Peacemaker

Peacemaker   Pre-Game Warm-Up   If there were a Heisman Trophy for high school football in Pennsylvania, it would go to Jim Shaughhessy. At least in football savvy Oil Trough, Pennsylvania where “Jim Shaughhessy Day” was celebrated annually for years. If a...

Synergy

Synergy   Pre-Game Warm-Up   You don’t expect to see a lovebird standing 6’3” tall with rippling muscles on every bone of his body and weighing 215 pounds donate vital body parts to his wife, but this love story isn’t ordinary in any sense of the word. My...

No Bad Days

No Bad Days   Pre-Game Warm-Up    Difficult days? Plenty – that’s inevitable. Challenging days? Countless – that‘s a factor. Laborious days? Limitless – that’s a condition. Bad days? Banished – that’s a choice. On March 15th, 1999, every parent’s worst fear...

Majesty

Majesty   Pre-Game Warm-Up Cairo, Egypt, a place where, even in recent years, Christians have been scoffed, mocked and even martyred, isn’t perhaps the place you’d picture some of the sweetest, most intimate multinational worship ever offered up to the God of...

Faith Works

Faith Works   Pre-Game Warm-Up   My dad was a man’s man. He taught hand-to-hand combat in WWII. He could work Superman into the ground. But the tenderness with which he honored my mom was his greatest sermon. At age 75, he kayaked the Grand Canyon for 261...

Pursuit

Pursuit   Pre-Game Warm-Up   As a tough and savvy undercover agent for the state of Texas, my brother Bill risked his life daily in undercover narcotics trafficking and organized crime. Of all the drugs he purchased and all the dope dealers he brought to...