Sean Payton on how Bo Nix handled fracturing his ankle and his season is over moments after he won his first playoff game and was heading to the AFC Championship game.
“I’ll tell you what, the one thing about it. He’s such a strong, faith-based guy. He was sitting in the hallway with his family, and I went over, and we’re all talking to him. He knows that God has a plan for him. He said he had one in high school, and then he said he had one at Auburn. I said, ‘I didn’t realize that.’ I said, ‘If I would have known that, I wouldn’t have drafted you.’ (Laughs) He’s a tough cookie. I said, ‘Listen. I believe you’re the second quarterback in Year 2 to take your team to a Championship game, and the first is [Chiefs QB Patrick] Mahomes. This team all year has lost key players, and we’ll rise up for the next challenge and we’ll go from there.”
I'll never forget watching this live. The @NFL denied @TimTebow from putting 3:16 on his face, then he throws for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion in a prime time playoff game.
God works in mysterious (and obvious) ways.
The Creator of the Universe, the Son of our living God, allowed the human race to torture Him to death on a cross, to atone for every sin that has been, or will ever be committed. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life and no man comes to the Father except through Him.
Powerful: Bucs star QB Baker Mayfield proclaims the Gospel in the middle of an interview and leaves the room speechless:
“Jesus is the son of God… He’s the reason we’re here.”
Baker is a role model on and off the field 🙏
“Loving Father, we seek your blessings today… We are grateful for the freedom & the privilege we have in this nation to compete & connect through sports”
The College Football Playoff Semifinal (Cotton Bowl) had a prayer to kick off tonight’s game 👏
Why did God create evil? A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
- Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
- Yes, created by God.
- Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
“Yes, sir,” replied the student.
The professor asked :
- If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
- Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
- Professor, is cold a thing?
- What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
- Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
- Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
- You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
- Sir, does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
- Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
To this, the student answered:
- Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s absence of light.