Matthew Barnett - Author, Co-Founder The Dream Center in Los Angeles
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 474
* Interview recorded prior to coronavirus outbreak.
Matthew Barnett is the co-founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, a 400,000 square-foot hospital-like building that sits next to the Hollywood freeway in Los Angeles, where it houses and helps homeless families, veterans, kids who have aged out of the foster care system and need a place to live, victims of human trafficking, and people who have addictions, all free of charge.
Matt is also a pastor and the author of the new book "One Small Step: The Life-Changing Adventure of Following God's Nudges."
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Matthew about his new book, his experience running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents, hearing God's nudge and voice, the importance of forgiveness and how Kobe Bryant's death has brought more people back to church in Los Angeles.
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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. |
| 0:19.8 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 0:40.8 | name. They do it right, compassion, working with the local church, discipling every kid in the |
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| 0:58.8 | You see a list of children there and pray about sponsoring a child and releasing them from poverty today. |
| 1:05.7 | Excited to bring to you our conversation here on the podcast with Matthew Barnett. |
| 1:10.1 | He is the co-founder of the Dream |
| 1:12.2 | Center in Los Angeles. He's also the senior pastor of Anglis Temple, the central house of worship |
| 1:19.0 | of the International Church of the Four Square Gospel in the Echo Park District of Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:26.1 | And his newest project, his latest project, is a book. It's called |
| 1:30.0 | One Small Step, The Life-Changing Adventures of Following God's Nudges, and it releases March 31st, |
| 1:36.6 | 2020. One Small Step, The Life-Changing Adventures of Following God's Nudges. That's the new book. |
| 1:43.1 | Matthew Barnett is the author of that book, |
| 1:45.0 | and he's our guest today on the podcast. He's got a lot to talk about. The Dream Center is incredible |
| 1:50.7 | what that has become and how it's serving not only people in Los Angeles, but all around the country. |
| 1:57.0 | And there's also a lot of sports connections here. Matthew, as crazy as he is, actually ran |
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