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Allen Jackson: Life Lessons | Allen Jackson Now

December 10, 2025 | 22:12

Allen Jackson: Life Lessons | Allen Jackson Now
Mike Singletary joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Life Lessons | Allen Jackson Now | December 10, 2025
  • Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • We've had a lot of great guest on this year,
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  • But this is the first time that we've had an nfl
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  • Hall of famer joining us.
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  • If you didn't see him play in college,
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  • You likely saw him during his successful run in the nfl
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  • 12 seasons with the chicago bears,
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  • Including their 1985 season when they went 15 and one
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  • And then crushed the patriots 46 to 10 in the super bowl.
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  • That might be called the running up the score,
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  • But what those bears were best known
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  • For was their nearly impenetrable defense.
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  • And that was led by middle linebacker
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  • Mike singletary, who's joining us tonight.
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  • Welcome to the show, mike.
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  • Thank you very much.
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  • Very happy to be on.
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  • But what a truly remarkable career you had.
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  • And it even led to you coaching for a few years.
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  • But you weren't born a hall of famer.
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  • In fact,
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  • You grew up in poverty and you worked
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  • Hard to create your own path.
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  • Now you've channeled much of what you learned
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  • Along the way into guiding others.
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  • It's in your new book.
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  • It's called visualize your greatness.
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  • Tell us a little bit about that.
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  • Visualize your
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  • Greatness is, basically a book that
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  • I, i felt very strongly
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  • To, to write,
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  • Basically to a 12 year old kid.
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  • It's kind of my story.
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  • Starting at 12 years old and being the last of ten kids
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  • Trying to figure out what i was going to do with my life and,
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  • Being in a tough situation, mom and dad fighting all the time.
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  • And brothers in and out of jail,
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  • Sisters having babies out of wedlock,
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  • It was like i was kind of tossed.
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  • And, finally
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  • I got a hold of some tapes from norman vincent peale,
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  • The amazing results of positive thinking.
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  • And, i listened to those cassette tapes on my,
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  • Just on my headphones all the time.
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  • And it was really amazing.
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  • The thing that i got out of it was being able to close my eyes
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  • And envision the life that i want to have. and,
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  • That was the thing that
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  • Really, really helped me get where i wanted to go.
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  • And football was that vehicle that that i was able to use.
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  • That allowed me to go to college.
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  • University and, become an all-american.
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  • And the dreams that i had being able to fulfill those.
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  • Well, when you played college football,
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  • You set a school record with 662 tackles.
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  • 33 of them happened in just one game.
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  • That's pretty much unheard of.
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  • Your pro career included close to 1500 tackles.
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  • Now we talk about athletes having a good motor.
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  • Your seem to be exceptional.
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  • What was your motivation for that kind of intensity?
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  • My motivation was always,
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  • Being able to go out
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  • And do my best.
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  • Once again, at 12 years old, i remember
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  • Going outside once and and looking up toward
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  • The sky and saying, lord, i need you.
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  • I need you to guide me.
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  • I need you to help me. and,
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  • I'm going to go out
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  • For this football team, and
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  • I want to be great.
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  • I want to be the best.
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  • And in order for me to do that, i'm not the biggest guy.
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  • I'm not the fastest guy.
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  • But i promise you, i will give you everything
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  • I've got on every play.
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  • And that really became the the fire.
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  • My why?
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  • As to why i was so fired up all the time.
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  • Because i told god i'm going to.
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  • I'm going to never, ever take a play off.
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  • And i'm going to give every play 100%.
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  • And, that's what i did.
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  • Well, you played with some remarkable
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  • Athletes, hall of famers all around.
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  • What did you take away from time with people like walter payton
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  • And the rest of those folks that you played with?
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  • You know, it's it's, it's interesting.
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  • Walter payton, was such a,
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  • An interesting guy, coming from,
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  • Humble beginnings and working his way,
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  • Up the ranks and and just being a tremendous athlete.
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  • Tremendous person.
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  • I never saw him walk away from signing autographs.
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  • He would stand outside all day long, and the people came.
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  • He would sign autographs. and,
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  • I just remember always looking at him,
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  • Taking time out with the fans and taking time out
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  • To talk to them and and laugh with them and,
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  • Just really be a great person.
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  • And that always stuck out to me.
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  • Well, in your book, you said it was those early principles
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  • That you learned on the field that has taken you through life.
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  • Tell us the seven seas, including confidence
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  • And compete.
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  • Translate some of those for us into your daily life now
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  • And your deep faith.
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  • Well, the the seven seas.
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  • And basically, the first one is being able to have the courage.
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  • You know,
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  • So many of us are going through
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  • Life right now, and there are things that
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  • People want to do and they want to try,
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  • And they really feel like god
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  • Has called them to take a step in a certain direction.
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  • And it just go.
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  • What if i don't make it?
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  • What if i fail?
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  • What if i do?
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  • And it's like, you know,
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  • You got to have the courage to step out there.
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  • Do you believe that
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  • This is something in your heart is calling out to you
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  • When you're sitting down, when you're dreaming, when you.
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  • You gotta you gotta step out.
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  • And so courage is the first one.
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  • Being conscious of the decisions that you're making.
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  • Conscious of the people that you surround yourself with.
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  • I was, very conscious.
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  • I had to make a tremendous decision.
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  • The very next day, after i wrote out my vision statement.
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  • I went to school,
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  • And i got the guy
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  • That i was hanging around with, and i told him
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  • I couldn't hang around with him anymore.
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  • I was going in another direction,
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  • And, they they thought, you know.
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  • Oh, so you think you better than us?
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  • Do you think you have? no.
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  • I'm just going in another direction.
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  • And, i begin to set boundaries around my life.
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  • People that i allow to speak to me, speak into my life.
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  • So you got to have conscious, consciousness
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  • About your life being consistent.
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  • That is the, the one thing that consistency creates.
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  • Your habits.
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  • Know, if you got to have great habits,
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  • You need to be intentional about what those habits are.
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  • And work and work and work
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  • Until those habits become your personality.
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  • The next one is basically, if you do the first three,
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  • Then you it's basically you're going to have confidence.
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  • And confidence is a great thing.
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  • It's a great thing when you're trying to do
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  • Something, you're trying to go somewhere.
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  • But the most important thing is don't allow that confidence
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  • To become prideful,
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  • Because if you do, then nine times
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  • Out of ten, that's about as far as you're going to go.
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  • The next thing is being able to develop character,
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  • Because i don't care how great you are,
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  • You're only going to go as far as your character can take you.
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  • And the next one is basically compete.
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  • I do.
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  • You're going to do great things
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  • When you're confident and you got character.
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  • Great things are going to come,
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  • But i just have
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  • To make sure i don't sit back and rest on our laurels.
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  • I need to continue to move forward.
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  • I need to continue to compete with myself.
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  • And people ask me all the time, who's the toughest linebacker?
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  • Who's the toughest guard? who's the toughest tackle?
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  • So it was never any of those guys.
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  • It was me.
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  • I'm the toughest guy that i have to deal with.
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  • Every night when i looked in that mirror.
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  • Did you do everything that you could today to be
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  • Better than you were yesterday?
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  • Did you do everything you could today?
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  • Did you call somebody and say, i'm sorry, i apologize?
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  • I shouldn't have said that.
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  • You know.
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  • Did you did you tell somebody how much you appreciate them?
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  • Because they're in your life?
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  • All of those little things.
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  • And that competition gives you that edge.
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  • The last see is basically the commitment.
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  • The same commitment that i made to my wife when i married her.
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  • I want to be the best that i can be.
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  • I'm going to stand by you. i'm going to love you.
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  • All that i care.
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  • Being committed to everything that.
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  • That i say that i'm going to do.
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  • Making sure that that i follow through
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  • And get those things done.
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  • Those are the services like that.
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  • Some really good coaching.
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  • I need to take a quick time out right now.
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  • Can you stay for another segment?
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  • Absolutely. we'll be right back.
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  • But during the break you can log on to aj now.com
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  • And send me an email about my conversation
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  • With mike singletary
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  • And any ideas you might have on visualizing your greatness.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We're back now
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  • With the chicago bears nfl hall of famer mike singletary.
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  • Now he's starting to success on the field
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  • Into a book of guidance on how
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  • Anyone can get to the next level by chasing excellence.
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  • Like one of the things you talk about
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  • Is that a key to your success is your strong faith.
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  • Was that from your childhood or did it come later in your life?
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  • Well, we grew up in a church.
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  • My father was a pentecostal pastor.
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  • And if you know anything about pentecostal
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  • That that meant you were in church all day.
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  • And, it was it was,
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  • It was pretty interesting, but,
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  • But my my father kind of ran into a tough time and,
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  • And, walked away from the family
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  • When i was 12, and,
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  • That that made it difficult.
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  • And made it difficult for me.
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  • Mom, the family.
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  • A lot of my siblings and moved out by then.
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  • But it was, nonetheless, it was a tough time for me
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  • To try and figure that out.
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  • I in one sense, i was glad that my dad left.
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  • In another sense, it was,
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  • It was really, really difficult.
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  • I could see the effect that it had on my mom.
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  • You know, it's one of the things that i think
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  • Is so valuable in your story, mike.
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  • You know, with that background of faith,
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  • Still wasn't an easy life.
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  • And sometimes
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  • I think we make the mistake
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  • Of thinking that people have a heart towards god.
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  • All the problems just evaporate.
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  • That's not reality.
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  • But our faith helps us through those dark seasons.
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  • Am i right on that? no.
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  • You know, nine times out of ten, the older
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  • I get, the more i learned that when you come into the faith.
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  • There are all kinds of things that just come out of nowhere
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  • To try and discourage you from the faith.
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  • So first of all, you got to make sure that
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  • When you step into the faith
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  • That you're prepared for the first,
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  • Line of let's see if he's really serious
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  • About this faith thing and put you through some things.
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  • And you're like, god, where are you?
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  • I mean, i'm going through this stuff.
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  • What? what are you. what are you doing?
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  • Why are you letting satan do these things?
  • 00:11:51.356 --> 00:11:53.758
  • And is is part of, being able to mature
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  • And work through those things and really,
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  • Really get into the word of god and understand what the word
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  • Of god says and be able to develop your, your certain,
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  • Weapons that come out of that of the word of god.
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  • And when
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  • You begin to use the word of god
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  • As a, a weapon as,
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  • As a gun, as a knife on earth,
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  • Those things become
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  • You just get a lot better at realizing, you know what?
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  • This is another attack.
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  • I need to step up to the plate and say,
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  • In the name of jesus, that that's not happening.
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  • I know they'll do the trick that you're trying to come with.
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  • You're going to have to do better than that.
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  • That's not going to work.
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  • And so,
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  • You just have to you just have to stay in the word.
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  • For me, it is all about knowing what god says in his word.
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  • No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
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  • And every tongue
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  • Which speaks against me in judgment shall be condemned.
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  • And so those kinds of things, those words,
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  • Those scripture, those are the things that protect you.
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  • Oh, that's what the.
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  • Okay, i got it now.
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  • Faith is the substance of things hoped for
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  • And the evidence of things not seen.
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  • Okay, so i okay, i don't see it, but i know it's coming.
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  • Those are the things for me that knowing the word is
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  • The thing that gets us through in those difficult times.
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  • Yeah, that's some hall of fame advice you're giving us.
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  • Putting the word of god in our hearts
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  • Gives us a response to those challenges. you.
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  • You call it a weapon?
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  • I think that's good, but it's really the response we need.
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  • And so when you put god's word in your heart,
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  • We're prepared for the challenges.
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  • And we can overcome them.
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  • You have done that and so can we.
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  • Absolutely.
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  • There's a number of reports on young people
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  • That are feeling anxious and depressed and often lost.
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  • There's an increasing number
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  • Returning their faith to move forward.
  • 00:13:59.284 --> 00:14:01.619
  • What do you tell the young people that you meet
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  • With about your faith journey that will help them?
  • 00:14:03.554 --> 00:14:07.058
  • You know, the biggest thing is,
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  • To have young people understand that this thing,
  • 00:14:09.861 --> 00:14:14.065
  • Everything is, is has a good side and an evil side.
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  • The phones that we have, it's being able to not
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  • Look at the phone every day and scroll through the phone
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  • And allow the phone to tell me or guide me or lead me.
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  • It is making sure that i put the phone in its place
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  • In my life
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  • Once again, making sure that even as a young person,
  • 00:14:37.322 --> 00:14:41.192
  • You've got to be in the word of god.
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  • You have to know what the word of god says.
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  • If i am a child of god and i need to know
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  • What the bible says about me, what am i rights?
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  • What are the things that i need to know?
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  • How far do i let the evil one come in my life?
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  • When do i say, hey, wait a minute. hold on.
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  • According to this, the word says this and i stand on that.
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  • So that means you gotta go.
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  • You gotta flee.
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  • And if you don't know who you are in christ, then
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  • I think that's
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  • One of the worst places for a believer to be, is
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  • To say that i'm a believer, but you don't know the word of god.
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  • And because you don't know the word of god,
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  • The evil one is going to ask you a couple of questions,
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  • Just like he asked
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  • Jesus when he said, hey, if you're the son of god,
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  • In turn, these rocks in the bread, you don't
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  • Turn the stone in the bread, but you say, hey, wait a minute.
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  • No, i don't have to do that because the word says this.
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  • When you have that
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  • And satan didn't just go away with the first one,
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  • He came back with the second one.
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  • If you're the son of god, then bow down to me.
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  • If you're the son of god, then you know,
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  • Jump off the mountain here and then.
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  • But jesus every time said,
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  • It is written,
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  • And in order for me to say it is written,
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  • I need to know that there is something that
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  • I need to be reading because it's written for me.
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  • And as long as i understand that,
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  • Then i've got a chance that that word of god is my sword.
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  • It allows me to cut through all kinds of stuff
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  • That i can't see, but i know it's there by faith
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  • And so i can't go forward without the word and i and that
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  • That's the biggest thing that i tell young people today.
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  • The greatest opportunity that we have is to read
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  • And then is what we read,
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  • And we have to take time.
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  • If the spirit of god, if i say that i'm a,
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  • That i'm a god fearing person,
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  • That i and i'm putting god first in my life,
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  • Then i need to know what god is specifically saying to me.
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  • Well, like,
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  • I love your reminder of the authority of scripture.
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  • You know, i often tell christians to to face life
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  • Without the word of god on our eyes.
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  • Try to step on a football field of a helmet and pads.
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  • You can step out there, but you won't stay long
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  • Before we run out of time.
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  • Can you tell us
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  • If you keep up with any of your former teammates,
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  • From your victorious super bowl team,
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  • And who you're expecting to see in the super bowl this year?
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  • Well, you know, this year is kind of tricky.
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  • I'm looking at, kansas city.
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  • I'm looking at, philadelphia
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  • And both those teams, gotta figure some things out.
  • 00:17:38.769 --> 00:17:43.674
  • There are a couple of other teams out there that that,
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  • Kind of sneaky, you know, look at san francisco.
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  • They look like they're getting some guys healthy coming back.
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  • So i don't know, right now, i'm i'm i'm kind of kind of taking
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  • A step back.
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  • And i was looking at tampa bay for a while,
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  • But my man got hurt the other day.
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  • The quarterback, feel bad about it now.
  • 00:18:01.292 --> 00:18:04.295
  • The rams right now,
  • 00:18:04.295 --> 00:18:05.997
  • The rambler probably plan their best football.
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  • It's going to be exciting to see where they go.
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  • So i'm i'm just going to, you know, take a step back.
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  • And i'm looking at denver looking at the rams.
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  • We'll see.
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  • We'll see if they continue moving forward.
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  • Those are the two good teams right now
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  • That i think are playing playing pretty good football.
  • 00:18:26.284 --> 00:18:29.620
  • Well mike singletary, thanks for coming on today.
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  • We'll have you back in january. get an update.
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  • The book is called visualize your greatness.
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  • And if you find your way to nashville,
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  • I hope you'll stop by here with us.
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  • Not for the titans, but you can come visit us.
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  • Sounds good.
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  • Well, in a moment, some real hope to add to mike's
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  • Clarion call for greatness.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • Thank you for your emails.
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  • They're always a highlight.
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  • Rick emailed.
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  • I would like pastor to discuss where
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  • And how god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.236
  • I keep hearing him say that,
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  • And i'd like to hear his view on where and how.
  • 00:19:12.537 --> 00:19:15.573
  • It's a great question, rick, one that we can't probably fit
  • 00:19:15.573 --> 00:19:18.009
  • Into what we have here, but i'll start.
  • 00:19:18.009 --> 00:19:20.478
  • You know, there's not a week that goes past that.
  • 00:19:20.478 --> 00:19:22.113
  • I don't see an expression of the power of god.
  • 00:19:22.113 --> 00:19:24.449
  • That reminds me, god is very much active in the earth.
  • 00:19:24.449 --> 00:19:27.552
  • A week ago, a family approached me.
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  • At the end of the service.
  • 00:19:30.121 --> 00:19:31.089
  • I was still at the altar and they came up.
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  • They had driven
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  • 15 hours to get to murfreesboro, where our church is located.
  • 00:19:33.558 --> 00:19:36.628
  • They belong to another faith, but they've
  • 00:19:36.628 --> 00:19:38.129
  • Been watching on youtube and they said, we understood.
  • 00:19:38.129 --> 00:19:40.932
  • We recognized that we had to make a change in our lives.
  • 00:19:40.932 --> 00:19:43.534
  • So we drove to tennessee.
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  • I've been a pastor a long time.
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  • I've met very few people driving that far
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  • With that kind of determination
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  • To acknowledge jesus as lord of their lives.
  • 00:19:50.608 --> 00:19:53.211
  • Week in and week out,
  • 00:19:53.211 --> 00:19:54.612
  • I see those kind of expressions of the power of god.
  • 00:19:54.612 --> 00:19:57.715
  • I think what god is doing is going to be different
  • 00:19:57.715 --> 00:19:59.684
  • Than what we've seen in the past.
  • 00:19:59.684 --> 00:20:01.019
  • But there's no question he's moving in the earth.
  • 00:20:01.019 --> 00:20:03.288
  • I want to go with him, and i know you do as well.
  • 00:20:04.289 --> 00:20:06.924
  • We'll be back in just a moment.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • It's a privilege to join you and be a small part of that.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • You have a wonderful evening.
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