HH #519 Fighting Your Battles with Jonathan Evans

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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“Everybody is either in a battle, on their way to a battle or they just got out of one" -Jonathan Evans Today I sat down with Jonathan Evans and we talked about his new book, Fighting Your Battles: Every Christian Playbook for Victory. Jonathan is a husband, father of five beautiful children, brother to Priscilla Shirer, Chrystal Evans Hurst and Anthony Evans and the son of Dr. Tony Evans. Jonathan is a former NFL player and he is now the chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy Podcasts.
0:03.7	I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.
0:06.3	Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life,
0:10.6	the little things in life and everything in between.
0:24.4	Hey friends and welcome to another episode of The Happy Hour.
0:27.6	I am Jamie and I'm your host and we are here.
0:30.4	We are in September midweek and today's show is going to get you through this month.
0:36.2	All I have to say is if you feel like, man, life feels hard right now, man, I feel like I just keep getting beat down.
0:42.8	Man, I just feel like things just keep coming and coming and coming.
0:45.7	Today's show is going to encourage you like nothing else.
0:48.4	My guest is Jonathan Evans and he released a book just yesterday actually called Fighting Your Battles.
0:53.6	Every Christian's playbook for victory.
0:55.8	And Jonathan is part of the Evans family and I say that because if you wonder, have you had Priscilla on or have you had Dr. Tony Evans on or have you had Priscilla on?
1:03.7	Yes and we'll link all of their shows and Jonathan's show notes which you can find easily by going to Jamie.
1:09.3	Ivey.com slash HH519 today's episode 519.
1:13.8	Jonathan and I have such a great conversation today literally about the battle that our life is and battle feels like a big word.
1:21.4	It feels kind of hard.
1:22.4	In fact, I asked him, why did you use that word?
1:24.0	What does that mean? Why is it important for us to think about life and the Christian faith being a battle?
1:29.4	Jonathan is a chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys right now, but he didn't always have the dream of being a chaplain.
1:34.7	He had a dream actually playing in the NFL and he tells his story and although I'm guessing a lot of us that are listening or not playing for the NFL or have that dream.
1:43.1	It still is such a good reminder of so many times there's dreams that we have in us that kind of moves around to get us exactly where he wants us to be.
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