Commercial and bureaucratic hindrances collided with an uncontrollable reality: the faith of many players.

Yerry Mina, Cuadrado and Falcao are some of the Christian players who shared Bible verses and made faith statements during the World Cup.

Players at the World Cup are not allowed to express religious messages on the field. But Thiago Silva, Neymar and other stars of the Brazilian team used Instagram to thank God.

A team of Steiger mission is starting conversations about the gospel in the middst of the football celebration in Russia.

All players of the squad kneeled and prayed together on the pitch after losing 6-1 to England. It is the first time the country plays a football World Cup.

Nothing can change the certainty that God is at our side. Always, without exception.

Romelu Lukaku of Belgium and Fidel Escobar of Panama knelt on the field to pray at the end of the game. Social media users described it as “the image of the day”.

The Bible says there is rejoicing in heaven when we do something worthy of God's character.

The God “who played the cosmos into being” delights himself in the World Cup but delights in higher things still.

Christians set up a fan zone in a church in the city centre. A Steiger mission team will start conversations about Jesus through creative activities.

Nothing in the world is comparable to the person of Jesus Christ.

Anything other than believing God's Word is cheating.

The same people who admire you now criticise you later, because they only want “the best”.

The goalkeeper of Real Madrid hopes to win his third Champions League on Saturday. “Christ gives me wisdom to keep my feet on the ground and be humble in moments of blessing and happiness”.

We should always put God first if we think that something goes against His word.

We've become used to letting others, ourselves, and even God down.

God wants each one of us to accept him as Lord of our lives, since that is the only way our lives will have meaning.

God always responds, though sometimes not in the way or at the moment we would like.

We can pick up the fallen stones time and again to construct our lives according to God's will.

God has promised to guide us in the way we should follow.

We have to learn that a complainer is no good to the world.

The greatest desire of God is to have a deep relationship with us, His children.

Sometimes it seems that helpfulness has gone out of fashion, but it hasn't.

Even those who say God doesn't exist blame Him when things go wrong.

I remember one young man who never told me his name or address. He gave me his Olympic Volunteer jacket when he found out I was a foreign visitor.