Podcast
God Brings Life After Loss: Jonathan Pitts and John Hill
Jonathan Pitts: I think where we are [as a family after my wife’s death is] we have this keen awareness and sense of the goodness of God. And even in the tragic nature of where we’ve been, there’s still this beautiful story. God Brings Life After Loss: Jonathan Pitts and John Hill – Episode #157 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have traveled long stretches of despair and loss, but today they’re embracing what God has next for them: pastor and author Jonathan Pitts, and entrepreneur John Hill. First up, Jonathan Pitts has had a whirlwind year. Weeks after celebrating 15 years of marriage with his wife Wynter, on a warm summer night in 2018, 38-year-old Wynter Evans Pitts passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. Wynter left behind a family of four girls and a thri...
Choosing Christ Through Doubt & Fear: Bear Grylls & Rhonda Vincent
Bear Grylls: I’ve learned with fear, don’t run from it. And again, the message of Christ was always about, “I’m there in the difficult times. In your pain, I’m there.” I try and remember that. Despite the doubts and the fears, I try and hold on to that. And that’s the journey of life. Choosing Christ Through Doubt & Fear: Bear Grylls & Rhonda Vincent – Episode #158 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guest for this episode reflect on the circumstances of their lives that have challenged their faith, and how, after many years and many journeys, they continue to choose to follow Christ: adventurer Bear Grylls and bluegrass musician Rhonda Vincent. First up, we’ve watched Bear Grylls as he’s made his way up mountains, explored underwater, and foraged through jung...
Following Christ Toward Your Unique Calling: Anthony Evans & Jenny + Tyler
Anthony Evans: There are many times in your life you don’t necessarily want to do something, but there is a plan and a purpose behind it. And a lot of times, your feelings will catch up with your feet when you just move into action. Following Christ Toward Your Unique Calling: Anthony Evans and Jenny & Tyler – Episode #159 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests are musicians who know the importance of having strong spiritual influences in their lives from an early age, and what it means to continue that legacy of bringing light into the world: singer and author Anthony Evans, and Christian singer/songwriting duo Jenny & Tyler. Growing up as the son of pastor Tony Evans, Anthony Evans struggled to find a place where he could be uniquely used by God. Today he ...
Seeking Joy While Carrying Burdens: Matthew Kelly & Tammy Bullock
Matthew Kelly: One of Jesus’s essential invitations is that we lay down our lives, and that we do it in relation to our gifting and in relation to the needs of the world at this time. I think there is a great explosion that occurs when our gifting meets the deepest needs of our time. Seeking Joy While Carrying Burdens: Matthew Kelly & Tammy Bullock – Episode #160 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have discovered, through time and testing, how to find joy amid difficult circumstances and bring that joy to a hurting world: author and speaker Matthew Kelly, and nonprofit leader Tammy Bullock. For decades, Australia native Matthew Kelly has tried to meet God’s people where they are and encourage them to move toward where God is calling them. He’s written more t...
Victoria Osteen, Laurie Crouch, Dr. DeeDee Freeman and Rachel Hauck: Building Each Other Up Through Friendship
Dr. DeeDee: When you can love yourself, you can be free to love others. And when we can teach a woman how to value who God has created her to be, then we can begin to value each other. Victoria Osteen, Laurie Crouch, Dr. DeeDee Freeman and Rachel Hauck: Building Each Other Up Through Friendship – Episode #161 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests are women who have seen the impact of bringing love and intention to our relationships with others, especially with our friends: the women of TBN’s Better Together—Laurie Crouch, Victoria Osteen, and Dr. DeeDee Freeman—and novelist Rachel Hauck. Better Together is a new program on TBN made by women, for women. Their goal is to build a community of women committed to doing life together and making the world a better p...
Overcomers Are Defined and Refined by God: Priscilla Shirer & Jeremy Ray Taylor
Priscilla Shirer: So, your behaviors don’t define you. Your past doesn’t define you. What other people have called you doesn’t define you. Even what you call yourself, that doesn’t define you. Only the person who made you has the right to give you your label and the right to determine your significance. Overcomers Are Defined and Refined by God: Priscilla Shirer & Jeremy Ray Taylor – Episode #162 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests are two people who were surprised by the circumstances that led them to star in feature films. Now they work to share God’s love in a bigger way than they ever could have imagined, while remembering that their identity is found only in Christ: author and speaker Priscilla Shirer and actor Jeremy Ray Taylor. First up, as the daughte...
Kurt Warner and CBS’ James Brown: Living by God’s Playbook
Kurt Warner: I was fortunate to have a lot of success in the game, but the biggest part of things is how many people can associate with my story and the fact that life doesn’t always play out as you want it to, and sometimes there are struggles and perseverance that you have to have along the way to ultimately accomplish your goals. So through all those ups and downs, I finally got that second chance in the league and was fortunate to turn it into a pretty good career and finish it up just a couple of years ago by being selected for the Hall of Fame. Kurt Warner and CBS’ James Brown: Living by God’s Playbook – Episode #163 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus CallingPodcast. Today we talk with two men who followed their dreams in the world of sports, and how God guided them in His timing to exac...
Wrestling with Questions, Finding Peace from God: Erwin McManus & Dominic Done
Erwin McManus: My goal is to help people have inner peace in the middle of the conflict, to have inner peace in the middle of the chaos, to have the kind of peace where they measure their life by how many others they helped find peace in the world. Wrestling with Questions, Finding Peace from God: Erwin McManus & Dominic Done – Episode #164 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we talk with two pastors who ask deep questions of God, and how, in the midst of their wonderings, they’re able to feel peace: Pastors Erwin McManus and Dominic Done. First up, Erwin McManus is an artist and writer who works to integrate creativity and spirituality. He is the founder and Lead Pastor of Mosaic, a Los Angeles-based church recognized as one of America’s most influential ...
God Can Use Our Present to Heal Our Past: Pastor Robert Morris and Musician Matt Maher
Robert Morris: One of the reasons I believe that God blesses us is because He loves us, just like we want to bless our children. But I also believe that God wants us to be a blessing. And I’ve seen this over and over and over again. God Can Use Our Present to Heal Our Past: Pastor Robert Morris and Musician Matt Maher – Episode #165 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have seen, in different ways, how God can take troubled moments of our past and heal them, using them to bless others in the present: Pastor Robert Morris and singer/songwriter Matt Maher. Robert Morris is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas. As a boy, Robert grew up in a church-going family, and he learned he had a knack for speaking to others. After a few rocky years as a...
“I Will Survive” – Believing God Can Get You Through: Gloria Gaynor and Jeff Huxford
Gloria Gaynor: I’ve often heard people say, “God won’t put any more on you than you can handle.” If you will call on Him, ask for His help, and then take His direction, He will bring you through whatever. Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests remind us that no matter the challenges we face, with God’s help, we can survive life’s toughest moments: music legend Gloria Gaynor and author Jeff Huxford. First up, it’s hard to think of an anthem more iconic than Gloria’s 1978 blockbuster hit, “I Will Survive.” And while those lyrics have come to mean many things to fans all over the world, today we learn how the words of “I Will Survive,” coupled with her strong faith in God, fueled Gloria to keep going through both the hard and good times in her life. Gloria ...
God Is Our Hero: Dr. Derek Grier and BibleForce’s Wayne McKay
Dr. Derek Grier: I think if we’re really learning and if we’re really growing and if we’re really gaining a revelation of who He is, there would be a constant breathlessness and a constant level of gratitude that’s not forced. I would say that each of us need to press into really knowing Him. God Is Our Hero: Dr. Derek Grier and BibleForce’s Wayne McKay – Episode #167 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today’s guests have experienced the heroic influence of God in their lives, and have strived to convey the power of His presence in their lives to others: pastor Dr. Derek Grier and inspirational children’s publisher Wayne McKay. While he was growing up, if you’d have asked Dr. Derek Grier what he would do for a living, he admits that being a pastor was the last thing he thought...
