Two excerpts from C. J. Mahaney on humble athletes:
C. J. Mahaney, “Appendix,” in Game Day for the Glory of God: A Guide for Athletes, Fans, and Wannabes 
(by Stephen Altrogge; Wheaton: Crossway, 2008), 108:
When Chad and I watch a game together, I am on the lookout for ways to teach him. I want to equip him to discern true greatness in the eyes of God. [Read more…] about Humble Athletes
I got double-Klucked last week:
Chicago: Moody, 2009. 154 pp. 13-page sample PDF.
When I saw Ted’s blog post about Beauty and the Mark of the Beast, I thought it was a spoof.
It’s not a spoof. Clarification: Ted and company really did write a “dispen-sensational thriller” about Tim Tebow (err, “Ted Strongbow”). The book, however, is a spoof. It’s crazy. [Read more…] about The Reason for Sports and a Dispen-sensational Thriller
Books on the rise of Jeremy Lin are starting to become available (e.g., Ted Kluck and Timothy Dalrymple), and I just read one of them:
Mike Yorkey. Linspired: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Lin. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012. 176 pp.
Yorkey was following Lin long before Linsanity began.
(By the way, Lin had surgery on his knee this week, and the Knicks expect him to miss the rest of the regular season and the first round of the playoffs.)
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I know that Tim Tebow isn’t as trendy in the media this week after losing to the Patriots last Saturday, but I scheduled this post over a month ago for this week since January 22 is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.)
Remember Tim Tebow’s controversial 2010 Super Bowl ad? He talks about it in his book, Through My Eyes (HarperCollins, 2011):
Even as we were thinking about what possibilities my next platform that God had in store might bring, another opportunity arose. In conjunction with Bill Heavener and Focus on the Family, we decided to create an advertisement to be played during the Super Bowl. We were very fortunate that Focus on the Family had donors set up to fund the ad.
Mom and I were the main actors in the ad and had a lot of fun shooting the commercial. But we didn’t let the subject matter of the script get out, and as soon as word got out that we were doing an ad with Focus on the Family, it instantly created a huge swirl of attention—with both supporters and detractors trying to figure out what the ad was all about. It was fun to see the speculation on every front as to the message the ad would convey. Because of the story surrounding the circumstances of my birth [see pp. 3–6], everybody on both sides of the issue immediately assumed that it was a pro-life message. So many columnists took me to task for something they assumed was going to be in the ad, but wasn’t. [Read more…] about Celebrating Life: Tim Tebow’s 2010 Super Bowl Ad
I’m grateful that The Atlantic gave my buddy Owen Strachan a platform to preach the gospel on the front page of their website yesterday (and it’s still on their front page today). They asked him earlier this week out of the blue to write this article: “Does God Care Whether Tim Tebow Wins on Saturday?”
It’s similar to one Owen wrote a month ago for TGC (“Tebow, Calvin, and the Hand of God in Sports”), but it’s more evangelistic since he wrote it for a different audience.
Related recent articles on Tim Tebow:
I’ve been following Tim Tebow pretty closely for the last two years, and the last three months have been a lot of fun!
I shared some thoughts about Tebow’s autobiography last August, and today I read two other critical and thoughtful reviews:
The reviews and authors differ:
But both reviews are critical and thoughtful.
While not necessarily disagreeing with them, [Read more…] about Two Critical and Thoughtful Reviews of Tim Tebow’s Book
Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker, Through My Eyes (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), pp. ix–x:
Since I first started playing high school football, a lot has been written about me. Some true, some not so true. Some positive, some not so positive. And some of it claiming to even know my mind-set and motivation.
It’s not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink. You read glowing things, and it doesn’t feel deserved. You read things that are critical, and it cuts you to the bone. It’s because of both those extremes of others’ opinions that I felt it the natural thing to do to tell my story, written from my perspective. . . .
In addition, the sheer amount that has been written about me also seems to indicate that, for whatever reason, a great number of people have a significant interest in me. In some respects that is very flattering. I’d guess that any one of us would be flattered by that level of interest. However, my parents always told me, from an early age, that we all have the ability to influence others, whether through our words or actions, or both. They always added that, besides possessing the ability, we also have the responsibility to use it in a positive, encouraging, and uplifting way—a platform. Who knows? Maybe my platform will be the same in five years; maybe not. One thing I’m confident of is that the Lord already knows the answer to that, and He has a plan for it all. That is something I’ve learned to have the utmost assurance of and faith in—His daily, weekly, monthly, total and eternal plan for our lives. [Read more…] about Tim Tebow’s Platform Stewardship
I’m not a Broncos fan, but I’m a Tim Tebow fan.
I’ve heard through some reliable sources that Tebow, an outspoken evangelical Christian, is the real deal.
From what I can tell, he is.*
And I’m cheering and praying for him.
Last week I read his recently released autobiography:
Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. Through My Eyes. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 260 pp.
It’s a fun story to read, especially if you like football.
It’s hard not to like the guy: [Read more…] about Tim Tebow