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Golden State Warriors Win NBA Championship, Kevin Durant Wins MVP
In sports, like life, it's not about the victories, but often, it's about the adversity...
READ MOREDaily Devotional - Monday June 5, 2017
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also...
READ MORENEW PODCAST: Phoenix Suns Jared Dudley
Jared Dudley is a forward on the Phoenix Suns. He just finished his 10th NBA...
READ MORENEW PODCAST: Cleveland Cavaliers Chaplain Jerry Birch
Jerry Birch just completed his 18th season as the chaplain for the NBA Champion Cleveland...
READ MOREDaily Devotional - Friday April 21, 2017
“…upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not...
READ MOREAround the Net: The complexity of Christian sports fandom
Even Christian athletes like Stephen Curry, who most hold to an almost impossible standard, are sinful human beings — capable of missteps and aberrations. Yet, this concept seems to be quickly forgotten among Christian sports fans.
READ MORENBA Closeup: Jeremy Lin
Through the email prayer requests, fans weren’t only given specifics on how to pray for Lin, but the emails also gave insight into how Lin felt, how he thought and how he believed God was moving...
READ MORESummer 2015 print issue NOW AVAILABLE
Log in HERE to view Sports Spectrum's Summer 2015 print issue before it arrives in your mailbox. To receive eight issues of Sports Spectrum magazine a year, subscribe HERE. This issue includes feature stories on Los Angeles Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis, newly signed N.Y. Jets quarterback Bryce Petty, and former MLB player Bernie Carbo. Also included is Sports Spectrum's usual 13-week devotional book, the Training Table, and a special eight-page section with tons of video content from the 2015 K-LOVE Fan Awards...
READ MOREAiring It Out -- The way sports should be
With all of the scandals, shootings, ill-advised comments (verbally and in social media), and general negativity surrounding today’s sports world, I wondered if sports had finally lost its safe-haven reputation it once enjoyed...
READ MORENBA Closeup - Jeremy Lin
It was a simple request. Let me stay on the New York Knicks roster. That was the prayer request uttered by Jeremy Lin on January 27 at a pregame chapel with teammate and friend Landry Fields teammate Jerome Jordan and Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem. “The chaplain asked us to share a prayer request, and I knew February 10th was right around the corner, so that was what was on my heart, just that I would be able to continue to stay on the roster and be with the team the rest of the year..."
READ MOREUnpackin' It -- This NBA season, I’m convinced...
1. I'm convinced there are three great teams this year. The three best players in...
READ MOREFrom the Archives - Kevin Durant
NBA superstar Kevin Durant and the Thunder came up short in the NBA Finals last year, but he has a promising future and leads a quiet life as he seeks to walk closer with the Lord. When Kevin Durant signed an extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder on July 7, 2010, he did so with virtually no fanfare save an understated, yet highly grateful message to the fans via Twitter. That extension was later revealed to be for five years and roughly $86 million...
READ MORETraining Table -- Unpackin' It (Week 10)
Monday “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”...
READ MOREMusings -- Thoughts from around the world of sports
Musings about the world of sports... Contracts, new jobs, difficult situations, working behind the scenes, slander, forgiveness. Some of that sounds like what people deal with on a regular basis, but those things were evident in the world of sports this past week...
READ MOREA Distinct Path
It happened to Luke Zeller three times—the recurrence of a dream. “What do you want to do when you grow up?” a television reporter asked Luke when he was 14 years old. “I want to start a basketball camp,” he said...
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