Download or read book Sports Ministry for Christ written by Frank Burkhead and published by New Global Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sports Ministry written by David B. Lewis and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first college textbook for sports ministry courses, Sports Ministry offers a how-to process for developing viable sports ministry programs locally and internationally that proclaim the Gospel and positively influence the world we live in through shared sport experiences.
Download or read book The Christian Athlete written by Brian Smith and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Athlete is a gospel-centered guide that assists athletes who identify as Christians and are seeking to understand how to practically apply their faith to their sport. Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport by: Assisting those who want a wide-angled understanding of how to live the Christian faith in the context of sports Walking through the many questions Christian athletes ask about winning, losing, injuries, practice, and everything in between Moving Christian athletes from simply having clichéd spiritual sayings decorating their bodies or t-shirts to actually living out their faith through all the opportunities their sport offers them The Christian Athlete will show readers how to live out a biblical perspective on athletics and urge them to engage in the gifts they are given to glorify God whether they are the team MVP or riding the bench.
Download or read book Beyond the Gold written by Bryan Mason and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to developing church sport and recreation ministries. Especially relevant to churches who want to run sport programmes ahead of the 2012 Olympics. Bryan Mason contends that sport is as vital a part of the church programme as say youth work or women's ministry. Indeed, by its all encompassing nature, it reaches out to every age group. Sport is an ideal atmosphere for making friends and sharing the difference Jesus Christ makes in your life. This book provides vital information and ideas for churches wishing to make mission a central goal as 2012 approaches.
Download or read book Christmanship written by Min Greg James Linville and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmanship is a theological, philosophical, methodological, ethical, and historical examination of competition, sports, and sports outreach ministry. It includes a template for determining biblically defensible sport, seminal explanations and considerations of theologically sound competition and sport, and a full explanation of how to worship and honor Christ in an through athletics.
Download or read book Simple Church written by Thom S. Rainer and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this multi-awarded national best seller shares a clear message from case studies of 400 North American congregations: church is done best when it's kept simple.
Download or read book Don t Waste Your Sports written by C. J. Mahaney and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why is it that sports seem to bring out the best and the worst in us?” asks author C. J. Mahaney. “Sports are a gift from God. But as soon as you introduce the human heart, things get complicated.” For the Christian athlete, sports are one of the key battlegrounds in which pride and self-glory are regular temptations. If sports are indeed a gift from God, why are playing fields and courts so often arenas for our egos? How are we to enjoy sports in a godly way? Self-described “pastor athlete” C. J. Mahaney looks to Scripture for principles that speak to the role of sports in our lives. This booklet outlines how Christian athletes are to play for the glory of God and model gratitude, humility, and service. With candor and humor, Mahaney recounts his own story with sports and through illustrations and practical applications exhorts athletes not to waste their sports. The booklet concludes with application questions and an addendum to parents. A great gift for Christian athletes, these booklets are also sold in packs of twelve.
Download or read book In the Arena written by David E Prince and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a sports-obsessed world. From fans wearing their favorite team’s colors to high school soccer players practicing after school, we encounter sports every day. Nothing else in our culture produces so much passion and intrigue. Such obsession, for the Christian, must produce critical reflection. How should the Christian think about sports? What does Christ have to do with athletic competition? Can sports be redeemed? In the Arena will answer these questions so that readers: Understand how the gospel of Christ shapes our understanding and enjoyment of sports. Receive practical instruction on how to use sports in parenting and discipleship. Become confident in using the arena of sports for discipleship, parenting, and recreation.
Download or read book Playing for God written by Annie Blazer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: “If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too,” reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it gave athletes the opportunity to think about the embodied experiences of sport as a way to experience intimate connection with the divine. As sports ministry developed, it focused on individual religious experiences and downplayed celebrity sales power, opening the door for female Christian athletes to join and eventually dominate sports ministry. Today, women are the majority of participants in sports ministry in the United States. In Playing for God, Annie Blazer offers an exploration of the history and religious lives of Christian athletes, showing that evangelical engagement with popular culture can carry unintended consequences. When sport became an avenue for embodied worship, it forced a reckoning with evangelical teachings about the body. Female Christian athletes increasingly turned to their own bodies to understand their religious identity, and in so doing, came to question evangelical mainstays on gender and sexuality. What was once a male-dominated masculinist project of sports engagement became a female-dominated movement that challenged evangelical ideas on femininity, marriage hierarchy, and the sinfulness of homosexuality. Though evangelicalism has not changed sporting culture, for those involved in sports ministry, sport has changed evangelicalism.
Download or read book The Lausanne Covenant written by John R. W. Stott and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elite written by Adam D. Metz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond an occasional sports-inspired sermon illustration, sports are generally regarded as having little relevance to the Christian faith. More often, they are viewed as a welcome and safe reprieve from politics and religion. Quietly, however, as they avoid the discerning eye of the church, sports are slowly overtaking families and overwhelming parents. Under the labels "elite," "select," and "travel," a new experience of sports has taken root in American culture demanding financial burdens, time commitments, and heightened pressures never before seen. Community leaders from various public sectors have criticized many recent trends in youth sports, but, alas, where has the church been? This new "elite" expression of youth sports is quickly building an intimidating front against the church. As church attendance declines, "elite" youth sports participation is on the rise. This book ventures into the challenging, controversial, and powerful world of youth sports. Young people participate in sports more than just about any other activity, and the church has neglected its role in providing a voice of discernment for what participating in sports should look like. Christians are desperately in need of a manifesto for helping them wrestle with the complex, exciting, and often exhausting world of youth sports.
Download or read book Church is a Team Sport written by Jim Putman and published by Faithhappenings Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do churches grow and make an impact in their community . . . and the world? They work together in intentional ways in order to maximize everyone's gifts. They're mission-driven. Church Is a Team Sport shows proven ways to push believers, new and mature, toward growth as both Christians--and leaders. Through this powerful, thought-provoking volume, ministers both in the congregation and on staff will discover how to expand the church one soul at a time. Making disciples is the crux of pastor Jim Putman's message. The plan works. Caring for people, following up on stray sheep, and teaching what it means to love God and obey him. That's how Church Is a Team Sport transforms Christians from Monday-morning quarterbacks into dynamic players. "Jim Putman is a coach at heart. He is a leader of people, and they follow him. He is committed, authentic, and refreshingly honest. What you see is what you get. . . . He boils everything down to its essence and is not distracted. But at the core he cares. He cares for people and believes that one sheep should not be lost no matter what it costs the shepherd. You cannot read this book with an open heart and remain nonchalant about the people God has put in your care." -From the foreword by Avery Willis, author and international speaker "Time out . . . this one's the real deal! Jim Putman does an awesome job of challenging Christian leaders to rethink the boxes we find ourselves in. Church Is a Team Sport is a gutsy book that promotes innovative and practical means for how to become a true team. There's no trash talking here, just positive lessons to improve your church." -Dave Stone, senior pastor, Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, Kentucky "Jim Putman has written a clear, practical, and powerful guide for doing church together, as a team. His authenticity is refreshing and the story of Real Life is amazing. Pick up a copy of this book for yourself and for your team." -Jud Wilhite, author, Stripped; senior pastor, Central Christian Church, Las Vegas "I have observed Jim and his ministry up close for several years. He is a great coach, pastor, and leader. This book is not theory. It is a practical playbook that has been used at Real Life to develop a winning church. Jim's insights will help your church become more effective in impacting your community. All of your leadership team needs to read this book." -Don Wilson, pastor, Christ's Church of the Valley, Phoenix, Arizona
Download or read book Serving written by Fellowship of Christian Athletes and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does serving fit in the world of competitive sports? Team sports and even individual sports require others to help. This is serving as it has been worked out through repetitive drills that no one but God and an athlete sees, through tough decisions in the heat of the final minutes of the game, through the crucible of the highly competitive sports world where being a servant makes you a good teammate, a competitive player and a model of Christ. Serving is a unique devotional that provides meaningful readings to help athletes and coaches understand how to have the attitude and heart of a servant, to think of others before themselves, even in the heat of competition. Learn from those who have found what true winners know. When they have served others, win or lose, they are modeling the very heart of Christ.
Download or read book Focus on Sport Ministry written by Lowrie McCown and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sports and Christianity written by Nick J. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful chapters from Scott Kretchmar, one of the world’s leading philosophers of sport, and Father Kevin Lixey, the head of the Vatican’s ‘Church and Sport’ office (2004-), add further depth and breadth to this book, making it accessible and interesting to academic and practitioner audiences alike. Within the context of this relatively new and rapidly expanding area of inquiry, this collection provides a unique and important addition to the current literature for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and serves as a point of reference for scholars of theology and religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports studies. The book may also be of interest to physical educators and sports coaches who wish to adopt a more "holistic" and ethical approach to their work. As modern sport is often intertwined with commercial and political agendas, this book offers an important corrective to the "win-at-all-costs" culture of modern sport, which cannot be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry.
Download or read book The Assist written by Brian Smith and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Christian athletes know they are supposed to play for the glory of God, but what does that actually mean? How can the Bible be practically applied to sports? In The Assist, Brian Smith combines the wisdom of God's Word and his own experience working with athletes to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport. This book will show you how to: Use your sport to grow closer to God. Glorify God in every area of your sport, including practice, injuries, relating to teammates, and winning and losing graciously. Leverage your position as an athlete to maximize your impact in God's kingdom. To be a Christian athlete means much more than just giving your best and making sure God gets the credit. It means living out your faith in every aspect of your sport. Smith's book is aimed at helping you do just that: it is designed to assist you in integrating your faith with your life as an athlete.
Download or read book Sports Outreach written by Steve Connor and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Connor, a specialist in sports ministry, shows us why sports ministry is a great idea for today's church. This is not just a book about how to get people feverishly active in all kind of sports - it is a thoughtful look at developing a carefully balanced approach as part of your church strategy. Steve shows you how to get the whole church 'onside', develop the workers and make an impact in your area. He shows the history of sports ministry and its biblical foundations. He not only tells us WHY we should do it - he then goes on to show HOW to do it and gives us different programme models to follow or adapt. Sports ministry does not just stop on the 'field of play'. Steve then shows you how to bring the activity 'indoors' by integrating people into the life of the church. Unleash the huge potential of Sports ministry in your area with 'Sports Outreach'.
