Judah Smith, Author/Pastor
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 279
Judah Smith is the pastor of Churchome and the New York Times Best-Selling author of the book "Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human."
In the sports world, Judah has pastored and counseled many athletes and also serves as the chaplain for the Seattle Seahawks.
Judah, along with his wife Chelsea, have partnered with tech company Seventh Spark to create and launch Churchome Global, a free app-based platform that offers users 24/7/365 access to the Churchome community and programming,
The app delivers community prayer, pastor-led groups, meaningful and topical conversations with other users, growth classes, charity opportunities, interactive church broadcasts, daily inspirational messages, and more. You can download Churchome Global, here.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Judah about why he started the Churchome Global app, how sports played a huge role in his life growing up, what the biggest spiritual struggle is for athletes, how he handles "fame," and how Basketball Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady influenced his decision to become a pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Pastor Judah Smith is brought to you by Compassion International, the most trusted child development ministry in the world. |
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| 1:14.8 | a child today. Today's episode of the podcast, we welcome Judah Smith, the New York Times |
| 1:21.8 | bestselling author and the pastor of church home out in Seattle and Los Angeles. We welcome |
| 1:27.4 | Judah here to the podcast. |
| 1:28.9 | Lots of good stuff to talk to Judah about. He's the author of three books, including Jesus is, |
| 1:34.3 | Life Is, and How's Your Soul? He's also the chaplain for the Seattle Seahawks, along with his |
| 1:41.2 | main job being the pastor at church home, a thriving multi-site church noted for |
| 1:46.2 | its cultural relevance and its love to Jesus, along with commitment to biblical integrity |
| 1:51.4 | and faith. And Judah's latest endeavor is the church home global app, which we'll talk about |
| 1:58.1 | in a minute and is available everywhere in the app store for whatever |
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