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  • Weakness

    December 29, 2010

    devotional
    Set: 

    We were in the regional finals of the Virginia high school golf tournament. I was a first year golf coach. My player, Gabe, was tied for the individual championship and was playing in the final round against the defending champion. He had just birdied the thirteenth hole to take a one shot lead with five holes to play.

    I suddenly realized that I wasn’t sure what to say or do. Even though I had coached and officiated over a twenty-year period, I had never been a golf coach. Basketball and soccer were my forte. What strategy do you offer in a solitary sport like golf to a young man who must perform alone under pressure? Coaches are supposed to know everything and be ready in any situation. I felt I had little to offer.

  • Weakness

    February 13, 2014

    devotional
    Set: 

    God blessed me with many accomplishments during my football career, but my greatest accomplishment actually occurred on the day my career ended. I didn’t see it that way initially, however. My whole life had been built on the dream of getting to the top in football, so the day I was forced to stop, I began a walk down a road to a life of destruction. I soon destroyed everything in my life and reached rock bottom. However, it was this path that brought me to my knees and made me powerful through my Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, this was actually the first time that I knew what it really means to be strong.

  • Weakness and Strength

    August 17, 2010

    devotional
    Set: 

    How often do we worry that we are weak? When the struggles of life start to weigh us down, we sometimes get weak in the knees and feel we don’t have the strength to continue. But it’s not always the feeling of physical weakness that makes us tremble; it’s often the feeling that we are alone in the battle. It is always easier in a negative situation to look to people for support than it is to turn our sights to Jesus who is not there in the flesh.

  • Weakness Leads to Strength

    October 07, 2005

    devotional
    Set: 

    Many of us learned the “Jesus Loves Me” song as children, but the last part always bothered me: ”Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; They are weak but He is strong.” To me, displaying weakness seemed to contradict the very goal of competition.

    As I was learning to compete in athletics, the idea of embracing weakness seemed ridiculous. I thought that I had to renounce all that I had learned in the gym in order to become weak. I mean, who has ever been chosen for a team for being the weakest player? Who breaks into a starting lineup because she is weaker than her teammates? I wanted to be strong and display that power for anyone who cared to watch.

  • Wear the Colors

    September 15, 2013

    devotional
    Set: 

    I can still remember when my coaches handed out uniforms to those of us who had made the cut. We were all so proud to be wearing our school’s colors. The best part was being able to wear our jerseys to school on game days. Being identified as part of the team somehow made each one of us walk a little taller.

    And now I have the blessing of seeing my young sons experience that same thrill of putting on their uniforms and being part of a team. When they put on their jerseys, they seem to grow in confidence, as if they are truly part of something special.

  • Web Exclusive with Bill Stutz

    June 11, 2009

    Web Exclusive with Bill Stutz

    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.

  • Webb Simpson

    June 13, 2013

  • Weigh Nothing Light

    September 30, 2003

    skit

    Leader: Weigh nothing light on my soul
    Are you still in control

    Student 1: 3,000 children and teens a day see their parent’s marriage end in divorce

    Leader: I desperately need You, I desperately know
    Love left me hungry, life gave me pain
    This world washed dreams away like the gray rain

    Student 3: 66% of the population believes that absolute truth cannot be found

    Leader: In you is my promise, I’m so afraid I let it slow
    In You is salvation, in You is my glow
    So sinking and worthless
    So stinking, so fruitless
    Smudges like newspaper, sooty and raw

    Student 2: The suicide rate among teen has quadrupled in the last 4 decades

  • Weighed Down?

    September 23, 2009

    podcast

    Life can get heavy in more ways than one!

  • Well Done, Coach

    June 08, 2010

    devotional
    Set: 
    While talking with his son, John Wooden told him that he needed to shave because he was going to see his bride very soon. The basketball coaching legend knew his final breath was coming, and he wanted to be ready to meet his Maker and his wife. Going home to glory at the age of 99, Wooden left an example for all coaches, no matter what the sport, to follow.

    NBA great Jerry West said, “He did not have two sets of rules for his players…they all played under the same rules.” Wooden was true to his faith in Christ, true to his family, and true to his fundamentals of life, which had been taught to him by his parents back in Indiana so many years ago.

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