Tim Tebow looks to be a winner yet again.  This time, the former Heisman Award winner will take on a new opponent.  Culture.  Fueled by liberal, feminist organizations such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), Women’s Media Center and others, a defense is mounting to keep him off the airwaves Super Bowl Sunday.

Culture (and even churches) has placed this day on such a pedestal, that nothing shall impede on its spotlight.  That anyone with the audacity to speak or do anything that may distract from the glory of beer commercials, racy web domain ads, or has-been music artists with modesty popping out, should be silenced and put away until after this sacred ritual is complete.

Focus on the Family has bought airtime during the Super Bowl to celebrate life.  The ad features Tim Tebow and his mother retelling the story of her pregnancy with him and a decision she made to have Tim, rather than terminate the pregnancy as suggested by doctors.  Pam had contracted amoebic dysentery while doing missionary work in the Philippines.  The medicines used to treat it threatened young Tebow in the womb.

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This story has irony all around it.  I just wonder what is the most ironic of all?  Could it be the women’s rights groups who blatantly ignore mainstream commercials who downplay them in lieu of beer or other “manly” things just because they do so in a culturally acceptable humorous way?  Or how about the screams from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs (LGBT) group, despite the lifestyle they promote cannot conceive children?  Or the fact that because of families and the family unit, there will be groups gathered in large numbers to watch this game?

Despite confirmation that the term “abortion” is not mentioned (which is ok by me, I think the more accurate term is “infant homicide”) anywhere in the ad, these groups are livid.  Why would someone be so upset about someone celebrating life?  Perhaps this is a good barometer of exactly how much hatred culture has for the family unit as a whole and Christian living (2 Timothy 3:12).

I do not know Tim Tebow personally, nor do I claim to know his heart.  However, I can know him from afar, as can all of us, by his fruits.  Whether preaching in prisons while friends are on spring break, or taking missionary trips to the Philippines, I like the fruits that I see.  Those are the fruits that will be examined by the only One who matters (Matthew 7:19-21).  Let’s be glad someone with that type of fruit will be front and center among an orchard of rotten fruit on Super Bowl Sunday.

JS