Derwin Gray - Former NFL player turned pastor on being Lit Up with Love
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast:
- Former NFL player turned pastor Derwin Gray joins us to share his transformative experience of faith with the "Naked Preacher," the significance of love in the Christian life, and reflects on Good Friday and Easter.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.1 | What's up, everybody? This is Sports Spectrum. I'm your host, Matt Forte, here with Jason Romano. |
| 0:35.0 | We've got another great episode for you guys today. And we have our friend, |
| 0:39.0 | friend of PAO, friend of Jason and mine as well, who is a, we have a lot in common, all three of us on this. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, we got a pastor, we're not pastors, but we're both, we're all three authors. Yes. |
| 0:50.4 | And two of us are former pro athletes in the NFL. So Derwin Gray is with us today. |
| 0:56.3 | Derwin, how are you doing? Doing great, man. I'm honored to be with you guys. And I've really, |
| 1:01.6 | I really dig this new format. And I'm grateful for how the ministry, the podcast is growing. |
| 1:09.7 | I remember when Jason first started, right when he left ESPN, |
| 1:13.0 | and he's just held his hand to the plow and been faithful. Now he's impacting hundreds of |
| 1:18.1 | thousands, if not millions of people a year with the gospel in sports, which, by the way, |
| 1:22.9 | what can actually be better than the gospel and sports? That's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. And you see that, |
| 1:28.5 | Jason, that's pastor talk. When someone says hand to the plow, something like that, |
| 1:32.5 | oh, I know what he means. He knows the word when he'll hear that. But that when you've been, |
| 1:38.1 | you know, mad shout us out to Jason. I just, I got to say this, you know, because he has had |
| 1:43.2 | his hand to the plow and hasn't looked back and he's done, been a faithful part of sports spectrum and the growth that we're trying to continue. But, Derwin, you've been on sports spectrum many times. And this is the first time with me, but Jason mentioned about, uh, you being on sports spectrum and talking and telling |
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