Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction.
The 2006 varsity football team at Montezuma High School in Montezuma, Iowa, started its season with three straight losses. That opening act gave no... More > hint of what was to come.
Coach Joe Donovan, his staff, and the players reinvented themselves, reeled off nine consecutive victories, and put themselves into the Iowa Class 1A state championship game.
Their efforts galvanized a community, reunited alumni behind a common cause, electrified the student population in the school system and left a legacy for future athletes and teams wearing Montezuma blue and white.
The 2006 Braves became “A Band of Brothers.”
This is their story, told as it happened by sports writer Keith Brake.< Less
You can’t see or touch feelings of success and fulfillment. But you can sense when you don’t have them! Author LeRoy the Tramp shows how success and fulfillment are realized by achieving... More > balance in life and by filtering everything we do through Jesus Christ. The author uses a parable to tell how four people work through their human weaknesses. One person is materialistic. A second is addicted to the approval of others. A third is a workaholic. And the fourth is looking for answers to questions about living a more meaningful life. The four are brought together by a common fascination with making people laugh – and think – through clowning. The author, himself a clown, uses make-believe characters, but very real Bible verses and concepts in telling his story. So That’s it! is reinforcement for Christians and a call to action!< Less
Me do a children’s sermon?!?! All by myself? What would I say? Here are 15 children’s sermons written for today’s visual society and you can present them solo or with others. They... More > are written both ways. You’ll have so much fun rehearsing, you’ll volunteer for the next one. Use them also for skits at fun nights, vacation Bible school, Sunday school, banquets, church services, camp, etc. Surely, God would want us to use visual elements to “save” our most precious natural resource, our children. There’s an Elephant in the Sink! are original children’s sermons by Linda Spoerle Brake, a.k.a. LuLu the clown of the Kingdom Klowns of Iowa. Use them to bring out your creativity and have FUN!< Less
Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction.
The 2006 varsity football team at Montezuma High School in Montezuma, Iowa, started its season with three straight losses. That opening act gave no... More > hint of what was to come.
Coach Joe Donovan, his staff, and the players reinvented themselves, reeled off nine consecutive victories, and put themselves into the Iowa Class 1A state championship game.
Their efforts galvanized a community, reunited alumni behind a common cause, electrified the student population in the school system and left a legacy for future athletes and teams wearing Montezuma blue and white.
The 2006 Braves became “A Band of Brothers.”
This is their story, told as it happened by sports writer Keith Brake.< Less
Me do a children’s sermon?!?! All by myself? What would I say? Here are 15 children’s sermons written for today’s visual society and you can present them solo or with others. They... More > are written both ways. You’ll have so much fun rehearsing, you’ll volunteer for the next one. Use them also for skits at fun nights, vacation Bible school, Sunday school, banquets, church services, camp, etc. Surely, God would want us to use visual elements to “save” our most precious natural resource, our children. There’s an Elephant in the Sink! are original children’s sermons by Linda Spoerle Brake, a.k.a. LuLu the clown of the Kingdom Klowns of Iowa. Use them to bring out your creativity and have FUN!< Less
You can’t see or touch feelings of success and fulfillment. But you can sense when you don’t have them! Author LeRoy the Tramp shows how success and fulfillment are realized by achieving... More > balance in life and by filtering everything we do through Jesus Christ. The author uses a parable to tell how four people work through their human weaknesses. One person is materialistic. A second is addicted to the approval of others. A third is a workaholic. And the fourth is looking for answers to questions about living a more meaningful life. The four are brought together by a common fascination with making people laugh – and think – through clowning. The author, himself a clown, uses make-believe characters, but very real Bible verses and concepts in telling his story. So That’s it! is reinforcement for Christians and a call to action!< Less
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