Bart Millard - MercyMe singer on 30 years of MercyMe, the joy and disappointment of being a sports fan
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Bart Millard is the lead singer of the legendary Christian rock band MercyMe. Founded in 1994, the band has released 11 studio albums and had 13 consecutive top-five singles on the Billboard Christian Songs chart. Its latest album, “Always Only Jesus,” released in 2022.
Millard’s life was depicted in the 2018 movie “I Can Only Imagine,” in which actor Dennis Quaid starred as his father who struggled with addiction and violence before coming to faith before his death from cancer.
Today on the podcast, Bart Millard discusses his experience seeing the Texas Rangers win the World Series, the rollercoaster of being a Dallas Cowboys fan, and the bond between sports and family. He also talks about his son Sam’s music career and MercyMe’s longevity in the music industry. Bart shares his perspective on balancing touring and making new music, as well as maintaining a relationship with Christ in the midst of a busy schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, a conversation with Bart Miller. He's the lead singer of Mercy Me. He's probably the biggest sports fan I know in this music industry that he exists in. And so it's really great to have Bart back on. He's been on a couple times. And this is an opportunity to talk to him about his favorite team, the Texas Rangers being World Series champions, as spring training is well underway here in baseball, |
| 0:26.7 | but also to have a little Christian counseling session on our mutual fandom of the Dallas |
| 0:32.4 | Cowboys. Now, I don't broadcast my fandom too much of the Cowboys. I don't, you know, cheer on these type of shows |
| 0:39.3 | too often because I'm very mindful that we have a lot of friends and people who come on this show |
| 0:43.9 | who play with a lot of different teams. I'll just say that. But my fandom of the Cowboys |
| 0:49.0 | goes back to 1979. Barts does as well in the late 70s. So we kind of had a little kumbaya session. I'm just |
| 0:56.4 | trying to navigate through the disappointment of being a Dallas Cowboys fan. It's almost 30 years |
| 1:02.4 | since they last won a Super Bowl. It's also been 30 years since Mercy Me became a band. So we talked |
| 1:09.0 | to Bart about the 30 year anniversary of Mercy Me |
| 1:12.7 | and does he still enjoy going on the road, which he is currently right now with Mercy Me? |
| 1:18.8 | Does he get nervous, I should say. Yes, he still enjoys it. But does he get nervous? And how have |
| 1:23.7 | they been able to stay together for 30 years as a band? It's pretty incredible. |
| 1:28.9 | So lots of great stuff here. Wonderful stories from Bart Millard. He is the lead singer of |
| 1:33.2 | Mercy Me. It's coming up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum. I want to remind you before |
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