Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)
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Wednesday May 13, 2020
Clay Finnesand and North Point Worship - Episode 369
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Clay Finnesand and North Point Worship - Episode 369
North Point Worship members traversed the nation this past fall on The Faith Tour with Jordan Feliz.
Pictured (l-r) are Alex Thompson, Clay Finnesand, Jordan Feliz, Heath Balltzglier and Brandon Coker.
North Point Worship’s first recording, No One Higher, released in 2012 and hit the Top 20 on Billboard’s Christian Albums chart. The album was followed by 2015’s Hear that soared to No. 2 on the chart while further hitting the Billboard Top 200 for the first time. Signing with Centricity Music in 2017, the group released the EP Nothing Ordinary, which featured its song “Death Was Arrested” that is being heard across the globe and has been re-recorded by artists like Aaron Shust and Laura Story. Five more EPs have released to critical acclaim, including Nothing Ordinary, Pt. 1 (Live)and Pt. 2 (Live), the Christmas offering Ring The Bells (2018), North Point InsideOut (2018) and Abundantly More (2019).
Clay Finnesand from North Point Worship has stopped by for a visit today to catch us up on some of the exciting new things that are happening with North Point Worship, even in these strange times of social isolation that we are living in.
North Point Worship Music Link: https://amzn.to/2W6CIgh
For all the latest North Point Worship tour, music, song tutorials and more news, visit http://northpointmusic.org/, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music.
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
PHIL KEAGGY & INSTRUMENTS OF JOY founder JOSHUA MACLEOD - Episode 358
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
PHIL KEAGGY and INSTRUMENTS OF JOY founder JOSHUA MACLEOD - Episode 358
There are thousands of aspiring musicians in the developing world who lack the necessary resources to purchase quality musical instruments. People living in impoverished communities need the joy and inspiration that music provides. Instruments of Joy, a Christian-based 501c3 nonprofit organization collects instruments in Nashville and gets them to needy communities in the developing world.
JOSHUA MACLEOD, who has worked on relief and development projects in more than 18 countries worldwide founded Instruments of Joy in 2013.
Phil KEaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. He is a seven-time recipient of the GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was twice nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-three "finger-style", as well as "finger-picking", guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls.
On March 6th, 2020 PHIL KEAGGY will be headlining a benefit for Instrumentsof Joy alongside renown artists Audrey Assad, Buddy Greene, Jeff Taylor
JOSHUA and PHIL both stopped by the podcast to tell us more about this great ministry.
Phil Keaggy’s Web Site: http://www.philkeaggy.com/
Music heard on today's show is from this album! Buy It Now
Instruments of Joy Web Site: https://instrumentsofjoy.org/
Purchase Tickets for the Instruments of Joy Benefit Concert: https://instrumentsofjoy.org/events/
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Ryan Clair - Among The Pines - Episode 354
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Episode 354: Ryan Clair - Among The Pines
Born and raised in a small mountain community in southern California, Ryan Clair was the first born child to a young mom who did all she could to raise a kid amidst trials, heartache and broken relationships. Though she didn't play, music was something Ryan's mother shared with him at an early age. Music has a way to help escape reality and bring a sense of joy and peace in the moments of pain and uncertainty.
In his early teens, Ryan Clair picked up his guitar and spent much of his life playing in bands, finding out who he was as a musician.
A few years later, a now married Ryan Clair, a father of 5, has reached a place where he feels at home in his life and his music.
Ryan writes songs that tell his story, a journey of faith as a follower of Jesus Christ.
In 2018 Ryan Clair's 'Less Traveled Road' LP introduced us to his impressive, gritty, southern rock chops with an absolute barn burner of a record. The year 2019 found Ryan adjusting course in more ways than one: he made the westward move to the scenic Pacific Northwest where, inspired by his new surroundings, he penned a starkly minimal sophomore album.
This brings us to the present:
His newest album,
Among the Pines, released on January 24th, 2020.
'Among the Pines' is a musical journey of the soul with Clair positioned as the narrator on a solo trek through the mountains. Intentionally never reaching the sheer rock bigness his previous album had, he instead steers into an alt-country simplicity that flows from song to song.
Ryan Clair is here to for visit with us today!
Ryan Clair's Web Site: http://www.ryanclairmusic.com/
Get Among The Pines on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2tYzksp
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Episode 349: Jaci Velasquez When God Rescripts Your Life: Seeing Value, Beauty, and Purpose When Life Is Interrupted.
From her debut at age 16, Jaci Velasquez experienced a amazing, roller coaster career. She had number one hit songs, platinum albums, Grammy nominations, but almost as quickly as she rose to fame, she lost it all… her record label, her reputation and even her marriage. In her new book, “When God Rescripts Your Life” Jaci shares her journey of ups and downs with grace, humor, and trust that the story God is writing is much richer than any story we could have dreamed of ourselves.
Buy Jaci's Book (They make great gifts!)
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Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Episode 348: Chris Marchand and Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Episode 348: Chris Marchand and Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas
Buy The Book: https://amzn.to/2QySAG1
The song “The 12 Days of Christmas” is a mainstay of the holiday season, but the practice of celebrating Christmas as a twelve-day festival fell out of fashion long ago in most cultures. In Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, author Chris Marchand explores the history behind the season and individual feast days from December 25 to January 6, and then offers suggestions for how you can celebrate it with your family, church, or community. Marchand is an author, a church music leader, a teacher and a Pastor in the Anglican Church of North America and he’s here to discuss his new book with me today.
Chris Marchand’s Blog: http://www.postconsumerreports.com/
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Wednesday Dec 04, 2019
Episode 347: Stephen McNeill Centerpiece Volume II: Shelter and Shade
Wednesday Dec 04, 2019
Wednesday Dec 04, 2019
Episode 347: Stephen McNeill Centerpiece Volume II: Shelter and Shade
Stephen McNeill is a songwriter and music teacher who lives just outside of Memphis Tennessee.
In 2017, Stephen released his first collection of congregational songs called Centerpiece: Songs of Gospel Community. The songs on Centerpiece were born of Stephen’s experience serving as an elder in his church and walking with his community through the complexities of wrestling with Scripture and believing the Gospel in every area of life. Because of the album’s underlying theme of community, Stephen enlisted the help of a number of friends and worship leaders to bring the songs to life.
On November 29th, Stephen released Centerpiece Volume II: Shelter and Shade, the second in what he hopes to be a continuing series of congregational albums.
Stephen is here to talk about this new album and more.
Stephen McNeill's Web Site: https://stephenmcneillmusic.blogspot.com/
Buy The Album: Centerpiece Vol. 2 Shelter and Shade
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Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Episode 346: Shea Tuttle Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Episode 346: Shea Tuttle Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn’t simply sentimental: it came directly from his Christian faith. God, he insisted, loves us just the way we are.
In the book, Exactly as You Are, Shea Tuttle looks at Fred Rogers’s life, the people and places that made him who he was, and his work through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. She pays particular attention to his faith—because Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person, ordained by his church with a one-of-a-kind charge: to minister to children and families through television.
Tuttle explores this kind, influential, and sometimes surprising man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be.
Shea Tuttle's Web Site: https://www.sheatuttle.com/
Shea Tuttle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SheaTuttle
Buy The Book: https://amzn.to/34OHalb
About the Author:
Shea Tuttle is the author of Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers and co-editor of Can I Get a Witness? Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice. Her essays have appeared at Greater Good Magazine, The Toast, The Other Journal, Role Reboot and Jenny. She holds an M.Div. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.
Shea lives in Virginia with her family.
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 337: Around The Mic 2 with Brothers McClurg
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 337: Around The Mic 2 with Brothers McClurg
Old Bear Records beloved band, Brothers McClurg has made a career on stripping things down to the
raw and the simple. From the musical approach of the album, to the direct way that they share
matters of faith and God in their lyrics,
"Around the Mic Two"achieves taking the complicated matters of our lives and comforts us, the listener, through songs; songs that are adorned with the theme of God's unfailing love and His promise to always be with us.
Over the last few years, Brothers
McClurg has drawn inspiration to write the songs featured on "Around the Mic Two" and have fully
embraced their live, stripped down sound laden with some of the most beautiful harmonies and
dynamic solo guitar work in Modern Folk and Gospel Music. Each of the songs featured on "Around
the Mic Two" were performed live and tuned up during their 2018 tours, which includes a cover song by
their grandfather, Pappy McClurg and the original McClurg Family Singers that became a fan favorite
on the road.
NEW ALBUM,
AROUND THE MIC TWO,
AVAILABLE ON
September 20, 2019
BROTHERS MCCLURG
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Brothers McClurg Web Site - http://brothersmcclurg.com
Brothers McClurg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brothersmcclurg/
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Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 333: Sing 2019 Special with Fernando Ortega, Sandra McCracken, and Many, Many More...
Sing! Is A Conference for Pastors, Leaders and Musicians on Encouraging and Reforming Congregational Worship
These conversations were recorded live at the 2019 conference with these amazing guests:
Fernando Ortega
Sandra McCracken
Matt Papa
David Zimmer
Fred Heumann
Joshua Macleod and Instruments of Joy
Stephen J Nichols
Weston Skaggs
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 332: Jennifer M. Greenberg - Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse: How Faith Brought One Woman From Victim to Survivor
—“Isn’t it tragic that in a world so beautiful and diverse, a defining feature we all have in common is pain?”
Jennifer M. Greenberg knows pain all too well, having suffered psychological, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of her church-going father. At the age of 15, as she contemplated suicide with a razor to her arm, she heard the voice of God say to her, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” From that moment on, she knew she had a father in heaven who loved her. She knew she had a purpose in life on this earth.
In her new book, Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse: How Faith Brought One Woman From Victim to Survivor (The Good Book Company, Aug. 20, 2019), Greenberg shares how her faith brought her through the darkest of situations, time and time again, and how faith can enable survivors of all walks to navigate issues of guilt, forgiveness, love, and value. She also encourages church leaders to take the necessary measures to protect the vulnerable amongst them.
About Jennifer M.Greenberg
Jennifer Greenberg is a Christian, Texan, and stay-at-home mom of three who listens to heavy metal and likes black licorice. Also a singer, Jennifer’s music has been covered my numerous outlets such as Christianity Today, Houston Chronicle, and featured on NPR, FOX 26, and Great Day Houston.
Even through the darkest seasons of her life, God has been faithful and kept her hope alive. Her tenacious will to thrive, empathic ability to discern emotion in others, and skill at articulating complex feelings contribute to her hallmark voice as an author. Her new book, Not Forsaken, is a natural continuation of Jennifer’s prolific creativity and advocacy. Jennifer is passionate about praying with and supporting others who have faced similar situations. Connect with her online at JenniferGreenberg.net.
Jennifer M. Greeberg’s Web Site: https://jennifergreenberg.net/
Buy The Book Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse: How Faith Brought One Woman From Victim to Survivor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1784984388/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1784984388&linkCode=as2&tag=rickleejame00-20&linkId=e55a5ee22fd79e3e96a285566220d6d3
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