Having strong role models in life can be very helpful.  My dad often set people in front of me to help push me, motivate me, and be a role model to me.  I appreciate at that now more than I did then.  I can remember the newspaper cut outs of Steve Alford and his shooting form.  There was even a photo of a guy guarding Alford in high school focused only on his stomach that was to be my model for defense.  To my regret I never really panned out as an Indiana high school basketball player, but the fundamentals are there.  I can remember the recording the Jack Nicklaus winning the 1986 Masters.  I believe that is what started my love for golf.  I also have a book by RC Sproul, “Holiness”,  with an article about Danny Wuerffel and his faith and his love for faithful teachers of God’s Word.

The athletics never really worked out too well for me, but the love of them stuck.  However, more importantly the love of Christ and the other examples Dad set before me like Jim Elliot, CH Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, RC Sproul, John MacArther, Sinclair Ferguson, Eric Alexander, Alistair Begg, and many others have stuck and many now surround me on my bookshelf and MP-3 player as I type.

In light of the BCS Championship tonight, it appears there is another role model that may be helpful to set before young people today, Tim Tebow!  Regardless of how you feel about the Florida Gators, I think he has followed well in the footsteps of his role model, Danny Wuerffel, and continues to be bold in his testimony of his love for Christ and sharing Christ with others.

Here is an ESPN article on him (ht:tc)  In a day where sports are full of those who want to proclaim they are not role models and others who simply want to be gangsta role models, take the opportunity to set someone out there for young people who realizes there is something bigger than self and something bigger than sports .  Let them see someone who motivates the soul as well as their athletic desires.

Here is his Heisman Video too:

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