“The gospel is the anti-success message” – Dr. Joseph “Skip” Ryan. On our podcast we often get to hear stories of people who have had a lot of success in their work. While Dr. Ryan has had many successes in his work as a pastor and professor, he has also experienced some significant setbacks. Skip’s career was majorly detoured when he became addicted to narcotics, but in his failure he discovered a renewed love for the grace of God. If you find yourself struggling with perfectionism, shame, or the burdens of leadership in your work, this will be well worth a listen.
Irwyn Ince is the coordinator of the PCA’s Mission to North America (MNA) which offers practical training for churches on how to lead their congregations toward an intentionally multi-racial and multi-ethnic future.
Jessica Patterson Long is a foreign service officer in the US State Department who works to mitigate the effects of the fall in her work — combating food scarcity, terrorism, and harmful leadership.
John Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling illustrator and author of many children’s books, including Shooting at the Stars, Drawing is Magic, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, the Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler.
Music has the ability to comfort, to inspire, to bring us to a place of worship. Sandra McCracken has been making music that does all of that for several decades. Sandra has had a successful solo career and has been a member of several influential and well-known groups. Perhaps best known for her recent work crafting songs from the Psalms intended for congregational singing, Sandra and Dan discuss the nature of song craft in this episode. How does inspiration strike – or does it? And why the Psalms are such fertile ground to compose modern hymns.
“Books are like windows,” shares this week’s guest Nancy Gruneisen, “you can see another time, another world, another culture. But they can also be mirrors. Children want to see themselves in the books they are reading.”
Shelly Milligan is the Managing Director of the Carver Institute, an organization geared towards empowering Christian faculty and students (particularly at secular universities) to serve and connect university, church, and society.
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