Most Christians are willing to serve the lost, but would never ask the lost to serve them in some way in order to build a genuine friendship…
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Did you know that 95% of Christians have never led another person to Christ?…
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…
The local church is the hope of the world. Unless we are physically unable, every Christian should be a part of a church…
When I read this old post about “The Gathering” and how it was such an encouraging time for everyone, it only got me more excited for this year’s REACHgathering on April…
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…
What if your church evaluated your sports ministry by these rules below? What if your participants did as well?…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
Even though February is halfway done, look back at 2015 as 2016 speeds on (hopefully not out of control!) and all that’s to come this year. Maybe you’re like me…
We have established that we live in a compartmentalized world – with tragic results in life and in sports. Coaches, who appear calm and cool outside of sports, lose it on the…
Mike Matheny is the current manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Like most managers, he is a former player. In between his playing days and his coaching career though he…
If you only had one idea to share with someone to help them develop/recover a zeal for evangelism, what would you say? What would be your elevator speech? I know,…