The Ultimate Sacrifice

The Ultimate Sacrifice   Pre-Game Warm-Up   For the last 50 years of Fran Gajowniczek’s life, August 14th was a shrine, a day of remembering and a pilgrimage to a place where one life was given for another. For Maximillian Kolbe, August 14th will forever be...

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis   Pre-Game Warm-Up   Of all the magnificent mysteries of God’s intelligent design of our cosmos, and the creatures that inhabit our highly favored earthly home, is the metamorphosis and incomprehensible migratory flight of the tiny Monarch...

Undeserving

Undeserving   Pre-Game Warm-Up   Like a 10 karat diamond, hidden just beneath the surface of a sandy beach on a remote South African seashore, a keenly insightful story and picture window into God’s heart resides in 1 Samuel. Familiar to most Old Testament...

Spirit

Spirit   Pre-Game Warm-Up   It was a brisk, but beautiful, Christmas day in Hereford, Texas, when a teenage friend, named Jason Paetzold, watched his dad step into the small single engine airplane his uncle had just received as a Christmas gift. A short...

Halftime

Halftime   “Who’s Your Timothy?”   When I first met Troy, he was twenty-four years old and preparing his mind for his third suicidal attempt and the courage to jump off the tall water tower from which he had climbed and from which he had retreated twice...