Erwin McManus, Pastor, Author - The Way of the Warrior
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Episode 296
Erwin McManus is the pastor of Mosaic Church in Los Angeles and the author of multiple books including "The Last Arrow," "The Artisan Soul," "Soul Cravings" and his latest "The Way of the Warrior," which released in February 2019.
Mosaic is one of America’s most influential and innovative churches, ministering to the hearts of people in Hollywood. Erwin is also a huge sports fan, with allegiances to the Los Angeles Dodgers and Clippers and remains active, playing pickup basketball 5 days a week.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Erwin about his latest book, why inner peace is so important for all of us, why he still plays basketball at age 60, his love for the Los Angeles Clippers, and why the message of Christ is still attractive so many in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Irwin McManus is brought to you by Compassion |
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| 1:35.3 | Today on the podcast, this is one of those interviews that you're going to want to get a notebook for |
| 1:41.2 | and take down notes and quotes and write down the wisdom that comes out of the mouth |
| 1:46.6 | of Irwin McManus, the pastor of Mosaic Church in Los Angeles, an author of 12 books, including |
| 1:52.9 | his latest book, The Way of the Warrior, An Ancient Path to Inner Peace by Irwin McManus, |
| 2:00.3 | the best-selling author of the book The Last |
| 2:02.5 | Arrow. And this is just so full of wisdom. Irwin is awesome. And I've been waiting a long time |
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