Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Coach McCartney calls for “Power in This Hour.”

by Al Quartemont

Former Colorado Coach headlines 3rd Annual Wildcat Football Celebration

He won a national championship while coaching at Colorado.

He founded one of the more successful ministries of the 20th Century.

What's next for Bill McCartney? How about bringing together the Body of Christ?

In headlining the 3rd Annual Wildcat Football Celebration, an at-times emotional McCartney held nothing back, challenging coaches, players and fans of LC football to both "hear and obey the Word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit."

"We need a spiritual surge in this hour," McCartney told the audience at Guinn Auditorium. "It's about hearing and obeying, not just about hearing."

McCartney, who led the Buffaloes to the Associated Press number one ranking in 1990, later gave up coaching (including a $350,000 per year contract that still had ten years on it) to concentrate full-time on Promise Keepers, the ministry he began to challenge men in America and the world to become the fathers and husbands their families needed.

In 2001, McCartney left promise keepers and and spent some time in "the waiting room" - waiting to see what God would have him do next. He was there for seven years. And last year, McCartney re-emerged with Promise Keepers and now has a new focus and a new purpose for what God can do through His Word.

Watch our interview with Coach McCartney


"Every football coach wants his team to have one heartbeat, to be bonded, to have each other's back," McCartney said. "Yet, in the church, we don't have each other's backs. We don't agree on how we interpret the playbook. And so my heart is to see the bonding of the brotherhood - to see people who love God come together as the days get more difficult."

McCartney also had high praise for the LC football program under Dennis Dunn. The two coaches had actually spent time together the year before Promise Keepers was born. McCartney called Dunn "special."

He also said that what happened with the Wildcats team last season - an event now known as "Crossing the Line," where a move began among the LC players to dedicate everything they did in the season to God - is something that's not happening anywhere else in the country.

McCartney would leave the building after a highly-charged message that hit directly at the need for spiritual obedience among those would would call themselves Christians.

But even as the audience and players enjoyed the rest of the night's program, including an inspirational season highlight video, one couldn't help but think that God had spoken. All this from a man who says he's not a preacher.

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