In 2009, Bill Maher made a movie, Religulous, where he asks a man who believes he will go to be with God when he dies, “Then why don’t you kill…
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The question of how to handle a blowout as a winning coach is relevant at almost any level of basketball…
It’s better to walk in the freedom of the truth than agonize in the disappointment of a loss! I know as an athlete you HATE to admit that anyone is…
But, who wouldn’t want to feel the way many coaches feel at the end? If you truly understand the mission and vision… if you put in the extra effort… if…
Unfortunately, what happens many times is that ministry teaches us to do the opposite. We want to be so different than “those other places” that we shy away from anything…
Here’s an interesting article from Kevin DeYoung and Ted Cluck about the local church that appeared in the Washington Post. Definitely worth a read…
As a coach, I prefer positive motivation (encourage, build up, correct in love) over negative motivation (discourage, tear down, correct in fear)…
ML Woodruff, our Sports Minister, asked me to consider being a chaplain for one of our baseball teams. After prayerful consideration, I told him I would love to…
“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…
How do we determine that sports are petty? If sports are petty to God, what else is unimportant to Him? If he is only concerned with the “big things” of…
Want to start up some interesting conversation? Float this question out into your next gathering, whatever kind it is. Whenever I have the opportunity to do this, I have never…
I came across this book review today of a book entitled Introverts in the Church. Being an introvert myself, I was curious to read the review. Below is an excerpt…
In this video excerpt, Bob Dyar and Bob Schindler discuss the tension between big events and having people focus on the process of evangelism…
However, people who don’t run, often miss the non-physical benefits. To me, these are even more valuable than the physical ones…