High school freshman Cody Martin relies on his Christian faith to help him decide what sport to play during the spring season and, more important, to give him the courage to confront a friend who may be taking performance-enhancing drugs.
In Goal-Line Stand, Cody's football coach decides to move him into the wide receiver position, forcing Cody to compete with his good friend Brett Evans for a starting spot on the team.
Cody struggles with jealousy when his teammates Pork Chop Porter and Terry Alston are called up to the junior varsity and varsity teams, and Cody is thrust into a leadership role on the freshman basketball team.
As Cody moves into a public high school dominated by vocal non-Christians whochallenge his faith, he finds himself reluctant to speak up--or even to admithe is Christian.
But he found he was too tired to care. “So,” Blake said as Cody slid into the backseat of his car and lay down, “were you scared when you got lost in the clouds up there?” Cody raised his head. “Uh, yeah!” “Well,” Blake said, “we were praying for you.” “We?” Pork Chop bit into his third donut, pa...
After a half hour of drills, Coach Clayton divided up the twenty-five basketball hopefuls into five teams for full-court scrimmages. The scrimmage rules were simple. Five minutes on the clock. Only those defensive actions that drew blood or left a bruise were considered fouls. When the five minut...