This week AJ shared on the importance of experience. What better way to communicate experience than by using donuts. Yum.
Forgive us for the self congratulatory nature of this post, but as we've been reflecting on our first year of podcasting we saw this review about Keeping Up With The Joneses on iTunes and it made us smile:
“Oh how I love this podcast! It’s a glorious love mix of fish tacos, Apple products, transatlantic accents, glory, wisdom, life hacks, heart hacks, humor with a large dollop of (un)common sense and more than a bit of sauce!... proof, if it were ever needed, that ALL of life is sacred.”
Aside from the kind words, I love this review because it does a great job of summing up what we wanted the podcast to be, but never knew how to articulate when we started. People would often ask us what the podcast was about and we would say, "Uh..." - unsure how to describe it. Now we'll just quote The Denner.
One of the things we do at Grace Center is oversee the School of Supernatural Life; an eight month school that runs from September through April. As we head into our fifth year of running the school, we're stunned once again at the transformation our students experience. We prepared some videos of the students talking about their time at the school. Watch below.
You can watch more of their stories here.
Remember that one time Chris McClarney stopped by to record a podcast episode with us? And remember how he secretly dropped an exciting project that was in the works? Well that project is now public. Chris has a new album coming out with Jesus Culture. Even better, there's a short promo video and a free track from Noise Trade too. Go watch and grab.
UPDATE: You can pre-order now on iTunes.
Today marks our 52nd podcast episode, so I guess we're podcasters now. We've learnt a lot podcasting (almost) every week for a year and want to thank our listeners for their support and encouragement. It started out as a gamble but now with a couple of thousand listeners tuning in each month we're really excited about where this goes. Thank you once again for joining us.
If you've just started listening, here's a few of my favorite episodes.
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We had the MOREXV conference this weekend at Grace Center with Graham Cooke and Jonathan & Melissa Helser. Though it was only 2 days, it was filled to the brim with awesomeness. Hit up musthavemore.com to see photos from the weekend and to get downloads of the teaching sessions. Incredible.
Photo cred: Tink
It's my 1st daughter's birthday today. It's also my longest running friend's. I met Glenn in 1994 - the same year the Toronto blessing started - though it would be several years later before we were impacted by that. We met at university where much hilarity ensued. We moved in together in our second year and lived together until Glenn got married. We were the best men at each other's wedding.
We have a long history of bonding over video games. First it was Quake. I borrowed a £2,000 switch from work just so we could network our old PCs. Later came the Nintendo 64. The day the N64 launched we rented one from Blockbuster, stocked up on Cadbury's, Coke and Irn-Bru and spent way too many hours playing Mario 64.
Despite living on the other side of the world and having a time zone difference of 6 hours, we still find time to play Mario Kart 8 nearly every week. Glenn's the better player (he currently leads 186 wins to my 180) but yesterday we had a smashing game and not just because - in a fluke - I won. It was the quintessential Mario Kart game full of fantastic gameplay and skillful handling, but most of all buckets of luck. I love that we can still enjoy our friendship even though we lead two very different lives in two very different countries. I captured our game on video. It's posted below (I'm the chick in a blue dress and Glenn, well, he's the dinosaur wearing shades - all totally normal I assure you).
Glenn you are a fantastic friend, and an incredible Mario Kart player. My gift to you is a rousing game of Mario Kart later today. Hope it's as good as the day you deserve. Happy Birthday my friend, may your life be free of bananas and shells of all colors.
Glenn, in sunglasses with a star for his birthday. All is well.
Last week I spoke at emanate and had everyone create a #myfuturetimehop. If you missed it, but have seen the instagram hashtags and are wondering what it's all about, watch the video above or listen to this week's podcast for a shorter version. Then create your own #myfuturetimehop and tag me (@_ajjones) on instagram.
This morning at Grace Center the staff of SOSL shared some stories from their time away on outreach. If you need an injection of faith and great testimonies, have a watch/listen.
I wrote a nice long review of this new Bible app for the iPhone comparing it to the two I currently use. Then I lost it in that awesome save-to-web-app-cloud-thing-but-it-didn't-really cycle that sometimes happens. Yay.
Anyway, I ended up by saying that this beautifully crafted piece of software has delightful little details everywhere. It comes with gorgeous fonts, exceptional typography and is a joy to use. If that's not enough to convince you to part with your hard earned cash, it's on sale this Easter week for only $0.99. Do yourself a favor and go buy it.
Update: It's now free!