Play Your Position & Win it!
In Mark Chanski’s book, Womanly Dominion: More Than a Gentle Quiet Spirit, two coaching slogans are mentioned, “Play your position!” and “Win it!”…
What is your Passion?
Finding The Answer As I have searched myself and helped others along toward the answer to this “burning” question, I find it is important to know at least three things: 1) What is passion? Or to put it another way, “What exactly are we looking for?” 2) Where does passion come from? Or “Where do we…
Do You Think Like a Sports Missionary?
The basic concepts of the gospel — sin, guilt and accountability before God, the sacrifice of the cross, human nature, afterlife — are becoming culturally strange in the west for the first time in 1500 years…
The Vernacular of Sports Outreach
Missional Outreach Tim Keller wrote an article in 2001 entitled The Missional Church. In it, he describes the elements of a missional church. Below is a short excerpt from the article. Even though this article is about the missional church, it certainly applies to sports outreach as it is: Local Church Based and Missional In…
How to be a Good Sports Minister
Simple Idea, Profound Impact I came across this quote recently from Tim Keller about preaching: “A man who is not deeply involved in personal shepherding, evangelism, and pastoral care will be a bad preacher.” What a humbling quote. It makes sense though, doesn’t it? How are you going to be able to connect and communicate to…