ESPN Broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit: Jesus Is The Answer
By Movieguide® Contributor
ESPN football Broadcaster, Kirk Herbstreit, was in Montana at Fresh Life Church with pastor Levi Lusko for Super Bowl Sunday.
As a child, the last thing Herbstreit wanted to do was be in front of a camera.
“I was always really, really quiet,” he recalled of his childhood self.
As he moved around from school to school, Herbstreit felt he wore the label “new kid” every where he went.
That caused him to become a recluse in the classroom, lunch room, library, etc.
Except for two places, recess and the gym.
“Gym and recess,” Herbstreit said, “were places where I came out of my shell.”
As he grew up, Herbstreit, fell in love with football and had a desire to play college football at the Ohio State University, just like his father.
Herbstreit felt the field was one place he could be free to be himself.
As he bounced around from school to school as a child, there was no church he could call him home. But that didn’t stop God from capturing Herbstreit’s heart.
“I think one thing I just feel very blessed to have is [this]: I feel like everybody has kind of a hole inside them — in your soul — and for me, God just built me in a way where I’m wired that I’m connected to that,” he told Lusko and the rest of Fresh Life Church. “There’s an awareness since I was little.
“… There’s something more to life than materialistic things. I’ve always been in tune with a voice inside me — a Holy Spirit inside me. So I think through my trials and tribulations, that’s always been there for me.”
Towards the end of his time with Lusko, Herbstreit closed with a prayer of thankfulness and openness to God.
“I’m just thankful for being in a position in my life to have an opportunity to share my story and the things that I’ve been through — the good and the bad. I’m just so thankful that You’ve been along this ride with me,” he prayed. “There are times I feel I don’t deserve Your grace, I don’t deserve Your love. But I know because of people like Levi and JW and others that are in my life, I know that I can persevere through it.
He continued, “I know there are people right now, not only in the prisons but all over this country and all over the world, that are struggling with their own demons and with their own pain that they deal with. I’d just love to pray for those people, and let them know that there are answers. And that answer is Jesus.”
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