Tim Tebow is a former NFL quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and two-time BCS National Champion with the Florida Gators. A first-round draft pick by the Denver Broncos in 2010, he led the team to a playoff victory in 2011. A New York Times bestselling author and outspoken Christian, Tebow founded the Tim Tebow Foundation to combat human trafficking, support orphans, and provide medical care for children worldwide. Today, he inspires millions through his philanthropy, motivational speaking, and books like Shaken and Mission Possible. He is a leading advocate for the Renewed Hope Act which is a bipartisan bill that aims to enhance Homeland Security Investigations' capabilities by hiring and training over 200 analysts and investigators, authorizing expert consultants, and establishing advanced victim identification training to combat child sexual exploitation and rescue over 50,000 unidentified victims. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://www.roka.com - USE CODE SRS https://www.americanfinancing.net/srs NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org https://www.betterhelp.com/srs This episode is sponsored by Better Help. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://www.bubsnaturals.com/shawn https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com - USE CODE SRS https://www.shawnlikesgold.com https://www.drinkhoist.com - USE CODE SRS https://www.hometitlelock.com - USE CODE SRS Go to https://hometitlelock.com/SRS and use promo code SRS to get a FREE title history report so you can find out if you’re already a victim AND 14 days of protection for FREE! And make sure to check out the Million Dollar TripleLock protection details when you get there! Exclusions apply. For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty https://www.moinkbox.com/srs https://www.preparewithshawn.com htps://www.paladinpower.com/srs https://www.patriotmobile.com/srs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/srs Tim Tebow Links: Website - https://timtebow.com/media Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@timtebow_15 IG - https://www.instagram.com/timtebow FB - https://www.facebook.com/TimTebow X - https://x.com/TimTebow Tim Tebow Foundation - https://timtebowfoundation.org The Renewed Hope Act - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/5015/text/isTell your Congressman to pass The Renewed Hope Act - https://timtebowfoundation.org/advocacy Books by Tim Tebow - As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases (paid links): Mission Possible: A Daily Devotional: 365 Days of Inspiration for Pursuing Your God-Given Purpose Mission Possible: Go Create a Life That Counts Bronco and Friends: A Party to Remember Bronco and Friends: Mission Possible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Tim Tebow and what is his mission?
Tim Tebow, welcome to the show, man. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. And I also want to say thank you so much for your service.
Oh, thank you for saying that. I genuinely really mean it. I know sometimes those that have served here at different places could take it as, oh, it's just a catchphrase we're supposed to say. I hope you know how much it means to me and so many people. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, we're grateful.
Yeah, that means a lot. Thank you. And thank you for everything you're doing. We're going to dive into it. But I just want to say it's an honor to have you sitting here and very surreal. And my whole team is just ecstatic that this is happening. And we've got a lot of good stuff we're going to dive into. Can't wait. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. Like I said, it's an honor. But...
But yeah, so I want to do a life story on you, and then with the focus being towards the end, with everything that you have going on right now at the Tim Tebow Foundation, and all the good stuff that you're pumping into the world. It's just, it's amazing, man. I mean, my parents volunteer for the organization. They do the prom. Night to Shine? Come on, I love it.
They've done it for a couple years now. Let's go. Where at? down in uh down in florida awesome on the west coast tell them thank you so much i will i will they're ecstatic i love it but uh everybody starts off with an intro here so here we go Tim Tebow, born to missionary parents in the Philippines. Your faith has identified you since childhood.
Two-time national champion football player and Heisman Trophy winner is a quarterback at the University of Florida. John 316 on your eye black led to over 93 million Google searches for the verse during your second BCS championship game and 91 million searches after your NFL playoff victory. What does that verse mean to you?
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Chapter 2: What does John 3:16 mean to Tim Tebow?
Wow, we're getting deep from the start. I like it. That verse means to me, it's if you were going to sum up the love of the gospel, which I really believe when we talk about the gospel,
that it is the greatest love story rescue mission of all time, is that there's a God that loves us so much that He sent His Son to put on flesh to live a life we couldn't live, but choose to die a death that we deserve to die. as a ransom for us, as the propitiation, meaning the payment that satisfies. And that payment was His life.
And when we look at John 3, 16, for God so loved the world, He gave. because He loved us so much with this love that, honestly, it's hard to even fathom. But when we talk about that love, in the Greek, they have four types of love. But the most admirable form of love, that love, is agape love.
And the best definition of agape love is to choose the best interests of another person and act on their behalf. And Jesus chose our best interests. And He acted on our behalf. And He went to the cross. not just for us, but instead of us. And he loved us so much that he gave his one and only son that whosoever would believe in him would not perish, but have everlasting life.
Man, I know we put it on bumper stickers and eye blacks and on signs and games and everything, but we can't lose the essence in the heart of what that means, that there's a God that created all of this and spoke it into existence like this. And yet that God, with all knowledge and all power, would say, I love you so much.
that I'm going to give what's so precious for me and my son, and I'm going to give him in exchange for you because I love you that much. So when you think about John 3.16, there's no greater love.
That's beautiful.
That's beautiful. Thank you. First-round NFL draft pick who led the Denver Broncos to a playoff victory, five-time New York Times bestselling author, a broadcaster, a former professional baseball player, a philanthropist who's turned every platform into a pulpit for serving others, the founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, a global force fighting the most vulnerable,
fighting for the most vulnerable, bringing faith home.
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Chapter 3: How did Tim Tebow's parents’ missionary work shape his early life?
And with her faith and my dad and all the people praying for him, she had the courage to say, no, we're going to trust God. And I'm so grateful that she did. And months later, the doctor that was helping my mom deliver me was a doctor that had done I helped thousands of women. And when I was finally born and he handed me to my mom, he said, I have no idea how your baby boy survived.
It's the greatest miracle I've ever seen. I don't know how he got the nutrients. I don't know how he's alive. The placenta only has a tiny bit that's attached. All of these issues, I just don't know how he survived. And I was malnourished, and so my family continued to send out prayer requests to people around the world. And so many people were praying for me. when I was a baby.
I was malnourished, but I tried to make up for it quickly. I'm just so grateful that I could be here even sitting with you today because my mom trusted God and gave me a chance and my parents' faithfulness and all the people that prayed for me because I do believe prayer is powerful. Yesterday we were just in D.C. celebrating the National Day of Prayer.
There was over 70,000 groups around America that were praying together yesterday. There is power in prayer, and I'm just so grateful that God answered that prayer to give me a chance. Wow.
I have a question, but I'm going to let the interview develop a little bit more. I want to know how God talks to you, but first, Do you remember any of the missionary stuff in the Philippines?
Yeah, not as much from when we were living there because we moved back when I was about five. So I don't remember a little bit of it, glimpses of it, but then we went back so many times because we moved back to the States, to the west side of Jacksonville, Florida, but my dad would be gone about half of the year over there.
And so many times I got to go with him and siblings and we would get to go back and we spent a lot of summers going back with him. to be able to do mission work with them. So I remember more of that than I do from when I was young. How do you, was it dangerous at all? My parents would try to keep the kids in some of the areas that were safer.
But my parents went through a lot of areas that were dangerous. My dad in certain of the countries that he went into to share the gospel got put in jail. My dad got told to leave so many times. My dad, multiple times they told him, hey, if you stand up and share the gospel, we're going to kill you. Are you serious?
And he would stand up and he would tell them, but I just want to tell you how much God loves you. And he would share his heart. And one time specifically that I can remember, a man showed up and he was in the back of the...
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Chapter 4: How does Tim Tebow approach challenges in faith and identity?
Okay.
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
I mean, you're always led. And I mean, the 316 stuff, the pushback that you receive, the mockery of your faith, all the way up to what you're doing today with all these different things, combating sex trafficking, standing up for the vulnerable. I mean, how does he speak to you? How do you know where to go? How do you...
How did you know that he wanted you to combat sex trafficking and sex exploitation and do the stuff with the vulnerable kids and the proms? Good question. I mean, where does this come from and how does he speak to you?
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.
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Chapter 5: What inspired Tim Tebow to start the Tim Tebow Foundation?
How did your dad, I mean, how does he find himself in a situation, in a community that is selling children?
Well, because he's bringing all the pastors from local area. And many of these pastors in this country had been thrown in prison for being pastors, for being Christians. Many had been persecuted.
some worse and um and so it's an area where they thought they could meet and and um and so they're looking for places to you know these men were looking for places to sell and i i honestly would even take it farther i believe that it was a that God used that time for my dad and some of those other pastors that have been very influential to me as a special moment.
Sometimes we say ordained moments or stuff, and I don't know, but just a moment where it was going to open his eyes so that he would open mine.
The reason I'm asking about how God speaks to you is, This is a new journey for me. I'm about two years into it. And so I'm learning to lean into my gut because I think that's where he speaks to me. And so I want to ask, you know, I mean, is it a gut feeling? I mean, and how quick do you act on it? I mean, is it instantaneous? Do you grow confidence with it over time?
Sean, it's such a good question, and I wish there was a perfect answer I could give, but I'm also looking for that myself. And I work with so many friends, mentors, and pastors of trying to discern. and figure that out. And I spend time in prayer, in God's Word, and with wise counsel. And I'll always go back to those three because that is in Scripture. We need to spend time with them.
We need to spend time in prayer. We need to spend time with wise counsel. All are so vital to life in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. But I would also add to that. that when you say your gut or I say, you know, God pricks my heart and opens my eyes, we need to take that back to God's word. Does it match up? Is my gut or my heart matching with God's word?
And if it's matching with God's word and there's something I can do about it, I always want to lean towards, yes, we do it.
If we can make a difference in humanity or for a hurting person, and also why it's so important to go back to God's word, because if it matches up with God's word and meaning something like the fight against trafficking or exploitation or the valuing of humanity and special needs or orphan care, like all of those things we have been told in scripture, Defend the weak and the fatherless.
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Chapter 6: How does Tim Tebow discern God's calling and guidance?
I love doing it. Nothing makes me feel better than to help people. But man, I would I would love to talk to you about spiritual warfare too. Do you, I mean, Okay, here we go.
Yeah, that's what really brought me to Christ is I had this internal battle where I was talking about a lot of the gender surgeries that are going on in kids that are eight and kids that are taken out of their homes by the state and different states throughout our own country.
really weighed on my heart i'm not i'm not against those people i mean i i interviewed this guy chris beck who was the first transgender navy seal and everybody hated him in the community and and he's since transitioned back and as a warrior for christ now but i i reached out to him because i was like i want to i want to talk to you about how this happens and i want to understand it and and
I want kids and kids up to adults to be able to, to listen to your story on how that happened to you, what that did to you. And at least they, at least they have a conversation that they can reference. This is what I'm about to go through. And, and I mean, it's, but yeah, But I felt like I was the only one, I wasn't, but I felt like I was the only one that was like really taking this all in.
And it felt like through social media and legacy media and all these, that nobody cared about these topics. It got to the point where I was like, Sean, why do you even care? Why do you give a shit? Maybe you're the one that's wrong here and trying to fight this and expose some of the stuff that's going on that's not being displayed through social media and legacy media.
And to be honest with you, man, it felt like I was surrendering my heart to the devil. Because you knew that you needed to talk about it. Yeah, but I knew that I did, but I felt so alone that I thought maybe I'm the one that's wrong here. And this happened to me in Sedona, and I had a major breakdown, and I walked through this gate. And this guy, like, I'm a former SEAL, former CIA guy.
We pay a lot of attention to security and stuff like that. And a lot of the guys that work that gate at that specific resort knew my show. And we would talk and high-five them and all this stuff. And we were there for a week. I walk through there. I see this guy that I've never seen before in my life. And he's trying to talk to me. He's like, hey, I'm a Vietnam vet. And I'm like.
dude, I just surrendered my heart to Satan. I don't want to talk. Like, I just want to go to my room. And my wife turned to him and was talking to him. And he looked at me and he read my mind from front to back, legitimately read my mind. And the first words out of his mouth were all this stuff with the transgender stuff and the kids. And he goes, that's not your fight, man.
And then he started talking about China because I'm really spun up on a lot of the stuff that's going on in there. And And after that, my mind, he freaked me out. I was like, how are you in my head right now? How do you know what my thoughts are? I've been here for a week. I've never seen you. I pay a lot of attention to this stuff. I know every other guy that works the gate here except you.
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Chapter 7: What is the story behind the Night to Shine event and its impact?
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.
But we had everything in purpose. And we had a heart for people with special needs, and her sister was special needs. And we had a heart for fighting against the evil of trafficking, exploitation, and she was carjacked at gunpoint by armed men, and who knows what they wanted to do to her. So she had a...
feeling like she would say probably responsibility to try to step into that fight after that happened. And so those type of things were what connected us of something on such a deeper level. And I was playing baseball at the time, and it was just, I don't know, it felt so clear. I was like, man, I want someone that I, you know, come home and I'm like, hey, I went one for three with a walk.
Like, who cares? You know, like, what does that matter? One day, is that where we're going to... The special and all the deeper things, the meaningful things, the challenging of our heart, who we want to be, the pursuit of God in our life, the trying to take screw-ups and tests and turn it into testimonies, that's where we connected.
So she was Miss South Africa and then Miss Universe at the time. And I was also like, I never got to meet her in person. So she was getting ready to go on a seven-week, seven-country tour and all of this. And I was like, man, she's going to go in all these countries. We haven't gone on a date. And I was like, some freaking Prince of Wales is going to meet her and is going to woo her.
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Chapter 8: How do Tim Tebow and the host discuss faith, purpose, and burden?
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