by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 3, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Opponent Pre-Game Warm-Up Playing “nose tackle” in college suited my “appetite for action” to near perfection. Lining up against the Buckeyes of Ohio State, the Tigers of Auburn, the Arkansas Razorbacks, the Texas Tech Red Raiders and other formidable foes was...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 4, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 butterfly from its...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 4, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 routine flight,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 4, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 readers is the...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 5, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Lamb Over Me Pre-Game Warm-Up For decades and decades, he prayed for a son. He dreamed of the day his wife would conceive. To hear the word “Daddy” from the mouth of a toddler that bore his name was his hope and daily request before God. His vanishing desire became...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 5, One 2 Won Staff Guide
The Pinnacle Pre-Game Warm-Up The resurrection of Jesus after His torture and crucifixion is the single most important historical factor in all of Christianity. Jesus is the only religious figure in the history of mankind to make the claim of deity and subsequently...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 5, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 6, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Overboard Pre-Game Warm-Up I’m guilty as charged. I overdid it big time! I was one big easy pushover with my kids…especially my two girls! If that wasn’t bad enough, I’m worse with my grandkids. I do find comfort in two things! Thanks to my down-to-earth wife, they...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 6, One 2 Won Staff Guide
M&Ms (Memorize & Meditate) Pre-Game Warm-Up If you divided all the stars in the known cosmos and distributed them equally to every human on earth, we’d each have about 6 trillion stars to account for. Our God is Big! If the Cray Supercomputer was going all...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 6, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Craftsmanship Pre-Game Warm-Up The winter of 1494 was memorable for its bitter cold. The city of Florence, Italy, was blanketed in snow, and Michelangelo Buonarroti’s heart was as heavy as the gray clouds that dipped low and blocked out the sun. The Grand Duke of...
