Standing in the Pocket

About this book

In Standing in the Pocket: Jesus Through the Eyes of an Old Quarterback, Aaron Van Dyke, uses his experiences as a multisport athlete and coach to guide you to a discovery of where you are in the process of becoming a believer in Jesus Christ. As an old college quarterback, the author steps up in the pocket and delivers a message of God's grace and mercy that can only be found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If you have never understood what it means to be born again, have never understood the urgency of becoming a believer in Jesus Christ, today is the day to begin reading Standing in the Pocket: Jesus Through the Eyes of an Old Quarterback. Aaron Van Dyke was a four-sport athlete at Mount Vernon High School in Iowa and played football and baseball at Cornell College. He quarterbacked his high school to two state championship games, winning one in his senior year. As the starting quarterback, he led his college teams to 24 wins in an injury-shortened career, two division championships, and a conference championship, while earning All-Conference and All-American honors. Aaron coached football for twenty-one years at the high school and college levels.Aaron gave his life to Jesus Christ before his junior year of high school and is inspired to lead others into a personal relationship with Him. Aaron has an undergraduate degree from Cornell College (Iowa) and a graduate degree from Northwest Missouri State University. He has forty-five years of high school and college teaching experience. Aaron and his wife Patti live in Bettendorf, Iowa.