{"id":6302,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-steroids-son\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:40","slug":"no-steroids-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-steroids-son\/","title":{"rendered":"NO\n  STEROIDS, SON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Admonition; Confrontation; Deliverance; Direction; Drugs; Fatherhood; Guidance; Love; Parenting; Wisdom<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Proverbs 12:15; Romans 8:15; Ephesians 6:4; 2 Timothy 4:2; Hebrews 12:11; 1 John 3:1<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Before Bill Curry was an ESPN analyst, he was a college football coach, and before that he was a lineman in the National Football League. Today he wears two Super Bowl rings. But in the spring of 1965, it was unclear whether he would ever wear an NFL uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He had been drafted in the twentieth round by the Green Bay Packers of the Vince Lombardi era but was convinced he would never make the team unless he gave himself an edge. So, a few months before the tryouts, Curry began lifting weights and taking steroids. He went from 220 to 240 pounds in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When his father, a weightlifter, came to visit, Curry talked about his remarkable improvement. \u201cIt\u2019s just incredible what these pills can do, Dad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>His father asked for the pills, walked to the bathroom, and poured them down the toilet. The younger Curry panicked. \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>His father warned his son about steroids and how they would eventually destroy his body. Curry was shaken but convinced, and he never took steroids again. Today he simply says, \u201cI\u2019m so glad I had a father who loved me like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Mark Galli, <i>Jesus Mean and Wild<\/i> (Baker, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Admonition; Confrontation; Deliverance; Direction; Drugs; Fatherhood; Guidance; Love; Parenting; Wisdom References: Proverbs 12:15; Romans 8:15; Ephesians 6:4; 2 Timothy 4:2; Hebrews 12:11; 1 John 3:1 Before Bill Curry was an ESPN analyst, he was a college football coach, and before that he was a lineman in the National Football League. Today he wears two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-steroids-son\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NO<br \/>\n  STEROIDS, SON&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}