1 – On this day we begin this team’s third season.

• Non-conference season
• Conference season
• Playoffs

2 – Suddenly at game time today, the rest of the season doesn’t count.

• All the teams in the playoffs stand the same.
• The last team in has the same opportunity as the first seed.
• Everyone is at 0 and 0.
• All ___ teams are focused on a __ game run to the championship.

3 – I see a similar idea at Philippians 3:12b-14.

• I press toward God’s call on my life.  I’m not finished yet.
• One thing I do:
  • Forgetting the past (both the good and the bad).
  • Reaching forward (always forward).
  • Press toward the goal of becoming the man God made me to be (destiny, calling).

4 – For our team it’s much the same.

• Press toward our goals.  We’re not finished yet.
• One thing we do:
  • Forget the past (successes and failures).
  • Reach forward (play by play) always forward.
  • Press toward our team’s destiny.  Become all we can be.
  • Put it all together today.
  • Play our best game to date.

This resource provided by Roger D. Lipe
lipe@earthlink.net
www.sifca.org