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Share your holiday memories
Want to be a part of our annual Advent Christmas Spectacular? We’re looking for your Christmas wishes, thoughts, memories, reflections and more. Share them with us and we’ll include them in our upcoming Advent Christmas Spectacular. To share your thoughts, you can: call our listener line (972-535-8980) leave us a voice message on skype (jdblundell) [...]
Ask the listener…
What’s your favorite blend of coffee? Where do you buy it? BTW – you can buy some great Fair Trade coffee and help support our friends raising money to adopt a child from Ethiopia by shopping at JustLove.
WIN: Charlie Hall CD Collection
In celebration of Charlie Hall’s latest album release — The Rising — Jonathan and Sparrow Records are giving away a collection of Charlie Hall CDs over on his blog. The Grand Prize Winner will receive CD copies of Charlie Hall‘s CDs: The Rising The Bright Sadness Flying Into Daybreak On The Road To Beautiful They’ll [...]
7 podcasts you may have missed
If you’re new to the podcast, or even if you’ve been a long-time listener, there may be some podcasts out there that you’ve missed. I thought I’d put together a list of some of them, inspired by Darren Rowse’s 7 Links challenge (with a few adaptations for our site). Perhaps I can get Thomas and [...]
Sara Miles – The Work of Ordinary Saints
Another beautiful story from Spencer Burke and TheOozeTv: The ability to act as Jesus acts is not something that belongs exclusively to ordained clergy or ‘holy” people, but is something we all have by the simple virtue of being human and having God’s life breathed into us. These are the hopeful words of author Sara [...]
Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes & 140 Characters
Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters. by Kevin D Hendricks A work-at-home dad turns to Twitter to share updates about kids, causes and life. It’s a curated selection of bizarre quotes, funny stories and temper tantrums. Woven between potty-training woes and breakfast time songs is a family growing through adoption and learning how to [...]
A New Kind of Christianity with Brian McLaren
Posted originally on Jonathan’s blog… Brian McLaren’s new book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, drops tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 9). I received a free advance copy from the publisher late last week and have been devouring it every chance I get (which with two toddlers at home hasn’t been [...]
A new kind of Christianity
Brian McLaren has a new book coming out shortly and Spencer Burke’s already talking to him about it… In the book, A New Kind of Christianity, Brian lays out 10 questions people seem to be wrestling with universally. The questions include: The Narrative Question: What Is the Overarching Storyline of the Bible? The Authority Question: [...]
Your top podcasts of 2009 (and a contest too!)
the stats are in. they’ve been tallied and counted. and as of dec. 2009 – we’ve now passed over 10,000 downloads for the something beautiful podcast! thanks to you our listeners! so we thought we’d share your picks for the top 5 podcasts of 2009. these are the ones that you, the listener have chosen [...]
St. Peter’s Brewery now available on Amazon
Jonathan’s novel is now available on Amazon. Both in print and for the Kindle. For those of you who haven’t ordered your copy of the book yet (or want to order 5 copies for your mother), we’ve got a little pointer on how to get free shipping with Amazon.
What’s your Christmas wish?
If you had 3 Christmas wishes this year – what would they be? Share them in the comments below, or call our listener line to share them on our upcoming Advent/Christmas episodes. And if you need some help getting into the holiday spirit, enjoy these holiday episodes from last year: Greg Holder talks about Advent [...]
