It's a beautiful day to be a neighbor. Today's Family Wins devotional reflects on Colossians 4:12 — Epaphras, a servant of Christ, "always wrestling in prayer" for the believers back home in Colossae. Contrary to what you may have heard, long distance is not the next best thing to being there. Prayer is. Epaphras wasContinue reading "Episode 5: Prayer Is the Next Best Thing to Being There | Colossians 4:12 — Coach C’s Neighborhood"
Less Talk. More Walk. Welcome to Coach C’s Neighborhood.
Subscribe to Coach C's Neighborhood James from the Bible, Jesus' half-brother, doesn't care what you think. That sounds harsh until you understand why. Dr. Tony Evans has spent years preaching through the book of James (Tony Evans' Sermon: The Point of James), and he makes a point I can't shake: James isn't interested in yourContinue reading "Less Talk. More Walk. Welcome to Coach C’s Neighborhood."
Episode 4: A Wardrobe That Will Never Go Out of Style | Colossians 3:1 — Coach C’s Neighborhood
It's a beautiful day to be a neighbor. Today's Family Wins devotional reflects on Colossians 3:1 — "Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God." Peter Marshall, former chaplain of the United States Senate, once prayed for exactly thisContinue reading "Episode 4: A Wardrobe That Will Never Go Out of Style | Colossians 3:1 — Coach C’s Neighborhood"
Episode 3: All That God Wants Is All of Me | Colossians 2:16-17 — Coach C’s Neighborhood
It's a beautiful day to be a neighbor. Today's Family Wins devotional reflects on Colossians 2:16-17 — the reminder that religious festivals, new moon celebrations, and Sabbath days were only ever a shadow of what was to come. The reality is found in Christ. Here's the question worth sitting with: is Christianity a segment ofContinue reading "Episode 3: All That God Wants Is All of Me | Colossians 2:16-17 — Coach C’s Neighborhood"
Episode 2: What Do You Think About the Christ? | Colossians 1:19 — Coach C’s Neighborhood
It's a beautiful day to be a neighbor. Today's Family Wins devotional reflects on Colossians 1:19 — "For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him." Say the name of Jesus and a dozen images come to mind: a babe in a manger, a rugged carpenter, a crucified Savior. But Paul reachesContinue reading "Episode 2: What Do You Think About the Christ? | Colossians 1:19 — Coach C’s Neighborhood"
Episode 1: The Words Your Father Loves to Hear | Colossians 1:12 — Coach C’s Neighborhood
It's a beautiful day to be a neighbor. Today's Family Wins devotional reflects on Colossians 1:12 — "Giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the Kingdom of Light." Paul opens his letter to the Colossians not with a request, but with thanks.Continue reading "Episode 1: The Words Your Father Loves to Hear | Colossians 1:12 — Coach C’s Neighborhood"
A Bridge Called Love
Chapter two of Jarah's Belmont story, from the war she fought in June to the bridges she's building now. Dad, Jarah, and Mom, minutes before Belmont met its match. Back in June, I wrote about a war my daughter fought in a Nashville parking lot. A breakup. A phone she couldn't put down. A fatherContinue reading "A Bridge Called Love"
Vision. Process. Love.
Focus on Your Vision, not Your Circumstance Before a single snap of practice, Coach DiDonato gathers the parents of Grove City College football and opens his Bible. Not the playbook. The Bible. This year, I sat in that room for the last time as a parent of an underclassman. My son, Dallas, is a seniorContinue reading "Vision. Process. Love."
Two Wolves, One House
As a Man Thinketh, So Is He So much of what's breaking apart around us today was already explained in Scripture, thousands of years before cable news and social media existed. We just have to slow down long enough to read it, and it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. Truth doesn't needContinue reading "Two Wolves, One House"
The Feedback Loop
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. I've written a post every Sunday morning since June of 2017. Not one missed. That's a covenant, not a habit, and I don't take it lightly. Before I was any of the other things I am, I was a control systems engineer. Strip aContinue reading "The Feedback Loop"