Experiencing Revival
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Dave Wilson is joined by former NFL quarterbacks Dan Orlovsky, Jon Kitna, and Josh McCown to provide an inside peek into their time together with the Detroit Lions. While they did not enjoy a lot of success on the field, they experienced a spiritual revival within their team. By the end of it, they saw over 39 players, wives, and children baptized for Christ. As Orlovsky describes it, all three players were psycho-maniacal, obsessive competitors on the field. But they embraced a higher mission as Christ-followers: to be incredible husbands, remarkable fathers, and amazing teammates.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Thanksgiving. Do you know what time it is? It's time for football. |
| 0:06.0 | How's it going to say turkey family? |
| 0:08.0 | I thought you were going to say gratitude, which of course it is. Thanksgiving is a great holiday. |
| 0:13.0 | My favorite actually, because it's so pure. |
| 0:15.0 | Which is so interesting because for 33 years you're the lion's chaplain and for 33 Thanksgiving. |
| 0:22.0 | I know you're going to say I was never home for Thanksgiving. |
| 0:25.0 | You were on the football field and you loved every minute of it, didn't you? |
| 0:29.0 | Well, the ones we won, like two of them. |
| 0:33.0 | But no, I mean, we had a tradition because we were always and we will be again this year. |
| 0:37.0 | The first game on Thanksgiving day is always the lions. |
| 0:41.0 | And so then we had dinner later. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | And then we watched the other two games yet. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the Wilson Household. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 1:12.0 | This is Family Life today. |
| 1:15.0 | What's really exciting about this Thanksgiving is we sat down with three of the quarterbacks |
| 1:30.0 | and their wives that we got a chance to lead spiritually when they played for the Detroit Lions. |
| 1:34.0 | And we sat down with them ahead a conversation about how God showed up in a big way through their lives and through their ministry. |
| 1:43.0 | It was John Kitna and Josh McCown and Dan Orlowski. |
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