Friends, every morning I am torn between my passion to spend time in God’s Word and to spend time reading the Sport’s Page. Maybe you feel this tension as well? Ever since my days as a paperboy, reading the Sport’s Page early in the morning has been a part of my daily ritual. I like knowing what just happened, what will happen—and talking about it with others throughout the day. I often surprise my un-churched friends with my ability to match them stat for stat on things they think a “man of the cloth” would be too busy to consider. But hey, God made me with a love for sports—and I enjoy being passionate about them.
Yet at the same time, I do know that The Wide World of Sports cannot hold a candle to what God is doing in our world today. Faith is more powerful than steroids; Jesus is a mightier King than King (LeBron) James; the Lion of Judah is a better role model than the Tiger of Nike and the Eucharist does more to restore my soul than Gatorade ever could. Champions come and go, newspapers get recycled and sports records are made to be broken. But in the midst of it all Jesus remains that one ever present hero who has never yet lost a match or let me down.
So what if there is a way to use sports to see God more clearly? Maybe we can celebrate the human instinct of competition as a driver than can be harnessed to lead us towards Christ. Maybe sports is a part of the Incarnation of God—and we can actually see God working in, with and under the stuff on the Sport’s Page in a way that can inspire our living. Maybe reading the Sport’s Page through the lens of the Bible can give us a perspective on life that could inspire us to be bolder, go further and risk more for the cause of Christ.
That is the quest of this blog—to read the Bible and the Sport’s page and see what God might have in store for us. That’s my aim—let’s hope I’m a good shot.
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