John Chick
Episode 162
7 MAR 2022
He played two years for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars and also spent time in the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts organizations. In addition, he played many years in the Canadian Football League and was a two-time Grey Cup champion as a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who won the league title game in both 2007 and 2013. In 2009 he earned the CFL’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award and in 2013 he led the league in sacks. He would also play in the CFL for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Edmonton Eskimos. As a student-athlete he had played college football at Utah State. Nowadays he is all about helping men become on fire, fit, and free.
Notable guest quotes:
“We were at church every Sunday and I grew up (with) many powerful experiences in the faith… We were serving soup kitchens every month.”
“Fortunately, I just had good doctors, great people (who’d) come and visit, and just was raised in a home that I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me.”
“I went to school at Utah State University and… what I found out is, I knew my faith, I had this conviction, but I wasn’t great at apologetics.”
“There was only a Newman Center (at Utah State)… that, at max, could hold three hundred people, and that’s where I was every Sunday. And I found early on that I wanted to know how to defend my faith.”
“I can see in my story going back, every time I got knocked down it was, God blessed it more abundantly than you can imagine.”
“I called the Jaguars – who had asked me to sign with them the year before – and I ate some humble pie and said, ‘Hey, ya’ know what? This isn’t what I thought (in Indianapolis). I’ll sign to your practice roster. I believe I can come make your team.’ And it went back and forth, and they brought me down there.”
“My second year in Saskatchewan I had a season filled with injuries… And those down times were my best times of faith.”
“In 2008… that began a lifetime journey of getting to know Jesus in the scripture, getting to know the Word of God and really leaning on my faith.”
“Would I have had all of those accomplishments, achievements, all those things, without the cross… I don’t think so.”
“I always believed in mind, body, and spirit, that it’s all one. We are not divided. Jesus Christ is a hundred percent man, a hundred percent God. We are created in His image and likeness.”
“All I knew, in my world, is the pursuit of greatness using my body to glorify God in my body.”
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