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NFL Week Nine: Christian Quotes from QBs

Some of the top quarterbacks in the NFL these days all happen to share one thing in common – they call Jesus Christ their Savior and Lord, and they’re not ashamed to talk about it.

On any given Sunday, you can catch these incredible athletes tearing up the football field. But they can also be quite eloquent when talking about their Christian faith and what matters most in life.

Among these top quarterbacks are the two leaders of the 2018 Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles, Nick Foles and Carson Wentz, and the newly crowned #1 NFL passer, Drew Brees.

Here are some great quotes from 10 faith-filled quarterbacks:

Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints

“I live for God, for the faith that I have in Him, and knowing the sacrifices that Jesus Christ made on the cross for me, and just feeling like it’s in God’s hands and all I have to do is just give it my best, commit the rest to Him, and everything else is taken care of. That takes a weight off my shoulders,” Brees once told CBN.

Derek Carr, Oakland Raiders

 

“I have a very strong faith in God. He is the reason I play football. He has given me this special talent and I want to use it to glorify Him. I am grateful for the opportunity to further His kingdom by sharing my faith on and off the football field. At any moment, any second, my football career could be taken away but my faith and relationship with God will never be taken from me,” Carr says on his website. “Being a Quarterback is what I do but it does not define who I am. I am first and foremost a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

You can read more quotes at CBN’s website

Michael Buble’ gives thanks–to Jesus

Singing star Michael Bublé put his faith centerstage during a recent appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Cordon,” thanking Jesus Christ for his 5-year-old son’s cancer remission.

While Bublé tearfully shared his son Noah’s story,  the entertainer declared, “We all moved and we lived at [Children’s Hospital Los Angeles] and we just had the best doctors and, God, thank you, Jesus Christ.”

Noah was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2016 when he was only 3 years old. At the time of his diagnosis, Bublé and his wife, Luisana Lopilato, asked for prayers, adding, “We will win this battle, God willing.”

Time Travel & Aliens–Yes! Existence of God–No!

It’s actually stunning that such a brilliant man could actually declare that time travel and alien life are distinct possibilities, while the existence of a Creator (God) is not.  Yet that’s exactly what physicist Stephen Hawking believed.  Heather Clark from Christian News has the story:

Months after his death, the final book of well-known physicist Stephen Hawking has been released, reiterating his assertion that there is no God, but also expounding on his belief that outer intelligent life forms might exist and that time travel could be possible.

“There is no God. No one directs the universe,” he wrote in “Brief Answers to the Big Questions.” “For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.”

“No one created the universe and no one directors out fate. This leads me to a profound realisation: there is probably no Heaven and afterlife either. I think belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking,” Hawking asserted.

Read more here…

Misguided Millennial Possessed by Political Hatred

An extremely misguided millennial in Texas has allowed his hatred of Senator Ted Cruz to literally take possession of his deepest emotions. Caught stealing and destroying Ted Cruz yard signs (while on cell phone video), he turns to the camera a utters a guttural scream reminiscent of a scene from The Exorcist.  You can see the video here...

Saturday night and where is Mark Wahlberg? In Church

He’s a great actor with a dark past.  Back in the day, his parents were always working and left him unsupervised, so Mark Wahlberg took to the streets and found drugs, racism, crime — and jail.  For mercilessly beating two Vietnamese men at age 16, he was tried as an adult for attempted murder.  Wahlberg pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to two years in prison.  He ultimately served only 45 days of his sentence, but carries a permanent felony record. “When I heard the jail doors close behind me … I knew that was just the beginning for me,” he says.  It was the beginning of a life in crime or the beginning of a fresh start, if he turned his life around.

Here’s the latest on Mark, from the Christian Post…

NEW YORK — Actor Mark Wahlberg says he’d rather go to church on a Saturday night than see a Broadway show, and likes to start and end each day by reflecting on his faith.

“That’s what it’s all about. You know, for me, it’s just the way I love to start my day, finish my day,” Wahlberg told The Christian Post, explaining why he decided to go to church instead of a musical during his most recent trip to the Big Apple.

“I’ve been very blessed and very fortunate. And it’s because of the focus that I put on my faith and on my family that have allowed me to accomplish so many things. Also, with the failure and disappointment and loss, life is not easy,” he stressed.

Wahlberg is promoting his upcoming film “Instant Family” which is about a couple who take in three foster children and overnight become parents to a troubled teen and her two siblings.

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