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Thoughts from Faith Driven Athletes.

Following the Path
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Following the Path

Before I say the Lord's Prayer with my teammates, I get dressed in my helmet and shoulder pads and just sit in my locker and say the prayer individually. Near the end of the prayer it says “lead us not into temptation” and as athlete, one of those temptations is to doubt yourself.

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Coming Home
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Coming Home

As I've gotten older I've realized that God sometimes uses your adversities to catapult you higher, but the way a catapult works, it has to bring you down before it can launch you forward.

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Staying Humble
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Staying Humble

When you’re no longer on the field, you remember that your identity is really in being a child of God. This might sound hard to believe, but I’m actually thankful I tore my ACL, because without the injury I don’t know if I am able to keep those priorities straight.

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Keep Swinging
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Keep Swinging

They had won 7 of the last 8 national championships and were sitting on a 36-game winning streak. But nothing could've prepared NDSU Football Head Coach Matt Entz for what was about to happen.

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It’s Not About Me
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It’s Not About Me

I don't like to focus too much on my past, because then it stops becoming your past and starts to become your present. However, my story is a special exception, because it shows people that it's never too late to rediscover God, and that we can overcome anything in our past. I like to tell people these days, if God can forgive you for whatever you have done, then why can’t you!

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Walking in Dad’s Footsteps
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Walking in Dad’s Footsteps

You strive to be successful, you strive to do well and I think that the Lord wants us to do all that, but I also think at the same time there’s a reason for why I’m coaching. It’s not by my choice, it’s by His choice, and there’s other reasons bigger than football.

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Chase Your Dreams
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Chase Your Dreams

In this excerpt from her new book Chase Your Dreams, World Cup champion soccer player Julie Ertz shares how some key friendships in her life pointed her to Jesus and helped her see her true value. 

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Beyond Blessed
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Beyond Blessed

On the outside, it might have seemed like my UNC career started that day, but in reality the journey started long before then. A journey that included a lot of highs but a few setbacks as well.

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