Eight parental behaviors guaranteed to make your kid hate sports—and resent you

Athletes, coaches, and athletic directors, what if we flipped the script and chose the path of honoring over hazing?

Sports only work when we care. And caring often involves tears.

Fans’ affection for will always be based on your performance. Jesus’ affection for you will always be based on his performance—on your behalf.

Our attraction to March Madness isn’t just hype. It actually reveals four unique things about God’s glory in the way he hardwired humanity.

A 25-minute interview with author and speaker, Preston Sprinkle, about how Christ followers should (and should not) respond to trans athletes playing sports.

There is a better path forward when it comes to athletes and their mental health. Unsurprisingly, it involves a God who cares about the unseen realities of our soul and his word inviting us into an authentic relationship with him.

Sports shows our desire for something beyond mere survival. It’s evidence of something intrinsic within us that wants to not only see beauty and celebrate it—but see it a second or third time. 

What follows are three reasons why being a Christian makes you a better athlete—and the one reason it oftentimes won’t.

Athlete, God can be glorified through your time at home. Be intentional.

Athlete, you can still glorify God right now. The “whatever you do” does not apply to sports, at the moment. But it does apply to every other area of your life that occupies your mind and your time.

I think Jesus would stop playing sports and use his platform to point us all to something of far greater significance than a game.

This is not a “how to play kickball with your family in a way that glorifies God.” It’s how to do it in a way that you don’t want to strangle each other when it’s over. Which I guess is at some level glorifying to God.

The prosperity gospel says this: if I trust in God and have enough faith, he will reward me with earthly blessings like health, wealth and success.

Like any well-tread and popular Christian phrase, through the years AO1 has come to mean many different things to many different kinds of players, all at different levels of Christian maturity and understanding.

We need to talk about it because as difficult as it is to talk about, abortion has spiritual, emotional and physical components that have lifelong consequences.

Whatever platform you currently have to influence others is a stewardship granted to you by God. He wants you to learn to use it for His purposes and not merely for your own.

Prayer is powerful because it works. God has given us an open line of communication where we can come to him and make requests on behalf of ourselves and others.