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Jeremy Dover

Press Service International

Jeremy Dover is a former sports scientist and Pastor

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  • Everything for Jesus, Including Sport

    One of the great challenges for Christians today is how to integrate being a follower of Jesus into every aspect of life. Dutch Pastor Abraham Kuyper proclaimed...

  • Stop your private faith

    The call to Christians is to live out your faith within the social settings you find yourself. This was the challenge given recently by Press Services International writer, Captain Pete Brookshaw (photo).

  • Concentration: Sport’s Holy Grail

    Champion athletes, such as basket-baller Michael Jordan, are famous for their ability to achieve under pressure. Most athletes can focus on executing their skills in training. However, it is only the best, like Jordan, that have developed their ability to focus under pressure.

  • What is “true” Christianity? Not playing by the rules

    Everyone who plays a sport knows the rules to that sport. In cricket, when the ball is bowled and hits the wickets the batter is out and walks. They are the rules. You never see the batter say, “I am not out! I want to change the rules!” Sport has rules that all agree upon and that is what defines that sport.

  • How do I get my church to grow?

    I asked a group recently how they would grow the church. We had been studying the Book of Acts, which describes the growth of the church, and I was after what they might prescribe from their readings.

  • Tour de France

    One of the greatest sporting events in the world again delivered one of the greatest sporting dramas. Since 1903 le Tour has captured the world’s imagination as an amazing spectacle. It highlights some of the best athletes on the planet competing through some beautiful countryside.

  • Lucifer

    The Netflix ratings winner, “Lucifer,” portrays the devil as a hardworking crime fighter seeking justice, while having a good time. He is on earth as furlough from dealing with the “really bad” people in hell.

  • Sport as entertainment

    Is sport just entertainment? With Covid shutting down so many sporting fixtures and isolation causing a craving for normality, sport has become the opium of the masses: A way to entertain people from the harsh reality of daily life.

  • Covid church: The good, the bad, the ugly

    In the classic Spaghetti Western movies of the 1960s, such as “The good, the bad and the ugly” the baddie always wore a mask. These days with Covid-19 we ALL wear masks, even for Church. The new normal for services during Covid lockdown is online. So, let’s take stock of online church with some pro’s and con’s.

  • Sport as sacrifice

    One of the great challenges for Christians today is how to integrate being a follower of Jesus into every aspect of life. We are called (Romans chapter 12) to be “living sacrifices” for God in everything we do.