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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...

Using sports to glorify someone is not a new idea. You may already know that the athletic brand Nike is named after the ancient Greek goddess of victory. But perhaps you didn’t know that the original Olympic Games—which occurred hundreds of years before Christ was born—was an athletic festival held in honor of the Greek god Zeus. On the central day of the festival, one hundred oxen were sacrificed to him. (This rivals modern Super Bowls for the most absurd halftime