Randy Alcorn, New York Times Bestselling Author

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 110

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, which began in 1990. Previously, he served as a pastor for fourteen years.

He is a New York Times bestselling author who has written over fifty books including Heaven, which sold over one million copies, and The Treasure Principle, which has sold over two million copies. His books have been translated into seventy languages and have sold ten million copies.

Randy's connection with sports includes a relationship with us here at Sports Spectrum, where you can read Randy's Gospel presentation in our latest issue of Sports Spectrum Magazine.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Randy about ministering to professional athletes, the struggles that fame and fortune can bring to many in the faith, athletes adjusting to the real world after retirement and why it's important to find their identity in Christ and not in their profession.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:08.1	collide.
0:09.2	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:11.8	This episode, episode number 110 of the Sports Spectrum podcast is brought to you and
0:18.2	sponsored by Compassion International.
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0:28.1	medical care, education, all being done in the name of Jesus. $38 a month. Go to
0:34.5	Compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child today.
0:40.2	Our guest on the Sports Spectrum podcast, he is Randy Alcorn, founder and director of
0:45.8	eternal prospective ministries and a New York Times bestselling author of over 50 books.
0:51.9	Now, his two most famous books are the Treasure Principle, which sold over
0:56.3	two million copies, and his other book, Heaven, which sold over a million copies. That is a lot of
1:02.0	copies for a lot of books, for a lot of people reading his stuff. So Randy knows what he's talking about.
1:07.8	He's a biblical scholar. I call him sort of a biblical guru, if you will.
1:12.3	A theologian knows the Bible inside and out and has been a great resource and a great friend
1:18.2	to Sports Spectrum. If you've got our most recent magazines, you can go to the back and there's a
1:23.5	gospel presentation in the back of these magazines. Randy Alcorn is the one who wrote those
1:29.5	gospel presentations. And he's done a ton of work for us in our ministry. And Randy's a great
1:34.7	friend. And we caught up with Randy recently at a conference down in Texas. And I got to sit down with
1:40.2	him and talk to him about a bunch of different topics including just stewarding money what
1:45.1	that looks like for generosity especially when it comes to professional athletes trust issues post
1:51.1	retirement transitioning out of the game just a ton of really good meaty topics that we got to talk
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