Tim Tebow
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789 appearances
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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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I'm not that. And all of that, instead of saying, no, no, no. When God made you, he made you one of one. In love, by love, and for love. On purpose, for a purpose. Fearfully and wonderfully made. And we say that in so many people in church. Fearfully and wonderfully made. What does that even mean? Fearfully in context and culture just means awesome. And wonderfully means unique and set apart.
And I have been so blessed to see some of the different wonders of the world. natural wonders, ancient wonders. And I feel like they're coming up with more wonders just so they can sell more stuff. But you see some of the wonders of the world and you get there and sometimes you're like, dang, this is really cool. Like it is really wonderful to see this.
And sometimes you're like, dang, this is just really overrated. But man, I feel like a few times I've been able to see a wonder of the world. And I've been so encouraged because I thought, man, as cool as this is and as wonderful as this is, It doesn't compare to how wonderful God created every man, woman, boy and girl.
So when he says we are fearfully and wonderfully made, we are more one of one, unique and set apart and more wonderful than any of the wonders of the world. But yet we say all the time, Oh my gosh, could you just imagine seeing that? Could you go to this place and see this beauty and see this thing? And they are awesome. That part of God's creation is awesome.
It just pales in comparison to you and to me and every member of society. So we think those things are so beautiful, and they are. They just don't compare to God's greatest creation, which is you and me. Share a story to explain that. Last year, I don't know, near this time, we were in The Hague for an operation there in the fight against live streaming abuse. The where?
The Hague, just outside of Amsterdam. Okay. And so the day before it started, me and my wife got in early, and my wife really wanted to go see the Anne Frank Museum there. And then we are going to go to the Rake Museum. So we go see the Anne Frank Museum. And we're out. It's super impactful and very heavy and deep. And we leave.
And we go to the Rake Museum, which is a museum of just masterpiece art. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, all of these just incredible portraits. And hundreds of people, if not thousands of people, were in there that day. And we're in there and we're looking at all this art and incredible art. And it's beautiful. And I got to be honest, I'm a homeschool lefty dyslexic kid from Jacksonville, Florida.
Art doesn't mean as much to me as maybe it should or it does to my wife. She really loves it. And so we're going through and we're looking at all of this beautiful art. And she just definitely appreciates it more than me. And my whole time, I'm thinking about some other things that I'm trying to appreciate, but spend time with my wife. And we get to one of the portraits.
And I think it's, if I remember correctly, I believe it's a Rembrandt. And I believe it's also called the Standard Bear. And it's this beautiful portrait that I think they just purchased a few years ago for $191.3 million, if I remember correctly. And we're looking at it. And there's all these people that are looking at it. and everyone's taking pictures and video of it.
And you could hear the oohing and aah, it's so beautiful and blah, blah, blah. And I'm standing kind of to the side and I'm looking at it, but then I'm looking at all these people and I get so sad, so convicted and so sad and burdened watching it, because I'm watching all of these people film and video this. And they're looking at that portrait as so much more valuable than they are.
And I just was so sad. I was remembering what we're going to do tomorrow and the next few days and all of these lives that are literally being purchased to be abused and rape. And I'm thinking, no, we're looking at this and what they're going through. And we're saying, this is the masterpiece? And I'm not trying to knock art. I'm just trying to say that pales in comparison to every one of you.
And I wish I could have told him, hey, take your phone, flip it to selfie, and you'll see something more wonderful than that portrait will ever, ever, ever be. And that's part of the lie that we're trying to uncover in ourselves and people is we think, wow, this is so beautiful because it's all this money. It's beautiful because it's called a masterpiece. No, no, no. You are more wonderful.
more fearfully made, that that masterpiece of a painting will ever be. There's no comparison. But we put this value on societal things and temporal things, and we just think they're everything. when they're not. And I think that's another one of the biggest lies that we have to fight, because it is something that challenges us every day. But if I have that, then I'll be more valuable.
If I have that, I'll feel more valuable. No, no, no. That's not going to fill you. That hole that you're chasing is only a place that God can fill.
So as Night to Shine was expanding, we had our first Night to Shine in South Africa. And that's when my wife is from South Africa. And she had a little sister with severe special needs. And so I heard her share a testimony about her sister. And so I told the team, hey, invite her and her family to be a part of Night to Shine. Can we welcome and celebrate them?
And ultimately through that, her sister was too sick to be able to attend. But through that, she had heard about it. And then we sent the invitation, but she couldn't make it. And they responded. And I just, even in response, I thought, man, she's so special. And I responded again saying, but if there's any way we can serve y'all,
And partially because we really wanted to, but I got a bit, I had ulterior motives. I was like, she just seems so incredible. And she responded and we went back and forth on email for a little bit. And she said, I would love to learn more about what y'all are doing. And maybe we can set up a phone call.
So after a bunch of emails back and forth, we set up a phone call and it was supposed to just be, I literally think of the emails like, well, five minute phone call to hear more about
you know the in supporting people with special needs and so I said of course and we set up the phone call and that phone call instead of being five minutes was two hours 24 minutes and six seconds Wow and sounds weird but I gotta tell you on that call I had a good feeling I was gonna marry this girl I'd never met beautiful yeah because I
Even on that phone call, we both knew we have almost nothing in common. Her first language is Afrikaans. I can barely speak English. All of her favorite artists or movies, I've never heard of. All of her favorite songs, I have no idea. She had never seen a baseball, basketball, or football game in her life. She had never seen my favorite movie, Braveheart. There's nothing in common.
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