242: Manny Randhawa the Conduit of Grace

Manny Randhawa is MLB.com reporter, Statcast researcher, and author of The Blake Street Bombers. Today, Manny shares how his dad’s political desire led him to faith, the surprising sermon that let him to pray for salvation, and how he ended up being a sports writer. He also shares how he led his mom to Christ. Plus, we geek out a little bit about baseball, of course. Manny’s story reminds us that God is always working even when our circumstances are painful.

Listen to Manny’s story now!

Stories Manny shared:

Growing up in the San Francisco area to immigrants from India
How his parents arranged marriage affected him
When his dad asked him to go to church
Going to a Christian school as a way of becoming American
The conversation with a leader at a retreat that stayed with him
Getting emotional during worship songs
The experiences in worship that kept happening and his intellectual pursuit
Praying while listening to Joel Osteen wrap up a sermon
The kind of abuse he lived through from his father
Leading his mom to Christ
Deciding not to become a lawyer
Praying to become a baseball writer
Starting to write for Bleacher Report
Getting an internship at MLB.com and his first story on the cover of the webpage
Learning he was clinically depressed
How God answering his prayer changed his view of God’s fatherhood
Talking to Juan Pierre and other Christians in MLB
Experiencing God as father
The story of how he wrote his book The Blake Street Bombers

Great quotes from Manny:

If you’re not an emotional guy, everything has to make sense…but it didn’t.

If you’re young and depressed, you don’t know it.

The very cause of distress in my life, God used as a conduit to put me in the right place.

We say “right place, right time,” but actually God places you there.

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