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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Phoenix Suns team chaplain Travis Hearn on pastoring in the NBA and living a Christ-centered life

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

5661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Travis Hearn is the senior pastor at Impact Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is also the team pastor for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, and has served as a chaplain for Major and Minor League Baseball for over a decade. In addition to serving pro athletes in ministry, he has also coached girl’s high school basketball  for Scottsdale Christian Academy.  

Today on the podcast, we talk to Travis about pastoring the Phoenix Suns, his role at Transformation Church, his amazing testimony of coming to faith in Christ after being arrested and his desire now to equip athletes and others to being Jesus followers. 

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0:00.0

This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International.

0:06.6

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who are stuck in poverty and just awful situations.

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Check out fill the stadium.com to learn more and to help release these kids and their family

0:58.6

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1:17.5

Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

1:21.2

Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano.

1:25.0

Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum's podcast.

1:26.5

I am Jason Romano.

1:30.3

My email address, Jason at SportsSpectrum.com.

1:35.3

If you'd like to reach me, you got a guest idea, a topic, anything related to sports and faith that you think would be good for us. You can email me, Jason at Sportspectrum.com.

1:41.2

And of course, our website, that's the place we want you to go check out every single day, Sports Spectrum.com. And of course, our website, that's the place we want you to go check out every single

1:45.9

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