A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. This, for me, is always an exciting but difficult time of the year. It is as if everybody wants to do all the things they didn’t get to […]
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It’s all about SHAPE — Cobus Kruger
A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. Today I want to talk about the coaching side of sport. As an athlete and coach myself, and as a pastor that is involved with the coaching of […]
Para-athlete Fanie van der Merwe shining in darkness — Cobus Kruger
A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. In the journey of bringing unity within the body of Christ, I started to set a lot of my time out to meet with, and to hear the […]
Bear with each other in unity — Cobus Kruger
A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. This is an exciting week of Rugby. On the one hand we have the Super Rugby Quarter finals this weekend where we will see if our three top […]
Competitive greatness in sport and God’s Kingdom — Cobus Kruger
A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. A lot of coaches would agree with me that one of the characteristics that any top sportsman or woman needs is competitive greatness. So what is competitive greatness? […]
Doing the impossible — on the track and through the cross
A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport. Roger Bannister is a legendary track athlete of the late 1940s and ealy 1950s who will always be remembered for doing the “impossible.” He declined an opportunity to […]
Deciding to finish strong this year
[notice]A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport.[/notice] I came out of the first leg, the swim in a triathlon race I did in Cape Town last week. It was a hard week of planning in […]
Run to receive the prize
[notice]A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport.[/notice] It’s three weeks since the exciting triathlon race at the Grand Final of the Triathlon World Series 2016 or simply called the World Champs in the triathlon world. […]
Report back from Rio from our man on the spot
[notice]Professional triathlete, sports ministry worker, fitness coach and Gateway News columnist Cobus Kruger who, together with his wife, Philna, has been ministering with Athletes in Action at the Olympic Game in Rio, sent us this report last night.[/notice] I arrived back in South Africa early this morning. How awesome was […]
This international Olympic team is at Rio to share the gospel
[notice]A special report by Charisma News on the ministry of Athletes in Action at the 2016 Olympics[/notice] Since the 2016 Summer Olympics kicked off their opening ceremonies last Friday, the world’s eyes have been fixated on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to enjoy the competitive feats by 207 Olympic teams, representing […]