{"id":77838,"date":"2024-06-09T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=77838"},"modified":"2024-06-09T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:54:25","slug":"young-man-dont-even-make-that-first-sports-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=77838","title":{"rendered":"Young Man, Don\u2019t Even Make that First Sports Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s impossible to avoid the advertising and impossible to miss the claims. Sports are great, they say, but do you know what makes them even better? Adding a little wager. Sports are exciting, they say, but even more exciting when you\u2019ve got a bit of money riding on them. So why not enjoy them all the way? Just download our app and try it out. It\u2019s easy. It\u2019s harmless. And it\u2019s so much fun.<\/p>\n

In the past few years, sports betting has exploded into the mainstream. You can\u2019t watch a game without seeing ads for it and, if you\u2019re within their target audience, you can\u2019t surf the web or visit an app store without seeing the banners. If you\u2019re a man, and especially if you\u2019re a young man, they\u2019re after you. They want you. And they know you\u2019re vulnerable.<\/p>\n

But young man, I want to encourage you: Don\u2019t consider it. Don\u2019t do it. Don\u2019t even make that first bet. I\u2019m going to give you four reasons that betting is not only unwise but also sinful\u2014four reasons that you should avoid it altogether.<\/p>\n

First, betting is an expression of<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s impossible to avoid the advertising and impossible to miss the claims. Sports are great, they say, but do you know what makes them even better? Adding a little wager. Sports are exciting, they say, but even more exciting when you\u2019ve got a bit of money riding on them. So why not enjoy them all the way? Just download our app and try it out. It\u2019s easy. It\u2019s harmless. And it\u2019s so much fun.See AlsoBeginning With ImpossibleA La Carte (2\/23)Wired for Intimacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":77853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-77838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rupixen-Q59HmzK38eQ-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77854,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions\/77854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}