Jon’s guest today happens to be the writer of one of his favorite songs of all time, “Storyteller”. Listen in to hear the story behind the song, the vulnerability behind the voice, and get ready to be inspired! Morgan Harper Nichols is a writer, artist, and musician, whose parents always encouraged her to use her art to love other people. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Morgan, her husband, Patrick, and their 8-month old son make their home in Orange County, California. Resources: VisitJon’s W...
Feb 12, 2020•52 min•Ep. 181
On today’s episode, Jon chats with Darren Wilson about The God Man, his upcoming movie that he describes as a “Jesus film for a new generation”, and his most ambitious project to date. It is a film that reflects the character of God and by its nature, begs a decision by movie-end. Darren Wilson is an author and a television/film producer and director who makes unique, faith-based Christian documentaries. When he made his first film, he was an English professor who borrowed equipment from his sch...
Feb 05, 2020•45 min•Ep. 180
If you want to learn how money REALLY works, you’ll want to listen in to this fascinating conversation between Jon and Jim Oliver. Financial independence, rather than retirement, is the goal of today’s guest in coaching people to passive income, whether they’re starting with a little or whether they’re starting with a lot, and is based on Biblical principles. Jim Oliver is the Founder of wealth-coaching company, Create Tailwind. Jim founded Create Tailwind in 1988 in Denver, CO, as a traditional...
Jan 29, 2020•45 min•Ep. 179
Did you know that the Bible addresses the topic of rest much more than it addresses the topic of sleep? In this day and age where we feel the pressure to be super-productive, we neglect the need for rest and we neglect to enjoy the journey along the way. Sooner or later, our health suffers. Dr. Saundra wrote Sacred Rest based on her own burnout experience. She realized that her medical career did not provide her with enough information that she needed to stay energized. Turning to her Bible for ...
Jan 22, 2020•46 min•Ep. 178
If you’ve ever wanted to be excellent or masterful in the work that you do, or if you’ve ever wondered how you’ll ever even find the work God created you to do, you’ll want to listen in as Jon and special guest, Jordan Raynor, discuss becoming a “Master of One” that brings both glory to God and service to others. Jordan Raynor is the author of the soon-to-be-released Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do andthe national best-seller Called to Create: A Biblical Invitati...
Jan 01, 2020•49 min•Ep. 177
Jon sits down with best-selling author, Lisa Tawn Bergren, to discuss the spiritual experience that helped her understand her calling, the importance of bringing our children up in the faith and how we must allow them to make their own story with God, fallow seasons, and so much more. You don’t want to miss this conversation! Lisa Tawn Bergren is the best-selling author of more than 60 books, including God Gave Us You, God Gave Us Easter, which is a New York Times best-seller, and the beloved Go...
Dec 25, 2019•43 min•Ep. 176
If you have a problem with “stinking thinking”, or negative thoughts, you will want to tune in to this episode with special guest, Carlos Rosales. Carlos is a business coach and author of 10X For Christ: Discovering Your 10X Lifestyle in Jesus Christ. Discover how speaking God’s words over our lives and recognizing the good in it when those negative thoughts creep in can help us to understand who we are in Christ. Carlos has worked in business leadership for over 35 years and knows what it takes...
Dec 18, 2019•45 min•Ep. 175
Jon’s guest today is known as “The best guy to see on the worst day of your life”. Dr. Charles “Chuck” Page is a surgeon, husband, father of five, and author. His latest book, A Spoonful of Courage for the Sick and Suffering, is one of encouragement and hope, and how, when we see what other people are going through, we can begin to adjust our focus. It was other peoples’ stories that inspired him to keep going after his office building burned down in 2017, and he is here to share those stories a...
Dec 11, 2019•42 min•Ep. 174
When you’re a successful singer and songwriter for a popular touring Christian band using your God-given gifts to share the gospel with others, and you also have a God-given wife and family back home, how do you arrive at a decision to take a leap of faith in choosing to pursue your family dreams while trusting that God is making a way for you to use your talents closer to the home-front? Jon sits down with guest, Matt Hammitt, to hear his compelling story of how he did just that. Matt Hammitt i...
Nov 27, 2019•44 min•Ep. 173
What’s been on Jon’s heart and mind lately has been the power of choices. He has been seeing a pattern in the counseling calls he’s received lately regarding marriage and business, and that is a lot of people are having problems with the issue of blame. It’s easier to lay the blame for your problems on somebody else, but often the real issue is a result of the bad choices we have made. This realization is not one of condemnation but a practical one by way of encouraging a self-examination of the...
Nov 20, 2019•41 min•Ep. 172
While journaling and asking for direction one day, the Lord spoke to Jon’s heart and pointed out how he had been focused on “I” instead of “we” in his marriage. He set out to change that because he came to understand that a strong marriage equals a strong family, which means better work, better sex, better everything! Jon’s wife, Kasey, will be joining him in some extra episodes in the podcasts concerning “Real Marriage”. Both she and Jon came from broken homes. Encountering many trials along th...
Oct 30, 2019•46 min•Ep. 171
Before original sin, there was original BLESSING, as per Genesis 1:28’s verse, which begins “And God blessed them.” Blessing is God’s first reflex, His default setting, and today’s guest, Mark Batterson, suggests that this sequence is one of utmost importance. His newest book, Double Blessing: How to Get It. How to Give It., is about rediscovering God’s heart towards us, and then aligning our hearts with His. Mark is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C., and is the Ne...
Oct 23, 2019•29 min•Ep. 170
Some Kind of Crazy is a powerful memoir written by today’s guest, Terry Wardle, and follows his upbringing as the son of an Appalachian coal-mining family. Though sometimes hilarious and affectionate, his family also left him with a legacy of fear and abuse that followed him into adulthood and landed him in a psychiatric hospital before the age of 40. Accepting Jesus into his heart did not solve all of the un-repaired, emotional ruptures that was present in his life. He found himself on a dual p...
Oct 16, 2019•54 min•Ep. 169
Christianity is in crisis and many of our youth are checking out, for various reasons. Special Guest, Malcolm du Plessis, has seen this coming and has been working the last 5-6 years on an online library for what seems to be the future of what’s going to happen in Christianity and the world. Common Hymnal is an initiative that he has instigated which is basically aggregating creatives and their creativity from what might be called the fringes of the spiritual underground. Join in as Malcolm shar...
Sep 25, 2019•36 min•Ep. 168
As Christians, we’ve been given the ministry of reconciliation. We’ve been reconciled to God, so therefore we can be reconciled to one another. Healing racial divides is what Special Guest, LaTasha “Tasha” Morrison delves into on today’s podcast. In John 17, Jesus prayed that we would be one, as He and the Father are one. Tasha covers some deep ground on how the Church has been complicit to racism, and her ideas to deconstruct that. By listening to marginalized voices and creating conversations,...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 167
If you’ve ever struggled with reading and comprehending scripture, you’re not going to want to miss today’s episode. Special guest, Sharon Kaselonis, shares the problems she encountered in studying the Bible, her prayer to the Lord to know and understand Him, and the gracious resolution He provided to her. Her new book, Jesus, Day by Day, is a daily devotional that teaches you to look for Jesus throughout the scriptures and takes you through a chronological one-year reading plan that covers the ...
Sep 11, 2019•54 min•Ep. 166
Blessed, Broken, Given - these three words come from the gospels, and they’re the words that describe what Jesus does when he has bread in his hands. Luke’s gospel, in particular, tells three stories of Jesus taking bread, blessing it, breaking it, and giving it. Our guest today, Glenn Packiam, wrote a soon-to-be-released book, Blessed Broken Given: How Your Story Becomes Sacred In The Hands Of Jesus. Jesus describes Himself as the “bread of Heaven”, and each word - blessed, broken, given - is g...
Aug 28, 2019•46 min•Ep. 165
Stephen Blake Kanicka is a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer. His musicality has been noted by the New York Times and featured on Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, The View, Ellen Degeneres, and the Today Show. Stephen Blake grew up deeply entrenched in the world of music, as his mother was a Vocal Performance major in college. His innate ear for music was noticed at a very young age when he would climb the piano and play the melodies he heard around him. His talent was then fostered...
Aug 21, 2019•36 min•Ep. 164
In a world of urgent need around us, God gives us good things to enjoy …but ultimately God has blessed us so that through us, others might know his goodness, others might know his grace, and others might see his glory. Our guest today is David Platt, who took a life-changing 8-day trek through the Himalayas, where he encountered a population with urgent physical and spiritual needs. Our lives are but a mist here, so what can we do with our time to make it count? When our eyes are opened to the s...
Aug 14, 2019•39 min•Ep. 163
God-given gifts can often be the inspiration for our entrepreneurial leaps of faith when we decide to leave a steady job with a safe work environment and a regular paycheck, for a job that focuses on, and is dependent on, those gifts. We’re going to talk to someone who did just that. Todd Furneaux is the special guest I’d like to introduce you to today. Todd spent over a decade being a merchant for Home Depot’s corporate office in Atlanta, buying and selling its products, working on advertising,...
Aug 07, 2019•42 min•Ep. 162
Today’s guest is Robby Dawkins. I met Robby through Michael McIntyre, who has introduced me to so many great people. Robby is a 5th generation Pastor who has ministered in over 58 nations. He’s been in some pretty scary environments that are hostile to Christians. The focus of today’s conversation is Robby’s quest to live out the book of Acts. There are so many ways that Christians can be activated to literally change and impact the world for Christ. As we struggle to figure out what our purpose...
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 161
Did you know that God provides us with a recipe for happiness in Psalm 1:1-3? This happiness provides us with a steady supply of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. You see, God created us with an addiction to these neurotransmitters, and His Word encourages the specific behaviors and healthy habits that replicate, create, and sustain the addiction that God put into us at Creation. Every addiction that is the enemy destroying God’s good creation causes us to need more and more of a bad habit to c...
Jul 24, 2019•55 min•Ep. 160
Pornography, drug abuse, lying, and financial deceit. What do these things have in common? They are all forms of betrayal. Today’s guests, Jay, and Lori Pyatt are Certified Relationship Mentors, who help couples after betrayal. Jay and Lori share their very own personal experience with betrayal, redemption, and restoration concerning his long-term addiction to pornography. Jay helps men overcome pornography addiction and other sexual sins in their lives, and teaches them how to rebuild trust in ...
Jul 17, 2019•56 min•Ep. 159
John introduces us today to Vivian Mabuni, a national speaker and writer with a passion to share hope and life through intimacy with God. Listen in as Vivian discusses wrestling with the goodness of God, and walks us through the devastating aftermath of the 90’s Rwandan genocide. She describes to us how the image of God being reflected through the Rwandan people was breathtaking and awe-inspiring. She also has a lot to say about women in ministry! Did you know that Jesus was counter-culture for ...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 158
Mike Donehey from the contemporary Christian music band, Tenth Avenue North, is today’s special guest. Mike will be discussing his new book, “Finding God’s Life For My Will”. You’ll also learn how a tragedy became the catalyst for his learning to play guitar, and hear his heart-touching story behind one of the band's most popular songs, “Control”. Mike is an author, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Tenth Avenue North is husband to Kelly, and Father to 4 girls. Listen in as Mike and Joh...
Jul 03, 2019•48 min•Ep. 157
In today’s episode, John chats with special guest, Dee Brestin, about recognizing heart idols, how Jesus showed his disciples that He was in awe of the Old Testament, how to be alert to the amazing things that God does, and more. You don’t want to miss the prison ministry testimony she shares of an incarcerated woman who came to realize how beautiful she was to Jesus. It will give you chills! Dee Brestin is an author, speaker, and has a heart for prison ministry. She has been writing for 50 year...
Jun 26, 2019•44 min•Ep. 156
Sometimes the most interesting journeys are those we never really aspire to follow. As a young and newly surrendered Christian, my guest only wanted to travel and preach, and he never thought youth pastor or lead pastor would be what he wanted to do. Fast forward to now, when Banning Liebscher is the founder and pastor of Jesus Culture in Sacramento, CA, along with his most demanding roles of husband and father of three teens. He has a heart for the younger generation to encounter God on their c...
Jun 19, 2019•58 min•Ep. 155
Are you struggling to monetize your online business? My guest today might be just the person you need to meet. Jennifer Allwood is a wife, mother, dynamic business coach, and host of The Jennifer Allwood Show podcast. She uses her infectious enthusiasm to help creative women build their social media platforms and turn their talents and hobbies into lucrative online businesses. After working a desk job that was quickly pushing her to an early grave, Jennifer owned a decorative painting business b...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 154
Today’s guest is Frances Mckay, a certified financial planner who specializes in life-centered financial planning for women in the STEM field. She’s a mother and grandmother who helps people with retirement planning and asset management. A few years ago, Frances was a chemical engineer who worked 70-80 hours each week, traveled frequently, and was miserable with making absolutely no contribution to her home. She made the career switch to financial planning, and her life changed drastically in ev...
Jun 05, 2019•52 min•Ep. 153
How often do the needs of orphaned children around the world come to your mind? Patrick and Lauren Nelson are dedicating their lives to the needs of these orphans by rescuing them from sex trafficking and helping them with trauma and healing. As the parents of two young sons, the Nelsons live in Dallas but travel to Haiti several times each year through work with their non-profit, I’m Me, which began in 2012. In this episode, Patrick and Lauren explain how the seed of compassion for Haiti was fi...
May 29, 2019•59 min•Ep. 152
