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Follow My Heart, Or Follow My Head? Kevin DeYoung

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Should you follow your heart or your head? Kevin DeYoung believes God understands our hearts. Could you possibly be steering yourself in the wrong direction? If you're grappling with deciding whether to end a relationship or if your next career path is right for you, gain confidence in your next decision with thoughtful consideration.

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0:00.0

I never really talked about football on

0:02.7

Oh no are we going there today?

0:05.6

Hey wait you know what you just be true to yourself if that's what you want to

0:10.6

talk about based on where we're going I see what you're doing our funny. Based on where we're going, I see what you're doing.

0:14.0

Our listeners don't know where we're going yet, but here's what I thought.

0:16.0

I coached high school football, I think 12 years.

0:18.0

Got to coach all three sons through there and, you know, I love football, so it was fun.

0:22.0

Honestly, the reason I so it was fun.

0:22.6

Honestly the reason I did it was not football it was boys to men.

0:26.6

I got the chance to help young boys become men but I gotta tell you the story

0:31.6

our head coach would often bring in motivational speakers and this one kind this guy came in in the gist of his message and this what we're talking about today was young guys you guys boys follow your, whatever your heart tells you to do, go with it.

0:45.5

You're walking down the hallway at school and your heart tells you to do this, you follow your

0:49.6

heart.

0:50.6

And I wanted to stand up. I'm surprised you didn't.

0:54.0

No, don't listen.

0:55.0

That is really bad advice. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

1:10.0

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

1:13.1

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

1:16.1

This is Family with us. I think Kevin would

1:30.3

probably disagree with that message. But Kevin, before we go there, I just want to say, welcome to family life today.

1:35.0

I'm glad to be back.

1:36.0

No, I was not your motivational speaker.

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