Jul
02
2019
Why should I want to practice prayer? My life is full of demands, responsibilities, people. Where is the time for additional practice time? Do you feel that way?
I think God knows this. Yet, so often God still emphasizes He...
Jun
29
2019
In this world of people and things, we can either love people more than things, or things more than people.
If we love things more the people, we will use people to get things. If we love people more than...
Jun
28
2019
Questions: What impacts a person the most? What lasts the longest in a person's life?
The answers may well be different for each person. However, should you influence someone else in a life-altering way, it may have a very profound...
Jun
27
2019
Spokane Hoopfest is the largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the world.
Nearly 6000 four-player teams of all ages and sexes battle on the streets of the River City at the end of June. Even though three games are guaranteed, for...
Jun
26
2019
Key Statement: if you don't keep your mirror clean, the mirror cannot do its job to tell you the truth about yourself.
When you look deeply into your mirror you will be looking at enemy number one.
The enemy is...
Jun
25
2019
"Which one comes first?”
In reading through Van Gogh quotes one stood out because of the fact NBC Camps hires more than 400 coaches each summer.
“Your profession is not what brings your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’ve been...
Jun
24
2019
This past Thursday the NBA gave us five continuous hours of drafting 60 fine college basketball players for a possible future with its professional teams. If you asked the players if they thought this consideration was worth it, I...
Jun
22
2019
"We should have won that game.” - New York Mets Terry Collins
Reading USA Today Sports, Bob Nightengale’s interview with Manager Collins brought me back to the Royals-Giants game 5.
Matt Harvey took a 2-0 lead into the ninth. Collins was...
Jun
21
2019
Saint Ignatius trained his Jesuit priests to be aware of and to recognize the difference between consolation and desolation.
The bad news when experiencing the delight of being in consolation is that at any moment desolation is coming. When...
Jun
20
2019
Key Statement: It's so simple, yet so hard to do; open ears and mouth shut!
Three keys:
Slow to speak
Quick to listen
Slow to anger
Telling people to shut up is not acceptable in the Crowell household. This is rude...
