Kingdom Harbor

Welcome to the Club House.  Get your clubs ready and your shoes laced up.  We are preparing to tee off on a new discipleship series called Golf & God: Spiritual Links to life with God.  Jeremy continues to bring us devotional writings that cleverly and applicably link faith with the stuff of everyday life — what Jeremy calls “Sacred Analogies.”  Now golf lovers and God lovers can unite as we explore the many spiritual “links” between the game of Golf and our walk with God on the course of discipleship. 

Before we begin, a short explanation of the name “Golf.”  

Rumor has it that the origin of the word GOLF is that it is an old acronym meaning “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.”  This turns out to be just an old wives tale (or, in this case, an old husband’s tale).  In actuality, the medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club.” It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into “golve,” “gowl” or “gouf.” By the 16th Century, the word “golf” had emerged (Sources: British Golf Museum, USGA Library).

Still, for the sake of this devotional series, I would like give a new meaning to “golfer”.  I want to invite you all to become more passionate, more devoted GOLFers of Christ — that is, God-Obeying, Loving Followers of Christ.” With that in mind, golfers, let’s prepare ourselves for nine holes to truly remember.

 We tee off at 6:30 tomorrow morning. See you on the first tee!