Tim Tebow
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 23 Feb
Tim Tebow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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um not everywhere not everywhere sometimes they're uh certain places they're very not receptive some places they i've seen them run him off i've seen him them argue but also i've seen um people that you would have never thought respond respond weeping. So no, it's not always receptive. And I could tell you that many countries where it was the exact opposite of receptive.
But you could even see in some of those times how God would start to work in the hard places and the people that are even resistant to it.
So I grew up just with just the best parents and four older siblings that were amazing. And we grew up going to church all the time, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Did a couple of Bible studies in between. And over and over again, my parents, especially my dad, would say, hey, you heard the pastor talking about Jesus and that free gift. Do you want to say yes to Jesus today?
And over and over, I'd say, no, Dad, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Go to my parents' room and say, hey, you heard the sermon today, or you heard me preach. What do you think? Do you want to say? I'd say, no, Dad, I'm good. Until one night, I was lying in my bed late in the evening, And I knew that I knew that I knew that I was a sinner that desperately needed a savior.
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And on the west side of Jacksonville, Florida, we got on our knees on a blue couch, and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, and He did. And He forgave me of my sin. And one of the things that my parents did that was so special They wanted us to remember that moment and how special it was. So even a family that didn't have a lot of money and was always strapped to do a lot of things.
My mom set up a trip for us to go to Orlando and go to Epcot to celebrate my spiritual birthday. my family always made a bigger deal of our spiritual birthday than they did our earthly birthday and um my mom still every year will call me tell me it's your spiritual birthday you know it's so that's really cool I've not heard of that yeah and
Well, I had first answer by saying maybe I'm not a very good Christian, but God's never audibly spoke to me. And I do believe that it does for some people, but never with me. But I feel like in how God usually speaks to me or people is in God's word, is time in prayer, and it's also through a lot of people. Wise counsel.
It's so important to us that are literally our second core value for our foundation, our family, myself, all of us is that we value and seek wise counsel. Because man, God uses people to speak into you. But then I would also say, one of the ways I like to talk about it is the pricking of your heart, like this nudging of your heart.
And then when I accepted Christ as a boy, still learning and figuring out so much of what that means. But really, the first time I would say I felt called to something specifically was when I was 15. And I met a boy in the jungles of the Philippines who was born with his feet on backwards. And because of that,
He was treated and viewed as less than, insignificant, throwaway, and many viewed him as cursed because they believed that he had special needs. His feet were on backwards. He's less than. The gods have cursed him. And so he was treated as an outcast, as less than. And man, I just... fell in love with that boy. I knew that he wasn't an outcast. He wasn't cursed.
But I also knew, Sean, it's hard to even say like, this is all just, you're trying to figure out what does that even mean? But almost if I could put it into a sentence, which I couldn't, then it was the thought of Yeah, Timmy, you might know He's not cursed, but what are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do? You might have this thought or this feeling, but what are you gonna do?
I've shown you how much I love Him. I demonstrated my love for you and for Him on the cross. But how much will you love Him?
And I don't know if I could even fully articulate that. And I even came back to the States, and I shared that testimony of some people. And you're trying to articulate, all I knew is somehow
God was challenging me and convicting me to fight for those that couldn't fight for themselves, to stand up and speak for those that didn't have a voice, to not just feel something or think something, but do something. And I didn't know. I was like, God, but what do you want me to do? I don't know what to do. But it was that on my heart, and God started to let it grow and grow and grow.
And then we kept going back and forth to the Philippines throughout all my summer and even into college. And so when I'm in college, we're starting to, you know, then you didn't have NIL or you didn't have the opportunity to have a foundation. So we tried to use the rules, the ways to make impact and difference.
But then the first thing I did when I graduated from Florida is start the Tim Tebow Foundation. In all honesty, I know this doesn't sound good, But not knowing exactly what that meant, I just knew we were called to fight for people that couldn't fight for themselves. And so I wrote the mission statement. And it was the only really place early on of clarity was the mission statement.
I don't know why God let me have peace on that, but I did. And I remember I was right here in Nashville when I was writing it, because I was training for the NFL draft over at D1. And I wrote the mission statement, to bring faith, hope, and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need, to sum it up, to fight for people that couldn't fight for themselves.
And so it started with orphan care and special needs care. And then very quickly, we got into starting to plan for our first hospital and to support strong families. And so it was just this... this uncertainty of how, but this belief in why, if that makes sense. I don't know strategically what this means. I just know that we are called to fight for people that can't fight for themselves.
Now we call that the MVP, the most vulnerable people. And I would also say that God's challenged me a lot in my life of really, in a sense, saying, Timmy, you care and cared so much about winning. And I loved, I love winning. I hated losing even more and insanely competitive. I love the drive. I love the challenge. I love the chase. I want to win. I really do.
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