How Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton Found Jesus, Christian News

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In 1997, at a career high, Hamilton was forced to leave the ice to undergo chemotherapy for testicular cancer.

“What was about to happen really changed my life forever,” he shares. He survived cancer.

“I survived something that took the most important person in my life off the planet … I survived. What’s my purpose now? What do I need to do?”

It was at that moment in his life that he met his wife, Tracie, who brought him to church. “She took me to a minister, a man named Ken Durham. And the first thing he said to me, which was extraordinary was, he goes, ‘You have to understand that Christianity is a faith of history. These things actually happened.’ And I go, ‘OK, that’s a good starting-off point.'”

Hamilton and Tracie married and had a son. But another hardship came his way when he discovered he had a brain tumor.

When he told his wife, she took his hands and started to pray. “And it was in that moment I knew where I was going to put everything… my trust, my faith, everything.” Hamilton called it the most powerful moment in his life.

Hamilton learned that he was born with the brain tumor, which inhibited his growth as a young child. “That was the mysterious illness I had that they never diagnosed, that got me into skating … I’m 5’4; if I were 5’8, where would I be? … I choose to look at that brain tumor as the greatest gift I could’ve gotten because it made everything else possible.”

While the tumor was completely removed, it returned six years later. Hamilton didn’t think he’d survive then and he was doubtful of being able to have another child. But then “Miracle Max” happened.

Looking back, he adds, “I understand that through a strong relationship with Jesus you can endure anything. I just learned that the only true disability in life is a bad attitude.”

“God is there to guide you through the tough spots. God was there every single time, every single time.”

“My name is Scott Hamilton and I am Second.”

I Am Second is a movement which seeks to inspire people by allowing them to see and hear video testimonies of how celebrities and everyday persons have overcome their problems through finding their identity in Christ.

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