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A Conversation With Special Guest:  Michael Crane If you have followed sports at all in the last 25 years, you have witnessed the magic of today’s special podcast guest.  In less than 10 years in the business, Michael Crane became the most sought after quick-cut, highlight package editor in the wide, wide world of sports.  From ESPN to CBS to the NCAA tournament to the Fre...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  S.P. Rowe Our souls need to worship God the same way our bodies need food and rest.  This is always so, but perhaps now we are more acutely aware of this need.  Worship in a time of crisis can heal our thoughts and restore our spirits. I always marvel at those who are gifted in helping us find connection with God through music and praise...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Jimmy Amisial We’ve all heard the proverb, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”  Today’s Special Guest Jimmy Amisial takes that saying to a whole ‘nother level.  Jimmy is from Haiti and his story brims with danger and inspiration.  He faced adversity growing up in a country labeled third world and then came to the Unite...

Conversations With Special Guests:  Michael Adler and Banneker Hatcherson We are all in the same boat right now.  The world as we knew it hit the pause button.  A new storyline has interrupted this season of our lives.  Everybody has a story to tell.  Some days we’re singing the blues and some days, praise and gratitude pours out.  Most d...

Conversation and Dinner With Special Guests:  David and Kelly Cochran Welcome to Resurrection Monday and the opening episode of Season #2!  Last week we shared the first half of a two-part conversation with Special Guests David and Kelly Cochran.  Almost two years ago, David and Kelly’s son Max took his own life after struggling off and on with mental health issues fo...

Conversation and Dinner With Special Guests:  David and Kelly Cochran Welcome to our 50th Episode!  Hopefully by now, you feel at home around this weekly table of hope and good news. Since we launched on Resurrection Monday 2019, it has been one entrée of encouragement after another.  That’s a recipe we all could use a little more of as we face this momentar...

A Conversation With Special Guests:  John Lankford and Madison Kearns of Five Loaves There are so many layers to this special midweek episode.  Our nation’s medical community is on the frontlines of what very well may be the fight of our lifetime. One creative organization in Birmingham, Alabama has come up with a tangible way for the Magic City to say “thank you” to area healt...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  Ross King In 2019, singer-songwriter Ross King released a song with a knockout lyric that dropped fear to its knees – “The Things That I’m Afraid Of.”  Now last year’s fears seem rather tame in light of a worldwide pandemic that threatens us all. It is a joy to welcome Ross once again to the table and to revisit his powerful song. Get ready t...

Dinner and Conversation at Village Tavern in Birmingham Alabama Featuring Special Guests:  Jennifer and Todd Gerelds She has written 20 books to his 2.  One of his was turned into a Major Motion Picture – “Woodlawn.” It is a delight to welcome authors Jennifer Gerelds and Todd Gerelds to the table this week.  They are the parents of four daughters and the biggest fans of o...

Lunch and Conversation at Home Plate Diner in Hueytown, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Larry McNeal Do you know peace right now? Today’s podcast guest Larry McNeal was standing on the corner of Broadway and 149thStreet in New York City when he thought to himself, “I’ve had just about everything a person can have, but there’s something missing in my life. I do not have peace.” We live...

Lunch and Conversation at Sinclair’s East in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Katie Blair Of the four original seasons, almost everyone I know has a favorite.  But I don’t know a single solitary soul who likes the fifth season – the season of brokenness.  This season overstays a welcome it was never extended in the first place.  While the others are...

A Conversation With Special Guest:  BOB GOFF If today’s podcast guest were to paraphrase Jesus’ words in John 10:10 –  “I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full,” he probably would translate Jesus saying it something like this:  “I have come that you may live life to the extremes, living it all the way to the edge of yikes!” That’s how Bob Goff lives his life.&nbs...

King Cake from Deaux Boys and Conversation Around the Home Table in Millbrook, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Hunter Harris If Jesus was Cajun, one of His most famous invites might o’ sounded like this:  “Who dat who is tired, worn slap out, and frazzled?  Come unto Me and I’ll show you how to take a real, good rest, for my yoke is the big easy and my burden, it be ligh...

Conversation at Insights Counseling Center in Birmingham, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Tal Prince Psalm 139 declares us “fearfully and wonderfully made.”  Yet a lot of us are walking around convinced we are “fearfully messed up” and almost to the end of our hope. It is a delight to welcome Tal Prince to the podcast.  Tal is owner, director, and therapist at Insights C...

Lunch and Conversation at Klingler’s Café, Bakery, & Catering in Vestavia Hills, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Ethan Milner Imagine the next 24 hours of your life were scripted and filmed for a movie to be premiered at the end of 2020.  What would the account of a single day reveal about you?  Would it a comedy, a drama, or an adventure?  Would it be a ca...

Brunch and Conversation at Heritage House Coffee & Tea in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Braidyn Lazenby Life is a pageant of praise to our Creator Who crafted the earth as our stage.  His carpenter Son not only planted the forests and measured the boards where our beautiful feet await the invitation to walk, run, and dance whenever He calls our name.  H...

Dinner and Conversation at Martha’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Andrew Roberts I hope my grandkids some day encounter a schoolteacher like Mr. Roberts.  He has been teaching in public education at the same school for 23 years.  He purposefully chose to return to the same elementary school where he was once a student.  And with the grace...

Conversation at Wishbone Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Marty Raybon They sing about sacred Sundays in the south, double blessings of roses, and getting to the church on Cumberland Road on time, among other things.  And every solitary one of American country band Shenandoah's 26 singles, 5 #1 Hits, 3 Gold Records, and 1 Grammy winning song is still sung somew...

Lunch and Conversation at Heard’s BBQ & Soul Food in Maplesville, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Kenny Lenoir Today we want to encourage you to learn a new art form.  I call it “the art of leaning forward.”  It is the posture of one who is always anticipating; ever watching for Jesus to show up somewhere throughout their day, ever listening for God to speak through...

(Featuring Brief Musical Excerpts from  “Christmas At Shades” and  “Behold the Lamb of God” ) The first Christmas came in its own way and on its own terms.  Mary and Joseph anticipated the birth of their son Jesus, but they never could have guessed the way it actually went down.  Unexpected road trip.  Animals intruding Mary’s birthing suite.  Shep...

Lunch and Conversation at Lloyds Restaurantin Birmingham, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Santa Claus (aka Stephen Whitley) Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.  Kris Kringle.  Santa Claus. These are a few of the aliases of one Stephen Whitley.  It’s not every day you get to go to lunch with a man who makes lists and checks them twice.  So even though I hav...

Dinner and Conversation at Chris’ Famous Hotdogs in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Michael Crouse It is the season of wonder, but wonder is an everyday occurrence to today’s podcast guest.  Michael Crouse is an awesome father to one of my favorite teenagers, an audiologist by profession, a sky gazer, and my good friend.  He lives life at a different pac...

Conversation at Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Michael Adler "It's the best Christmas worship event I have ever experienced!"  That was my assessment when I first attended Christmas At Shades in 2015.  I have been back every year since and my appreciation has not wavered.  It has deepened.  It is that kind of "O holy ni...

Lunch and Conversation at Chappy’s Deli in Prattville, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Greg Duke “Blessed are the quirky, for they shall be given lots of grace.” That statement definitely resembles me, but it equally applies to today’s podcast guest, as well as all the rest of us. I love it when wonder grabs hold of my imagination and stretches me beyond previous limits, or reminds me...

Breakfast and Conversation at Cahawba House Restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama Featuring Special Guest:  Wanda Howard Battle “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” Those are words today’s podcast guest, Wanda Howard Battle, has taken to heart.  She embodies that challenge and she encourages others to join her.  Wanda is the official Tour Director...