God puts people in your life each day both to receive wisdom from and to impart wisdom to. It’s like a river of life designed by the invisible hand of God. Be expecting this ongoing mystical wonder. Rivers by definition flow, otherwise they become stagnant. Expect your daily journal entries or reflections to be consumed with stories of this flow of wisdom.
Read MoreWhen we tie our identity and self-worth to how we perform and other people's opinions, we give the game power over us. This is the devastating formula for the fear of failure. God has an identity for us that can never be stolen by a performance or scoreboard outcome. It leads to fearlessness instead of making us a slave to fear on game day.
Read MoreAbout 15 years ago I had discovered the worst driving range in the country. It was in Utopia, Texas. Down here in Texas we call bad courses and ranges goat ranches. One day while I was hitting balls there, if you could call them balls, a gentleman drove by and stopped. He was the owner. His name was Wayne. To my recollection it was the only time I met him. I asked him what gave him the inspiration to build a driving range in the middle of nowhere. His answer floored me.
Read MoreThe wildflowers have started their show in Utopia. The sun is shining. The springs are running again filling the crystal clear Sabinal River to the brim. What a time to be in Utopia. Spring is in the air. Come join us on our annual retreat to this tiny but eternally significant spot in the world… an epicenter of a movement of God
Read MoreI used to be a professor at the University of Kansas. It was an awesome experience that I will never forget. However, 12 years into it I felt the Lord leading us to give up tenure and to take a step of faith by starting a consulting firm—becoming an entrepreneur. My colleagues thought I was crazy. I had built one of the top graduate school sport psychology programs in the country. But God had other plans.
Read MoreI received an email soon after Netflix picked up our movie, Seven Days in Utopia. The production team had passed it on to me and crossed out the lady’s name so I will never know her nor meet her.
Read MoreHere is a Utopia Christmas tree. It’s my present to you since you can’t be here right now. I thought you would like it. Like me you long to be in such a place… to catch a glimpse of the daily “Obra Maestra” painted upon the backdrop of Utopia. This one left me breathless as I walked the Sabinal River bed. The peculiar silence offered a stage for this demonstration of awe. I watched as God’s brush stroke of colors caused the heart shaped ornaments to applaud in celebration.
Read MoreI needed a word of encouragement. It had been a year like no other. In this past year our younger daughter had several major injuries that ended her Olympic dream a few months before the Winter Olympic trials, my wife’s father died suddenly and tragically,….
Read MoreI received a call one day from my colleague and dear friend, Dr. Rick McGuire, from the University of Missouri. It was back in the day when he and I were professors of sport psychology at our prospective schools. I was at KU. He was calling about a young mini tour golfer, Stan Utley, who he had been helping
Read MoreWhen I was 14 an evangelist showed up at our public high school. At a school wide assembly that morning where he spoke he invited us to come down to his crusade that night. It would be held at the Heart of Texas Coliseum, in Waco, Texas—a rodeo arena.
Read MoreWhen we decided to make our movie, Seven Days in Utopia, one of my absolutes was to have an actor who could really play golf. We did not want to make another golf movie about a professional golfer that was not believable.
Read MoreJust the other day I was invited to play golf and speak at our church’s annual golf tournament. The six campuses of this mega church in the DFW area gathered together to compete for the trophy that will be displayed for the next year at the church that wins. The course was packed.
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