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I was standing on the 30-yard line in the Rose Bowl stadium. It was the January 1980 Super Bowl between the Rams and the Steelers. I was producing television coverage of the game. The Los Angeles Rams were not supposed to be in this position. One of the few 9-7 teams to ever play in a Super Bowl. In the playoffs, they had a stunning last-minute touchdown to beat Roger Staubach and the Cowboys in his last game. They won the Conference Championship 9-0 over Tampa Bay. Monday evening of the Super Bowl week I had been at Ray Malvasi's...

Sitting on a hillside, the shimmering waters of the Sea of Galilee glinting through the afternoon haze, Jesus taught his disciples. He revealed foundational truths of His life, the attributes of life in the Kingdom of God, and what true righteousness looks like when a man allows God to rule his heart. Jesus taught them that God blesses the humble, merciful, and pure. He called His people to love their enemies, reject hypocrisy, pursue justice, and trust God rather than seeking wealth or capitulating to fear. In his message, Jesus moved obedience from mere outward law-keeping to inward transformation. What...

It was the start of a new school year, and the teacher was calling out the names of students in the fresh third-grade class. She said, "Where's Gene?" The excited little boy raised his hand. The teacher said, "You'll probably be a mess just like your brothers were." Gene's face flushed with embarrassment. A few years earlier, he had been molested by his grandfather. His dad was no longer around, and then the teacher put the final negative word on him. For years, Gene dealt with negative self-image and all that comes with it as a fatherless boy. He gained...

Every day, we're hit with the equivalent of 174 newspapers worth of information. That's 29 trillion pieces of data vying for our attention. It's enough to make anyone’s head spin. But here's the thing - your ability to focus in this chaos isn't just about productivity. It's about your identity, your purpose, your legacy. So, how do we cut through the noise? Focus is the discipline of extracting yourself from the unnecessary. And brother, our most potent tool for this extraction? Prayer. Think about Jesus for a moment. God Incarnate, yet constantly bombarded with demands: ‘HEAL ME.’ ‘COME THIS WAY.’...

It’s easy to go negative in our world. Don't fall for it. Thousands of negative messages blast us each day. With each one, the memory center of our brain embeds that message, and then so often it becomes a repeating loop. Maybe we wake in the night and hear negative thoughts. Or we have "night terrors." But God's Word stops that. "You shall not be afraid of the terror by night" (Psalm 91:5 NKJV). Without intervention, the negative messages stack and can trigger a host of issues - becoming indecisive, making decisions in fear, simmering anger, and a blurry outlook...