I’m a volunteer soccer coach and a part-time football fan, so my attitude this weekend was a roller coaster ride plunged low by the depressing UH Warriors game, then revived by the aggressive soccer game played by the 6-year-old boys on my team who were clearly having a lot of fun.
Sports bring out all kinds of reactions and emotions in me, so it was refreshing to hear C.J. Mahaney’s sermon “Don’t Waste Your Sports.” He offers a biblical approach to playing and watching sports, saying there are two perspectives possible:
One appreciates the actual process of playing the sport. The other has sadly turned sport into an ugly expression of human pride, envy, and malice. What will keep us from turning sport into something ugly rather than beautiful?
Listen to the sermon here.
(via Justin Taylor)