Jan 13, 2021 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode, James Bryan Smith’s thought from above is: “Keep it simple, saint.” We are a few weeks into the new year and many of us have a new...
Jan 6, 2021 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above in this episode is: “Give thanks in all circumstances.” Following up on his last episode, James Bryan Smith takes a deeper dive into...
Dec 23, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above for this episode is: “Rejoice always.” James Bryan Smith takes a deep dive into the works of theologian and priest Adrian von Kaam, to...
Dec 9, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSEmily P. Freeman is back for her third Things Above Conversation! In this episode, James and Emily have a series of questions they ask each other about podcasting,...
Nov 18, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith has a Things Above conversation with Cindy Bunch about her book “Be Kind to Yourself.” During their discussion they talk about the importance...
Nov 4, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith is very excited to announce the republished and expanded edition of his book “Room of Marvels.” In this episode James tells us the story of...
Oct 28, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above this week is, “you are destined for glory.” James Bryan Smith opens the episode with a quote from the movie “Jerry Maguire”...
Oct 14, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode James Bryan Smith has a Things Above conversation with author and priest, Tish Harrison Warren. James and Tish discuss a multitude of topics around their...
Oct 7, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS“In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind.” – Blaise Pascal At some point in our life we ask ourselves the question, Who am...
Sep 30, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith opens this episode with a story about the first church he served in as a youth pastor to help explain this thought from above. We are all different but we...
Sep 16, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this Things Above episode, James Bryan Smith has a conversation with Carolyn Arends. Carolyn has released 12 albums and is the author of 3 critically-acclaimed books. 15...
Sep 9, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”...
Sep 2, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSOur thought from above in this episode is, “faith shines best in darkness.” James Bryan Smith tells us the story about one of his students who was struggling...
Aug 19, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith has a Things Above conversation with Michael John Cusick. In this episode, they discuss a multitude of topics all related to the soul. How do we...
Aug 12, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above in this episode is: “God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called.” James Bryan Smith explains the thought from above...
Aug 5, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith begins season three of the things above podcast with this thought from above: “we are indebted to hope.” In this episode James talks about our...
Jul 29, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith gives a commentary on his three favorite conversations from season two of the Things Above podcast. In this episode we share a snippet from three...
Jun 17, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSYou were made for beauty, goodness and truth. James Bryan Smith begins the episode talking about the three transcendentals; beauty, goodness and truth. Plato said, beauty...
Jun 10, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThis week on the Things Above podcast, James Bryan Smith has a conversation with his long time friend Juanita Rasmus. Juanita is a pastor, Spiritual Director, and...
May 27, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSWe all need Jesus with skin. This may sound odd but in fact it is very true. In this episode James Bryan Smith explains how he experienced the love of Jesus through an...
May 20, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode James Bryan Smith has a Things Above conversation with Dave Mullins. Dave is a speaker, teacher, writer, musician and recently co-producer of the movie...
May 6, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this Things Above podcast episode, James Bryan Smith give this thought from above: “We are saved by His life.” In 1992 James and his friend and fellow pastor...
Apr 29, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSWe are in a season of lament. As we struggle to cope with all the problems the coronavirus has brought, we need a way to ease our suffering. In this episode James Bryan...
Apr 22, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSAs we continue to navigate through the coronavirus pandemic, James Bryan Smith has a Things Above conversation with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson. In this episode they discuss...
Apr 8, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn Romans 12:2 Paul writes, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is...
Apr 1, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode James Bryan Smith has a Things Above Conversation with Bill Gaultiere. James and Bill discuss the importance of soul care, especially at a time when we are...
Mar 25, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS“For those alive in the kingdom of God, the world we live in is a perfectly safe place to be.” – Dallas Willard Life throws us many unexpected things, and we are now...
Mar 18, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith has a Things Above Conversation with his friend and fellow podcast host, Shane Blackshear. Shane is a Jesus follower, blogger, speaker & host of the...
Mar 11, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above in this episode is: “We know our sin in relation to Him.” Sin is a very difficult topic to talk about. One of the most important things we can do is...
Mar 4, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS“What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become” – John...
Feb 19, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode, James Bryan Smith has a Things Above Conversation with longtime friend and author Richella Parham. She is the author of Mythical Me: Finding Freedom from...
Feb 12, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith begins this episode by sharing a story from Deuteronomy 30:15-19. In this passage, Moses offers some powerful words at the end of his farewell address....
Feb 5, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode of the Things Above podcast, James Bryan Smith gives this thought from above: “God is happy about you.” When Jim’s son Jacob was around 7...
Jan 22, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJames Bryan Smith has a conversation with Derwin Gray about our identity in Christ and how we can learn to love and see ourselves the same way God does. Labels you have...
Jan 15, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above in this episode is: “You don’t have to make it happen.” In the summer of his junior year, James attended an elite basketball camp where he learned a...
Jan 8, 2020 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSWhat will the future be like? Will it be good? What will happen to us at the end of lives? These are questions we all want an answer to. Deep down we desire a future for...
Dec 4, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this “Things Above Conversation” James Bryan Smith chats with Casey Tygrett. Casey is the host of the “otherWISE” podcast, a place for gathering wise...
Nov 20, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe “Thought from Above” for this episode is: “No more silly superstitions.” In a previous podcast James spoke about how worry is essentially...
Nov 13, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe “Thought from Above” in this episode is: Include Jesus in all of your relationships. The relationships we have in our lives are amazing but also...
Nov 6, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode, James Bryan Smith sits down with A.J. Swoboda for a Things Above Conversation. A.J. is the author of “Subversive Sabbath” which was...
Oct 22, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above for this episode is: Remember the Door. In this episode, James Bryan Smith recites a poem by Samuel M. Shoemaker titled, “So I Stand By The...
Oct 16, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSThe thought from above for this episode is: Faith is acting on what you believe. James uses a story about the Prussian missionary George Mueller to help explain this week’s...
Oct 9, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this episode James Bryan Smith sits down for a Things Above Conversation with author Jan Johnson. James and Jan have known each other for many years and both were...
Sep 25, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn episode 51 titled “Adversity can be a Blessing” James Bryan Smith tells the story of his friend Tim’s biking accident. Tim’s story of healing is...
Sep 18, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS“When the clock of one’s own crisis strikes, the hour for believing in the benevolence of a greater mystery is near” (Adrian van Kaam) We all go through our lives and...
Sep 11, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this Things Above episode, James Bryan Smith explains the concept of a spiritual mirror. Smith learned about the phrase “spiritual mirror” from George Macdonald, a great...
Aug 28, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSJosh Larsen sits down with James Bryan Smith for a “Things Above Conversation” about Josh’s latest book “Movies are Prayers.” Josh is the...
Aug 21, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSAnger and worry are two emotions we deal with on a daily basis. We worry because we feel like it will help us to fix whatever problem we are dealing with. We use anger to...
Aug 14, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSIn this Things Above conversation, James Bryan Smith interviews William Paul Young. Paul is best known for his book The Shack which has sold over a million copies. Young is...
Aug 7, 2019 | Things Above Podcast |
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSSDiscovering our identity can be a lifelong journey. We all want to know who we are. In this episode, James Bryan Smith explains how our journey towards self-discovery is...
