Will there be touchdowns in the new creation? Grand-slam homeruns? Three-pointers at the buzzer? When heaven comes down to earth (Revelation 21:1–2), we shouldn’t expect anything less…
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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…
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…
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…
All of us want to experience the power of God.
In 2009, Bill Maher made a movie, Religulous, where he asks a man who believes he will go to be with God when he dies, “Then why don’t you kill…
I am writing a book and need your help. Last week, I was telling a small group of guys some of my recent highs and lows. I told the guys…
“It’s one of those tricky questions,” said former quarterback and current NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner, a devout Christian. “I believe God has your best interest in mind. How that…
“Does God care who wins?” Absolutely YES!!!! – with a greater passion than any athlete or coach or spectator has every felt but for a different reason, his glory not…
Do you see what these people have done? Going back to the previous blog, they have placed the outcome of the game on the ‘Unimportant to God’ list and the…
How do we determine that sports are petty? If sports are petty to God, what else is unimportant to Him? If he is only concerned with the “big things” of…
Want to start up some interesting conversation? Float this question out into your next gathering, whatever kind it is. Whenever I have the opportunity to do this, I have never…
“I always give God the glory,” McCoy said. “I never question why things happen the way they do. God is in control of my life…
You won’t learn from this list why God needs to redeem the world he created. You won’t learn why his love is so significant. You won’t find any warning of…
What I found interesting about these four practices is that they form a nice progression. As we know, in our culture, we often have to “earn the right” to share…