Steve Carter - Author/Pastor/Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 517
Steve Carter is a pastor and speaker and co-hosts the "Home Team" podcast with ESPN personality Samantha Ponder and NFL player Sam Acho.
Steve has been a pastor for many years and in 2016, released his first book "This Invitational Life: Risking Yourself to Align with God’s Heartbeat for Humanity."
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Steve about his love affair with Michigan football, the NBA, Michael Jordan and when we'll see sports again. Steve also shares how his faith took shape, what he learned going through dark moments in his life, growing up without a dad, standing up for what is right, and the importance of leading with humility and integrity.
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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 | Hey, guys, welcome to the podcast. I am Jason Romano. Today on the show, |
| 0:24.6 | we welcome Steve Carter. He's an author, a speaker, a pastor, a podcast host, and he's really great and |
| 0:30.7 | has an amazing story. Before we get to Steve, I want to tell you about our sponsors today on the show. |
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| 1:29.8 | Really excited to bring to you Steve Carter in our conversation with Steve today on sports |
| 1:35.0 | spectrum. |
| 1:35.9 | He's an author. |
| 1:37.0 | His book, This Invitational Life is a really great one. |
| 1:40.0 | It's been out for a few years. |
| 1:41.1 | You should go pick that up everywhere books are found. |
| 1:43.6 | He's the co-host of the Home team podcast with Sam Acho NFL player and Sam Ponder, |
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