Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Episode 464 - Oletha Barnett - Diversity of a Different Kind
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Episode 464
Oletha Barnett, author of Diversity of a Different Kind
Oletha Barnett is a theologian, a lawyer, and a conflict resolution specialist who has directed the conflict resolution ministry at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, TX for decades. She was commissioned by the Elder Board for conflict resolution work. She is also an adjunct professor at Southern Bible Institute & College, and founder of Conciliation Services LLC, which provides services to churches, other organizations, and individuals
She serves on the Board of Peacemaker Ministries, is a Certified Christian ConciliatorTM, Certified Management Specialist, Certified in Christian Prevention Relationship Enhancement, and Certified Human Behavior Consultant. She holds a BS in Mathematics, Juris Doctor, and Master of Arts in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary.
In her new book Diversity of a Different Kind, Oletha Barnett offers a unique viewpoint to resolve conflict, heal wounds, restore relationships, address and correct sin, and unify the churchIn a world rife with the issues of division of every kind.
Conciliation Services Web Site: https://conciliationservices.com/
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Episode 461 - Musical Guest: Avila - She’s Too Good
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Episode 461
Guest Artist: Avila
New Single: She's Too Good
Get ready to rock!
My guest this week has a great new, straight up Rock-n-roll single called “She’s Too Good” and we go behind the music to get the inside story on this amazing new artist.
Avila’s Links all in one place: https://instabio.cc/4031812m2XoH0
Ukraine Relief
Below are some trusted organizations that you can partner with to meet needs of refugees from Ukraine and around the world.
Fred Heumann's Article in Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/february-web-only/ukrainian-christians-church-worship-songs-war-and-peace.html
Serve Ukraine Web Link: https://actintl.givingfuel.com/serveukraine
Nazarene Compassion FB: https://www.facebook.com/nazcompassion
Caritas does great work in Crisis: https://www.caritas.org/2022/02/carit...
Mercy Corps is fantastic: https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/human...
A local Ukrainian non profit that has been serving traumatized children for years: https://voices.org.ua/en/
Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus
Tell your Senators you support meaningful bipartisan immigration reform
Urge President Biden Not to Leave Behind Persecuted Afghans
Project Alpha
Afghan Advocacy Resources
Protecting Ukrainian Refugees
https://alinoorani.org/
Rick Lee James Official Web Site
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Shine A Light In The Darkness - The Latest Single From Rick Lee James
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Music Video:
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Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Episode 460 - Spencer LaJoye - Plowshare Prayer
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast) Episode 460 - Spencer LaJoye - Plowshare Prayer
Spencer LaJoye is a folk/pop singer songwriter, violinist, and vocal loop artist in Boston, MA, who believes everyone is made of the good stuff. They make music to remember what it means to be human, to find connection in a time of disconnection, and to feel something in a world gone numb. Spencer’s first EP “We’ve Been That Way Before” won the WYCE Jammie Award for Listener’s Choice in Grand Rapids, MI, and most recently, Spencer was chosen as a winner of the 2021 Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition. Last fall, Spencer released their new four-track EP, "Remember The Oxygen," written before, during, and following their coming out as trans/gender non-binary. Their newest single, "Plowshare Prayer," went viral among hurting and healing people around the world before the studio recording was released on February 18th. It poses an answer to the question: what would a prayer sound like if used as a plowshare instead of a sword?
Spencer LaJoye’s LINKS
Web Site: https://www.spencerlajoye.com/
Music Streaming: https://ffm.to/plowshareprayer
Video by Daley Hake. Filmed at Crosspointe
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Musical Advent Calendar 2021 - Subscribe Today!
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
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Every day from December 1-24th paid subscribers will receive an Advent/Christmas themed song recorded by Rick Lee James directly in their inbox. It will be your own personal RLJ Musical Advent Calendar Playlist with recordings only available to subscribers.
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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast) Episode 444: Becca Jordan
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast) Episode 444: Becca Jordan
My guest this week on Voices in my Head is singer and songwriter, Becca Jordan. Her new album, Becoming Ordinary, Debuted last month to great acclaim and she’s here to speak with me about it this week.
—Rick Lee James
Becca Jordan In Her Own Words:
I'm a wandering songbird. I earned my B.A. in Communications from University in Alabama-Huntsville. It was during college doing all that writing that I started dabbling in songwriting. I recorded my first EP, Love Shows Up, in 2012 with Robbie Seay producing.
I moved to Nashville in 2015, worked at a non-profit, started singing in church and absorbing the creative community through concerts and coffee dates with fellow creatives. I traveled to L’Abri in England in the fall of 2016, where I soaked up the reality that the Lord is Lord over all things, stuff like cooking and washing dishes, not just mysterious creative processes like songwriting. I came back to Nashville to plant some roots and started working with the elderly. (Not on purpose, really, but because God has a sense of humor. I needed to learn some things I could only learn with them.) So I spent four years learning and observing the goodness of God in what felt like a quiet corner with folks that taught me what it meant to place my whole life before God as an offering. This is what my record, Becoming Ordinary, is about— leaving behind all the illusions of what I thought my life would be, and picking up what it is— mundane, sometimes deeply lonely, sometimes fraught with joy, and mostly just very ordinary— and giving it to God.
Becca Jordan on Spotify:
Becca Jordan’s Web Site:
https://www.beccajordanmusic.com/
A message from the road…literally.
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Shine A Light In The Darkness - The Latest Single From Rick Lee James
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Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/UMS9hqEbBKk
RICK LEE JAMES – ADVENT HYMN (WATCHING, WAITING, LONGING)
Label: Lifeway Worship Total Time:00:04:11
From the Album: Advent Hymn (Watching, Waiting, Longing)
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PLAY MPE : https://player.plaympe.com/releases/releaseinfo/200164318
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Episode 433 - JENNY & TYLER - PART OF ME
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Jenny & Tyler - Part of Me
Jenny & Tyler have toured with such artists as Sara Groves and Brandon Heath; have been spotlighted on Andrew Peterson’s popular “Behold The Lamb Of God” Christmas Tour; and their songs “As Long As Our Hearts Are Beating” and “This Is Just So Beautiful” were featured on the hit television series “Pretty Little Liars.” The couple has released multiple critically-lauded studio recordings, including 2010’s groundbreaking Faint Not; Open Your Doors (2012); Of This I’m Sure (2015); and There Will Be A Song (2018), along with four EPs and a Christmas album. Their latest single and music video, “Part of Me,” written by Jenny, inspired by watching their two oldest daughters, Jane and Sara, process the events and challenges of the past year of the pandemic. Jenny and Tyler have stopped by the Podcast for a visit today to tell us more and I’m so grateful they have. Jenny and Tyler, welcome to Voices In My Head.
Read More on Turning Point Media's Web Site:
http://www.turningpointpr.com/news/jenny-tyler-pay-homage-to-family-with-endearing-part-of-me/
Part of Me Official Music Video:
https://youtu.be/UqTn98amHHI
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Episode 429 - Weston Skaggs: Rich Man
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Old Bear Records Recording Artist Weston Skaggs
With lyrics like "Woe to you rich man.." and "be sure your sin will find you out," Weston Skaggs wastes no time in diving deep into themes that are taken directly from the Bible on his new single, "Rich Man" set to release through Old Bear Records on July 16th. Much like Keith Green, or Larry Norman before him, Weston Skaggs's style of a mix of baritone and falsetto voice undergirded and wrapped with music and arrangements that could have been written and arranged by Brian Wilson or the Flaming Lips attracts a listening ear to the interesting instrumentation at play that softens the very direct and powerful truths conveyed in his lyrics.
By the time you realize you are being challenged with a song that could double as a sermon, its too late. You're already invested by the sweeping sounds, and pleasant melodies coming through your speakers or air pods. In a way, "Rich Man" is an audio trojan horse of sorts and we're here for it. This is a song that is clear in its presentation of the Gospel and its primary transgressor in need of grace (you'll find as you reach the end of the song) is the performer himself.
Weston Skaggs joins me today for a conversation about his latest single, RICH MAN.
Get the Single Here: https://sc.lnk.to/WSrm-s?fbclid=IwAR3FN5y8pJ4PK_wheqqKhq_hUl6MtMaQczDVfW6zBlFeAlg8tvcmDja05Mc
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Episode 428: You Are My Salvation
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
You Are My Salvation
Find out More at: https://rickleejames.hearnow.com/you-are-my-salvation
Thank you for listening to Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Episode 425: Sherry Cothran's New Book and Soundtrack - Wild and Holy
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Sherry Cothran
Rev. Sherry Cothran, M.Div., has served as senior pastor in United Methodist congregations in Nashville and Chattanooga, TN, for a decade. Formerly a recording artist on Mercury Records, she is an award-winning singer/songwriter and author of two books. Sherry has released four solo CD’s, her music has been featured in t.v. and film. She’s shared stages with hit rock acts such as Goo Goo Dolls, Bare Naked Ladies, Spin Doctors and K’s Choice and toured around the world as the lead singer of a popular rock band, The Evinrudes, before entering seminary and becoming an ordained, United Methodist minister. As a pastor of a multi-cultural, urban church, Sherry began to share stories on her blog, “Peddling Hope in Dystopia” of everyday sacred encounters with those who were labeled “refugee,” “immigrant” and “homeless.” She later shared them in a book that became beloved by readers, Tending Angels: Stories From the Frontlines of Heaven and Earth. Her writing was featured in publications such as Abingdon Women, Interpreter Magazine and Ministry Matters. She was also a regular contributor to the homiletics journal, Good Preacher. She was the artist in residence in 2015 at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and received two grants to develop her creative writing from the Louisville Institute for Pastoral Study. Her story has been featured in various publications including USA Today. Recently, she became the founder and president of the nonprofit, Beloved Woman, a ministry that helps women who are financially disadvantaged to become self-employed or find a pathway to a living wage. She tours regularly, performing, speaking and leading workshops.
In her new book, Wild and Holy Prophets, Warriors, Harlots & Healers: Women of the Bible, Sherry takes us out into the Bible’s uncharted regions, beyond those selected scriptures that have often been used to tame the feminine spirit, to meet the wild and holy women of the Bible. Blending the brightest in biblical scholarship with her vast experiences, Rev. Sherry Cothran leads us into healing encounters with the Bible’s lost stories of women who were warriors, prophets, harlots, and healers. The book and 10 original songs call us to live free, faithful, and fearless lives. In the pages and songs of Wild and Holy you’ll find new narratives from old stories and awaken to the image of a loving God within.
Links:
Wild and Holy Prophets, Warriors, Harlots & Healers: Women of the Bible
Book
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, and other major online bookstores.
Book Website: www.wildandholy.org
Sherry Cothran’s Music
Music available on all streaming platforms, iTunes, iheartradio, Pandora, Napster,Spotify or listen free at www.sherrycothran.com
Web Site: http://thescifichristian.com/
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Episode 424 - The SCi-Fi Christian 10th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono join Rick Lee James for A 10th Anniversary Celebration of the SCi-Fi Christian Podcast
I am so glad to welcome my friends Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono back on the show to celebrate 10 years of their amazing podcast community, The Sci-Fi Christian, which has been a huge help and inspiration to me over the years.
--Rick Lee James
The Sci-Fi Christian, in all its iterations, is about the collision between faith and nerdom. We believe that good genre fiction is about more than just entertainment. We seek to engage with the themes and philosophies behind our favorite stories, wrestling with the big ideas within speculative fiction. We’re unabashedly nerdy and unabashedly Christian. Even if your faith background differs from ours, we look forward to interacting with you at The Sci-Fi Christian!
Links:
Web Site: http://thescifichristian.com/