How is the mentality of a golfer different than that of a baseball player? What are some lies that grief tell us? Where is God in tragedy? What is the role of connections in career opportunities? How is a sports journalist similar to a pastor? 

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All these questions and more are explored in this interview with Rev. Billy Byler.

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He's in first year as the lead pastor at First Church of the Nazarene in Winfield, Kansas. He answered the call to ministry in 2012 after a seven-year career as a sportswriter in Augusta, Ga. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene and graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville with a degree in Mass Communications in 2005. He is also the chaplain of the Winfield Fire and EMS Department, and he lives with his wife (CJ) and 1-year-old daughter (Hazel) in Winfield.

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Connect with him and the ministry that he is a part of at https://www.winfieldnaz.org/.