Clemson’s football coach, Dabo Swinney was recently interviewed during the ACC kickoff. Instead of the usual questions about the team or the upcoming season, he was, instead, asked about his faith.
“Man, that’s the easiest question I’ve had all day,” Swinney commented. Enthusiastically, he responded, recounting his childhood, being raised by parents who taught him there was a God, and later, coming to Christ at the age of sixteen: “And that was a game-changer for me,” he said, “That’s really become the foundation of my life.”
Swinney continued, “It’s hard to survive and thrive in this world if you don’t have a spiritual foundation and have something that that you know, [sic] will give you peace, because life is hard. And we’re all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, [sic] it’s a really difficult world. And, for me, God has always–in my relationship with Christ–he’s given me hope and peace.”
Swinney also shared his life verse, Jeremiah 29:11, saying that he applied it to his life’s journey and though he is now the head coach of Clemson’s football program, that his “life hasn’t always been this way”:
“I’ve always used that as, to me, if there’s really hope in the future, then there’s power in the present to deal with whatever mess you’re dealing with in your…
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