Green Bay Packers’ head coach Mike Holmgren looks back at a heartbreaking moment, when he was cut from the New York Jets as backup quarterback to Joe Namath, that directed him to a bigger plan.
“I had committed my life to Jesus Christ when I was 11, but in my pursuit to make a name for myself in football, I left God next to my dust-covered Bible. But after getting cut from the Jets, I pulled out my Bible and found comfort in a verse I had memorized in Sunday school: ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths’ (Proverbs 3:5-6).
“I asked Jesus Christ to take control again. My priorities in life are faith, family, and football—in that order.”
—Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.
See: Psalms 31:10: Isaiah 26:3-4: Daniel 6:1-23.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Confidence in a Crisis
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