by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 player can...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 big brother,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 7, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 came true for...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 8, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 justice, he said...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 8, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 Isaac,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 8, One 2 Won Staff Guide
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 miles and...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Staff, Month 9, One 2 Won Staff Guide
Commission Pre-Game Warm-Up At 6’4” tall and built like a gazelle, Greg Thomas has a golf swing that would make a cover shot for Golf Digest. PGA qualified and great with private lessons and course management, Greg is definitely a man with a bright future in golf....
by admin | Aug 2, 2019 | K-2 Series, Month 1, One 2 Won
The Homecoming Pre-Game Warm-Up My first daughter, Jamie Jo, was seven years old when she first thumb-tacked a picture of a Cambodian orphan child in the middle of her bedroom bulletin board in our cliff side Ozark Mountain home. Those trusting brown...
by admin | Aug 2, 2019 | K-2 Series, Month 1, One 2 Won
Truth Pre-Game Warm-Up Three weary travelers on the brink of exhaustion and starvation trudged across the desert in search of an oasis. They stood in amazement as two riders appeared over the distant horizon. As the strangers were encountered they told the...
by admin | Aug 1, 2019 | K-2 Series, Month 1, One 2 Won
Holy Pre-Game Warm-Up Trying to write today’s brief introduction has been laborious and futile. I’ve greatly enjoyed writing countless chapters in many books through the years, but this one just won’t compute. I’ve attempted to place my pen to the pad over...
