindler discussing the three styles of evangelism (Proclamational, Confrontational, and Relational) and how Relational Evangelism can involve the whole body of Christ…