Chapel – Comparisons

1 – Do you watch web sites for the weekly team power rankings?
• Do you pay attention to the state or national rankings of teams in our sport?
• Do you read the paper to see who beat whom?
• Do you make comparisons between teams and players?
• Sometimes, such comparisons could be misleading and lead you to a poor performance and with it a disappointing loss.

Wisdom for a Young Head Coach
Week 11

I Timothy 5:17-21

Discussion Questions:

Wisdom for a Young Head Coach
Week 16

II Timothy 1:1-7

Discussion Questions:

Wisdom for a Young Head Coach
Week 21

II Timothy 2:20-26

Discussion Questions:

1 – Today’s characteristic of Successful People and Successful Teams is Solid Leadership.

• Think about the best leaders across your lifetime, in your family, in your home town, from your youth.
• Think about the leaders among your team.
• When are they at their best?
• How do they change situations by simply being present?
• How do their words breathe courage into the souls of their teammates and strike fear in the hearts of their opponents?
• This is the stuff of Solid Leadership.

1 – The recent injuries we have experienced serve to remind us of a very important truth.

• The opportunity is that we, a strong, developing, ambitious team get to compete against another strong, developing, ambitious team. This makes for a great match up.
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Day 4
When I step onto His field, there is power. Power comes through Jesus Christ. We can experience this power when we play and live on His ground. Everything I do should start on His ground.

Warm-Up
Identify and describe your favorite place to compete (field, court, pool, arena, track, etc.).

Workout

Day 2
God’s goals for me as a competitor are to play to honor Him and to live to honor Him. I am to bring Him joy in all I do – on and off the field of competition. That is the challenge.

Warm-Up
What do you need to do in order to become the best athlete you can be? What specific goals would you need to set in order to achieve this? In order to play at your best, you need to set goals in areas of your life other than sports. List some goals in the following areas of your life: athletics, academics, and spirituality.

Workout

Day 3
God loves me and desires to protect me. His grip on my life will guide, shape, and mold me.

Warm-Up
List three times when you felt you were placed on the bench or you faced adversity within your sport. (The situations do not need to be physical. Examples: The time you were yelled at by a coach or parent, or the time you questioned whether the Bible is the true word of God.)

Sports Adversity
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Workout
1. Share with everyone in your group how these adverse situations made you feel.

Wisdom for a Young Head Coach
Week 22

II Timothy 3:1-9

Discussion Questions:

1 – Today we will discuss ironic nature of rewards in sport.

• The rewards are the same for the freshman playing his first season as for the senior playing his last season.
• The rewards for the first year coach are the same as for the twenty year veteran of coaching.
• At the end of the game or the end of the season, the rewards are the same.

2 – Jesus told a story about this in Matthew 20:1-16 (read the text aloud).