Most churches are structured where the lay people do church maintenance and the paid staff do ministry. So you end up with, say, two hundred members responsible for the maintenance…
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There is a way of telling the gospel that makes people say, “I don’t believe it’s true, but I wish it were.”…
If we’re honest, sports can be a contemporary way for ourselves to “make a name for ourselves,” right? Some of us can hide it better than others but the idol…
“I’ve always told my players and coaches that something used to happen between us every practice, Conroy. Do you remember?”
Will there be touchdowns in the new creation? Grand-slam homeruns? Three-pointers at the buzzer? When heaven comes down to earth (Revelation 21:1–2), we shouldn’t expect anything less…
Our training and equipping should be general in nature and geared more toward principles and truths rather than methods…
We lost our significance and glory in the garden and we’ve been on a journey since then to reclaim it and in the process, we often choose to reclaim it…
Despite technological advances that make communications instant and far-reaching, Christians are becoming more spiritually isolated from non-Christians than was true a decade ago…
Because that’s where God comes alongside me and says, “I love failures – people who can’t make it…”
If we won we would thank the Lord for the win—— But never once did we pray DURING the game.
You may not think these two ideas – gravity and gospel centered sports ministry – have a lot in common. Hopefully after you read this post you will see the…
But gifts and temperament in the service of idols—and this is our normal state—always are a mixed blessing. They have a good side—they produce virtuous behavior—but they lead the person…
My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the people around them, and yet at the same time extremely unlike them…
I am writing a book and need your help. Last week, I was telling a small group of guys some of my recent highs and lows. I told the guys…
“Does God care who wins?” Absolutely YES!!!! – with a greater passion than any athlete or coach or spectator has every felt but for a different reason, his glory not…
Do you see what these people have done? Going back to the previous blog, they have placed the outcome of the game on the ‘Unimportant to God’ list and the…