We love sporting events for many reasons:  the excitement of the game, watching athletes [our children] compete in a sport they have spent time training to play, and the thrill of seeing something amazing happen you did not expect.  High School football is a great example of  all three.  Knowing many of the players, I cheer for these boys as they play work/play together to accomplish their unified goals. I also love to watch the freshmen.  They practice hard with upper classm

Occasionally, if you watch closely, you may notice an action occurring during a otherwise normal situation that makes you stop and see a kingdom truth. This happened the other night before our first high school football scrimmage of the season. A player came running to the sidelines, calling “Coach, coach, coach!” while motioning for the strength coach to approach. Without hesitation, the coach ran toward the player, kneeled before the young man and tied the senior football

Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu Melekh ha’Olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tizivanu al sefirat ha’omer. Blessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has sanctified us with your commandments and commanded us to count the Omer. Today is twenty-five days, which is three weeks and four days of the Omer. During this week of counting the Omer, the attribute for us is Netzach which is translated as eternity, conquest, or victory. Other words that may be associated

Yes, it is football season, so there must be at least one discussion posted about the sport. Living in a household of men, I am constantly surrounded by sports, watching it, hearing about it, analyzing it, and so it goes. The three- tone sound of the sports highlight notification is often heard in my house. Actually, the tones once rang out in the middle of a Sunday sermon when the phone had not been put on silent. I don't think our pastor minded much, he is also a huge col

Philippians 2 1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the ot