This week has been an absolute killer of my routine. Due to blizzard conditions, over a foot of snow and a teacher inservice day, our boys went to school only on Monday. For two days, none of us left the house. The Coaches I work with were off for snow days. The...

As Coaches we are leaders. Leadership is implied by the title, isn't it? What do leaders do? Well, they lead. The buck stops with them, they chart the course, they pave the way, they make the plans, and so on. What else do leaders do? They follow. Watch an NFL playoff...

If you've seen any ESPN over the past couple weeks, you probably saw that the UConn women's basketball team saw its streak of 90 straight victories come to an end. What you maybe missed was the radio interview that Coach Geno Auriemma did about a year ago when he said...

In his study on chapter 12 of Romans, teacher Chip Ingram refers to God's Word as found in the Bible as "the raw material of life change". If we accept that notion, and believe that there is power in God's Word, then it follows that we should seek to read, understand,...

Over the past few weeks I have continued to see reminders of how difficult people's lives can be. Not stuff that's happened to me directly, but a laundry list of tragedy. Young people lose their lives, relationships and marriages fall off the tracks, and the list goes...

In Kansas, high school winter sports teams begin practice on Monday next week. I was talking to a friend who is the Head Basketball Coach at his school earlier today. We talked about some new stuff they're going to be running this year. We talked about how he's got a...

In my good friend Rod Olson's discipleship study for Coaches, Legacy Builders, there is a lesson that rocks my brain every time I go through it. It's called "Seed Planters", and a main theme of the lesson is that in the agricultural process, man has a role and God has...

This morning on the radio I listened to a conversation about what it's like for a new Head Coach to transition into a program. The consensus was, that no matter how highly competent and well-respected the new Coach is, there is a transition period required for his/her...

Sometimes I was in a hurry so I'd grab 2-3 gallons and go. Sometimes I would be in Kansas rather than Missouri, where gas costs about a dime more per gallon, so I'd do the same. Anyway, there was recently a 10 day stretch where my car was perpetually running on empty....

I've never done this before, and I don't plan to make a habit out of it, but this week has been nuts. Chances are you have a busy life too, so I'll spare you the list of events, both planned and unscheduled that sapped my energy this week. So honestly, I was beginning...