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Fired Up: Tips for your sporting best

Fired Up: Tips for your sporting best

The finals season see many athletes looking for a sporting advantage. This article examines some tips from elite athletes on getting the most out of your big event..

  • Be prepared to lose your house—Christian persecution is coming

    Christian persecution—the Bible tells us to expect it (Matthew chapter 24, verses 9–10, John chapter 15, verses 18–21) but for so many years in western society we have been blessed with a comfortable ride.

  • Transformation: the washing of the word

    Transformation is the highest goal for Christians: an ongoing journey toward becoming more like Christ. The word Christian literally means \'little Christ\'.

  • Unholy matrimony

    We have all heard this verse preached in church before, the wise words of Paul, usually used to guide our sexual conduct before marriage, or as a biblical justification for why practising homosexuals will not be accepted by God.

  • Play hard, pray hard—David Simmons

    David Simmons is not like most NRL wingers, though he is 186cm and 95kg he is by no means the fastest or the most athletic. He represents the quintessential rugby league player—a hard worker who earned his position in first grade.

  • Encouragement: The ultimate 'how to' guide

    I met Dave the night before he was about to do his first ever triathlon, a 226km Ironman. He told me he would likely be the last finisher, in around 15 hours.

  • Welcome to our land of blokes, footy, snags, and bickies at arvo tea

    I often try to put myself in her shoes. She is surrounded by a strange language. She is fenced in by foreign culture. She is faced with unfamiliar people.

  • The art of leading yourself: self-care as a Christian leader

    A leader, in my books, is anyone who guides the thoughts, beliefs and actions of another through relationships. You work out where you and your team need to head, you make a plan and empower those around you to achieve the plan.

  • Reflections on mortality

    Without apparent cause I fainted and collapsed in the bathroom, causing a serious injury to my hand. Moments like this one cause me to ask the question: Am I ready to meet my maker?

  • Faith—it gets in the way

    \'OK, but when the Bible says that \"you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination\", you don\'t have any problem with that?\' . . . \'So personally, as a Christian, you believe abortion is morally wrong?\'

  • What The Hulk taught me about repentance

    I love comic books. I still remember reading new comics on the school bus. I still have my entire collection at home, my all-time favourites being Wolverine, Iron-Man and The Hulk.

  • Animals have feelings too

    This is not an opinion piece about becoming a vegetarian. It is not musings about the presence of pain receptors in different species.