For the last few weeks Lance Armstrong’s name and face is constantly on the TV…for sports fans that is nothing new, but for the first time he admitted what everyone already knew. Lance Armstrong used Performance Enhancing Drugs…and in other news the Pope is catholic and the grass is green. That’s about as shocking as [...]
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Does faithfulness and character count for anything today? As an Auburn fan I’ve been listening to Sport’s Radio hoping to hear who Auburn hires as their next coach. It’s amazing to hear the talk show hosts and the callers talk about adultery as if it is not a big thing. One “expert” talked about Coach [...]
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In 1980 our family moved to Alabama from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. I always loved football, but growing up in Ocean Springs I was always more interested in Pro-Football than the NCAA. I had several friends that pulled for different teams and I decided that I would pull for the Georgia Bulldogs. There were [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Plea for Sports Fans from a Pastor in a Sports Crazed State!
Watching college football in Alabama is quite an experience. Fans are divided between two teams—Auburn and Alabama, but they typically don’t limit their excitement to one team. Most of the fans in Alabama pull for 12 teams—their team and who ever plays the other team. I saw it tonight when Texas A&M beat Alabama. Twitter [...]
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Priorities…you have them, but what or who is on top? What dominates your time, your money, and your passion? When football season starts in the state of Alabama many pastors share the same emotions I share—as a football fan I’m excited, but as a pastor I cringe because I know attendance will drop. For many, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Feb 14, “He is no fool…”
Yesterday I wrote about sports and the danger of idolatry. Today I want to revisit that and encourage you to think about the significance we place upon sports. I know men that would find it hard to recite more than five verses in the Bible, but they can tell you every single detail of their [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Feb 13, Sports Fan or Idol Worshiper?
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve spent most of my life being a fan of sports…football was always my favorite game to play and it is also my favorite game to watch. I enjoy watching baseball live, but not on TV. I enjoying watching basketball in the Finals of both the NCAA and [...]
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