Every Shadow Has A Gift: Terry Bradshaw and Toni Collier
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When we’re going through a particularly tough time in life, we might find ourselves shaking our fists in the air and asking, “Why God? Why this, why me?” But what we night not realize is that God knows the answer to our questions, and though it may not be clear to us now what meaning that time of pain or struggle had in our lives, we have to trust that God is with us as we work through it, and that He’s got something greater for us on the other side of it.
Our guests this week will admit they’ve had disappointments, failures, and missed opportunities. But they both acknowledge that when they’ve been through painful experiences, they can look back and see how far they’ve come and what they learned toward creating a better future for themselves, and others. We’re talking with Hall of Fame Pro NFL football player and co-host of The NFL on Fox, Terry Bradshaw, plus author and founder of the non-profit Broken Crayons Still Color, which helps people deal with trauma and abuse, Toni Collier.
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Interview Quotes:
“Going to Louisiana Tech, not passing the ACT, I'll just say was all a part of His plan for me. It all worked out—I ended up going into the Hall of Fame, ended up winning the Super Bowl.” - Terry Bradshaw
“It's okay to not view yourself as perfect. The fact that we can acknowledge our imperfections is good, that we seek a love and forgiveness from God, which He promised to give us if we ask for forgiveness. That’s like the greatest message ever, knowing that I can be forgiven of my sins.” - Terry Bradshaw
“I hear people talk about miracles all the time. I'm not a big miracle guy because miracles come at God's pace, not my pace. I don't like to wear God out.” - Terry Bradshaw
“I grew up way too fast, thought I was like a little adult at thirteen. And it just kind of opened up the really this unprotected state from the enemy just to come in and steal so much of my childhood and the light that God was really trying to put in it.” - Toni Collier
“If we really do believe that God is a redeemer, then we also believe that He can redeem relationships. He can redeem the time that was lost in relationships.” - Toni Collier
“[I] rebuilt my entire life by just believing that my brokenness and everything I had gone through didn't discount me. That God still had a real great plan and a purpose for me.” - Toni Collier
“In my moments of pleading is when I felt the presence of God the most.” - Toni Collier
“I think what someone needs to hear today is; maybe it's not the grief and the pain and the betrayal and the abandonment that takes you out, but the belief that you would have to feel it all alone. And you do not. We do not, because we have a God that's with us.” - Toni Collier
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| 0:00.0 | I challenge everybody that when we look in a mirror and we see ourselves, and we're |
| 0:06.8 | by ourselves, it's only then that we acknowledge to ourselves what we're not so good at. |
| 0:13.6 | We try every day to be as good a human being as we possibly can, and only through the assurance |
| 0:18.9 | of our salvation in Christ, though I truly believe that's even possible, which for the |
| 0:24.0 | most part of the visit, just because we're human beings. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | Our guests this week will admit they've had disappointments, failures, and missed opportunities, |
| 0:35.7 | but they both acknowledge that when they've been through painful experiences, they can |
| 0:39.2 | look back and see how far they've come through prayer and connecting to God, and what they |
| 0:44.0 | learn toward creating a better future for themselves and others. |
| 0:48.0 | We're talking with Hall of Fame, Pro, NFL Football Player, and co-host of the NFL Unvox, |
| 0:53.0 | Terry Bradshaw, plus author and founder of the nonprofit Broken Crown Stoke Color, which |
| 0:58.7 | helps people deal with trauma and abuse, Tony Collier. |
| 1:02.5 | We'll start with Terry Bradshaw's story. |
| 1:09.0 | My name's Terry Bradshaw, co-host, show co-fox and I fell Sunday. |
| 1:12.7 | I played 14 years in NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| 1:17.9 | I formed Sreport, Louisiana, raised there. |
| 1:22.7 | My father was a welder, my mother's a housewife. |
| 1:26.8 | Sreport was where I grew up, spent the summers, the great part of the summer, and hauled |
| 1:33.2 | some of it on my grandfather's farm. |
| 1:36.3 | It's where we were barefooted and playing in the woods all day long, stayed outside all |
| 1:41.8 | day. |
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