The Catch with John Fischer

As the Associate Pastor of Recovery, Jens is the Staff Pastor for the Bridge, Capistrano Beach Church's faith based 12-step program. As a Certified Addiction Counselor (CATC II) and Mental Health Worker, Jens is in the Care Dept. providing counseling, recovery, and encouragement as a counseling pastor dealing with the shortfalls of life.

Brett Schrock has work experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. His journey has taken him from the board room of a Fortune 60 Organization to being a staff pastor of Saddleback Church as a Director of the Purpose Driven Life Campaign. Some of Brett’s most significant life experiences were the years he served as a small group leader at Celebrate Recovery at Saddleback Church.

Chuck Smith, Jr. is a pastor and author. For 32 years he served as pastor of Capistrano Beach Church in California. He has authored a number of books, among them, There Is A Season: Authentic, Innovative Ministry in Popular Culture, and A Memoir of Grace, a biography of Chuck Smith which he wrote with his father, pastor and founder of the Calvary Chapel movement.

Join us on this episode  as we welcome Andy Burnham, Recovery Pastor, Peninsula Bible Church, Palo Alto, California for our Catch series on the 12 Steps. Andy has been at PBC since 1988 and has been an elder since 2001, as well as a pastor since 2006, heading up the church’s recovery ministry.

Join us on this episode of The Catch on Blog Talk Radio as John discusses his new Christmas music compilation.

Listen in as John and Gunnar discuss our question for the month of December: "What if Jesus hadn't been born?"

You'll not want to miss this interview with a former Disney Imagineer...

We've asked Barry McGuie to return as our guest on this episode.

For nearly 5 decades, our guest on this episode, has shared his unique style of folk and gospel music blended with insightful and heartwarming stories.

On this episode of The Catch on Blog Talk Radio: Singer, songwriter, truth seeker, and revolutionary.. Barry McGuire.

Learn more about Barry at barrymcguire.com

Find out what goes on in a discipleship group such as this.

Get on the inside track in case you ever want to be in one or lead one.

Glenn Kaiser has been singing the blues - and sometimes soul, R&B or rock - since he was twelve years old.

Growing up in a poor family living hand-to-mouth in central Wisconsin, Glenn eventually gravitated to Milwaukee’s local music scene where he fronted over a dozen bands, as well as writing and performing solo acoustic music, all before turning nineteen years of age. With his adolescence plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, Glenn got clean through following Jesus after a life-changing spiritual confrontation right around his eighteenth birthday. During this time his music got heavier and in many ways, deeper. His former song writing motif of celebrating drugs, sex and other vices gave way to lyrics about spiritual struggles: personal temptation, institutional sin, poverty, exploitation, racism, materialism and other issues that few musicians seemed willing to tackle.

Now after more than three decades of making original music, Kaiser is known for his raw, bluesy vocals, firey guitar playing, bottleneck slide and harmonica work on thirty recordings and innumerable live shows. Glenn and his family have lived in Chicago’s inner city for over thirty years doing mission work with people who live as he once did.

Kaiser has released several acoustic-based cds in between his electric blues and blues/rock albums. His seminal delta blues projects “Trimmed and Burnin’” and follow-up “Slow Burn” (both with harp-player/singer Darrell Mansfield) established him as a singular and authentic christian bluesman. Three contemporary worship albums along with the folk-pop “Time Will Tell”, fill out the acoustic discography. Acoustic cuts also comprise half of Kaiser’s critically acclaimed “Ripley County Blues” project recorded in a log cabin lodge in rural Missouri.