Skyrocketing Assistant Coaches Salaries
I was in Tallahassee this weekend visiting my parents and read in Sunday morning’s paper that the Florida State assistant coaches just received an average raise of over $60,000 apiece. More power to...
View ArticleVacation Bible School is Great, but It Shouldn’t a Replace the Parent
Over the next several weeks most churches will be starting their version of Vacation Bible School. While this is a great resource for the church, the family, and the community, it should not replace...
View ArticleA Man Still Needs a Strong Woman
Last month my wife and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary. When you throw in the 7 years that we dated, you can see we have made a rather significant commitment to each other. I am sure that...
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HAPPY FATHERS DAY…NOT!!!
Wherever you look over the last few days you can see the various Happy Father’s Day messages that children are leaving for their fathers. Children praising their father for giving them that fatherly...
View ArticleTHE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW?
Over the last few days we have seen pictures of the rainbow and their colors on television and every aspect of social media. Many of us that were raised in the church were taught that the colors and...
View ArticleFamily Vacations
In 1966 my father moved our family to Morgantown, W Va. to take the job as offensive coordinator at West Virginia University. We moved from Tallahassee, Fla. where he was an assistant coach at Florida...
View ArticleNot Time to Panic at FSU
The recent disciplinary actions at Florida State University involving two football players is a reason to be concerned, but surely not a reason to believe that Head Coach Jimbo has a major discipline...
View ArticleACC Football Media Days
I’m at Pinehurst Golf Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina for the next few days for the ACC Football Media Days. I attended these type of functions for 12 years as a Head Coach and I now sit on the...
View ArticleAmerica Needs 2 Chronicles 7:14
It is amazing what has taken place in the United States the last couple of weeks. The shootings in Chattanooga, the theater shootings in Louisiana, and the killing of unborn human babies for body...
View ArticleNobody Said It Was Going To Be Easy
I read this statement in a Billy Graham devotional book I was reading the other day, “Salvation is free, but you must pay a price to follow Jesus.” A lot of people are under the impression that once...
View ArticleDe-Recruiting
Recruiting in college football has now become a year round task. College coaches will sometimes spend 2-3 years recruiting a player, usually persuading him that their school has the biggest need for...
View ArticleGod Rewards Not Compromising His Word
I just finished up a 4-day tour speaking in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee and Athens and Mobile, Alabama. The events were held in local churches and were attended by men, high school football...
View ArticleONE WAY – Faith, Family & Football
I was on Fox and Friends this past Saturday discussing the Freedom From Religion Foundations (F.F.R.F.) attack on the role of chaplains at 17 major college football programs in the southeast. They felt...
View ArticleI’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good
College football will “officially” start this week. Its the time of the year when every team has the goal of winning their conference championship and being one of the four teams that make it to the...
View ArticleThe Year of the QB Transfer
There have been a lot of interesting quarterback stories happening in college football this year. Transfer quarterbacks started this week at five of the most prestigious college football programs –...
View ArticleBring The Culture To Church
Within the last month I have heard two pastors make this statement, “We need to bring the culture to church instead to taking the church to culture”. I couldn’t agree with this more. It seems like...
View ArticleThe Providence of God
I heard this definition of the providence of God not long ago, the intervention of God with man through natural occurrences to achieve the will of God. For those of you who have been a long time...
View ArticleThe Utah Utes
First of all, what are Utes? It is what the University of Utah athletic teams are called. The Utes are a tribe of Native Americans. There, now we know!!! But what a job that Head Football Coach Kyle...
View ArticleBaylor’s Passing Game Takes Them to 4-0?
When you look at the national team statistics after week five in college football, Baylor is once again at the top in many of the offensive categories. Total Offense #1, Scoring Offense #1, Team...
View ArticleHot Seat
I knew exactly what Butch Jones and Charlie Strong felt like after their wins on Saturday. Jones, the Head Coach at the University of Tennessee, defeated his SEC rival, the University of Georgia for...
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