Eric Liddell's Gift That God Never Needed

When Eric Liddell won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the entire British Empire celebrated. He had refused to run the 100 meters on a Sunday, then stunned the world by winning the 400 meters instead. Yet Liddell never treated that medal as something he gave to God. Years later, serving as a missionary in war-torn China, he told fellow internees at the Weifang prison camp something remarkable: "God didn't need my gold medal.…