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Renewed Strength
“ Do you not know? Have you not heard? Yahweh is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never grows faint or weary; there is no...
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Truth Wins
"Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.” – 1 Corinthians 13:6 William Paterson University made headlines when four...
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Heart
“…love the Lord your God, walk in all His ways, keep His commands, remain faithful to Him, and serve Him with all your heart and all your soul.” –...
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Represent Your Team
“ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us …” – 2 Corinthians 5:20a A couple of years ago, during a game...
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Relentless Competitor
“ But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.” – Hebrews 10:39 Competitors love to have goals,...
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Will to Win
“ Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and...
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Friends will Make or Break You (adapted from WisdomWalks)
“ The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.” – Proverbs 13:20 When I was a kid, my mom always...
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Taking My Ball...
“He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will not be shaken” – Psalm 62:6 Pick-up games at neighborhood basketball courts and...
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Word Power
“ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 The team is in the locker room...
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Minutiae of Obedience
“… the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” – Exodus 40:34 No matter what their level of sports they compete in, athletes crave the glory of...
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Answering the Call
“For we are God's creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.” –...
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Hotheaded
“ An angry man stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered man increases rebellion.” – Proverbs 29:22 Last year I heard a coach tell his ninth grade...
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Quick Word of Prayer
“ Never stop praying.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:17 We say it all the time: “Let’s have a quick word of prayer.” The underlying message here is, “...
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Free Ticket
“ There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.” – Acts 4:12 You’ve...
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Faith Wins
Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ Jesus answered. ‘This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.’” – John 9:3 In sports,...
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Under Authority
What do we do when we find ourselves under an authority of a coach who is a poor example of leadership?
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Humility Wins
“Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” – Luke 18:14b When Herb Brooks, coach of the 1980...
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Love Wins
There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection...
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Power Within You
“ …and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself...
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Rumble Strips
“[Whoever] still won’t obey after being warned many times will suddenly be destroyed. Nothing can save him.” – Proverbs 29:1 (NIRV) Every now and...
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S.A.L.T.
“For You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life.” – Psalm 56:13 U.S. skeleton racer John...
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Memory Loss
“Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,...
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The Right Player
“… everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” – Luke 18:14b When Herb Brooks, coach of the...
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Under Authority
“ Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.” –...
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Pressure
“The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to Him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, ‘Come away by yourselves to a remote...
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