Psalm 25:5 Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Few would argue with the statement that “for many, sport is an obsession”. Such obsessions are manifested in many ways. There are countless parents who are obsessed with their children becoming great athletes, […]
In the World, but Not of It!
John 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. Years ago, ESPN did a bit of a tongue-in-cheek documentary on Los Angeles Lakers’ basketball star A.C. Green. Green holds the NBA record having played 907 games without missing a game or sitting […]
A Healthy Jealousy?
They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. (Psalm 78:58) Are You Jealous of Other Athletes’ Abilities? The title of this blog caught my attention. The writer recounted his time as a college freshman baseball player. The first day at the batting cages he met one of his new teammates. […]
Do You Actually Listen?
13 To answer before listening – that is folly and shame. (Proverbs 18:13) Imagine a young baseball player sheepishly walking in to meet with their coach as he sits in the middle of a 0 for 30 slump at the plate. The coach asks: “what’s going on?”. The player begins: “I just don’t feel I’m seeing […]
The Greatest Comeback Ever!
Matthew 28: 5The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. I recently saw an old video of the ending of a South African Rugby match. It was the 2014 Varsity Cup Final, […]
Better than a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give youa sign: The virginwill conceive and give birth to a son, andwill call him Immanuel Robert Merton, a 20th century sociologist, is credited as coining the expression “self-fulfilling prophecy” which is “in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false […]
