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:
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<li>Understand how the gospel of Christ shapes our understanding and enjoyment of sports.</li>
<li>Receive practical instruction on how to use sports in parenting and discipleship.</li>
<li>Become confident in using the arena of sports for discipleship, parenting, and recreation.</li>
</ul>

In the Arena: The Promise of Sports for Christian Discipleship

Religion & Spirituality

Prince, David E.

Christian Books & Bibles

B&H Books

The goal of this simple book is to help Christians gain a Jesus-centered, gospel-focused mentality while reading and applying the Scripture and living together in the community of the church. Consider the book a quick start guide to help create a Christ-centered life and ministry trajectory. There really is a way to read, apply, preach, serve, and live with Jesus as the Hero that keeps the gospel of God’s sovereign grace front and center in everything. 
Any biblical truth abstracted from the gospel is corrupted. The only possible context for genuine obedience is faith in Jesus. Therefore, genuine spiritual motivation must always be presented in terms of the gospel. We are not heroes; we are sinners, failures, and weaklings—the not-nobles of the world. Attempting to become a spiritual hero or to cultivate a heroic image is an empty, vain, hollow, and hopeless pursuit. There is only one Hero—Jesus—and he has no rivals. When we start trusting him and stop trying to be him, we can say with Paul, “For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal. 5:1).
"David Prince is my favorite living preacher. He connects every text of scripture with the central message of the Bible: the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. This book models that biblical strategy. I highly commend it for anyone who preaches, teaches, or seeks to apply God's word." Russell D. Moore, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
"The saving glory of Jesus Christ is the world's only hope and thus ought to be the church's only focus. What a great gift this wonderful book is, then, in helping us direct our vision and ministry away from ourselves and to Christ the Redeemer!" Jared C. Wilson, Managing Editor of Midwestern Seminary's For the Church (ftc.com) and Author, The Prodigal Church
"I will be quick to commend this book to those who want to make sure King Jesus is kept at the center of the life of the church and all the things she does to rightly honor and worship the One that the Scriptures testify to from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21." Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Church with Jesus as the Hero

Staff, Ashland

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Jesus is the Hero. The Hero of what? The Hero of the self-revelation of God in the Bible. The Hero of the created order. The Hero of world history. The Hero of redemptive history. The ultimate Hero of all things. Paul explains, “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent” (Col 1:16-18). Christ is the one in whom God will ultimately sum up the entire cosmos (Eph 1:10), and we are called to sum up all things in Christ right now (1 Cor 10:11; 2 Cor 1:20; Heb 9:26). Every text of Scripture is about Jesus because, in reality, everything is ultimately about Jesus. The Jesus the Hero Family Devotional is an attempt to help followers of Christ in the task of summing up all things in Christ right now.

Jesus the Hero Family Devotional

"With the advance of secular pluralism, expository preaching must become the church's strategy for survival." Beginning with that urgent imperative from R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Essential Reading on Preaching calls and guides pastors toward greater faithfulness in their preaching. The collection is drawn from Southern Equip, a service of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary that extends faculty training beyond the classroom to equip ministers of the gospel for more faithful service.

Essential Reading on Preaching

Mohler JR., R. Albert

York, Hershael W.

"Every Divine truth bears a relation to him: hence the doctrine of the gospel is called 'the truth as it is in Jesus,'" according to Andrew Fuller. Biblical history is the story of the truth as it is in Jesus. Fuller never lost sight of this foundational truth. His pastoral commitment to pursue the truth as it is in Jesus transformed every aspect of Fuller's thinking, including his understanding of the task of preaching, sermon preparation, and the preparation of the preacher himself. He believed in the primacy of faithful, Christ-centered expository preaching. Of preaching, he wrote, "Oh how important! We preach for eternity!" These pages call the reader alongside Andrew Fuller as he teaches us through his writings and sermons to "Preach not only the truth, but all truth, 'as it is in Jesus.'"

Preaching the truth as it is in Jesus: A reader on Andrew Fuller

H&E Publishing

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In the Arena: The Promise of Sports for Christian Discipleship

Church with Jesus as the Hero

Jesus the Hero Family Devotional

Essential Reading on Preaching

Preaching the truth as it is in Jesus: A reader on Andrew Fuller

Jesus the Hero Family Devotional