Lesson 2…..Your job is to play not to coach

One of the things that drove me absolutely crazy as  player and now as a coach of young men was when a player on the field wants to “coach” his teammates rather than “encourage” his teammates!  Every time I met with my new team each year, this is one of the first things that I […]

Lesson 1 “There is never time to take a play off”

I am going to shoot to start a series of post  and how we can take lessons from the “field” and apply it to things that we are going through in life.  There are so many correlations between the things that we face daily and the things that are gleaned from the time we spend […]

Rearview Mirror

“We live life forward but we understand it as we look backwards”  Charles Swindoll Incredible 2nd week of our Villain series!  Great crowds, in spite of the gorgeous weather outside!!  We are averaging a couple of hundred more this year than we did this time last year! The energy in the room was HUGE – […]

Taking the risk!

I am a pretty safe person by nature……I do not normally step into the things that I think I may not be good at!  One of my downfalls, is if I can’t be the best at something, I hang out on the sidelines and cheer on others.  Never snow skied, water skied or even played […]

Rearview Mirror

Life is a blur right now! Enjoyed a weekend at home with no baseball…with all of the rain, we laid low and enjoyed the time together as a family! Great Sunday at NStar!   Continued “Marked” series – we were in week 7 on “peacemaking”!   Great lesson of morning was that God is looking […]

Security

Yesterday we met as a team and talked about our campus security.  Though we do a good job now on securing our campus on Sunday AM, we want to be a place that does a GREAT job!  We have one of our volunteers taking the lead on coordinating security in every hall & venue on […]

Rearview Mirror

Great weekend!  Something about nice weather that just makes life seem better! Celebrated MM’s birthday!  Of course, a birthday for a 12 year old is not a one day event but a weekend affair!!  However – I love it – wouldn’t trade it for the world! Bucs baseball went 1-1 over weekend – enjoyed going […]