Jerry Birch, Cleveland Cavaliers Chaplain
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 8
Jerry Birch just completed his 18th season as the chaplain for the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers.
He is also the co-pastor of Abundant Grace Fellowship in Cleveland and leads a marriage ministry with his wife Gail.
In this episode, Pastor Jerry discusses what it's like to be the primary spiritual advisor for the World Champion Cavs. We discuss LeBron James' faith and whether he attends chapel, as well as how the community and culture of the NBA gravitates towards matters of faith.
Pastor Jerry also shares his own story of infidelity and sin and how God grabbed a hold of him and not only brought him back to the faith, but called him to become a Pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports collide. |
| 0:08.9 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:11.9 | And welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.5 | This is episode number eight. |
| 0:19.1 | And first off, I just want to say thank you to everyone that sent, you know, nice notes |
| 0:23.3 | and tweets and all this about our last guest on episode seven, which was Ernie Johnson. |
| 0:28.3 | Ernie was so good. |
| 0:29.4 | He is just a fascinating man, just such a really kind and gentle man, too. |
| 0:34.7 | And his story, not just being on the inside the NBA show on T&T, but actually |
| 0:42.2 | just the man that he is, the dad that he is, the husband, the person that wants to live this |
| 0:50.6 | Christ-centered life for others and not this me-centered life was just really inspiring to hear. |
| 0:57.9 | And listen, if you haven't heard it yet, go back. |
| 1:00.4 | Go back and listen to episode seven before you listen to this episode because Ernie was just great. |
| 1:05.4 | And just, again, I can't recommend it enough. |
| 1:08.0 | His autobiography unscripted is out as well. |
| 1:11.9 | Make sure you pick that up. |
| 1:16.3 | Also, a lot of you have been asking about the T-shirt giveaway we're doing. |
| 1:21.4 | So 180Living.com has graciously donated three t-shirts from their website. |
| 1:23.0 | You can pick whatever shirt you want. |
| 1:25.1 | And we're going to give them away to you the listener. |
| 1:26.9 | Just an easy, simple way to give back. And all we're asking you to do is leave a review on iTunes. |
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