Colts win Super Bowl XLI
Tony Dungy became the first black head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007. What makes his story so pertinent to the subject of mentoring our boys is the character and faith of this man. Coach Dungy is well […]
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Jeff Purkiss
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From Role Model to Mentor
In my book, Squires to Knights - Mentoring Our Teenage Boys I wrote a chapter titled: From Role Model to Mentor. While role models are great, it’s mentoring that really gets the job done. Role models may never interact with the kids who are watching and learning. […]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Jeff Purkiss
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One of the Best Role Models in Professional Sports
I’m currently reading a book titled: How to Raise an MVP, Most Valuable Person (Ambrose and Freda Robinson, Zondervan Publishing House, 1996). It was written by the parents of David Robinson, retired super star of the San Antonio Spurs.
This is how David introduces this book […]
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Jeff Purkiss
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Picture this:
• BANG! You’re dead!
• No I’m not!
• Yes you are. I shot you.
• You missed.
• No I didn’t.
• Yes you did.
What’s going on here? What mental image do you have of this scenario? I’ll bet you envision two boys. You probably imagine them to be around ten years old and you picture them, no doubt, […]
Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Jeff Purkiss
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I recently received some encouraging words from a gentleman. He had found the Squire2Knights and MentoringOurBoys websites through a search engine. He was generous enough to drop me an email. It was obvious that he was excited about raising his four sons into Christ-like manhood and that he had some ideas to […]
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Jeff Purkiss
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The Road to Hell …
It’s been said, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” With the busyness arranged for us by Satan (or that we’ve brought on to ourselves), the deceiver knows we’ll probably keep those good intentions right where they are. And he’s just fine with that. If we […]
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Jeff Purkiss
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