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Aug 9, 2024 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
With top athletes such as Simone Biles and Adam Peaty speaking about joy even when the medal is not gold, Jonny Reid reflects on what Christians can learn even when things don’t go to plan
Some of the most striking moments of the Paris 2024 Olympics so far are not of glorious victory but, instead, of what some might see as ‘failure’.
Adam Peaty narrowly missing out on gold. Simone Biles falling off the beam. Josh Kerr agonisingly losing out in the 1500m.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
With most youth sport now taking place on a Sunday, Christian parents must grapple with whether to prioritise their children’s sports clubs, or church attendance. Jonny Reid gives his pointers on how to think through the issues biblically This summer marks the centenary of Scottish sporting hero Eric Liddell winning gold in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics. But that victory is not what Liddell is most famous for. Instead, he owes much of his fame to the race he didn’t run.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
e-n.org.uk | Jonny Reid
When the General Election was announced, we panicked. How could we deal with having both the election and the Euros on at the same time? Very easily it turns out. Because no one is watching the election, while nearly everyone is tuning into the Euros.
Less than 3 million tuned into the first leaders’ debate, while over 18 million watched England’s first match.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
seenandunseen.com | Jonny Reid |Graham Tomlin |George Pitcher
Column 4 min read I’m not at all sure that the parents of a teenager driven to despair, or even suicide, by online trolls, or a woman in a coercive relationship, are likely to see their tormentors as victims, making a cry for help by making the lives of others intolerable. Bullies, it is said, have invariably been bullied themselves.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
After his victory at the US Masters this weekend, the world’s number one golfer told journalists that golf was only the fourth most important thing in his life. The first, he said, was God. What a freeing way to live, says Jonny Reid
Scottie Scheffler is very good at golf. Insanely good. He’s the world number one and now the reigning US Masters champion. He’s also incredibly competitive. So much so that it makes him feel sick.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
seenandunseen.com | Jonny Reid |Graham Tomlin |Laurence Fletcher |Natalie Garrett
“Richard Dawkins says he’s a cultural Christian,” I said over breakfast. “What’s that?” she asked. I had a stab at it. “Someone who doesn’t buy the Christian faith, but likes hymns and churches and to live in a nominally Christian country, because it’s decent. Apparently.” “So what’s new?” she said. She has a point. I’ve just completed a decade as a rural parish priest and plenty of people came to church because it’s a respectable, middle-class thing to do. It’s as comforting as it is comfortable.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
Jurgen Klopp is stepping down as Liverpool manager after eight and a half years in charge, saying that he is “running out of energy”. The pressures of performance and schedules are not just restricted to elite sport, says Jonny Reid. We all need to learn how to rest in God
After eight and a half years in charge, the manager of Liverpool Football Club (LFC), Jurgen Klopp, has announced that he plans to step down at the end of this season.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
premiernexgen.com | Jonny Reid
Flora, is a teenager trying to make it as an elite cyclist. Here, she speaks, alongside her parents Richard and Rosslyn, about the experience of navigating high level sport as a Christian family.
The image is of a model
The pathway to making it in elite sport is as demanding as the racing itself: it offers a serious challenge to the ambitious young sportsperson.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
In a nail-biting ending, England eventually lost their first Ashes Test match against Australia last week, but all the talk since has been about their style of play, and the beginning of a new era under coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes.
In the last twelve months, England have won ten of their 13 tests, playing a new, hyper-aggressive brand of cricket. ‘Bazball’, as it has come to be known, has revitalised a side that had previously won just one match from their previous 17.
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May 30, 2023 | 
premierchristianity.com | Jonny Reid
Does God love Luton more than Coventry?
Did God answer the prayers of Everton players more than Leicester’s?
Sale lost the Premiership Rugby Final, did they do something wrong?
This past weekend has been the pinnacle of many sporting seasons, and yet we tend to focus on the victors more than the losers.
