Tim Keller has a book out called Counterfeit Gods. In the book he tells the story of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, Jonah, and Zaccheus and uses their stories to teach…
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Attentiveness to Detail-You must prepare to win in order to be a winner. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail…
There can be such a fine line between winning and losing though. You can play great…and lose. You can play horrible…and win…
Recently, I’ve been studying the parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son in Luke 15. Luke 15 begins by saying, “Now the tax collectors and…
Well, another REACHgathering is in the books. For three days (April 19-21) about 150 people, who are dedicated to using sports to reach people with the Good News, met at Bellevue…
“Though I learned some things from the games we won that year, I learned much, much more from loss.”
Lying in sports can get you ejected from a game or suspended or…banned? It’s happened before, and I don’t even have to provide names for all the athletes who chose that…
The bulk of ministry efforts during summer camps are focused on the campers who will attend camp..
The second way you can harness the power of summer camps for ministry is to look for both structured and non-structured ministry opportunities…
A while ago there was a short post about Fantasy Sports and the opportunities that might be there for ministry. “I recently read where 11% of the U.S. population plays one or…
This past blog post caught my eye because of its honesty and how it rung so true. Sports do hold great power. Some of it is so strong, it can…
Several years ago Christianity Today wrote an article called “Sports Fanatics: How Christians have succumbed to the sports culture–and what might be done about it.” It certainly created a little…
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…
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…
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…
Here are a couple of posts from the past that may help you with your upcoming basketball practices. Enjoy!…