Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)

Voices In My Head Podcast #228 - Lance Allen, Guitar Master

Lance Allen is an award winning fingerstyle guitarist, composer, and teacher. Native of Kentucky, Lance learned the ropes of playing guitar. Many of his early influences were Metallica, Nirvana, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zeppelin, and Dave Matthews.
Lance began teaching guitar in high school, and then continuing with some private students in college as well.
Not long after graduating Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in recording music and small business, Lance took on a full time job at a local music store where he got a full schedule of students. There he also managed the small business and also started a successful eBay store.
In 2008, Lance was inducted in the Thumbpickers Hall of Fame, located in Powderly KY. His induction was considered for his continuing the art of thumb style guitar by performing and teaching. Not long after his induction, Lance competed in his first international guitar contest in Winfield, KS where he place a very difficult 4th place.
Companies such Takamine Guitars, Bose, and Gretsch guitars, have used Lance to endorse there products and promote them.
Lance is also a contributing music writer to TN Crossroads, a famous PBS program.
Continuing to teach in his office and using Skype, Lance offers a unique personality and a friendly business atmosphere where people can learn the guitar, bass, ukulele, and mandolin.

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #227 - The Big Announcement One - One Day Early

 
 
To my listeners who have so faithfully been with me through thick and thin, this is a special podcast just for you. There is a big announcement being made in CCM Magazine on Friday September 15th, but as promised I am sharing the news with my podcast listeners one day early. This ended up being a much more emotional episode of the show that I expected. I'm not going to spoil this short 20 minute episode for you but I will tell you it was a wonderful way for me to express the depth of emotion that I am feeling. Make sure and read the full story starting Friday, March 15th on CCMMagazine.com.

Voices In My Head Episode #226: Rick Incorvati

Our guest this week on Voices In My Head is Rick Incorvati, a Deacon at Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield Ohio, a professor at Wittenberg University, and the director of Equality Springfield.
Rick shares some of the story of his life; coming to terms with being gay, walking away from the church for a time, his journey back to the church through a renewed relationship with God, and his call into ministry.
 
 
 

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #225: Hurricanes, DACA, and Matthew 25

In light of so many things happening in our world, not the least of these being record breaking hurricanes, Rick Lee James takes a few moments to consider DACA in light of Matthew 25. Who are the strangers mentioned by Jesus in this well known parable?
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Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #224: Brian Zahnd - Sinners In The Hands of a Loving God

Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars, Beauty Will Save the World, and Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness.
In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

Voices In My Head Podcast #223: Walter Brueggemann and Rick Lee James Discuss Imprecatory Psalms as Faithful Prayer, Trump, and More Related image

Voices In My Head Podcast #223: Walter Brueggemann and Rick Lee James Discuss Imprecatory Psalms as Faithful Prayer, Trump, and More

Voices In My Head Podcast #222: Refugees, Racism, and Simple Worship

Voices In My Head Podcast #222: Refugees, Racism, and Simple Worship.
Rick takes on theee topics in less than an hour, or your money back.
 
 

Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #221: Your Black Friend Ben Passmore

Ben Passmore is our guest on this episode of Voices In My Head. Ben is the creator of a groundbreaking 12 page comic called "Your Black Friend", an open letter from your black friend to you about race, racism, freindship, and alientation.
 
You can buy 'Your Black Friend' at at https://www.amazon.com/Your-Black-Friend-Ben-Passmore/dp/1945509031

Voices in My Head Podcast Episode #220: "Fire and Fury" or "Grace and Mercy"?

In the age of nuclear weapons, are Christians to respond, with "fire and fury" or "grace and mercy"?
Topics on this episode:
President Trump's Response To North Korea's threats.
North Korea's Repsonse back to him.
Pastor Robert Jeffress response to it all.
Bible interpretations.
Who are the church Fathers?
What do the Church Fathers have to say to us on the matter?
The Fire and Fury of the Empire or the Grace and Mercy of Jesus?

Episode #219 Voices In My Head & This Nazarene Life Crossover Podcast

This week is a special crossover episode with Brit Bolerjack of the Young Clergy Network, host This Nazarene Life Podcast.
We had a great conversation as we shared our stories and listen in for what God is doing in our lives and ministries. Check out her wonderful show, This Nazarene Life to hear more conversations like this one.