Pride and Sports
We lost our significance and glory in the garden and we’ve been on a journey since then to reclaim it and in the process, we often choose to reclaim it through idolatrous ways such as sports…
We lost our significance and glory in the garden and we’ve been on a journey since then to reclaim it and in the process, we often choose to reclaim it through idolatrous ways such as sports…
Despite technological advances that make communications instant and far-reaching, Christians are becoming more spiritually isolated from non-Christians than was true a decade ago…
Because that’s where God comes alongside me and says, “I love failures – people who can’t make it…”
If we won we would thank the Lord for the win—— But never once did we pray DURING the game.
You may not think these two ideas – gravity and gospel centered sports ministry – have a lot in common. Hopefully after you read this post you will see the relationship.
My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the people around them, and yet at the same time extremely unlike them…
“You are the most introspective person I know!”
I hear this often from people around me. Sometimes it is used as a compliment. Other times I sense a little criticism from the person who says it. More than once, I have heard the “other voice,” the “behind the words voice,” saying “Get your nose out of your navel!”
Over the years, the Local Church has had a strange, almost love/hate, relationship with sports. Three perspectives on sports – all unbiblical – have brought about the various expressions in that relationship.
All of us want to experience the power of God.
Take your time and slow down the conversation…