The Voices of SOUL ON FIRE: Mac Powell (ep. 806)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Voices of SOUL ON FIRE series turns up the volume as we’re joined by the man whose song has become the heartbeat of the film: Mac Powell.
Mac Powell has spent over three decades sharing his voice and his heart with the world. As the Grammy-winning lead singer of Third Day, he helped shape Christian music, selling over 10 million albums and filling arenas across the globe, and has continued that legacy as a solo artist, blending faith, music, and life in powerful ways.
Today, Mac shares how faith reshaped his path from “band nerd” to frontman, the adoption journey that transformed his family, and the stories behind songs like Cry Out to Jesus and Soul On Fire—a song that has now become the anthem for the upcoming film SOUL ON FIRE.
My friends, you’ll leave this conversation reminded that faith can turn fear into courage, interruptions into blessings, and ordinary moments into something extraordinary.
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| 0:46.2 | Welcome to the Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary. John is the two-time national bestselling |
| 0:51.8 | author of On Fire and In Aw. |
| 0:55.1 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, the host of the Live Inspired podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | And he's the real-life inspiration behind the major motion picture, Soul On Fire. |
| 1:05.7 | Each week, John interviews extraordinary individuals about their life stories so you can more fully live your life story. |
| 1:13.3 | Here's your host, John O'Leary. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. |
| 1:21.1 | We continue forward with the Voices of Soul on Fire series. |
| 1:27.1 | And in today's episode, we have an empowering voice from the |
| 1:31.5 | series of Soul on Fire. Why is he so empowering? Well, he is indeed the voice of the song, |
| 1:37.0 | Soul on Fire. There's a band out there. Some of you may know it. It's called Third Day. |
| 1:41.5 | If you don't, they have won four Grammy'sys, 25 Dove Awards, sold millions of albums, packed |
| 1:47.9 | countless stadiums, and they've got an incredible song called Soul on Fire. When you listen to this |
| 1:55.4 | conversation today with my friend Mac Powell, you're going to hear a little bit of the origin |
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