Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #280: A History of Christian Worship Part Nine - The Liturgical Movement This episode is part nine of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #279: A History of Christian Worship Part Eight - Post-Reformation This episode is part eight of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #278: A History of Christian Worship Part Seven - The English Reformation This episode is part seven of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #277: A History of Christian Worship Part Six - The 16th Century and the Reformation This episode is part six of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #276: A History of Christian Worship Part Five - The Middle Ages (The 5th through 15th Centuries) This episode is part five of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #275: A History of Christian Worship Part Four - The 4th through 8th Centuries This episode is part four of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship practices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #274: A History of Christian Worship Part Three - The Second and Third Centuries This episode is part three of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship pratices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #273: A History of Christian Worship Part Two - The Times of the New Testament This episode is part two of our ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship pratices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com  

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #272: A History of Christian Worship Part One - Jewish Roots This week begins part one of a ten part series on the History of Christian Worship. Join me on this journey through the ancient faith as we track how the church's worship pratices have changed over the centuries. Blessings, Rick Lee James www. RickLeeJames.com    

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #271: Build Your Multicultural Ministry Super Power with Nikki Lerner Nikki Lerner is an artist, a teacher, a speaker, an author and a culture coach helping others engage with one another relationally and across culture lines.  Her passion is to see people come to an understanding of one another through music and conversation and learn to remain human with each ot...

This week I found a great article by Jonathan Aigner on Patheos.com called Not Just A Good Feeling: What Mister Rogers Can Teach Us About Worship . On this episode of Voices In My Head I share selections from the article and expand on them with soem of my own thoughts on the benefits of authentic, faithful and consistent worship practices.   Thanks for listening to Voices In My Head. Make sure to...

My guest on this episode of Voices In My Head is Crowd Music’s Founder and CEO, Mike Castronovo.  Crowd Music is an Industry Renovator that values music and realizes that today’s music creators are being robbed of their intellectual properties. Mike wasn’t looking to start a music company, but on January 22, 2014 he read a piece in the Wall Street Journal that opened his eyes to a massive problem....

This week I welcome back my old friend and co-writer, Randy Cox to the show. As a Song Consulant, Randy is helping to shape the music of a whole new generation in some beautiful ways which you will hear abut on today's show. Randy Cox has published or represented songs which have appeared on over 80,000,000 recordings. Print products, including those songs have sold millions of choral collections,...

In May of 2018 I participated in a small forum with attendees  of Lexington Calvary Church of the Nazarene on Worship As Spiritual Formation. This was a fun show podcast to record because of all of the ages of people involved in the conversation. I hope you enjoy the discussion from Pastors, Theologians, laypeople, and even some toddlers who were present. It was a great time and I think you can he...

Matthew Cole is a Pastor, an adjunct theology professor at Asbury University, and a great friend. He is also one of th emost gifted preachers I have ever had the privilege of hearing. Today I wanted to feature a sermon from a service I did with Matthew at his church in Lexington Kentucky at Calvary Church of the Nazarene. We end the sermon with a live version of "The Invitation" being sung while c...

There are few spiritual masters who have touched my life in the way that the late Thomas Merton has. His book, "Life and Holiness" is one of the finest books on holiness that I have ever read. This is a short podcast today but I hope it will be a meaningful one that gives space to contempate as well as some prayerful guidance. If you have never read a book by Thomas Merton, maybe this will provide...

Episode #264: I'm Proud of You - Tim Madigan's Friendship with Mister Rogers My guest today on Voices In My Head is Tim Madigan . In a journalism career spanning more than three decades, Tim has written for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Reader's Digest, and for thirty years the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tim's books included the critically acclaimed The Burning: Massacre, Destruct...

This week Superman Turned 80 and we’re celebrating with a history of Superman's real life battles against Populism, Racism, and Religious Discrimination. This is a very special episode of Voices In My Head.   Below are the pictures referenced in this episode.    

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 262  Guest William Willimon: Who Lynched Willie Earle? Preaching to Confront Racism. My guest today on Voices in My Head is The Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon , Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at the Divinity School of Duke University. He served eight years as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church, where he led 157...

This week I take some time to talk about Mister Rogers, something I am involved with related to his life and work through the Twitter handle @MisterRogersSay , plus I get into a couple of other news items. By the way, my new album is funding on Indiegogo until April 27th. Pre-order the new album today at the link below and get two songs immediately. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rick-lee-jame...

My guest on this episode of Voices In My Head is Christa Wells. Christa is an award-winning American singer and songwriter who writes deep-reaching, alternative-pop music. In 2006, Christa was named GMA Songwriter of the Year for her song “Held,” recorded by Natalie Grant. She has released five albums as an indie artist (Rogers/Wells Project, Frame the Clouds, How Emptiness Sings, Feed Your Soul,...

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #259: In this episode I am back from the recording studio in New York, I share some exciting things that my friends at Crowd Music are doign to shake things up in the music business,  Andrew Peterson offers an apology for his beautiful music video, and I close the Podcast with a bit of a somber prayer for our violent nation.    

As I head into the recording studio on March 12th, I'm reflecting more on what making another album means at this point in my life. There's a passage in the book, "Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth: Spiritual Conversations Insipred byt the Life & Lyrics of Rich Mullins" that I find is speaking to me in a big way as I prepare to head to New York. As much as anything, this episode is a prayer request...

https://youtu.be/eZ04wQcbqIs We Now Have A New Funding Goal For The New Album and Two Easy New Ways To Contribute Our New Funding Goal Is $6000 Two Easy Ways Help Make The Album: 1.) By Text Message (Text ‘Thunder’ to 555888) 2.) Indiegogo Pre-Sales will start on March 12th, 2018   https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rick-lee-james-new-album-thunder/coming_soon#/ ----more----

An Islam Conversation with Samina and Sana Ahmed This week on Voices In My Head I am joined by Samina and Sana Ahmed, a mother and daughter who are part of the Muslim community here in Springfield Ohio. It was so great to sit down with them and ask them questions about their faith. They are truly generous people who are always willing to answer any questions that people might have about their fait...