From the Touchline

Today’s Nations and Devotions podcast features a prayer for the nations of IR Iran and New Zealand. Both teams play a group stage game against each other. Portland Timbers Chaplain Troy Ready prays for these two nations and offers a reflection from Psalm 51. Today’s special hashtag is #iranandnewzealand for the Nations and Devotions sticker challenge.

Make sure to use #soccerchaplainsunited and #soccerpsalmsworldcup with your social media posts.

Join us again tomorrow for another special day and time of prayer throughout the World Cup!

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today’s Nations and Devotions podcast features a prayer for the nations of Ecuador and Côte d’Ivorie as both teams have a group stage match against each other. Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC Chaplain Jason Rollins, born in Ecuador and his wife growing up in Côte d’Ivorie, delivers a prayer for these two nations and offers a reflection on always being ready because we never know when and where or how God will use us. Today’s special hashtag is #ecuadorandcôtedivorie for the Nations and Devotions sticker challenge.

Make sure to use #soccerchaplainsunited and #soccerpsalmsworldcup with your social media posts.

Join us again tomorrow for another special day and time of prayer throughout the World Cup!

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today’s Nations and Devotions podcast features a prayer for the nations of Scotland and Haiti as both teams have a group stage match against each other. Sacramento Republic Chaplain Robert Briggs, a Scottish expat, prays for his home nation and the nation of Haiti as he offers a reflection about playing through pressure from Psalm 3 and Soccer Psalm 3. Today’s special hashtag is #scotlandandhaiti for the Nations and Devotions sticker challenge.

Make sure to use #soccerchaplainsunited and #soccerpsalmsworldcup with your social media posts.

Join us again tomorrow for another special day and time of prayer throughout the World Cup!

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today’s Nations and Devotions podcast features a prayer for the nations of Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The teams face off against each other in a group stage match. I share a reflection about Trusting in God’s Game Plan based on Psalm 19 and Soccer Psalm 19. Today’s special hashtag is #canadaandbosniaandherzegovina for the Nations and Devotions sticker challenge.

Make sure to use #soccerchaplainsunited and #soccerpsalmsworldcup with your social media posts.

Join us again tomorrow for another special day and time of prayer throughout the World Cup!

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today’s Nations and Devotions podcast features a prayer for the nations of Mexico and South Africa. Both teams have the amazing opportunity to open up the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the iconic Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. El Paso Locomotives FC Chaplain Mike Richards prays for these two nations and offers a reflection from Psalm 23. Today’s special hashtag is #mexicoandsouthafrica for the Nations and Devotions sticker challenge.

Make sure to use #soccerchaplainsunited and #soccerpsalmsworldcup with your social media posts.

Join us again tomorrow for another special day and time of prayer throughout the World Cup!

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today on the podcast, I am joined by former Aberdeen Football Club Chaplain Pastor Barry Douglas. Barry, born in Scotland, raised in South Africa before he returned home, shares his story of coming to faith and beginning in ministry all the way to planting a church in Aberdeen, to his new work today with Northwest Orlando. It’s a fantastic story that we don’t have time for it all, so we will have to have him back. Barry and I also get in a fun game of Crosses with Rev where I learn to pronounce “cullen skink.”

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today on the podcast, I am joined by Founder and CEO of Surge International — Dave Irby. Many years ago, God took the unlikeliest of people and burdened Dave for doing mission. It was a call that he couldn’t escape and led him to working with several sports ministry organizations before founding and starting Surge. Surge International ministers through soccer to help with different needs present with many different people groups. You can learn more through their website. Dave and I also get in a fun game of Crosses with Rev.

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Today is our final podcast for the month of May looking at mental and spiritual health. Today, from the Gospel of Mark 5:1-20, we see the fragile mental state of a man besieged with demons. Jesus heals him. During the podcast we look at the condition of the man and contemplate how often times we dismiss stories like this as fantastical and too amazing to maybe even be true; however, the truth is that many of us are driven into dark, isolating places with our own “demons” (spiritual or not). While the posture of the people from the surrounding towns looks promising, the resources offered in the past aren’t really restorative of helpful, only the power of Jesus can truly heal the man. We need this power in our own lives, today.

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

Continuing to look at mental, emotionally and spiritual health issues, we turn this week to look at a particular story of madness in the book of Daniel and how a king went mad with his delusions of grandeur and himself. Certainly, pride played a factor, but from King Nebuchadnezzar’s life we learn that there is a warning God intends for us when it comes to building our own kingdoms and brands without Him. Even if we don’t heed the warning God gives, He can still restore us from the insanity that we find ourselves trapped by. You can find this story Daniel 4.

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.

May is Mental Health Awareness month. It’s during this time that here is an increased emphasis on looking after one’s mental and emotional health. Last week on the podcast, we talked about our environment and needing to take an assessment of what voices and other things in our surrounding environment are affecting and impacting our mental and spiritual state. Today, we look at the ways that God meets us in the midst of our own mess.

There are highs and lows in football, just like in life. There are moments when we take on the game’s greatest (like Lionel Messi) and moments when we can’t wait to shower and get out of the stadium because we (or the team) just laid an egg against an opponent. We can become exhausted working through the highs and lows. Today, we look at the life of Elijah (the prophet of Israel) and the moment that he was ready to give up on life — thinking that he had failed or just being fed up and too frustrated to go on. You can find this story I Kings 19.

From the Touchline is a short-feature podcast with Rev Brad Kenney, Founder and Executive Director of Soccer Chaplains United and Volunteer Chaplain to the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Rev Brad and occasional guests touch on various issues around the topics of faith, family, and football (soccer).

Also, don’t forget that you can listen in our app, SoccrChapUtd, in the Apple and Google store.