A number of years ago, University of Southern California football coach John McKay had the privilege of coaching his son, John. During a television interview a reporter commented on the athletic ability of young John. Coach McKay responded in a impressive way. “Yes, I’m pleased that John had a good season last year,” he said.…
Hanging out with some friends tonight and we watched a great movie called The Legend of Bagger Vance. It is a movie based around a golf game, but it is so much more than a sports movie. If you are not familiar with golf, there are players and there are caddies. The players are the…
One of the crazy challenges we got from Paul in the opening chapter of Colossians was monumental. Do you know that out of the 13 books Paul wrote for the new testament, he never once thanked a single person. I checked, I can’t find it. If you find it, send it to me. But Paul…
One of the great things I love is preparing information and researching about some of the books and places in the bible. As I studied this week and really began to uncover the book of Colossians, I was amazed with how much many of the books are interweaved. What surprised me the most was not…
We talk a lot about guilt, shame, motivation behind our actions and we can really begin to understand how those feelings all link together. I was reading a devotion this morning from Greg Laurie and wanted to share about the truths in his message. Here is Greg’s devotion, and then at the end I will…
None of us is better than all of us! Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware, like a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth. Keep alert at all times. And…
Boy, that sounds like some instruction from a gangster or something. To be crafty or evil. That was my first thoughts as I read it as well, but then I realized that the word cunning in my life was always used as a negative. The question then arose, what does the word really mean? The…
Well, it was a fun little book. I think most of us were surprised by the content of the book of Titus. Each of us have grasped on to a nugget of truth that was right in our hands that we were unaware of. This coming week we will be reading one of the smallest…
We work so hard planning and preparing for our race called life. Not many people know the following story and it provides a real life illustration as well as basic principals for our own lives. The story picks up in Barcelona, Spain in 1992. His name, before the race, brought little recognition or notoriety outside…
It seems like no matter how hard we try to be humble; how hard we try to put others first; how we want to take the focus off us, there is a button that can be pushed, that switch that can be flipped that just sends us off in alter personality that we become ashamed…