During the college football playoffs, pictures like the one below kept making their rounds in my news feed. Apparently, every head coach in the final four playoff teams had previously been an assistant at Alabama under head coach Nick Saban, who is considered one of the greatest football coaches of all time. His coaching tree included 5 coaches in the College Football Playoffs. This level of success in football is a great reminder that it matters who you surround yourself wit

“Well, I still think there are some translation issues with the Bible...” Those are the words of a young man (we'll call him Mr. Evan, short for evangelism) that I had spent a considerable amount of time talking to about the truths of the Bible and the gospel. Evan was extremely receptive to everything I was sharing with him. He had great questions about what the Bible had to say about life and eternity. He had a surprising look on his face when I had answered all of his que