Alan Scott

I am a follower of Christ, a husband, a father to 3 children and a football coach.

[Alan Scott @amscott88]

@CoachLync Bama

[Fortune MMXM @FortuneMMXM]

I couldn't sleep for two weeks after I first listened to this

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Tom Izzo shares why the best thing a leader can do is hold people accountable to their own dreams and how he does this with his teams.

"I always ask them: What do you think my job is for you?"

Most players don't know how to answer. So Izzo tells them:

"The best thing I could do for you is to hold you accountable to your dreams and goals - not mine."

"Sometimes as leaders, we look at what we want instead of what they want."

Izzo has each player write down their goals on a card. Then he uses that card when they push back.

"When he's mad at me because I'm on his butt about academics, I say: You told me you wanted to be an academic All-American. That's not my goal. That was your goal. My job - if I do my job right - is to hold you accountable to your goals."

Leadership isn't about pushing your agenda. It's about helping people become who they said they wanted to be.

Hold them to their dreams - not yours.
(🎥 Michigan Association of Counties 2020)

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

An American hero, at home with the LORD.

RIP, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom.

May our nation kneel in prayer for her family.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

This is fantastic from Mike Elko!

“My job [as a coach] is to always be opposite the moment.”

Leaders are either fighting chaos or fighting complacency.

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

“Always put Christ first.”

What a powerful HOF message from Jared Allen on Saturday in Canton.

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

If your kids being saved is the goal of Christian parenting, then Christian parents with unsaved kids are miserable failures who then deservedly live in unrelieved guilt and shame.

But hear me clear as a bell: your kids being saved is NOT the goal of Christian parenting. The goal of Christian parenting is the glory of God through faithful (by no means perfect) discipleship on a daily basis through the power of the Spirit.

Can we fathers (and mothers) exasperate our children (Eph. 6:4) and help turn them away from God? Sadly, yes.

Does legalism--with tons of rules and little warmth--help to angle kids away from the church? Sadly, yes.

Should we labor to raise our kids in grace and truth, loving them with everything we've got? Yes, we should.

But can parents save their kids? No. Never. NO PARENT CAN REGENERATE THEIR CHILD'S HEART.

Once again, the goal of Christian parenting is not salvation, ultimately. The goal of Christian parenting is the glory of God through steady faithfulness.

So, if you are a parent who feels like a massive failure because you have unsaved adult kids, you must oppose such powerful feelings with the truth of the gospel. No doubt you were not a perfect parent; none of us is. But if you were taught that you could save your kids--or at least usher them toward salvation--by rigorously Christian parenting, you were not taught well. You were under legalism, not the teaching of Christ. Only God appoints vessels of mercy, and vessels of wrath (see Romans 9). No parent can do so.

Some of you out there need to release your iron grip, slow your breathing, and claim the rest that is yours in Christ (Matthew 11:28-29). You were never your kids' savior; that role was never yours to play. That role is Christ's, and Christ's alone. You are not Jesus, you never could have been Jesus, and you never will be Jesus. So: breathe. Exhale. Drink deeply of the sovereign goodness of God.

Your life is in his capable hands; your kids are living out his perfect plan, and he does all things well.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

As I've said many times, the sexual revolution was the bloodiest revolution of them all:

"Pol Pot killed roughly 2 million people.

The Nazis killed somewhere between 5-11 million people.

Ghengis Khan and his Mongols killed around 20-40 million people.

Chairman Mao killed between 40-70 million people.

Communist regimes between 1910 and 1980 killed maybe 60-100 million people.

Add up all the wars throughout human history, and they amount to an estimated 1.5 billion deaths. That is inclusive of combatants, civilian casualties and those who died of the results of war (i.e. famine).

All of these figures are nothing in comparison to abortion, which, since legalisation in the 1970s, has amounted to the monstrous 2.5-3.5 billion deaths. Every single one of them marks the end of an innocent life.

Women have killed 3x more people through abortion than men have ever killed in wars, genocides, purges, etc., combined."

-- Calvin Robinson

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Dad asks his son: “Are you mad at God because you have cancer?”

The son answers: “No because He chose me … and I’m glad He chose me and not one of my sisters.” 😭😭😭

This child has a better understanding of God’s sovereignty than most adults.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

So apparently some people are surprised and/or think it’s controversial that I’m Reformed? Shouldn’t be. Anyone familiar with historic Reformed Protestantism should clearly see that my academic, theological, evangelistic, and apologetic methodology and motivation all stems from the particular heritage that I stand within. One, might I add, thoroughly and completely rooted in scripture itself as its motivating principle and director.

You can find this and all my other infographics at https://t.co/Q0HRwRFejS.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

I was recently at the archeological site of the ancient city of Ephesus in Turkey. Not far from the rush of the State Agora and the Temple of Domitian, carved into the stone, is a 2nd century Christian code. 

This 1800 year old Christian creedal statement is one you may be familiar with — it’s the origin of the “Jesus fish.”

ἸΧΘΥΣ is Greek for fish, and was an ancient Christian acronym: 

(I) Ἰησοῦς - Jesus; 
(ch) Χρῑστός - Christ; 
(th) Θεοῦ- God; 
(u) Υἱός- Son; 
(s) Σωτήρ- Saviour.

[Austin Hough @AustinRHough]

MUST WATCH: Brandywine coach Josh Hood gets animated talking about the private vs. public school debate, specifically in @MHSAA

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

Nothing stunts your progress more than when you stop trying to progress

[Andrew Leddy HSSCC @aleddy9]

There are 6-8 weeks of time off built into the HS schedule. In Ohio, add another week or two for school cancellations. If you never train on game day, that number climbs even higher. High school athletes cannot afford to take 3/4 months off every year…if they want to win.

[Jeremy Toohey @Toohey_sp]

Athletes who lift in-season stay healthier and play at a higher level longer into a season. Manage load and continue to move forward during the longest uninterrupted block of the year.

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

Wow! What an opening message from Boise State coach Spencer Danielson after his team lost to Penn State in the CFB quarterfinal matchup.