Gospel Perspectives for Parents: Sports and the Christian Life
We parents have to wrestle our own competitive streaks to the ground before we can even begin to model gospel-formed attitudes about sports to our children.
We parents have to wrestle our own competitive streaks to the ground before we can even begin to model gospel-formed attitudes about sports to our children.
Do you feel like you don’t measure up? Good. You’re in good company, and you are exactly where you need to be.
Jesus’ followers were extraordinary, not because they stood out in the crowd, but because Jesus called them.
The sooner we admit our vulnerability to ourselves, to our friends, and to our children, the sooner we can stop holding ourselves and our kids hostage to unattainable ideals, and lead them instead into the rest and freedom of life with Christ.
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