We all face trials in life. There’s no exception to that fact. But as followers of Jesus, we know that we don’t have to face trials alone. We not only have a Savior who will walk through each of our trials with us, but we have His Word as our playbook as well. Using the game of basketball as a powerful metaphor, we’re going to take a look at the words of James, the brother of Jesus, and talk about four great handles to help you win over trials in the game of life.
In keeping with our basketball theme this series, let’s talk about fouls for a minute. If you commit five fouls in a game of basketball, you’re done for the rest of the game. You’re out. You can’t play for the remainder of the matchup. So as a player, you have to be careful in the way you compete...
When it comes to the Christian life, many of us are educated far beyond our level of obedience. A lot of times, the same thing happens in sports. Maybe you’re like me and you know a lot more about basketball than you actually applied to playing basketball back in the day. You know which moves to ...
The more I watch sports, and the more I observe people living life in general, I’m just blown away by the authority issues that so many of us deal with. People are always in authority – it seems like – over us and we sometimes want to get to the point where we say, “You know what? I want to live ...