
It's the ultimate NFL battle as a top NFC team faces off against a top AFC team - to compete for Super Bowl glory in 2023 - at the 57th edition of the Super Bowl!Īnd it all happens on Sunday, Februat State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona airing live in the US on FOX. The current favorite? God (as well he should be).MAIN Recreation Sports Football Super Bowl LVII For example, you can bet on whom the Super Bowl MVP will thank first in his post-game interview.

Super Betting: You can wager on just about anything related to the Super Bowl. There are Super Bowl-based Bible studies for adults, too - here’s one written by Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy that asks “What’s your game plan?” Click here for “Sunday School Super Bowl,” a game in which kids answer Bible trivia questions for a chance to get into the eternal endzone. It contrasts what followers of the Packers look like (wearing cheeseheads) versus followers of the Steelers (waving terrible towels) versus followers of Jesus (clothed in love, joy, peace and the other Fruit of the Spirit). Super Sunday School: Click here for a Super Bowl-themed Bible Study for kids. She then challenges Christians to think deep thoughts while watching the game to see if perhaps we might be guilty of trying to serve two masters - both God and money. Super $$$:I also stumbled across an article entitled The Super Bowl and Christianity: Dividing Lines, in which the author reels off a batch of interesting Super Bowl factoids, including that: (1) ads cost $2.3 million each - $77,000 per second (2) members of the winning team get $73,000 (the losers get “only” $38,000) and (3) fans are expected to shell out more than $50 million on food alone over Super Bowl weekend. Apparently, Bible-y messages would be too upsetting for those used to seeing non-stop beer ads. Fox Sports rejected a commercial that sought to explain John 3:16 - a verse that’s often displayed on signs at the Super Bowl (remember the seemingly omnipresent rainbow-hair guy?). Super Commercials: Not everyone’s talking about God, though. You’re never as good or as bad as people say, but you’ve got to have faith in God to be able to handle the ups and the downs because usually there are going to be more downs.” (Steelers WR Antwaan Randle El)Īnd here’s an article about the Packers’ weekly Bible study with a quote from Packers Defensive Coordinator Dom Capers: “I’ve always said coaches get too much of the credit and often too much of the blame. If you got that right with Christ everything else is going to fall in order. If your relationship is right with Christ - that’s the biggest relationship.

You’re not going to find it in money, you’re not going to find it cars, in women, in a relationship. If you start with obedience, you’ll go a long with God. If you stay committed to God, God will take care of you no matter what.Whether it’s my relationship with my wife, whether it’s football, whether it’s running, jumping, anything. is where I find anything in my life that has meaning.Faith is so much bigger than football.The biggest thing is you’ve got to give all the praise and all the glory to God.when you wake up in the morning you’ve got to give Him first the glory and then you move on with your day.

It’s Christ, then my wife, then my children and then the game of football. And when necessary, use words.” (Packers QB Aaron Rodgers) Francis of Assisi, who said: “Preach the gospel at all times.

In 0.57 seconds, I had an astounding 9,240,000 results. So I turned to the next best thing: Google. I did a simple search: “super bowl” bible. Strangely enough, the phrase “Super Bowl” doesn’t appear in my Bible concordance. What does God think about the Super Bowl? As I sat down to write today’s post, I started thinking (always a dangerous proposition) and found myself asking the following question:
