NCAA Division l baseball teams play a 56 game schedule starting in the middle of February and ending in the middle of May. There are many long bus trips, bad calls, slumps, injuries and hotel rooms away from family. Without perseverance and the ability to bounce back quickly after a tough loss, it can be …
A new beginning is not a date or a place but a mindset. Half of the teams competing on a field or a court today will lose. For those teams, tomorrow can be a new beginning, a mindset of starting over and getting it right. Whether you are an athlete or not, we all need …
Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training this week. The Division l Baseball season starts on Friday. For everyone living in that world, the rhythm of life changes drastically. This change places stress on families. Let’s pray for these coaches, players and, especially, the wives and children who won’t see much of their husbands and …
Max Lucado has said, “God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to allow you to stay that way.” We were born to grow. We grow physically, mentally and emotionally. But we should also grow spiritually. Our physical bodies stop growing eventually and then they begin to deteriorate. Depressing, …
How can we place God first during the busiest time of our lives? One way is to be aware that He is always with us. His Spirit lives within each one of His children. Since He’s with you, talk to Him during a time of quiet before anyone else wakes up. Share your needs and …
Coaching is about connecting. Connecting is about trust. Trust enables confidence to flow between the coach and the player. Our faith journey is about connecting, trusting and having the confidence that Christ has your best interest at heart. ”You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.“(Isaiah 26:3) …
I call these short devotionals “Mound Visits because usually a coach will either encourage a pitcher, challenge him or share important information with the him that will help him get the next hitter out in a crucial situation. I believe that’s what God wants for us. He wants to encourage, challenge and help us. ”The …
If our hearts aren’t right, our lives will not be right. We spend so much time “fixing” our outward circumstances but if we ask God to help us get our hearts right, the circumstances will look better, feel better or they will get better. Hear what King David said about this: ”Search me, God, and …
It’s easy to lose perspective on what matters most. We see this in Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan. The priest and the Temple assistant who were so focused on their OWN agenda they didn’t have time to do what was best and what was right. If we are too caught up in our OWN …
This morning, consider all that God has done for us through His son, Jesus: “The life we couldn’t live, He lived for us. The death we should have died, He died for us. The new life we need, He gives to us.”-Paul David Tripp ”God made him who had no sin to be sin for …