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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Mark Batterson - Pastor, Author

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

5661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Episode 401

Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times Bestseller "The Circle Maker" and "Chase the Lion." His latest book is called "Double Blessing" and released October 15, 2019. 

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Pastor Mark about why he wrote his new book "Double Blessing," his love for sports, getting connected with Ravens coach John Harbaugh, chasing worldly success, and the athletes responsibility on social media. 

You can learn more about Mark's books including "Double Blessing" by going to his website MarkBatterson.com.

Transcript

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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

Welcome to Sports Spectrum.

0:21.5

I am Jason Romano.

0:22.9

Really excited about our guest, Mark Batterson, the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C., also the author of a bunch of books that we're going to talk about.

0:32.2

Great conversation with Pastor Mark.

0:34.1

But before we get to that interview, I want to tell you again about express feedback

0:38.1

for good. We got just a couple days left here for you to get involved simply by leaving feedback

0:44.2

on products that you care about. And each piece of feedback that you leave raises money for

0:49.1

sports spectrum. It costs you nothing. All you're doing is clicking on a website, leaving a bunch of feedback,

0:55.3

hitting submit, and you're done. And when you do that, each piece of feedback that you leave

1:00.1

raises $2 towards sports spectrum. So you only got a couple days, but if you leave 100 pieces of

1:06.3

feedback in the next day or two, and it takes about two, really a minute to leave a piece of feedback.

1:12.6

So if you spend a half hour, you can leave about 40 or 50 pieces of feedback.

1:17.2

You raise $2 for each piece of feedback.

1:20.2

So if you spend, you know, 45 minutes and leave 100 pieces of feedback, you raise $200 for Sports Spectrum

1:26.6

just by submitting your time and

1:29.1

feedback. Here's how to do it with express feedback for good. Text the letters, EFG to 31996. Do it now

1:36.4

if you're thinking about it. It's a really easy way to help. EFG to 31996 and help us create funding

1:44.0

for Sports Spectrum so we can continue to spread the gospel

1:47.3

through the lens of sport.

1:51.2

Today on the podcast, really excited to welcome the lead pastor of National Community Church

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