2010 Minn HS Highlights

Flo Championship NCAA & HS Highlights

Morrison (OSU) v. Dardanes (Minn)

Oliver (OSU) v. VonOhlen (AF)

Bosak (Corn) v. Friend (CMU)

Evans (IA) v. Heflin (OSU)

Macy's chapel performance

I've Moved...

In case you were wondering...I've stopped using this blog so that I can focus on...LIFE...but I have a new blog specifically for my students to view the devotionals we share together every week.

Check it out at http://www.coachharsh.blogspot.com/

Christmas '09

What an incredible day! We celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus every Sunday morning (through our communion service) at my church but on this day each year we celebrate his birth. What a birthday party we'd plan if he were still living in bodily form here on this earth. At least I'd hope that we would.

Our way of celebrating his birth is very different than most birthday parties :-) We don't usually sing "Happy Birthday" to him or give Him presents but we instead give each other presents, which I think is fantastic but does this make any sense or are we just falling into the consumerism of our culture?

I know as a family we spent way too much this Christmas on our 3 kids. It was an incredible morning filled with lots of laughs, and smiles, and "thank you's" but are we teaching our kids any important lessons by giving them so much? Or are we doing the opposite?

When my kids get everything they want and more for Christmas does that make a good parent or a bad one?

Enough pondering, it's my turn now to get on the balance board of our new Wii to play Penguin Slide!

Merry Christmas!

Crowder

I haven't been this excited about a new album in some time. I've actually purchased all four, count 'em four, singles off this album in anticipation for the LP to come out. What am I speaking of you ask? David Crowder's Church Music. It comes out on Tuesday...less than 48 hours away! And I am pumped! All four singles [How He Loves, Alleluia Sing, We Are Loved, and Shadows] are quality which is what I've come to expect from Crowder and his band mates from Waco. They also have had a good time promoting this album by putting up funny clips on YouTube every couple weeks. If there is one band I went to see in concert this year it would be the David Crowder Band [coming to Atlanta November 21st].

Sketches of Spain

Growing up in my father's house I had to endure a lot of classical, jazz, a cappella, and blues records. At the time I thought my dad was torturing us because we had been misbehaving. I mean anytime we were in the car if we could get him to switch the radio station over to Oldies we thought we had done something great because at least it was popular music, even if it was from the 60's.
One of those artists we had to endure was Miles Davis. Well you probably guessed it but at this very moment I am ENJOYING listening to Miles with his Sketches of Spain album. I'm sure that I have become my father in many ways and one of these ways includes my music selection even though I tried to resist this transformation for years. I still rock it out and let my kids enjoy popular music, just last night we watched The Hannah Montana Movie and our three kids were just dancin' and having a ball as the movie winded down in the final scenes. I enjoy that because it brought joy to their little faces and hearts but I also enjoy me a little Miles.

New Year of BSF

I had the great opportunity last year to participate in Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) and study the Life of Moses. I really enjoyed the study but wished I had put more time and energy into the study. It really takes a lot of time which is relative to the time I have put into studying my Bible on my own but I know it's worth it.
This year I have promised myself that I will spend more time and give this study more priority. We are studying the Book of John this year. I know the study will really help me if and only if I spend the time on it.

Kings of Leon

I resisted it for a year with a minor exception of downloading Use Somebody but I finally bit the bullet and bought the rest of the album, Only By The Night, (partly because it went on sale for $7.99) and you know what? I love it. I still have issues about the band itself and their behavior though. I don't know what you've heard about the Followill's but I got to read two very interesting articles this summer about the band, one in Rollingstone and the other in Relevant Magazine. I'm not a big fan of WHO they are but man can they make some great music.

ESPN - Sports Montage

Relevant Magazine - First Word

The only thing better than receiving my Relevant Magazine in the mail is getting cash/checks/gift cards/etc. I love my Relevant and when I flipped through the first couple pages of the new Sept./Oct. issue today I found another jewel in Cameron Strang's editor's page (what he calls First Word). I've linked the title to this blog entry to an online version of the article on Relevant's site.

Here's what I took away...take some time away from technology. I love spending time on Facebook, Hulu, Pandora, iTunes, Relevant Magazine online, etc. and I love to play with my iTouch and iPod, and I enjoy blogging (when I have time) but these things can and do take away from LIVING LIFE! I found myself doing things when I first started Facebook just so I could get on Facebook and tell people what I did. Now I just enjoy seeing what my old and new friends are up to. I was up last night at 2 am because of one of my children and got on for a few minutes just playing around. You will find that I hardly ever "update my status" and instead just enjoy "people watching."

Anyways, what I got from all this is to UNPLUG and live life. I have a wonderful wife. Three great kids. A good job. A fun team to coach and coaches to work with. A nice town to live in. Good church. Good neighborhood. Anyways, I can still enjoy being online and playing with these gadgets but I need to intentionally turn them off and live my life.

Peace.