Devotions 5/13

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Mar 18, 2022

OQP (Only Quality People)

One of the great things about team sports like football is how it allows us to train for life. This is especially true of our football...

Mar 17, 2022

Gardening with swords

I was listening to a podcast where the panel was discussing the war in Ukraine when I heard someone repeat an old Chinese proverb: It is...

Mar 8, 2022

Planting Trees

I first met Coach Helm when my oldest son was beginning to play youth football. Coach had been part of starting the local youth football...

Mar 6, 2022

Team Chemistry

It was the first game of the season, we were playing a team which would end the season ranked # 8 in the state of Texas. We were a 45...

Feb 6, 2022

There are floods coming

In 2017, our fourteen player football team won the TAIAO sixman state title; however, it looked very unlikely because in week two, we...

Feb 4, 2022

Finest Hour

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill I recently finished watching the...

Feb 1, 2022

You Should Be a Monster

As the father of six children, three of which are girls, two of whom have developed into amazing Christian women. God has called me to...

Jan 27, 2022

Legends aka GOAT

I recently heard someone say "Legends are not defined by their successes but how they bounce back from their failures." As a coach, I...

Sep 27, 2021

Coaches won't win you games

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors...

Apr 21, 2021

Letter from Coach

I remember reading a letter from Ricardo Montelban to his son which my father had posted on the wall of our house. Ricardo was a famous...