Boise State Coach: ‘With God, Anything is Possible.’

The Boise State Broncos’ head coach Spencer Danielson gave glory to Jesus Christ after his team secured its second straight Mountain West Conference championship on Friday.

The Broncos bested the UNLV Rebels at home with a final score of 21-7.

“Thank you, Jesus,” coach Danielson said in a post-game interview, adding,

You can watch the full clip of his remarks on faith below:

Danielson played college football at the University of San Diego before transferring to Azusa Pacific University, which he graduated from in 2012. He joined the Boise State Broncos football coaching staff in 2017, taking over as head coach in 2023.

His remarks serve as a courageous witness to the Christian faith – a message sorely needed in our modernist culture. Our culture often proclaims religious “tolerance” – equating all religions as equally valuable and worthy of belief. Perhaps you’ve seen those “coexist” bumper stickers while driving around.

But one of the principal miracles serving as evidence for the truth of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Christ’s resurrection is a claim unique to Christianity. Mohammad, the Buddha, Zoroaster – and all other religious figures who founded or were influential in establishing world religions – are still in the grave.

But Christians believe that Christ rose from the dead, thereby verifying all the claims He made before His death – including His claims to be God, to forgive sins, and to give his followers eternal life.

Indeed, if the resurrection of Christ if false – then Christianity is based on a lie. Scripture itself teaches this truth, as the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:14-19,

“And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (ESV).

Thankfully, we have good evidence to believe in the truth of the resurrection.

In their book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Norman Geisler and Frank Turek review much of the evidence that points to the historical validity of Christ’s resurrection.

They cite a study conducted by Professor Gary Habermas, who examined over 1,400 scholarly works done on the resurrection between 1975 and 2003. According to Habermas, these scholars ranged across the ideological spectrum from “ultra-liberals” to “Bible-thumping conservatives.”

Despite their differences, these scholars almost unanimously agreed that the following 12 points regarding Jesus and Christianity are historical facts:

1. Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.
2. He was buried, most likely in a private tomb.
3. Soon afterwards the disciples were discouraged, bereaved, and despondent, having lost hope.
4. Jesus’ tomb was found empty very soon after his interment.
5. The disciples had experiences that they believed were actual appearances of the risen Jesus.
6. Due to these experiences, the disciples’ lives were thoroughly transformed. They were even willing to die for their belief.
7. The proclamation of the Resurrection took place very early, from the beginning of church history.
8. The disciples’ public testimony and preaching of the Resurrection took place in the city of Jerusalem, where Jesus had been crucified and buried shortly before.
9. The gospel message centered on the preaching of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
10. Sunday was the primary day for gathering and worshiping.
11. James, the brother of Jesus and a skeptic before this time, was converted when he believed he also saw the risen Jesus.
12. Just a few years later, Saul of Tarsus (Paul) became a Christian believer, due to an experience that he also believed was an appearance of the risen Jesus.

In his book Questioning the Bible, author Jonathan Morrow writes that Christianity “rises to the level of true or false.” He adds,

Teaching the truth of the resurrection is one of the best ways to accomplish that goal.

Dr. William Lane Craig is a noted author and philosopher who has done great work defending the resurrection of Christ. You can watch brief video of him summarizing the case for Christ’s resurrection below:

As Christians, we believe that our God is indeed alive and working in our world to save souls and restore all things in Christ (Acts 3:21).

For further reading on the truth of Christianity, consider Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, apologist Frank Turek’s I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Revised) and J. Warner Wallace’s Cold-Case Christianity.

Related articles and resources:

The Power of His Resurrection

Examining the Evidence of Easter

The Resurrection of Jesus Matters

Evidence for the Resurrection

Resurrection: The Most Important Truth

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