Bonus Episode: Who is Justin Kowalski?
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
4.9 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to special bonus episode of The Debrief Podcast! Meet Pastor Justin Kowalski — Associate Pastor at Sandals Church Palm Avenue and longtime member of the Sandals team for over 20 years. In this episode, Pastor Matt sits down with Justin to share his story, his journey in ministry, and what it means to live out faith with authenticity and creativity. Get to know one of the voices helping shape the culture and community at Sandals Church.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown. On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with |
| 0:08.5 | his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible. Let's get into the episode. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey guys, and welcome to The De Brief Man. |
| 0:21.8 | This is another exciting episode, still enjoying the new studio. |
| 0:25.4 | What do you like in the digs? |
| 0:26.6 | I love it. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.6 | We're spending your $5. |
| 0:29.6 | Dollars. |
| 0:30.6 | I appreciate all of your giving. |
| 0:31.6 | I know. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:33.6 | So Justin has been a part of Sandals for how long? |
| 0:36.6 | Man. You should know that all. |
| 0:38.7 | I've been coming since 99. 1999. Yeah. And I met you when your sisters thought you were going to hell. I know if you remember this. Yep, I remember. So they were worried that you were like demon possess or something. I don't know. No, you were just an upset young, angry teenager. Yeah. But your dad was dying of cancer. Yeah. Yeah, and so that's not funny at all, but all of the other stuff that I make fun of him is completely okay to make fun. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, Yeah. And so that's not funny at all, but all of the other stuff that I make fun of him is completely |
| 0:56.8 | okay to make fun. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, true and funny. |
| 0:59.0 | And so, yeah, so they were worried about you. And so they asked me to come talk to you. And that's how we met. And you didn't want to talk to me at all. You were like, what's funny is you're the nicest human being I've ever met. |
| 1:09.9 | And I thought he was this thug, like scary thug. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. funny is you're the nicest human being I've ever met and I thought he was this thug like scary |
| 1:13.6 | thug and uh because you're kind of thick you know I mean we could say Husky yeah are we that close |
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