A Conversation about Christianity and Football with Kirk Cousins
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Kirk Cousins has been an NFL quarterback for 12 years. Before that he played at Michigan State (where he and Kevin met). Before that he was a barely-recruited teenager playing at Holland Christian. And before that, he was a kid in Chicago whose dad helped start Willow Creek (yes, that Willow Creek). If you want to know more of this story, and hear a lot of football talk, you won't want to miss this special LBE episode with the new Atlanta Falcons QB.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. |
| 0:11.2 | I am Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ's Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina. |
| 0:16.4 | If you're watching this online, and if you're not, you should be and you already know, |
| 0:21.4 | I do have a special guest that has been a long time in the making, none other than Kurt |
| 0:28.8 | Cousins. Yes, the football player and more importantly, wonderful Christian man, |
| 0:35.2 | Kurt Cousins, thank you for making time. You are understandably hard to |
| 0:41.3 | track down. So I appreciate you making a few moments here to chat. Yes, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:47.3 | It's great to be with you, Kevin. You know, great memories, which we can get to of you and I back in east Lansing |
| 0:57.6 | Michigan on the Michigan State campus and you know our lives have taken different paths |
| 1:03.3 | since those days I'm not a professional football player that's true but our God has really |
| 1:09.4 | had his hand over both of our lives and and we are both wanting to just follow him one step at a time. |
| 1:14.7 | And so it's fun to take a moment now and catch up and kind of discuss one another's journeys. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, that's great. |
| 1:21.7 | So, yeah, thank you so much. |
| 1:23.5 | And just for anyone watching or listening, at some point, several D. Young children may rush in here after school gets out because they know I'm talking to Kirk. And so they want to wave and they want to say hi. So we'll bear with that. I can't wait to see them. There are more de young children than when we were together in East Lansing. I know that. And there were a lot of young children then. |
| 1:45.4 | There were. |
| 1:45.8 | But also the ones that I know or have met before are now much, much older. |
| 1:51.1 | So it'll be fun to see them and kind of see how they often show to their friends a photo that they have of you on the couch at our house, |
| 2:03.3 | and only probably half of them were there. Yes, we have nine kids. The oldest is 20. The youngest |
| 2:10.7 | is three, so you'll maybe get a few of them in here. So Kirk's already alluded to it, that, |
| 2:15.7 | of course, Kirk was a great Michigan State Spartan, |
| 2:18.8 | and at least for the last two years, through our mutual friend, Eric Swanson, shout out to Swanee, |
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