You know, not everybody I talk to believes that MOFL is a ministry within our church.  Some say that it’s a way for over-the-hill, overweight, wannabe football player, poser-type guys to feel good about themselves.  Not so!  Mindy is female!  Some say there is no religious content at all; but when I’m at a fellow team owner’s house, I hear lots of prayer — fervent, specific prayer.  It got me thinking: surely the Bible has something to say about this.

It does:

2 Chronicles 11:11a
He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them.

Job 13:12b
your defenses are defenses of clay!

Isaiah 44:22b
I have scattered your offense like the clouds.

Nehemiah 9:11
You divided the sea(hawks defense) before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

2 Corinthians 9:5b
I don’t want anything forced or hurried at the last minute.

Exodus 4:3a
“Throw it down on the ground,” the LORD told him. So Moses threw it down

Exodus 12:12a
I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn

2 Chronicles 20:11a
And now they’ve come to kick

Zechariah 5:2b
thirty feet long and fifteen wide!”

Joshua 2:14a
We offer our own lives as a guarantee for your safety.

2 Samuel 22:20
He led me to a place of safety

Romans 1:27b
Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.

1 Corinthians 9:26
So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step

Luke 10:31
Priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

Job 9:11
When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

1 Corinthians 9:24
Remember that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize. You also must run in such a way that you will win.

Isaiah 22:17a
GOD is about to sack you

2 Kings 23:29b
When King Josiah intercepted him at the Plain of Megiddo, Neco killed him.

2 Corinthians 10:13b
Our goal is to stay within the boundaries.

Leviticus 26:36 (trash talk)
“And for those of you who survive, I will demoralize you in the land of your enemies far away. You will live there in such constant fear that the sound of a leaf driven by the wind will send you fleeing. You will run as though chased by a warrior with a sword, and you will fall even when no one is pursuing you.

Daniel 8:7b (paraphrased)
They charged the Rams and hit them so hard that it broke off their horns. The Rams didn’t stand a chance against them. The Bills knocked the Rams to the ground and stomped all over them.

1 Chronicles 11:14
But Eleazar and David held their ground in the middle of the field and beat back the Philistines. So the LORD saved them by giving them a great victory.