Are You Real | Finding Your Purpose

On today's episode, Jon sits down with Kevin Harris, President of Radical Mentoring, to talk about getting men involved in the church. A lot of men get on a career track and figure to make up for lost time at home and church later. They feel like they're doing what they're "supposed" to do, instead of what they're "called" to do, but when you're off-purpose, it's exhausting. Once you align your li...

Speaking God's Frequency is Jon's latest book, and captures Jon's walk with the Lord over the last eight years. Today he will be sharing from the 2nd chapter, "The Transforming Power of Love". We all have "mile-markers" in our lives, moments that have shaped and defined who we become. Jon shares the poignant moments of his life that eventually led him to the alter, where he experienced release of...

On today's episode, Jon steps into the role of public speaker and addresses his audience on the subjects of intentionality and goal-setting. He will be sharing seven premises with you: 1) finding your authentic voice; 2) believe in what you're doing; 3) define your end-game; 4) go all in; 5) don't let others define you; 6) learn quick and adapt; and 7) make it a habit and make it count. Listen in...

Tables are turning for this episode of Are You Real, where Jon was recently interviewed by Jim Oliver from Breakaway Wealth! Jim was recently a guest of Jon's, so if you missed that show, the link has been provided here for your listening convenience. Jon and Jim talk about overcoming failure, what failure and success in business look like as a Christian, and what we can expect when we align our l...

Do you need a shot of hope? If so, you're in the right place at the right time. Lathan Craft joins Jon today for a conversation about being God's masterpiece and listening to what God says about us rather than what we might think about ourselves. They also discuss Lathan's book, "The Leper in Church", which is about Christians suffering with mental illness. You'll hear about Lathan's traumatic str...

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, Patr...

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 documen...

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-co...

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...

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...

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, incl...

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...

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...

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...

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 realiz...

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 co...

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 hear...

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 a...

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 cr...

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...

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 th...

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 Je...

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 w...

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...

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 fo...