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It was August 1984, at Alamo Heights High School. I burst into the middle of the locker room and yelled, “Who are we going to beat this week?” The room erupted and players and coaches celebrated like we had just won the championship, before we had even played a game! During that excitement my life changed direction. Louie Reiniger, one of our players, got in my face and yelled, “Coach, will you come to FCA tonight?”
Download these customizable camp posters (ads) for the 2010 Camp theme, Unleash the Power. Each template is available in Word format so you can include local information and can be printed at home or proffesionally.
Begin by thanking God for the new day and then ask Him to help you learn from what you read. Prepare yourself by:
Read the chapter below. You can either read below or read your physical Bible. Read it slowly, take it all in.
Ask yourself the following questions after reading your chapter for the day. Write your answers down in a journal or notebook you can use just for your time with God.
Coach: Tweet! Okay Murphy! Okay Brian! Get in here—pronto. Now the Big Game is comin' up. This is our Super Bowl and we have a chance to win it all. You know the drills. We've gone through it hundreds of times. Let's get to work. Now I have to go watch some important footage…
Brian: Hey Coach! You gonna watch films scoutin' out the other team's secret play?
Murphy: Yeah Coach!?
Coach: No, Oprah's on today with “How to make low cal banana splits.” Now back to work! I don't want any benchwarmers!
(Brian immediately starts stretching and Murphy pulls out his shades and sunscreen.)
Murphy: Hey, Brian! Brian!
Brian: What?
Ready. What does it take to be ready for your season to start? It takes physical training—a lot of it. But it also takes an extensive amount of mental training. What will you do when you step up to the line or into the box? The mental part seems trivial sometimes because we mostly like to trust what we can see and feel, which is the physical part of the game. But when it comes down to the wire and the game is on the line, it’s the battle 6 inches between our ears that either says, “I’m done; I can’t,”, or “I’m strong enough. Bring it on.”
Paul uses the phrase “one thing” to bring focus and clarity to his calling. This phrase appears five times in the New International Version of the Bible—once in the verse above in Philippians and four times in the Gospels:
In Luke 10:42, Jesus says to Martha, “only one thing is needed.”
In both Luke 18:22 and Mark 10:21, Jesus tells the rich man that he still lacks “one thing.”
In John 9:25, the blind man who was healed by Christ tells the Pharisees, “One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
What most parents are finding out is that 70% of kids are dropping out of sports by the age of 13, and do you know why? According to Sports Illustrated it’s because the adults who are involved, particularly their own parents, have turned the playing of games into a joyless, negative experience. Shame on us! The things that I learned about life after age 13 by playing sports is extremely invaluable.
Below are links to the audio files from the 2010 Kansas City FCA Leadership Camp held at Mid-America Nazarene University. Additional files will be added as they become available.All files are in MP3 format.
The FCA International Home Team flyer explains the Home Team program, FCA International Strategies and many ways to join the Home Team.
You don't have to be a former NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL athlete to reach athletes. You simply need a willing heart and a desire to reach out. This list will provide new, sports-minded ways to help use the readymade highway of sports to make an impact on youth in your community.
Have you ever been nervous before a big game? Have you ever felt like quitting an event before you even got started? The first time I competed in the Boston Marathon, I didn’t think I belonged in the race. As I sat on the starting line, in my mind I was yelling at my coach, I don’t belong in this race! I’m not strong enough!
However, one of the most amazing things happened to me that day. Although on the starting line I doubted my ability to even finish the famous Boston Marathon, 26 miles later I had won the race and broken the world record by almost seven minutes! I was stronger than I thought I was!
Living with the end in mind is key to my confidence today. If, as a coach, you knew the final score of the game was in your favor, how would you coach during the game? In the game of life and eternity, God is the champion, and victory is guaranteed. Daniel chapters 7 to 12 give us a glimpse into the future in which God will reign with all who believe.
Competitors love to have goals, and they pursue them with everything they have. Nothing will get in their way! They will give their all—all the time. They will not give up or give in. And they will not give out. They are relentless.
“It’s hard to beat relentless.” – Jay Bilas
Relentless is everywhere these days. There is a Relentless energy drink, Relentless Nike running shoe, Relentless movie, “Relentless” country album, and even a Relentless steak and lobster restaurant.
As we unpack this concept of relentless competitor, there are several good one-word definitions of relentless:
In sports, how many times have we heard someone tell us to get our game face on? It’s a saying that’s used to bring up the idea or feeling of focus. When a person has their game face on they are ready for competition. They’re ready for the trial ahead of them and prepared to give their all. They are totally 100-percent focused.
As athletes or coaches, most of us would at one time or another in our careers have put on a game face of our own in sports, but what about as Christians? Have we ever thought about a spiritual game face?
THUD. One. The fierce bite of the whip sunk into Jesus' back.
THUD. Two. A 350-pound Roman guard, unleashing the power of every muscle in his body.
THUD. Three. A short pause, to let the blood ooze and the pain sink in. Forty times would surely kill Him, so they went one less. Then the nine tails. Nine ropes holding the sharpest things they could find. Rusty nails. Baked glass. Jagged razorblades. They all plunged into Jesus' back, mercilessly ripping Him apart and tearing His skin to shreds with force no NFL lineman could hope to muster. They found the roughest thornbush with thorns three inches long pointing in every direction, and they forced it onto His head and ground the thorns into his skull.
That was the easy part.
God’s Perfect Game Plan
Watch the video, then walk through the questions below.
Key Verse: ‘For I know the plans I have for you’- [this is] the Lord’s declaration- ‘plans for [your] welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. –Jeremiah 29:11
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