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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, I've told this story here before, but it bears repeating that when I was in high school,

I had one goal and one goal only.

And that was to excel at football.

My father had been great at football.

He had a binder of newspaper clippings of his exploits on the football field.

And my older brother had been great at football.

He had a similar binder filled with newspaper articles about his success on the football field.

So as I entered high school, I thought, man, I'm going to have to win a Heisman,

which you can't even do to just earn the family name around here.

And so you can imagine my disappointment freshman year when at 120 pounds,

I was placed as the center of the offensive line.

That's the quality of ball we were playing on my team.

Not great, but I worked hard over that summer, bulked up, got trained.

And by the time I entered my sophomore year, I got the position I wanted corner back on defense.

And I remember after the first game, they elevated me to the starting role on the junior varsity team.

I know, shocking.

And I was nervous.

I remember as I showed up there, I was like, oh my gosh, you can do this.

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