Lee Strobel, Author - The Case for Christ - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Lee Strobel joins us on this THROWBACK edition of the podcast. Lee is the former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and best-selling author of more than 20 books. His classic, The Case for Christ, is a perennial favorite which details his conversion to Christianity.
For the last 25 years, his life’s work has been to share the evidence that supports the truth and claims of Christianity, and to equip believers to share their faith with the people they know and love.
Strobel’s life story is depicted in the recent release from Pure Flix: “The Case for Christ” and is available now on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download.
On this episode from September 2017, Lee shares his connection to sports and wonderful stories on Cubs legend Ernie Banks and Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabaar.
Listen to the entire interview with Lee from Episode 36 here.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you for joining us on the program. |
| 0:27.6 | Today, we're going to look back, September 5th, 2017, and have you take a listen to a portion of our interview with Lee Strobel. |
| 0:36.7 | He's the author of the case for Christ. |
| 0:39.7 | And that book, I mean, it's been everywhere. And for so many years has been an influence on |
| 0:45.2 | many people in their walk with the Lord and sharing the evidence that supports the truth and |
| 0:50.1 | claims of Christianity. This book has equipped believers to share their faith with the people |
| 0:55.8 | they know and love. And back a couple years ago, his story was depicted in the Pure Flicks |
| 1:02.2 | movie, The Case for Christ, which is on Netflix. I've watched it recently. It's a very good movie. |
| 1:07.8 | And this was episode 36 of the podcast. And we talked to Lee about his conversion from |
| 1:13.7 | atheism to Christianity and his thoughts on his life being portrayed on the big screen. But the |
| 1:19.4 | snippet we're going to play today as we throw it back is really the connection that he has to sports, |
| 1:27.0 | his love for the Chicago Cubs, his encounter with the late great Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, |
| 1:33.0 | and a moment when he was able to have a sit-down discussion on religion with basketball legend and hall of famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. |
| 1:42.7 | Take a listen to this throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast with |
| 1:46.6 | Lee Stroble, the author of The Case for Christ. Take a listen. |
| 1:53.8 | We're talking to Lee Strobel here on the Sports Spectrum podcast, and yes, we are a sports |
| 1:58.5 | podcast. So, Lee, I want to talk to you a little bit about sports. |
| 2:01.4 | I know you're a big sports fan. And certainly in Chicago in the days of working at the Tribune, |
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