I spent the last four mornings as part of a team that planned and ran the football portion of a camp that also included 10 or 11 other sports and activities for children ages 6-12. We had 50 football campers, and the camp had a reported 415 kids involved overall. It...

Due to upcoming travel, there's going to be a three week gap between this post and the next. That is, unless I see something that compels me to write and I just can't wait.Something I witnessed up close last week has compelled me to write today. It was a moment I...

Merely looking at the images was devastating, so I can't imagine what it was like to live through one of the tornadoes that struck in Joplin, or other parts of Missouri and Kansas earlier this week.Most of us who weren't impacted directly wonder how to help those who...

We’ve all heard the expression – “that kid would run through a wall for his coach”. What if we had a whole team of kids who would run through a wall for us? Wouldn’t that be sweet? Those kids would practice harder, train harder, maximize their potential to play...

The last post I wrote focused on the question "do we love Jesus, or do we mostly just love the stuff He gives us?" In the last couple weeks, I haven't really stopped thinking about that question. We celebrated His resurrection on Easter last weekend, and the question...

In the Book of John, chapter 18, we witness colossal failure. Peter, who has walked closely with Jesus for three years, has just denied knowing Him 3 times in order to save his own skin. In chapter 21, after the resurrection, Jesus intentionally seeks out and restores...

Warning: the following is a personal story about coaching youth sports. No names are mentioned, no identities compromised, but all the same, read at your own risk. If you are bored by reading stories by some guy writing about his own experience coaching 10 year olds,...

For some reason the idea of legacy has been swimming all around in my mind lately. It's funny because for almost three years a huge part of my job has been participating in and leading discussions from the wonderful Legacy Builders discipleship series. I don't really...

Adversity makes us stronger. The lesson isn't a tough one to grasp intellectually. It stands to reason that going through things that are difficult makes us better equipped to deal with life. We gain perspective, we develop patience and mental toughness. I've thought...

It was excruciating...at least by my low pain threshold standard of excruciating. One Sunday night about a month ago, the area around my lower right wisdom tooth just began to throb. (At nearly 35 years old, I still have all my wisdom teeth. I don't know if that's...