This blog post, inspired from Ron Edmondson, was spot on with what I deal with too often. With my friends, sadly I am notorious for how much I worry…
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The job of a sports minister is one of the most logistically-demanding jobs in ministry. As a result, many of the “spiritual and ministry” priorities of the job (and as…
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…
REACHgathering is for sports ministers in local churches. We launched REACH with the desire to catalyze and further unite the movement of local church sports ministries and ministers (both vocational…
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…
Here are a couple of posts from the past that may help you with your upcoming basketball practices. Enjoy!…
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…
After a game, what a parent/coach celebrates is what a child emulates…
“When we get together, it is not “just another meeting”; it is a time for us to encourage, love, and inspire each other in the ministries we work in…..”
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…
The post of these drills listed below continues to be the #1 visited part of our website. These games could be used for players of all ages but would probably work best…
I watched Hoosiers the other night and was reminded again how it’s not just a great sports movie, but a great movie. Afterwards, I was curious about the making of the film and…
In light of my previous post, I thought about entitling this ’16 Posts You WON’T Read on Evangelism’ but I thought that would be too pessimistic. Anyway, evangelism is a…