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An Effective, Relational Approach to Engaging Those Who Question Christianity. "How to Talk to a Skeptic" by Donald J. Johnson. Marv Newell- Topic: Big Picture Missions Today: The Context and Challenges.
Charles Lee- You’ve Got the Passion… Now Make It Happen. Going from inspiration to execution is hard work. Many steps stand between a good idea and the hit product, profitable company, or social change you envision. Your initial “aha!” moment provides the key to begin this process, but it’s the way you make your dream happen that truly defines your success. Former NFL Chaplain Talks Football, Guts and Grace Just in Time For Kick-Off. Dr. Jim Grassi Shares Memorable Moments From Star Athletes.
The epic saga of mother vs. wife. "Related by Chance, Family by Choice" by Deb DeArmond sheds light on making women-in-law relationships flourish. Respected Christian Psychologist Helps Readers Find Relief From Emotional Pain. "Take Charge of Your Emotions" by Dr. Linda J. Solie.
SALLY BAUCKE is hilarious! Whether she’s performing for 500 or 5000, Sally has 'em reaching for their Depends while keeping it clean. Funny Gal Sal artfully combines observational comedy with a message of encouragement. If you love Bill Cosby or Brian Regan, you’re gonna love Sally Baucke… As in her popular biblical series, CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS, Austin brings the ancient Promised Land to life through her book "Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked."
CHICAGO, Ill. — Bruce D. Strom loves lawyers, and not just because he is one. Lawyers, he contends, have the opportunity and the honor of bringing God’s justice into the world. Now Strom is calling churches everywhere to join with attorneys in taking up the cause of justice in a new book called, Gospel Justice: Joining Together to Provide Help and Hope for Those Oppressed by Legal Injustice (Moody Publishers).
Cecil Murphey discusses a book he co-wrote, Not Quite Healed and The Beauty of Broken by Author Elisa Morgan.
Johnny Carr - "Orphan Justice" Dr. Gerald Peterman - "Joy and Tears"
Michael Matheson Miller - Poverty Cure Bishop W. C. Martin - "Small Town, Big Miracle"
Brooke Obie - "Quarter Life Crisis" Diane Elliot - "The Global Orphan Crisis"
Featuring Kristina Ellis, Author of "Confessions of a Scholarship Winner." & Nita Whitaker Lafontaine, "Finding my Voice"
Dr. Les Parrott, a licensed clinical psychologist, and Dr. Leslie Parrott, a marriage and family therapist, are #1 New York Times bestselling authors of dozens of popular books on love and relationships. Over the years, the husband-wife team has been featured on Oprah, CBS This Morning, CNN, and The View and in USA Today and the New York Times. They are frequent guest speakers and have written for a variety of magazines. Together, they have conducted thousands of mentoring sessions and travelled the world speaking about achieving healthy relationships. In 1991, the Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University – a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships. The Parrotts are passionate about helping others build healthy relationships by combining their professional experience, real-life knowledge, and research of new trends and fresh perspectives on marriage into practical advice and tactics for everyone to utilize. Their website, LesandLeslie.com, features more than 1,000 free video-on-demand pieces answering relationship questions. The Parrotts also host a daily radio show on Chicago’s Shine FM. Happily married for over 25 years, Les and Leslie live in Seattle, Washington with their two sons. Listen as Leslie shares about her newest book, The Good Fight: How Conflict Can Bring You Closer. Filled with practical advice that couples can implement quickly and easily, The Good Fight helps couples at any stage build a relationship where harmony outweighs tension and peace finds a home. The Good Fight companion app helps readers put the book’s strategies into practice. Designed to share only between spouses, the app creates the world’s smallest social network of two. It features two-dozen applets, including videos, self-tests, games and exercises, and comes free with the book.
Jen Hatmaker and her husband, Brandon, live in Austin, TX where they lead Austin New Church and raise their brood. They pioneered Restore Austin, connecting churches to local and global non-profits for the spiritual and social renewal of Austin and beyond. Jen speaks at events all around the country. She is the author of nine books and Bible studies, including Interrupted and 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess. Jen and Brandon have five children: Gavin – 14, Sydney – 12, and Caleb – 10, and they’ve recently added Ben – 9, and Remy – 7 from Ethiopia. Listen as Jen shares about “the 7 experiment”, a true story of how Jen (along with her husband and her children to varying degrees) took seven months, identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence. In the spirit of a fast, they pursued a deeply reduced life in order to find a greatly increased God. Craig Juntunen is the founder and president of the Both Ends Burning Campaign. A child welfare advocate and a passionate believer in international adoption, Juntunen is the author of Both Ends Burning: My Story of Adopting Three Children from Haiti and the Executive Producer of the acclaimed documentary STUCK. Juntunen leads the campaign’s effort to build a social movement to enact real and lasting change for the world’s orphaned and abandoned children. Listen as Craig shares about his latest project, the documentary STUCK. STUCK is a new award-winning documentary film, produced by Both Ends Burning that uncovers the personal, real-life stories of children and parents navigating a rollercoaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system, each filled with hope, elation – and sometimes heartbreak. STUCK steps into the complex human experience of adoption, exploring the challenges faced by birth parents, prospective adoptive parents – and children.
Youth-culture expert, Nicole O’Dell is the host of Choose NOW Radio: Parent Talk and Teen Talk and the founder of Choose NOW Ministries, dedicated to guiding teens through tough issues and helping parents encourage good decisions. On air, O’Dell covers peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, and anything else that comes up along the way. Nicole writes and speaks to preteens, teenagers, and parents about how to prepare for life’s tough choices. As an author, O’Dell writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her popular YA fiction includes the Diamond Estate Series and the Scenarios for Girls interactive books that feature alternate endings, allowing young girls to decide the outcome for the main character. Her nonfiction for teens includes Girl Talk, which she wrote with her two daughters based on their popular advice column. While her YA resources encourage and equip teens, Nicole also works to bridge the communication gap between teens and their parents. The Hot Buttons series helps parents discuss tough issues with their tweens and teens before the issues pop up in real life. Watch for future Hot Buttons books on subjects like bullying, image, prejudice, friendships, politics, and more. Nicole, resides in Paxton, IL, with her husband and six children—the youngest of whom are toddler triplets. Listen as Nicole talks “HOT BUTTONS” with Beth and Rob. Work-Love-Pray-cover Diane Paddison: Harvard MBA, chief strategy officer at Cassidy Turley, and two times the only female member of the executive team at a Fortune 500 company. She’s also a wife, mother and Christian. Author of Work, Love, Pray—a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work—Diane created 4word, a city-by-city and online community of career women. A frequent speaker at national events, Diane speaks to women who feel called to home and career, and to the corporations that need them. Listen as Diane shares about her book, Work, Love, Pray—a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work. About the book: The ratio of women in today’s workforce is rising, and old best practices no longer apply. Women launching careers will find wisdom for every life stage in Work, Love, Pray. Diane Paddison shares the ups and downs of her own corporate, personal, and spiritual life. 15 more leaders advise how to progress in your career without compromise. The foreword is authored by a successful executive, Charity Wallace, Senior Advisor to Mrs. Laura Bush and Director of the Bush Women’s Initiative. Application questions in every section guide self-assessment. Women are connecting in Work, Love, Pray book studies. Work, Love, Pray is becoming a must-read for husbands, pastors, and mentors.
Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as seven novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. Listen as she discusses her newest book, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son (2013.) Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former Netherlands New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his family in the Pacific Northwest. The Shack was published in 2008 and became an international phenomenon with more than eighteen million copies in print (ten million in the United States and more than 8 million in foreign translations). It spent 50 weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 41 languages. Married to Kim 33 years, father to 6, father-in-law to 3, grandfather to 6. Author, The Shack (2008), Cross Roads (2012), The Shack Reflections (Oct 2, 2012). Listen as Paul discusses his newest book Cross Roads.
“When Audio Adrenaline said goodbye in 2006 due to frontman Mark Stuart’s chronic vocal problems, fans thought they’d heard the last of the Grammy Award-winning Christian rockers. Now with the release of “Kings & Queens,” Audio Adrenaline is back with a revamped line up that features former dcTalk member Kevin Max on lead vocals, original bassist Will McGinniss and new members Jason Walker on keyboards, former Superchick guitarist Dave Ghazarian and drummer Jared Byers, previously with Bleach. Stuart remains involved in songwriting, production and overall brand management as the band embarks on a new chapter. Kings & Queens AudioA Audio Adrenaline kicked off a 30-city tour on March 1 in Morganton, NC. “There are a lot of young kids at these shows. By summertime we’ll playing big festivals and people would have had the record. We’ll really get an idea of what people think about this,” he says of the rebooted Audio Adrenaline.” – Audio Adrenaline Begin New Chapter With Pop-Tinged ‘Kings & Queens’ By Deborah Evans-Price, Nashville (March 13, 2013 6:00 PM EDT), Billboard.com. Listen as the guys share about their new album, Kings & Queens, and their passion for the orphan child with their work in Haiti with Hands & Feet Project. Mark SchultzListeners have come to expect inspiring and remarkable stories in songs from Mark Schultz, a 14-time Dove Award nominee and platinum-selling artist who touches hearts whether he sings about parents praying for a sick child (“He’s My Son”), or writes in honor of his great-grandmother’s sons who fought in World War II (“Letters From War”). And with his latest effort, All Things Possible, Schultz continues to tackle matters of the heart and spirit with uncommon craftsmanship–though the past five years have impacted this artist in ways he could’ve never predicted or expected. He’s lived in Europe, started the Remember Me Mission with his wife to help orphans (Schultz himself is adopted), and became a father in 2012 to a boy, Ryan Samuel Schultz. Produced by Seth Mosley (Newsboys) and Pete Kipley (MercyMe/Phil Wickham), All Things Possible has a joyous, infectious pop-rock feel that shows Schultz’ soulful tenor and tuneful melodies at their peak. Yet there’s added depth that comes as this compassionate storyteller dives deeper into using music as a vehicle for better things. Here, he quotes no less a source than theologian Frederick Buechner: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Listen as Gary discusses his newest book, The Sacred Search, (Zondervan, 2013). He challenges readers to think beyond finding a “soul mate” and to look for a “sole mate”—someone who will walk with them on their spiritual journey. Turning conventional dating wisdom upside-down, Thomas asks: What if there’s no such thing as “the one”—there’s something even better in God’s plan? What if being “in love” isn’t a good enough reason to get married? What if God designed marriage to make us holy rather than happy? The Sacred Search casts a vision for building a relationship around a shared spiritual mission—and making a marriage with eternity at its heart.
Featuring Manny Mill who is Executive Director of Koinonia House® National Ministries (KHNM). Since 1991 when the Koinonia House of Wheaton was opened, and 1997 when KHNM began, Manny has been developing a core of post-prison ministry leaders to equip the church to meet the needs of Christian ex-prisoners returning to society. He currently invests much of his time traveling to different churches, prisons, ministries, colleges and conferences to present the mission to “equip, assist and support” members of the local church in their ability to embrace Christians coming out of prison. Manny is also the co-author of Radical Redemption: The Real Story of Manny Mill.
Featuring Jonalyn Fincher and Bo Stern. Jonalyn Fincher co-founded Soulation, a non-profit dedicated to helping others become more appropriately human. She works with her husband, Dale, as a national speaking/writing team. They recently co-authored their first book together, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk. She writes regularly on her personal blog blending women and spirituality RubySlippers.org for the past five years. She co-authors a blog on women and friendship with a female psychologist ArtofFriendship.org. Her first book, Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home (Zondervan, ’07), explains the qualities of a woman’s soul. Bo Sterns make her home in Bend, OR, where she is a teaching pastor at Westside Church with a passion for making theology accessible, compelling and transformative. Both her position in the church and her personal battle have allowed Bo to minister to others as they are facing their own goliaths. She considers it to be a privilege to provide a listening ear and a should to cry on being a part of another’s Army so that they don’t have to fight their battle alone. Bo and her husband, Steve, also serve on the international board of Kings Kids Village, a home for AIDS affected orphans in Nairobi, Kenya. They are also active in ALS advocacy a disease Steve has been fighting since 2011. Bo is the author of the book, Beautiful Battlefields.
Featuring Jean Johnson and Eric Thurman. Jean Johnson is the author of We Are Not the Hero: A Missionary’s Guide to Sharing Christ, Not a Culture of Dependency. Eric Thurman is President of the Global Mission Unit at David C Cook. Listen as they share their experiences in the mission world and how to create a dependency on Jesus instead of the “American Culture.”
Featuring Jedd Medefind. Jedd serves as President of the Christian Alliance for Orphans. He has written numerous articles and three books. He co-authored Four Souls, which explores questions of faith, purpose, poverty, and community amidst a real-life journey around the globe. His most recent book, Upended: How Following Jesus Remakes Your Words and World, examines what it means to live as an apprentice to Jesus in the way we connect, influence and love.
Featuring Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the author of the national bestseller The Harbinger: the Ancient Mystery that holds the secret of America’s future. Jonathan leads the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, NJ, and is president of Hope of the World, an international outreach. His teachings are heard around the world and are known for revealing the deep mysteries of biblical truth.
Featuring David Ireland, founder and senior pastor of Christ Church in Montclair, N.J., a 6,000-member congregation of 40 nationalities. Dr. David Ireland is a recognized expert on how individuals can break through racial and cultural barriers to develop meaningful, enjoyable relationships. An in-demand speaker, Ireland is the author of the important new book from NavPress The Skin You Live In—Building Friendships Across Cultural Lines.
Peter and his wife Barbie work with Destiny Rescue, an Australian-based anti-trafficking organization that actively seeks out children who are sexually enslaved throughout Africa and Asia, rescuing them from their exploiters, and rehabilitating them. Peter and Barbie have started a branch of Destiny Rescue in the United States, speaking on behalf of the girls enslaved overseas, bringing the goods created by survivors to the U.S. market. Destiny Rescue currently operates various programs in six nations: Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), India and Mozambique. They also have offices in the United States and Australia.
Beth talks about her new book, "Tales of the Defended Ones," and callers call into to share about their mission experiences.
Featuring Brian Fikkert, co-author of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself. Dr. Brian Fikkert is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development (www.chalmers.org), a research and training center that is dedicated to helping churches and missionaries to declare the kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor (www.chalmers.org). Brian also serves as a Professor of Economics and Community Development at Covenant College. - See more at: http://www.bethguckenberger.com/?page_id=301#sthash.eEuf7d8C.dpuf
Featuring Hal Runkel, a world-renowned expert on helping families face conflict and create great relationships. A licensed therapist, relationship coach, international speaker, and organizational consultant, Hal is the bestselling author of ScreamFree Parenting, and the newly released Self-Centered Marriage. www.screamfree.com
Listen to hear about 3 people sponsoring children in 3 different locations with Back2Back and how their lives have been impacted!
Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative where he helps creatives and teams be prolific, brilliant and healthy. He regularly speaks at companies and conferences about how to build practices that lead to better ideas.
Featuring Josh McDowell, sharing about the movie, Undaunted. Undaunted is the dramatic true story of how Josh overcame such adversity to become one of the most influential evangelists today. Its a journey that brought him face to face with God’s love and transforming power.
Featuring Kyle Philippi with Far Flung Tin Can and Heidi Burkey with Discover the Journey.
Featuring Phil Cooke. Phil Cooke is changing the way business, church, and non-profit leaders influence and engage the culture. A writer, speaker, & filmmaker, Christianity Today magazine calls him a “media guru.” His media company, Cooke Pictures, advises many of the largest and most effective churches & non-profit organizations in the world, and his books and online blog at philcooke.com are changing the way they tell their story. His newest book “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do” is set to release in July of 2012 from Thomas Nelson Publishers.
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