Episodes

Shannan Martin is known for her popular blog Shannan Martin Writes (formerly Flower Patch Farmgirl,) is a speaker and writer who found her voice in the country and her story in the city. Shannan Martin had the perfect life: a cute farmhouse on six rambling acres, a loving husband, three adorable kids, money, friends, a close-knit church—a safe, happy existence. But when the bottom dropped out through a series of shocking changes and ordinary inconveniences, the Martins followed God’s call to som...

Our special guest is Adam S. McHugh, author of The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness In a World of Distraction. Adam is an ordained Presbyterian minister and spiritual director, and a regular contributor to Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution website. He has served at two Presbyterian churches, as a hospice chaplain and as campus staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He is the author of The Listening Life, which won the 2017 Christianity Today Book Award for spiritual formation, and Intr...

Our special guest is Mike Tenbusch, author of the Jonathan Effect, a book about the power of the church and its people to help schools and their students win the battle against poverty. Mike is the CEO of Uncommon Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm helping urban schools, churches, and impact organizations create strategies to improve conditions and outcomes for kids. Born and raised in Detroit, he has had a life-long calling to make Detroit a better place to be a kid and to raise a family, and he...

Zac Hicks is the author of The Worship Pastor (Zondervan, 2016). Modern worship leaders are restless. They have inherited a model of leadership that equates leading worship with being a rock star. But leading worship is more than a performance, it’s about shaping souls and making disciples. Every worship leader is really a pastor. The Worship Pastor is a practical and biblical introduction to this essential pastoral role. Filled with engaging, illustrative stories it is organized to address que...

Our special guest is Mike Lindell, Inventor, Manufacturer, and CEO of MyPillow, Inc. You’ve seen him on television commercials nationwide. Mr. Lindell is a Christian man who was saved from a lifelong battle with addiction and drug use. Mike spoke with us after our initial interview to talk more about his plan to help the inner cities, overcoming substance abuse, President-Elect Donald Trump, Prince, and more! Years ago he found himself extremely frustrated with his pillow going flat. He would w...

Our special guest is Mike Lindell, Inventor, Manufacturer, and CEO of MyPillow, Inc. You’ve seen him on television commercials nationwide. Mr. Lindell is a Christian man who was saved from a lifelong battle with addiction and drug use. Years ago he found himself extremely frustrated with his pillow going flat. He would wake up in the morning with a sore arm, his neck would hurt, his fingers would be numb, he would toss and turn all night not knowing why. He tried many different pillows on the m...

Our special guest is Dr. Timothy R. Jennings, MD, a board certified Christian psychiatrist, master psychopharmacologist, lecturer, international speaker, and the author of The God-Shaped Brain. Dr. Jennings was voted one of America’s Top Psychiatrists by the Consumers’ Research Council of America in 2008, 2010 and 2011. He is president of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also president-elect of the Southern Psychiatric Association...

Our special guest is Darrell L. Bock, author of How Would Jesus Vote? Do Your Political Views Really Align With The Bible? As we approach another election year, we hear politicians on both sides of the aisle as well as religious leaders of every stripe claim to know—with absolute certainty—where Jesus and Christianity stand on their favorite issues. Dr. Bock is the Executive Director of Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr....

Our special guest is Tish Harrison Warren, the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life. Andy Crouch wrote the foreword of this dynamic book on finding meaning in everyday life. Tish writes regularly for InterVarsity’s online magazine for women and Christianity Today.

Our special guest is Kent Evans is the board chairman and co-founder of Manhood Journey, a ministry that helps fathers and mentors build the next generation of godly men. Kent has personally experienced how the guidance of godly men can change the course of a life. “Wise Guys is a careful and clear treatment of the role godly counselors play in the lives of Christians. For those who want to grow in maturity and wisdom, Evans’ book deserves careful consideration.” R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Presiden...

In Troubled Minds Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled. Mental illness is the sort of thing we don’t like to talk about. It doesn’t reduce nicely t...

Our special guest is William Vanderbloemen, the author of Next: Pastoral Succession That Works on effective pastoral leadership and succession. William has been able to combine over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of Executive Search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of professional executive search. William Vanderbloemen has a unique gift for helping churche...

Our special Dr. Keith Anderson, the author of Reading Your Life’s Story, An Invitation to Spiritual Mentoring. Dr. Anderson is the president of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Spiritual mentoring is a particular kind of friendship in which, according to Keith R. Anderson, “two or more people walk together in heightened awareness of the presence of yet Another”—the Holy Spirit. “Spiritual mentoring is not a complicated process that requires technical training and complex protocol,...

Our special guest is Megan Alexander, a correspondent on the top-rated national news magazine television show Inside Edition. Megan is also a special correspondent for CBS’s Thursday Night Football. She has a book called Faith in the Spotlight, Thriving in Your Career While Staying True to Your Beliefs.

Our special guest is Paul Wilbur, internationally-acclaimed worship artist, songwriter, pastor, and teacher. Paul’s music has brought many nations together. PAUL WILBUR Music is the universal language. It’s an old saying that’s being echoed and amplified around the world in the extraordinary musical ministry of Paul Wilbur. For over forty years, in thousands of concerts and recording projects that have reached millions across the planet, Paul’s distinctive songs of praise and worship always get...

Our special guest is Michael White, co-author of Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, Making Church Matter. Dying churches can do something about foreclosures and closed doors. Hear a story about how a church triumphed over diverse circumstances and became rebuilt.

Dr. Paul Nyquist is president of Moody Global Ministries, a higher education and media ministry founded by evangelist D. L. Moody in 1886. His book Prepare: Living Your Faith in an Increasingly Hostile Culture will set forth a biblical, theological, and practical approach to navigating the challenging days ahead and a reason for hope and optimism: the power of the gospel and the possibility of societal transformation.

Dr. Andreas J. Kostenberger, is the Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He gave up worldly success to receive something so much more. If you like Biblical commentaries, chances are you have read his scholarship as well as numerous scholarly journals.

Our special guest is Kathy Keller, co-author with Dr. Timothy Keller of the book The Songs of JESUS: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms.

Our special guest is Joanna Weaver, author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life.

Why is managing money so hard? Our special guest is Chuck Bentley, CEO of Crown Financial Ministries. The ministry has outreach in 104 nations.

Our special guest is Dick Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manuel for Job-Hunters & Career Changers. In 1996, The Library of Congress named his book one of 25 that have shaped reader’s lives.

Do you think you can make a difference in the world? Our special guest is Dr. Sam Metcalf, author of Beyond the Local Church: How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World.

Is there hope for the skeptic? Robert J. Hutchinson talks about his book Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth — an overview of recent archaeological finds and new developments in Biblical scholarship that are calling into question much of what skeptical scholars have assumed and asserted about Jesus over the past two centuries.