My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the people around them, and yet at the same time extremely unlike them…
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“You are the most introspective person I know!” I hear this often from people around me. Sometimes it is used as a compliment. Other times I sense a little criticism…
Over the years, the Local Church has had a strange, almost love/hate, relationship with sports. Three perspectives on sports – all unbiblical – have brought about the various expressions in…
All of us want to experience the power of God.
Take your time and slow down the conversation…
If you’re a coach, a pastor, or a sports minister, you have the tall order of shaping people’s worldview on competition and winning…
One of the most important skills you need as a ministry leader–especially a sports ministry leader–is follow-up. Anybody in ministry who recruits people needs to do this…
Recruiting volunteers in sports ministry often proves difficult. Every church and every ministry has their own strategies for recruiting volunteers. Listen to what Ritchie Miller, Senior Pastor of Avalon Church…
The above excerpt is from a training called Organic Outreach. Bob Schindler discusses the need for people to see evangelism as a group effort.
In 2009, Bill Maher made a movie, Religulous, where he asks a man who believes he will go to be with God when he dies, “Then why don’t you kill…
The question of how to handle a blowout as a winning coach is relevant at almost any level of basketball…
If you seek to be a good evangelist, then you need to be a good conversationalist…
So if you are choosing people to be part of your team or looking for someone new to give you a different perspective, don’t just look for someone you have…
It’s better to walk in the freedom of the truth than agonize in the disappointment of a loss! I know as an athlete you HATE to admit that anyone is…
But, who wouldn’t want to feel the way many coaches feel at the end? If you truly understand the mission and vision… if you put in the extra effort… if…
Unfortunately, what happens many times is that ministry teaches us to do the opposite. We want to be so different than “those other places” that we shy away from anything…