Membership

Genesis 32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, Whenever we make a decision to buy a membership to a golf course or country club, we take the total price and divide it by the rounds we will likely play during the month or year. The cost per round usually amounts to two…

Hand Fed

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. It doesn't take long for us to learn every bend, break, hole, drainage ditch, and old tree trunk on our home course. Most times it is to our advantage, but I catch myself…

Spoiled

Jeremiah 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. I find myself guilty of complaining about a few sprigs of crabgrass in our fairways or a dead or rough spot on the putting…

Advancing It

Joshua 7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few. My wife plays no more five rounds of golf a year, but she can…

Quickened Pace Of Play

Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Think back to when you first swung a golf club, shot a basketball, or tried to catch a grounder. Odds are it wasn't a glorious sight. After years and decades of practice, we still are not as good as we hoped we…

Entry Fee Season

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the…

“A” For Effort

Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. A few years ago, I played in a double elimination match play tournament. I…

Not Your Clubs

Joshua 7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Once upon a time at our local golf course, we proceeded to a par four…

Wayward Flight

Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. There's no feeling much better than…

Swing Thoughts

Number 15:38-39 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and…