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The Faithfulness of God

Living a truly honorable life is possible only when we build our foundation on the Lord.

October 15, 2026

1 Peter 2:12-17

God’s faithfulness is the bedrock of the Christian life. Peter wrote his first letter to believers scattered across the Roman Empire, people living as strangers in a culture that often misunderstood and mistreated them. And yet his counsel wasn’t to withdraw or retaliate. It was to live such honorable lives that even their critics would have nothing to say against them (1 Pet. 2:12).

That kind of life is possible only when we’re anchored in something steadier than our circumstances. Peter could call believers to honor governing authorities, love other believers, and fear the Lord because he knew the One they served. God had been faithful to Israel through centuries of exile, occupation, and uncertainty. He had been faithful to send His Son. And He would be faithful still.

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• By Jackson Chlebowy

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Serving is one of the most powerful weapons in volleyball. A great serve can shift momentum and start long scoring runs. Building up your own, or your young athletes', serving skills is essential for building a winning volleyball team and developing future volleyball stars.

This guide covers everything from basic technique to advanced serving drills. You’ll learn how to perform an overhand serve, how to progress into a jump serve, and how to build serving accuracy, power, and confidence.

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How to Serve a Volleyball: Fundamentals for Beginners

Before we get into the drills, let’s break down what makes a good volleyball serve according to Olympian Charlene Johnson-Tangaloa:

- Consistent toss in front of your hitting shoulder

- Elbow above the shoulder

- Step with your opposite foot

- Contact with the heel of the hand

- Finish with your palm facing the target

An aggressive mindset is the best to have when it is your turn to serve. “We don’t serve just to get the ball over the net. We serve to score a point." says Johnson-Tangaloa. Serving with a purpose is crucial to scoring more points and winning more matches.

Drill 1: Pre-Serve Routine

- Develop a personal routine (e.g., bounce, spin, breathe)

- Keep the toss consistent every time

- Breathe to relax and focus

- Be aggressive, pick your spot and attack it

Drill 2: Wall Contact Drill

- Stand one arm’s length from a wall

- Do full serve routine (toss, step, swing)

- Contact the wall with the heel of the hand

- Reinforces clean mechanics and follow-through

To learn more from former US Olympian Charlene Johnson-Tangaloa, check out her course ‘Indoor Volleyball Essentials’. 

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Volleyball Overhand Serve Drills

The following drills come from a live session with Santiago Restrepo, a Division I collegiate women’s volleyball coach. These are his go-to methods for teaching serving technique that scale from beginners to advanced players.

Play Better Volleyball Passing and Serving featuring Coach Santiago Restrepo

Drill 1: Toss–Step–Hit Fundamentals

Keys from Coach Restrepo:

- Start with the elbow higher than the shoulder

- Toss the ball slightly in front of your hitting shoulder

- Step with your left foot (if right-handed)

- Hit with the heel of the hand

- Finish with your palm facing the target

Progress from 10-foot line to the baseline, increasing power with arm speed as you move back.

Drill 2: Short vs. Deep Serve Control

Short serve: Contact slightly lower, lift higher

Deep serve: Contact higher with faster arm swing

Emphasizes control and adjustment

Drill 3: Zone Serving – Positions 1 to 6

- Maintain consistent mechanics

- Serve to all court positions, both short and deep

- Improves directional accuracy and mental focus

Drill 4: Jump Serve Progression

- Toss the ball high and slightly forward

- Use left–right–left approach

- Jump and strike with elbow high and fast arm swing

- Contact with heel of hand, finish with palm to target

These are D1 collegiate women’s volleyball coach Santiago Restrepo’s favorite serving drills. You can find more passing and serve drills in his course ‘Play Better Volleyball Passing and Serving’.

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Beginner Serving Drills for Accuracy

Drill 1: Partner Serve Progression

This warm-up drill builds form and control.

- Players face each other at the 10-foot line

- Serve to each other using full motion: toss, step, hit

- Move two steps back after every few successful serves

- Reinforces posture, contact, and follow-through

Drill 2: Serve and Sprint Conditioning (Coach Allison Lebar)

This drill adds cardio pressure to serving form.

- Player serves a ball with full technique

- Immediately sprints to the net, touches tape, then backpedals to baseline

- Grabs next ball and repeats

- Focuses on serving under fatigue and keeping consistent mechanics

You can find more drills and fundamental volleyball skills videos in Coach Allison Lebar's course ‘Volleyball Tips & Drills Video Library’

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Final Thoughts On Serving 

Learning how to serve a volleyball isn’t just about technique — it’s about mindset, repetition, and variety. Whether you’re focusing on overhand serve fundamentals or developing a powerful jump serve, these drills will help you build confidence and consistency.

Use these progressions to develop:

- A repeatable serve routine

- Clean mechanics (toss, step, hit)

- Directional control

- Power under pressure

Why stop at the serve? Check out CoachTubes' catalog of expert-led volleyball training videos today!

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What We Could Never Earn

Salvation isn't earned—it's freely given through Christ, who conquered sin to set us free.

October 14, 2026

Galatians 3:10-14; Galatians 3:21-24

Most of us are accustomed to working for a reward. We get paid for a completed job, and there’s a bonus when our effort exceeds expectation. It’s understandable why so many people assume salvation depends upon our actions. But thankfully, that is simply not the case.

God gave commandments to reveal His standard for holiness, but no one—with the exception of Jesus—has ever obeyed them perfectly. In fact, James 2:10 points out, “Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.” A single jealous thought, unkind comment, or dishonoring action is enough to fall short of God’s standard. In other words, if salvation depended on our self-righteousness, nobody could be saved.

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• By Lester Crafton

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If you’ve been named captain of your team, your coach and teammates are expecting you to be a leader. But what does it even mean to be a leader? And how do you do it? Here are five tips to help you bring your team together.

1. Lead by example in terms of effort.

This is probably the one you’re already best at doing. Captains generally tend to be not only good athletes, but great workers.

An old leadership adage goes like this, “Your team will do what you do well half as well and will do what you do poorly twice as poorly.”

So if you are the leader of your team and you are skipping your last two reps in the weight room, the people you lead will be skipping four. If you slack off on the last sprint of practice, your teammates are slacking off on the last two.

If you are a defensive captain who has put in work in the film room and know the two plays an offense is likely to run out of a formation, the people you lead may know one.

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Your teammates are looking to you to show them what’s possible. Your effort will pave the way.

 

2. Don’t worry about making mistakes.

The reason rule #1 came first is because although it may seem harder to always give your best effort, it actually makes things a lot more fun for you.

People will forgive all of your mistakes if you are giving 100%, but if you’re slacking, they will blame you for their lack of success.

I remember a teammate of mine playing offensive line who jumped the snap count and came off the line so low, fast and ferociously he knocked the defensive lineman from a four point stance directly backwards onto his rump. Nobody else moved.

It was just my teammate standing over the d-lineman he’d destroyed realizing he’d jumped the snap count. Did he cost our team five yards? Yes. However, twenty years later I can’t even remember who we were playing or if we won the game, but I still remember that play as clearly as if I’d watched it on Youtube five seconds ago. Why? Because although he made a mistake, he did it going full speed.

Your teammates will remember the effort you give far longer than they will remember the yards you gain or lose. If you’re afraid to make a mistake, you’ll never go full speed. If you don’t go full speed, you’ll never learn from your mistakes.

 

3. It’s easier to tear people down than build people up.

As a young leader it is easy to confuse “leadership” with “being a boss.” Remember all of your teammates play with you voluntarily. Nobody likes to be “bossed around”, even if it’s “for their own good”, or “for the good of the team.”

Basically, people hate to be bossed, but love to be led. Instead of looking for all of the ways your teammates are screwing up--that’s your coach’s job--instead look for ways they are improving. A simple way of putting this is, “Catch your teammates doing something right and acknowledge them for it.”

When you form the habit of catching your teammates doing something right and letting them know about it, they will begin to see that you believe in them and want to give their best effort.

My coach did a great job of using my teammate’s penalty as a teaching lesson about how to explode off the line instead of being angry with him for costing us five yards, and it inspired the whole team to play harder.

Tim Tebow also provided a great example of living into this principle in a 2011 game vs. the Chicago Bears. During the third quarter of this game, Tebow threw a beautiful pass to Demaryius Thomas which would have been a sure touchdown, tied the game and given the Broncos momentum.

Thomas dropped the pass.

Instead of ripping into Thomas, Tebow went to him and said, “Don’t worry about it, you’ll catch the game winning touchdown.” There was no game winning touchdown, but Thomas did score in the fourth quarter leading to an improbable come from behind victory.

A few weeks later in a playoff game against the Steelers, Tebow and Thomas connected on a game winning 80 yard touchdown on the first play of overtime.

It would have been easier for Tebow to remind Demaryius of what a great throw he’d made and blame Demaryius for letting the team down, but instead he forgave him immediately and let him know he believed in his ability for the future. And that belief paid off when it mattered most.

Look for the best in people, avoid taking the easy way out and building yourself up while putting other people down, and catch your teammates doing things right. Before you know it, you won’t have to yell at your teammates to do their best--they’ll want to follow your example because they trust you and believe in you because you forgive them and believe in them.

 

4. Help your coach communicate the message.

If you are the captain of your team it means you are trusted by both your teammates and your coaches. A quick, easy way to bond your teammates together is by talking trash about your coach. There is also no quicker way to destroy your team.

At some point every player has a problem with their coach. It is easy to turn this dislike into a reason to not give your best effort.

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Instead of engaging in the coach-bashing, listen to what is being said and take mental notes of it. You don’t need to defend your coach, but it is important to not be “against him.”

Remember as a leader, people will do the things you do well half as well and will do what you do poorly twice as poorly. So if you complain about your coach twice, they will do it four times. However, half of zero is zero--so if you don’t complain about your coach, and follow the other suggestions above, it won’t take long for your teammates to catch on, accept responsibility, understand coach is only trying to help them become the best players they can be and start working together as a team.

Instead of joining in the complaining, try talking to your coach and ask him how he’d have you handle the situation. There’s a good chance he or she doesn’t even know how the players feel. Or maybe it’s part of their plan to unite the team by being a villain. Although it may not be a great plan, it’s important for you as the captain to know where your coach is coming from.

Ask your coach for a half hour or so each week to share openly what you feel is going on with the team so you can stay on the same page moving forward.

 

5. Your teammates don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

No matter how great of a player you are, your teammates won’t follow you if they don’t believe you care about them.

Although it may not be obvious at first, the four steps listed above are all designed to establish you as someone who can demonstrate you care--you’re willing to do your best for them, you forgive them when they make mistakes, you won’t talk trash about them and you can communicate their concerns with your coach.

Here are two more concrete ways to establish great relationships with your teammates. Both will take a little time--probably more time than you feel like you have, but if you can find a way to make these things happen, you’ll create the kind of bond that lasts a lifetime and is capable of overcoming superior talent on the field.

The first recommendation is this--have dinner, or at least visit with as many of your teammates as possible in their homes. When we are young we have a tendency to believe everyone grows up just like us. By visiting someone in their home, you gain a much deeper appreciation for what their life is like after school and after practice.

Does your teammate have a strange, strong reaction you don’t understand when coach criticizes him? Maybe that’s because his dad does the same thing.

Have a teammate who always seems to put too much pressure on himself? Maybe his parents think his only chance of going to college is a football scholarship.

Visiting your teammates and their family in their home isn’t for the purpose of your changing someone’s family dynamics, it’s for increasing your level of understanding and empathy for them.

The second idea for bringing your teammates together is called a “packet party.” Set up a time for just you and your teammates to spend a night together--somewhere away from the distractions of school, dating and family responsibilities.

Before the party, come up with a packet you give to each person on your team (or if you’re on a big team--each person you have been chosen to lead). In this packet is a list of ten questions they are to think about or fill out before they come.

Some examples of questions would be:

1.    Why do you play football?

2.    Do you plan on going to college? Why or why not?

3.    What has been the biggest disappointment you’ve faced so far?

4.    What are some of the things that scare you the most about the upcoming season?

5.    What do you want to be when you grow up? Why is that important to you?

6.    What kind of things can you do nobody really knows about?

7.    What’s something you’re really good at doing?

8.    How can being a part of this team help you reach your goals?

These are all just examples, you can come up with your own list, but don’t shy away from the scary stuff. If your teammates know you can be trusted with knowing about parts of their lives nobody else knows about, they will certainly trust you to lead them to victory on the football field. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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If you’ll practice doing the five things on this list, you will be more than just a captain who can inspire his team to greater results, you’ll develop yourself into the kind of person people trust when it matters most. Football is a game most of us play for a few years, but with your leadership, it can be an experience you and your teammates remember and love for the rest of your lives.

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