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Comparing church activities to the game of football

Monday, August 20, 2007 FOOTBALL QUOTES Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior…

J. Vernon McGee

Use your imagination and consider the situation as it developed in the U. of Kentucky and U. of Georgia football game as few years ago. Time was running out. Kentucky was leading, but Georgia had the ball as the final seconds ticked away. Georgia was in field goal distance for the accurate toe of their…

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…

ILLUSTRATION: How many of you have ever been frightened? I remember my youth when I was very involved in sports. Whether it was football, track or baseball, I remember experiencing “butterflies” in my stomach before the game. The interesting thing is that the only thing that got rid of those butterflies…

Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a spokesperson for Vicis football helmets. He has even invested in the company. In a magazine picture in an article about the safety of football helmets, the photographer captured Rodgers wearing a competitor’s helmet. Sports Illustrated, December 2, 2019,…

An Ohio minister and former football coach is planning to sue the NFL over its racy Super Bowl halftime show. Dave Daubenmire claims Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s “soft-porn performance” may prevent him from “getting into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Week, February 21, 2020 p.6 https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/ohio-minister-dragged-for-threatening-to-sue-nfl-over-shakira-jennifer-lopez-halftime-show…

In September of 2015 witnesses of a mass baptism held after school at an Atlanta area high school posted footage online, drawing criticism. These critics claimed, “Holding team baptisms at football practice with coaches participating is a clear Constitutional violation (the Establishment Clause of the…

In a special report on football in America, Sports Illustrated conducted a survey that included questions regarding how important football is to Americans. Only 1.4% said that football was more important than family but 20.1% admitted that football was more important than their jobs and 26.7% agreed…

NFL referee Sarah Thomas said her biggest achievement in 2020 was not reaching the milestone of becoming the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl, but rather the growth she saw because of her faith. During an interview, Thomas said in the height of the pandemic in June 2020, she was out of control,…

Jalen Hurts, became the backup quarterback for the University of Alabama football team when the coach benched him for a freshman during his second National Championship game. Before his demotion, Hurts had led Alabama to a 26-2 record, which included a National Championship. Most thought he should transfer,…

The Kraft Heinz Corporation decided to give all of their employees the day off Monday, February 6, 2017. The company has locations in both Chicago and Pittsburgh, and even though neither city had a team in the Super Bowl, it decided to give employees an extra day. The company said nearly 16 million people…

Michael Todd went to a new school where he was the target of taunts and laughter. He did not have new clothes and was feeling very left out. Two of the kids piling on were Garrett and Kristopher Graham, a pair of freshman football players. The Graham brothers began to realize what they were doing was…

Don Shula was arguably the greatest coach in the history of the NFL. He took his teams to the Super Bowl six times and over his career won a record 347 games. He is still the only coach to have a team record a perfect season, the 17-0 Miami Dolphins in 1972. In an interview just before he died at age…

Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was trailing Kenyan runner Abel Mutai in a cross-country race at an event in Burlada, Navarre. 32 feet from the finish line Mutai mistakenly thought he had crossed the finish line. Anaya had the opportunity to win the race, but he did not. Instead, he caught up to…

Deland McCullough is the running backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He always knew he was adopted but until he was 44 he never looked for his birth parents. Then he started looking. He found his birth mother through records and she told him who his father was. McCullough said he thought he would…

The National Football League is employing new technology that will provide more information about the speed, location, and rotation of the football during games. The league will use Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID) to collect the information which will likely mean even more statistics for fans…

Shaquem Griffin, a defensive lineman from Central Florida knew he needed to make a good impression at the NFL scouting combine. Griffin had his left hand amputated at age 4, but kept up with his brother on the football field. He recently added a prosthetic hand which has helped him improve his performance.…

Vince Lombardi, the former head coach of the Green Bay Packers, emphasized going over the fundamentals in his training camp. He would repeatedly go over football basics like block and tackle, and review his plays over and over again from page 1. Through this method of building on a strong basic foundation,…

A random act of kindness got a Kansas City man named Dave tickets to the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots. Chief’s Offensive linesman Jeff Allen got stuck in the snow on his way to the game with the Indianapolis Colts. Allen said a nice guy named Dave stopped…

She won twice in one night—Kaylee Foster kicked the winning extra point, and was homecoming queen for Ocean Springs High School in Mississippi—all in one night. After a night of winning, a reporter asked her “whether she was more nervous before the homecoming queen announcement or before she made the…

The advance of secularism has made it difficult to have Christian beliefs. According to Time.com the “faith of our fathers” is controversial as never before in parts of our country. Some examples they mention are a teacher in New Jersey who was suspended for giving a student a Bible. A football coach…

Seattle Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson knows playing football was the right choice, but baseball still has his heart. Wilson hit .229 in 93 games playing for a Class A team in the Colorado Rockies Network in 2001. He became the starting quarterback for the Seahawks in the Fall of 2012. Wilson was…