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Dinner and Conversation at Oskar’s Cafe at Lake Martin, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Jeff Gore I’ve watched today’s Special Guest live his faith in God for almost 40 years.  His mustache is as wide as his smile and as big as his heart.  He follows Jesus, loves his family, and surrendered to God’s call upon his life to cowboy ministry before the fad of cowboy church was even a t...

A Lyrical Conversation with Special Guest:  Denbigh Cherry. There’s nothing like a well written song - the perfect blending of notes and lyrics.  It can lift; it can humble.  It can set your feet to dancin’.  It can drop you to your knees in prayer.  The right song at the right time can alter the direction of your day.  That’s the power of music. We’re excited to brin...

Today we have not one guest - we have five.  Five Smooth Stones.  Many of us associate those three words with the famous David and Goliath bout.  Little vs. big.  Good vs. evil.  Underdog vs. giant.  And so, we imagine we already know where today’s episode is going. Consider this though.  What if the greatest giant you face is you?  What if he or she lives i...

Three weeks ago, we stepped into autumn.  We crossed the equatorial line where day and night were everywhere on earth, for just a brief time, of approximately equal length.  Of course, we didn’t literally step across the line.  Earth glided across and we’re just along for the ride. Hello Fall!  I love all the four seasons, but I have a special fondness for only you.  ‘Tis...

Conversation With Special Guest:  Kade Young Behold a story you’ve never heard before.  An adventure of epic proportions that will cause your jaw to drop.  A true tale involving mountain lions and snow skiing North Koreans and crazy Christ-following.  The kind of life we are all called to if we just surrender to faith. I’m excited for you to meet my friend Kade Young.  Kad...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Dick Foth Food and the table are close to the heart of the biblical story of redemption.  The Bible opens in a garden and closes at a never-ending wedding feast.  Food is central and essential to our everyday lives.  I don’t know about you, but the past 18 months has stolen a little bit of the joy of coming together around a common table.&nbs...

Horse, train, and eights.  As a loon and Looney Tunes.  Crazy. Anybody feel like you’ve been riding on a rollercoaster with Ozzy Osbourne the past 18 months?  Well, today’s episode comes with a challenge that might help you turn the table on that kind of crazy. Seems everywhere I go, folks admire the Jesus who flipped tables.  They want to be just like Him in that regard....

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Josh Richardson Word up! I believe listening to a single podcast has the potential to change your life.  I was listening to one* when I learned of Josh Richardson and an incredible vision God has given him to share Jesus with others. Josh is a young entrepreneur from Fort Collins, Colorado who recently stepped outside his wheelhouse to publis...

I like tunnels.  I like exploring them. I like driving through them.  For me, they are synonymous with National Parks.  From the Great Smoky Mountains to Glacier to Zion.  I like tunnels. They bear testimony to tons of hard work - literally.  Blood, sweat, tears, adversity, prolong seasons in the dark, resilience, and an undaunted spirit. I like tunnels.  And sometime...

Lunch and Conversation at Dreamland Bar-B-Que in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Jared McCrory Hope.  It may be the most powerful gift you could give, especially when the one receiving it has little to none.  Where and to whom do you offer hope on a regular basis? Today’s Special Guest is Jared McCrory.  Jared is the Executive Director of Children's Hope...

Sometimes you sense God’s presence and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes life feels like Job 23 – you search for God and you can’t find Him. At other times the truth of Psalm 139 is overwhelmingly evident – you couldn’t hide from God if you tried. Welcome!  Our Special Guest today is present for every episode and is a participant at every “Table.” You can’t always guess where or how He...

Conversation at the Ruby Ranch ranchhouse in Las Vegas, New Mexico Featuring Special Guest:  Owen Young Today’s podcast tells the story of a cowboy, a pool player, and a pastor, and they’re all the same Stetson-wearing amigo. Our Special Guest Owen Young is one of my best friends.  He dares imagine his story might not measure up to some of our previous guests.  Yet, I don’t think th...

That word has a more positive backspin than you might dare imagine.  It's a lighter shade of blue and it's this week's Appetizer Episode. Each of these special podcasts revolve around a single word, offering a unique and sometimes peculiar perspective on that word.  It's like looking at something familiar, but from a different angle.  Hopefully, you'll never hear melancholy the same...

Lunch and Conversation at Habanero’s in Millbrook, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Robert Mullins Love God.  Love people.  Make disciples.  Those are three commands Jesus gave for anyone who chooses to follow Him.  Most of us have a pretty good grasp of the first two;  it’s the third one we’re not quite sure about. It’s a joy to bring Special Guest Robert Mullins to...

Lunch and Conversation at Jalapeno’s in The Alley in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Hank Teuton Well there you are, and here we are - FINALLY - sitting down at our first restaurant table in over a year!   And it could not have been more perfect.  Today’s gem of a podcast is one of the reasons I love doing what I am called to do. Hank Teuton is Toda...

We all need it.  Add it to the list along with oxygen, water, food, shelter.  We all need it and we all need to give it. Welcome to “the Table!”  It’s Holy Week in the Christian church and this week’s episode has a more mystic, somber vibe.  At the heart of it is perhaps the most disarming words Jesus ever spoke.  While hanging on the cross, He pra...

Well there you are!  And welcome back for the second of our brand new Appetizer Episodes! This week’s word is “WILD.”  What comes to mind when you hear that word?  Perhaps something you were “born to be” that gets your motor running.  Or maybe that “thing” that makes your heart sing. Did you know that Wild is chasing you, pursuing you, all the time? &nb...

Well there you are!  Welcome to our Third Season!  We will soon be back to restaurant tables highlighting great food and one-on-one conversations. But in the meantime, we’re kicking off our year with something brand new – Appetizer Episodes! Every week we will put the spotlight on a single word and we’ll explore that word in ways perhaps you have never considered before. W...

Sometimes life brings the unexpected and we find ourselves off script.  In other moments, opportunities arise that require us to deliberately choose to go off script. In today’s very special episode, I want to celebrate and honor my sister Marilyn.  A year ago, Marilyn was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).  Last Monday, Marilyn’s earthly journey ended as her heavenly homeco...

Firmly planted in midair.  That’s an adequate description of what the world is going through right now.  And it is also a realistic expectation of what following Jesus really looks like. This week’s simple podcast explores that theme.  We hope it is an encouragement to you in this difficult season.  We have an album recommendation (Andrew Peterson’s “Light F...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Jay Payleitner Open up any Bible and you’ll find an incredible book of wisdom fairly close to the center called Proverbs.  Proverbs has 31 chapters, hundreds of proverbs, but only one prayer.  One of the most incredible, counterintuitive prayers you’ll ever read.  And that one prayer is the subject of a brand new book, “The Pra...

A Conversation With Special Guests:  Hunter Harris and Chase Myers One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage.  To lose a baby is a heartbreak many have suffered. In ways I can never understand, it must be especially poignant for a young mother.  The topic is hardly ever talked about. In the last two years, I know two young couples who have walked this valley. &n...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Kyle Searcy I was sitting at my prayer table two weeks ago when God planted an idea in my spirit: “Go redeem the ground.  Pray on sites where racial sin has taken place.” Last Tuesday morning, the prompting became a little more specific.  God nudged, “Go to Court Square Fountain today and pray.”  I committed to go after lunch.  This beau...

Today’s experimental podcast is told in random bits and pieces.  I have never felt led to craft a mosaic story until now.  I’m not even sure there is a category for this. Except, this is the manner in which my mind works and in which I find myself attempting to communicate these days.  Mosaics are made from broken pieces to form pictures and patterns that communi...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Logan Creasy “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.  I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope.” – Psalm 130:1,5  Can anybody relate?  Anybody else out there feel like waiting on God has become your permanent vocation and you’re already tenured?  (We see those hands!) It is great to have my g...