Podcast
God Lifts Us Up to Our Full Potential: Philanthropist Melinda Gates & Pastor Tony Evans
Melinda Gates: It’s that faith in action, to me, that actually changes the world. And sometimes we think that the acts we do are small acts, but they’re not. Those small acts add up to very, very large things. God Lifts Us Up to Our Full Potential: Philanthropist Melinda Gates & Pastor Tony Evans – Episode #144 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have been actively involved in lifting up and empowering women and men to pursue their full potential in life: philanthropist and writer Melinda Gates and pastor and teacher Dr. Tony Evans. First up, Melinda Gates and her husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have been working for nearly two decades, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help women and children around the world step out of poverty and li...
God Mends Our Broken Stories: Jay DeMarcus and Kim Walker-Smith
Jay DeMarcus: It’s hard to hear somebody say, “You just hang in there and keep going.” But I’ve lived it. And I can tell you that if you keep going, if you keep forward momentum and keep trying and keep picking yourself up, you will eventually get to where you’re supposed to go. God Mends Our Broken Stories: Jay DeMarcus and Kim Walker-Smith – Episode #145 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests remind us God can use the shattered parts of our lives to create a beautiful mosaic that shows His glory: country music superstar Jay DeMarcus and worship leader Kim Walker-Smith. For two decades, Jay DeMarcus has been making country music in the award-winning group Rascal Flatts, but his journey to the big stage was an unexpected one. Growing up in Ohio, Jay had no idea how ...
Moving from Worry to Worship: Chris Tomlin & Darren Whitehead
Chris: If you kneel, it automatically puts you in a posture in your heart that is so different than when you’re sitting or standing. If you kneel, everything changes inside. You cannot kneel before God and think, Wow, I am amazing right now. It’s a humble place. When you lift your hands, it does something inside of you. Moving from Worry to Worship: Chris Tomlin & Darren Whitehead – Episode #146 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today are GRAMMY Award-winning worship leader Chris Tomlin and pastor and author Darren Whitehead. Chris and Darren share insight toward unlocking the mysteries in how we praise God, and how our lives are transformed when we learn to live a life of praise. We also hear the story behind Chris’s praise and worship song known around the gl...
Running Toward God to Find Our True Value: Ryan Hall and Holly Dowling
Ryan Hall: I went from a kid who hated running to a kid who was devoting my life to the passion of seeing what God had put inside me and trying to get the most out of myself. Running Toward God to Find Our True Value: Ryan Hall and Holly Dowling – Episode #147 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests share how they’ve stopped measuring themselves against the world’s standards and have come to know their value in God’s eyes: former Olympic runner Ryan Hall and inspirational thought leader Holly Dowling. First up, Ryan Hall grew up loving every other sport but running. However, over the years he cultivated a God-given passion for the sport and learned resilience and diligence were the keys to competing in the Olympic games in 2008 and 2012. Today Ryan tells us how his f...
God’s Love In Action: Altar’d State & Compassion That Compels
Aaron Walters: One of my goals is to build a company that my mother would be proud of. And faith is a part of your life, so I felt like it should be a part of our company. God’s Love In Action: Altar’d State & Compassion That Compels – Episode #148 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today are a part of a unique faith-based retail clothing company called Altar’d State. Committed to their mission of “standing out for good,” Altar’d State works with local and international mission organizations to support their efforts to help people in need around the world. Standing Out for Good Aaron Walters: My name’s Aaron Walters. I’m the chairman and CEO of Altar’d State and one of the cofounders. If you were to ask me, there is no way I would have dreamed that I would have ...
Connected in Christ: Live at Brookland Baptist Church Women’s Day
Tré Tailor: Women’s Day 2019 here at Brookland Baptist Church, our theme is F.I.G.H.T.—Faith Intensified By Glorifying Him Together. It was important in this fight for us to have a forum in which we could really talk openly and honestly, bring in panelists, bring in those people who were experts in those fields to really minister, and talk to, and work out some things. If we can get healed, if we can get some healing, if we can work out our issues, then in turn we can help somebody else do the same thing. Connected in Christ: Live at Brookland Baptist Church Women’s Day – Episode #149 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we have a special episode that features a group of women from the Brookland Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina. Each year, this committee of women...
Faith & Family Help Us Find Our Way: Randy & Mary Travis and John Berry
Mary: I think that a lot of the songs that people heard through the years were songs that were from [Randy’s] heart. That was his way of getting away from the anger and the bitterness and the tough parts of childhood, and he was able to sing his life through song. And I think through that, he found so many other people related. Faith & Family Help Us Find Our Way: Randy & Mary Travis and John Berry – Episode #150 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today are two music artists whose faith—and the faith of their families—sustained them during times of success and times of suffering: legendary country music artist Randy Travis, and his wife Mary, and country music singer and songwriter John Berry. First up, Randy Travis’s rise to fame included 20 studio albums w...
A Father’s Love Is Special: Steven Curtis Chapman and Mark Miller (and their daughters!)
Steven: What my prayer has been, and was from the very beginning in my marriage and in my family, is, “God, I want more than anything for my wife and my children to be able to stand and say, ‘Albeit very imperfectly, that man was determined to love God and love us.’” A Father’s Love Is Special: Steven Curtis Chapman and Mark Miller (and their daughters!) – Episode #151 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests are a pair of father-daughter duos who have enjoyed a close relationship in the various seasons of their family’s lives and discuss the impact of fatherhood and being fathered: Christian singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman and his daughter Emily Chapman Richards, and country music artist and Christian music producer Mark Miller and his daughter Madison Brown. As ...
T. D. Jakes and Don Moen: Where Is God When Our Dreams Are Crushed?
T. D. Jakes: I’m at that stage of my life now that I really want to leave footprints behind about what it really costs to be who you are and how to survive crushings that people don’t see, because they see you only through the window of how they understand you to be. But life is much bigger than 30 minutes on television or an hour on television. Life is much bigger than 8 hours on a job. And sometimes we make assumptions about people we work with, or live next door to, or we see on TV that are not correct assumptions about what their whole life is like. When There Seems to Be No Way, God Is Still Working: T. D. Jakes and Don Moen – Episode #152 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today find solace in the scripture from Romans 8:28 that says, “And we know that in all ...
The Rewards of Commitment: Rich Wilkerson, Jr. and David & Tamela Mann
Rich Wilkerson, Jr: I think we’re in a day and age right now where people need hope. People need to know the grace of God. People wonder over and over again, “What’s the message of Jesus?” It’s really simple. Jesus Christ, He did not come for the healthy. He came for the sick. He did not come to condemn the world. He came to save the world. The Rewards of Commitment: Rich Wilkerson, Jr. and David & Tamela Mann – Episode #153 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests express how their relationships, through joys and tears, have stood the test of time because of an unwavering commitment to God and the ones they love. And as they’ve learned what keeps a relationship strong, they have dedicated their lives to share this message with others: pastor Rich Wilkerson, Jr., ...
Lifting Up Others Through Service: Country Singer Jimmy Fortune and US Army Veteran Jess Key
Jimmy Fortune: Like my mom used to say, “Whenever things happen, son, don’t run from Christ. You run to Christ.” And if I stand before Christ, I stand before Him and say, “Hey, I don’t deserve what you did for me. I don’t deserve it at all. But I’m not going to turn my back on that gift. I’m going to hold onto it because it has saved me.” Lifting Up Others Through Service: Country Singer Jimmy Fortune and US Army Veteran Jess Key – Episode #154 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have overcome great odds to serve others and lift up those who have given their lives to service: US Army veteran and dragon boat racing champion Jess Key, and country and gospel music legend Jimmy Fortune. Jimmy Fortune grew up in a musical family and played gospel music from a ve...
Every Scar Has a Story: Mark Eaton & Kelsey Lamb
Mark Eaton: When I think of forgiveness, [I don’t think of it] as a one-time event, but as an ongoing posture of “live to forgive,” and not just repenting now, but repenting always. When I see that little part of me [that says], “I want to take control,” I need to remember that I can control things sometimes, but I need to love people. I can fix things sometimes, but I need to love people, not fix things and fix people. I want to fix things and love people. Every Scar Has a Story: Mark Eaton & Kelsey Lamb – Episode #155 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we talk with two guests from different walks of life who share their heartaches and scars with others so they can be encouraged to find their way: pastor and writer Mark Eaton, and country music singer/songwrit...
