Special Features
In the movie Hoosiers, the basketball team of a small, rural Indiana town makes it all the way to the final game and ends up winning the State Championship. The movie is based on the true story that actually happened in the 1951-52 Indiana High School Basketball season. As the team progresses from their sectional win, to the regional, to the semi-finals and finally to the finals, the opponents get progressively tougher and come from much larger schools. The team is nervously sitting in the locker room before the final game of the regional, and Coach Norman Dale, played by Gene Hackman, tells them, “Forget about the crowds, the size of the school, or their fancy uniforms. Remember what got you here. Focus on the fundamentals that we have gone over time and time again. And most important, don’t get caught up in thinking about winning or losing the game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we’ll be winners.” Read More
By Gary DeVoe For the Western world, the Easter celebration has changed over the generations. In the beginning it was first and foremost a Christian celebration. Then after World War I, the celebration became a social event: Easter hats, Easter parades, and new clothes.
After World War II, the celebration changed even more: It became all about bunnies, candy, baskets, and eggs. And we have the “CMEs,” that’s the people who only show up at church on Christmas, Mother’s Day, and Easter. Tags: Easter | God | life
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Gary DeVoe, Media Director
 ebay—what a wonderful world! A unlimited supply of unwanted junk that has been revived and is useful once again. You need it? Someone on ebay has it. You just have to surf to find it.
It seems as the world is ever finding, refining, and honing its skills to keep us busy with anything other than spending time with God. Sports, hunting, movies, television, Facebook, ebay, YouTube, iPhone, iPad, iPod—the ways to spend your time are ever expanding. Opportunities for distraction abound.
Tags: distraction | eBay | Facebook | iPad | iPhone | iPod | moderation | YouTube
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By Gary DeVoe, Media Director
At the beginning of the New Year, our reflections are always a combination of what ifs, if onlys, and woulda, coulda, shouldas. If only I had started my diet last January, I would be . . ..
You know the drill. You’ve “been there, done that, and got the t-shirt to prove it.” I have been thinking about this New Year, the past, the family, the future, and so on.
Tags: good news | Jesus | love | new year
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The next to last week of March, the temperature was running in the 70s here in Tulsa. Then on Saturday, March 29, about six inches of snow fell. That’s no big deal in Fargo, North Dakota, but in Tulsa that much snow is a body shop’s dream come true in Tulsa. At the same time that Tulsa’s temperatures were running in the 70s, we also had an extreme fire danger alert. Today, we have flood warnings posted as all the snow melts. . In a few months when temperatures hit 90 and up, I’ll be wishing for snow. But that’s typical Oklahoma weather. What is the point you ask? Change! 
En los primeros días de mi ministerio, el Señor me hizo hacer un estudio en profundidad sobre el tema del amor durante dos años. Yo había estudiado el tema periódicamente, pero no en profundidad.