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“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...

though, because this promise carries a warning label, too. If it’s possible to use sports for God’s glory, then there is also a way to misuse sports for our own glory. And that is exactly what the sinful heart—mine and yours included—is often all too eager to do. We’ll talk about examining our lives for the presence of idolatry a little later in this booklet. But first let’s consider an important question: how do we glorify God—and not ourselves—in our sports? To answer that, we need to know who