Play Ball Playbook

Perhaps it's a first world problem deciding whether or not to send your kids to public or private school given plenty of kiddos in our world won't be going to school anywhere this year. Nevertheless, we're thankful that we get to make this decision and certainly recognize it as a gift. Listen in as Chris and Natalie tell the story of their journey on arriving to the decisions they've made regarding where their f...

Growth may seem automatic when you look at a human child growing into an adult body, but even at that, the conditions have to be right for say healthy bone growth. Sleep, food and proper shelter have to be in place to stay alive and have the opportunity for our bodies to develop. Similarly, we need to have adequate conditions to grow relationally and emotionally and it's up to us to be intentional towards living in those envir...

Rehearsing the brokenness of our past, abuse, abandonment, you name it, only imprisons us in a jail cell of our own doing. Instead, playing the picture of our future and who God says we are, despite the crimes committed against us, is where walking free begins. The real key to unlocking our prison chamber is found in the action of forgiveness. Give the chat a listen as Chris and Natalie discuss what forgiveness is and what it isn’t...

Could it be possible that we're going around life with a secret addiction that even we ourselves don't know we have? The addictive behavior of "punishing" may be thriving inside of us because it's what we've observed all our lives. The need to get even, give payback or show someone who's boss can show up when we least expect it, or maybe that's the problem - it's so expected that we&apos...

If you're finding yourself on the crazy cycle with your loved ones, a possible solution could be found in discovering each other's relational needs. Knowing your spouse's or children's highest relational needs will allow you to round the relationship bases towards connectivity and harmony. It's been said, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Give the conversation a listen an...

"I wish they would control their kids!" - a phrase you've probably thought to yourself before and maybe even been the subject of someone else's thought. The idea of being in control of our surroundings has quite the appeal on the surface but life experience shows us that controlling anything outside of ourselves is more of a fantasy. So what is our best play out of the playbook when we realize kids and situation...