I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.
I felt unworthy, and it's amazing how God kind of showed me that that's how we act as humans, and that's sometimes how we act in our Christian life.
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.