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March 2019 Sports Chaplain / Character Coach Podcast - Serving Amidst Death and Dying

March 2019 Sports Chaplain / Character Coach Podcast - Serving Amidst Death and Dying Please click on the link below to access the recording -  March 2019 Sports Chaplain / Character Coach Podcast

A Poll of Sports Chaplains and Character Coaches

A poll was conducted among my network of sports chaplains and character coaches via text message. The questions I asked are below and the insightful replies are below them. I hope you find these notes to be of value, to encourage you, and even to challenge you. Questions – 1.    What have been among your most rewarding moments in serving as a sports chaplain? 2.    What have been among your most challenging moments in serving as a sports chaplain? 3.    When and from whom do you learn the most for your service as a sports chaplain? 4.    Who are the greatest allies for your service as a sports chaplain? Question 1 – What have been among your most rewarding moments in serving as a sports chaplain? Brandi Cantrell – Texas Tech University Walking with a coach or athlete that doesn't yet know the Lord and then getting to pray with them to receive Jesus as their Savior. Also, seeing a coach and/or athlete grow in their walk w...

Unite my heart to fear Your name.

For the last several years I have been encouraging coaches and competitors, sports ministry professionals and volunteers, to live their lives in sport in an integrated, holistic fashion, over against a compartmentalized, dualistic manner. This is the Lord’s way and it is the best, most satisfying, fulfilling way to experience Christ’s presence and pleasure in the experience of sport. One excellent scripture that speaks to this approach is below. I hope it encourages your heart toward a rich, full, and Christ-filled life in sport. Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And will glorify Your name forever. Psalms 86:11-12 "Unite my heart..."- To unite one's heart is to take the presently divided, compartmentalized, duplicitous heart, and to restore it to integrated, complete wholeness. Far too often, our sporting friends live in the pernicious dichoto...