Last night, the Baltimore Ravens defeated the New England Patriots by a score of 28-13 to advance to the Superbowl. One of the stars of the game for the Ravens was WR…
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In part one, I quoted Ted Kluck from his book The Reason for Sports: A Christian Fanifesto asking the question: To many, the term Christian athlete means kneeling in the end zone for…
In what was a great weekend of NFL playoff games, perhaps the best of all of them was the Broncos/Ravens game. It was a game full of story lines: Peyton…
With this in mind, the Sports & Theology series addresses the worldviews of professional athletes. We’ve done a number of these posts on basketball players. Enjoy!…
To learn more about these posts, see our first one on Kobe Bryant. *It has been unintentional that the first three of these posts have all focused on NBA players. It’s…
Great article here from Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel regarding Mark Richt and Georgia’s chances at a national championship. Below are some quotes from Mark Richt regarding his faith: “Do I want…
For me, it’s hard to hear the word ‘image’ without thinking of Andre Agassi. For those of you who don’t know, Andre Agassi was one of the greatest tennis players…
This is a great article detailing the new sports complex being built by Appleton Alliance Church in Appleton, WI. We had the privilege of helping this church start their sports…
When you connect sports to life principles to spiritual truth (and vice versa), it resonates with people…
If you’ve never watched a NASCAR event before you may not know that they have a prayer before every race. Usually, they will have a local pastor lead the prayer. …
I had not heard of the Tebow statue until I read this article. The statue clearly shows Tim Tebow with his patented John 3:16 inscription on his eye black. In…
I recently came across the below stats and I thought I would share them: More than 65% of children say they participate in sports to be with friends Top reasons…
If you would like to learn more about this book, see Part 1. Here are some more quotes: “First, we play to the glory of God by thanking him for…
Over the course of 2011, we hope to highlight new sports that have been recently created. As sports ministry leaders, we have the ability to be innovative and to leverage…
I came across this resource from Sovereign Grace Ministries lately. It looks to have a lot of the same material as our Theology of Competition class…
Just for fun, I thought I would post this. I bet you’ve never seen a play like this before…