Family Matters: Country Music’s High Valley & The NFL’s Trent Dilfer
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
From time to time, life has a way of making us feel that everything is crumbling down around us. Problems can shake us, and even break us. But what will still be there when nothing else is left is family: whether it’s the family you’re born into or the family you choose. Growing up in a remote Mennonite community in northern Alberta, Canada, Brad and Curtis Rempel of the country music duo High Valley cultivated a rich passion for music and tight-knit family. As they try to put music into the world that draws families together, Brad and Curtis have come to realize where their priorities lie—and that’s with raising their kids. Super Bowl-winning quarterback Trent Dilfer knows the value of appreciating your family, particularly since he tragically lost his son Trevin at a young age. Keeping faith as the foundation for his life, Trent has repurposed his pain into passion, and started saying yes to where God wanted him to go, which led to the unlikely decision to coach high school football and mentor young athletes in Nashville, TN.
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“I've been a dad for almost seven years, and I'm still just trying to always pray that God will keep me humble, and if I want my kids to own their own mistakes, I’ve got to own mine.” - Curtis Rempel
“We pray as a family all the time that God will work in our hearts, help us to be servants of each other, and be humble.” - Curtis Rempel
”You do all the things that you think are the right things to do, but God has this story that He's writing.” - Brad Rempel
“God has this amazing way of just doing what He wants with what you've got.” - Brad Rempel
“Football has this unique way of not just impacting the individual that's playing it, coaching it, but especially here in the south, it impacts communities.” - Trent Dilfer
“I've been asked this question a million times about how my faith has impacted my life, and I can always give the same answer. It is my life. It's the foundation. It's the starting point for everything.” - Trent Dilfer
“I still to this day can't understand how somebody can get through how hard life is without that peace that transcends understanding.” - Trent Dilfer
“As these wounds were being opened, as I was dealing with some of this pain, again, it was bringing out a passion in me that I hadn't had in years—maybe more than I had ever had. That passion surfaced as thought leadership, has surfaced as capacity, has surfaced as energy, has surfaced as compassion.” - Trent Dilfer, on coaching high school football
“Sometimes we stay in our pain because we think that's where we should live. And we'd feel guilty if that pain turns into something positive. I would just tell you from life experience that that pain repurposed into passion is an incredible, redemptive quality that only the Lord Jesus Christ can provide.” - Trent Dilfer
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| 0:00.0 | Join us on Tuesdays this fall for the Jesus Calling stories of faith television show on Circle TV, |
| 0:06.8 | hosted by country music superstar Lauren Elena. |
| 0:10.4 | Each week we'll talk with people from all walks of life about their heart aches, their victories, |
| 0:16.0 | their joy, and their pain, and how their faith kept them going through it all. |
| 0:21.2 | You don't want to miss it. Tuesdays 8.30 p.m. Eastern time and re-erring |
| 0:26.2 | Sundays at 2 p.m. eastern this fall on Circle TV. Visit Jesus Calling |
| 0:31.8 | dot com slash TV to find out how to watch in your area. |
| 0:38.0 | You got to try and see this whole life as a long-term deal and not one moment. It's so hard though I mean to not, you know, we literally preach. I think I probably wrote it in a few songs, live in the moment, you know, but technically you don't want to live too much in the moment you |
| 0:54.1 | want to realize that bad moments can disappear in the grand scheme of things we |
| 0:59.4 | try and soak up all the good ones for sure. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the greatest blessings we could ever ask for is having a family. |
| 1:09.0 | Whether it's the family we're born into or the family we choose. |
| 1:12.0 | Our guests this week are Brad and Curtis |
| 1:14.2 | Remble of the country music group High Valley, along with Super Bowl winning |
| 1:18.5 | quarterback and high school football coach Trent Daufer. They each share stories that show the life-saving power of |
| 1:24.8 | cultivating deep connections with people who stand by us in our lowest moments and |
| 1:28.7 | cheer with us in our highest moments. |
| 1:38.0 | High Valley is a country music duo who originally hail from Canada. Brothers Brad and Curtis Rumpel started singing at a very young age with their family and with their church and follow their love of music along with their dreams all the way to Nashville. |
| 1:48.0 | As they began touring and finding success in the country music world, |
| 1:51.0 | the brothers agreed that they'd always wanted their music to be something |
| 1:54.1 | families could enjoy together, just as they had enjoyed music as a family together growing up. |
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