The Catch with John Fischer

This month, the nation of Rwanda remembered the genocide that occurred 21 years April. It was a horrible atrocity that ravaged this tiny African nation. Yet, in the aftermath, stories of hope began to emerge.

Enric Sifa was one of those stories. Orphaned in Rwanda, Enric survived years on the streets of Kigali as a young child until he was found and sponsored by an organization called Africa New Life. Being one who enjoyed music, he was then gifted with a guitar. Only knowing a few chords, Enric wrote a song and entered a nationwide competition.

He won.

Now Enric is married and finishing up his college degree. He travels around singing songs and talking to people about his story.

 

We had the pleasure of having Enric on our show previously. We invite you to listen in on that conversation here..

Dr. Tim Smith is the founder and director of Worship Without Borders in Aloha, Oregon, USA. He and his wife, Maryl, travel internationally – equipping, facilitating and releasing worship in churches everywhere. He was the head of the Portland Bible College Worship Department for 12 years and served as worship pastor in a local church for 14 years. He has a degree in Music Education and plays the cello, piano, guitar as well as other instruments. He is a published composer with Integrity Music and leads worship and conducts worship conferences and seminars around the world. His passion is to help restore and release the song and the voice of the Church in passionate worship of Jesus Christ.

For more info on Worship Without Borders, please visit their website, here.

We are excited to have Riki Michele join us on the show Tuesday April 14th. Many of you might recognize her name as the longtime member of the group Adam Again. Her new project PUSH, which was produced by Margaret Becker released just last week. Be sure to get a copy of this. It is available on iTunes here.

Also, check out this great write up on the new record here.

Get your crackerjacks, peanuts, popcorn and soda pop for this episode of The Catch on BlogTalkRadio...

There is God and baseball.everything else is sports and religion, says Michael O'Connor, who came to know Christ as a result of Bill Buckner's famous error in the 1986 World Series. The game of baseball may seem an unlikely parallel to God's working in a heart and life-but for Michael O'Connor it was and is. With the perfect blend of wry humor and baseball anecdotes, the book entertains as it teaches valuable lessons about the Christian life, God's will, and much more.

Listen in on this fun conversation with Michal O'Conner, author of Sermon on the Mound: Finding God at the Heart of the game.

What happens when grace turned outward gets pushed to the limits? Find out on this episode of The Catch on BlogTalkRadio.

This past Sunday, The Daily Beast ran a feature story entitled: "Oregon's Church for Sex Offenders"

But don't let the headline mislead you, there's much more to this story. On this episode, we invite Pastor Rocky Wing from this church onto the show to go behind the headlines and share with us what happens when grace turned outward.. goes all in.

For more information on the Light My Way service, click here.

Formore information on Sonrise Church, visit their website here.

I received a prayer request from Doug Stevens, former Executive Director of The Leadership Connection, and now interim pastor for transitioning churches, outlining the dire situation in the Middle East and asking for prayer for the victims and those who are in danger from the advances of ISIS. You almost hesitate to open the morning newspaper these days for the thought of some new atrocity meeting you on the front page. In light of Doug Stevens' timely request for prayer and his first- and second-hand knowledge of the situation in the Middle East, I have asked him to be our guest on BlogTalkRadio tonight at 6pm Pacific Daylight Time to talk about these and other related questions.

We are excited to have Os Guinness join us on the show.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II where both his parents and grandparents were medical missionaries – his grandfather having had the privilege of treating the Empress Dowager, the Last Emperor and the Imperial family. A survivor of the terrible Henan famine of 1943, in which five million died in three months, including his two brothers, Os was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the beginning of the reign of terror under Mao Tse Tung. He was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.

Os has written or edited thirty books on a wide range of themes, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, Unspeakable, and A Case for Civility, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, His latest book is The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity

Read more, click here.

We are excited to have Os Guinness join us on the show.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II where both his parents and grandparents were medical missionaries – his grandfather having had the privilege of treating the Empress Dowager, the Last Emperor and the Imperial family. A survivor of the terrible Henan famine of 1943, in which five million died in three months, including his two brothers, Os was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the beginning of the reign of terror under Mao Tse Tung. He was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.

Os has written or edited thirty books on a wide range of themes, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, Unspeakable, and A Case for Civility, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, His latest book is The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity

Read more, click here.

We are excited to have Steve Hindalong of The Choir on the show tonight. Please visit their website www.thechoir.net as well check out their latest release Shadow Weaver. You can also catch them on their upcoming 25th Anniversary of Circle Slide tour.

Steve is an accomplished drummer, percussionist, songwriter and producer.

Mark Joseph is an award-winning film and music producer, author, columnist, and founder of MJM Entertainment Group.

Mark has had a varied career as a talk show host/anchor for CNN and NHK, a columnist for USA Today, The Huffington Post and Foxnews.com, author of books on entertainment and pop culture and music and film producer. He has worked on the development and marketing of 40 films including The Chronicles of Narnia, Ray and others and produced the inspired by soundtrack for The Passion of the Christ. His books include The Rock & Roll Rebellion, Faith, God & Rock 'n' Roll and The Lion, The Professor & The Movies: Narnia's Journey To The Big Screen. His next book Rock Gets Religion will be published in 2016.

His recent productions include Doonby and Japan: Searching For The Dream and he is  currently producing the films Reagan, Tolkien & Lewis, Max Rose, Broken Hearts Sing and Silence Patton. 

Please visit www.markjoseph.com.

We are more than thrilled to have Mark on the show!!