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 ofContinueContinue reading “Episode 3: All That God Wants Is All of Me | Colossians 2:16-17 — Coach C’s Neighborhood”
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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 reachesContinueContinue 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.ContinueContinue 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 fatherContinueContinue 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 seniorContinueContinue 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 needContinueContinue 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 aContinueContinue reading “The Feedback Loop”
Sent to Fix Us Backward Americans
A Wake-Up Call to America In October of 2024, an Islamist influencer who goes by “Way of Life SQ” stood in front of a room of Muslim teenagers at the Dearborn Community Center and told them the truth about why he thought they were there. Not to build a life. Not to be good neighbors.ContinueContinue reading “Sent to Fix Us Backward Americans”
Pride Empties the Table
Pride Leads to Arguments. Humility Raises Kingdom Kids. Nine years ago, I wrote a short post with a simple title: Pride Leads to Arguments. I still believe it. A teachable spirit brings peace. A proud spirit brings strife. Every argument I’ve ever regretted had the same fingerprint. I was more interested in being right thanContinueContinue reading “Pride Empties the Table”
Kingdom Men Wanted
Santonio Holmes had two feet in bounds and a football in his hands. Reach high. Touch low. That’s how you win the game. That’s how you win as a man. Santonio Holmes’ Game Winning Catch in Super Bowl XLIII Dr. Tony Evans used that image from Super Bowl XLIII to describe something bigger than football.ContinueContinue reading “Kingdom Men Wanted”