The Incredible Redemption Story of Matthew Maher
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Episode 548
Matthew Maher is a living testament to God's second chances. Growing up in New Jersey, Matthew dreamed of being a professional soccer player. After a successful college soccer career at Temple, Matthew achieved that dream and played in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
HIs career would span a couple of seasons but on March 1, 2009, Maher blew out his knee and his career was over. Just six days later, a decision Maher made would change his life forever. On March 7, 2009, Maher was driving drunk when he hit and killed Hort Kap. Maher was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in January 2010.
After serving time, Matthew turned his mess into a message and is the founder of TruthoverTrend.com. He's also a teaching pastor at Coastal Christian Church in Ocean City, NJ and is a highly sought after speaker throughout New Jersey.
On this episode of the podcast, Matthew shares his powerful story of soccer, faith, prison and redemption.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.7 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.1 | My email address is Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:27.9 | Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:29.8 | Any guest ideas? |
| 0:30.9 | Any thoughts on today's show? |
| 0:33.0 | The incredible story of Matthew Mayer. |
| 0:35.7 | Anything you want to add about Sports Spectrum, you can reach me |
| 0:39.1 | directly at my email address, Jason at Sports Spectrum.com. We are presented today by |
| 0:45.1 | Water Mission, a non-profit Christian engineering ministry that fights the global water crisis |
| 0:50.8 | with safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries and |
| 0:55.7 | disaster areas. They've served more than 5 million people in 56 countries and have a great |
| 1:01.1 | opportunity for you to partner with them right now, pray with them and donate to Water |
| 1:06.4 | Mission. Fighting the global water crisis, you can check them out at watermission.org. Watermission.org. |
| 1:13.8 | We're also presented today by Compassion International, releasing children from poverty in Jesus name. |
| 1:20.5 | Check them out at compassion.com slash team up. And you can team up right now with pro athletes |
| 1:26.4 | and compassion for children in poverty. |
| 1:29.6 | This is critical right now with COVID-19, potentially 70,000 children left without a sponsorship, |
| 1:35.9 | and they need your help. |
| 1:37.3 | Check them out at compassion.com slash team up and help release a child from poverty today. |
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