Keeping Up With The Joneses
The weekly podcast from Alyn & AJ Jones. With love from Franklin, TN.
Episodes
308 episodes
306: A Church Called Goodly
We're getting ready to open our church. Here's a little bit of the behind-the-scenes conversation about Goodly and what we hope it becomes.SHOW NOTES:Episode 300
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305: The Importance of Hearing God's Voice
Hearing God’s voice is not some far off distant mystical thing reserved only for the super spiritual that takes years of fasting to accomplish. It’s available to everyone who knows Jesus and is vital for daily living. On this week’s episode we ...
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304: Little Dreams, Big Answers
God is the kindest person you will ever meet in your life. He's so good, that he answers even the smallest of prayers - the ones that are so small you might be forgiven for thinking they don't even count as thoughts let alone prayers. If that s...
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303: Stop Doing satan's Work for him (Part 2)
Part 2 and a follow-up from last week’s episode. This week we are looking at the topic of slandering God; how we do it and how to stop it. Plus a listener’s question about caring for the parts of your heart that feel overwhelmed.SHOW...
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302: Stop Doing satan's Work for him (Part 1)
Who would do that, right? Well it turns out, it happens more often than we’d all like to admit. On this week’s episode we explore what it is we do that causes so much trouble in our relationships and confirm that Alyn still can’t do math.
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301: Fed Up Being Fat
How many of us have a thing in life we know we could do differently, but the gap between doing that thing differently is covered with landmines of more appealing, but less wise choices? Yeah us too. This week we explore a manifestation of that ...
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300: We're Starting a Church*
It's true. We're starting a church*. Here's the story of how that came to be and how you can be a part of it. (We also explain that little * too.)SHOW NOTES:Episode 288: How to Make Big Lif...
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299: Old Friends and Holy Spirit Stories
Friends are a gift from God. And there’s no better gift than this week’s guest Glenn Carter. For almost 30 years Glenn and Alyn have been close friends. Despite changes in life, vocation and location somehow they’ve kept up their friendship. On...
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298: What Men Do With Their Feelings
Many a sitcom has been written about men and their relationship with feelings. Stereotypes abound at both end of the emotional spectrum. This week Alyn sits down with some members of a feelings process group he leads, to talk about what it’s li...
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297: How to Have More Faith
Faith is essential but what do you do when you feel like you've run out of it? What do you do when God is asking you to move forward, but you're scared? On this week's episode we talk about five simple ways to grow your faith in God....
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Bonus: So, We Adopted a Baby!
Less of an episode, more of an update - what a crazy seven days it has been! Thank you for all of your love, support and encouragement. It's wild to say... but we adopted a baby!
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296: The Paradox of Christian Living
Not sure where to even begin with this episode! Hilariously outdated moments after recording, this episode attempts to chronicle last week while we couldn’t have understood what was coming this week. On this episode we talk ab...
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295: A Lot Can Happen in a Week
Goodness gracious. We've had a crazy week in the Jones household and it's been quite the rollercoaster! How crazy you ask? Well we’re adopting a baby in three weeks - and that’s not even the crazy bit! Come aboard and we'll tell you al...
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294: A Blueprint for Life
We're all looking for a way forward in life. A quick browse through social media and you'll find plenty of people offering to help you navigate to the top and crush the competition. On this week's episode, AJ offers ancient wisdom found in Psal...
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293: Angels
The Bible records many accounts of angels interacting with people in both the old and new testaments - so where are they now? On this week’s episode we talk about what angels do, how they help us and share some of our stories of our interaction...
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292: Reflections on Asbury
We went to Asbury. On this episode we share our reflections from our time there. That and AJ gets her first speeding ticket in America, we hangout with John and Carol Arnott for 48 hours, the guinea pigs have a mani/pedi and we answer a questio...
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291: Something something revival
With the news of the outpouring at Asbury hitting main stream and social media and with pockets of revival breaking out across the globe, it seems everyone has an opinion on what is and isn’t revival. On this episode we offer six things we’ve l...
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290: Using Your Past to Pioneer Your Future
Let’s face facts: it can be scary to face a new challenge. God gave us something brilliant to help us face those challenges with faith and it’s called our history with Him. In this episode we talk about the power of our testimony to move us out...
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289: How to Deal with Anxiety
Anxiety sucks. But it’s such a part of life that Jesus instructed his followers on ways to deal with it. On this episode we talk about anxiety from a spiritual, emotional and neurobiological perspective and then offer six different approaches t...
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288: How to Make Big Life-Changing Decisions
Welcome to 2023! We’re back after a proper sabbatical and this week we’re talking about how we make big life-changing decisions together, we recap our Christmas and New Year and answer a listener’s question about spiritual abuse. Plus ...
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287: Transition
A lot has happened since our last episode! The big news is that we’re no longer on staff at Grace Center and as you might imagine that news comes with a bunch of feelings! On this episode we unpack a little bit about how we’re doing and answer ...
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286: Sabbatical
This episode is a weird one. Not least because AJ has lost her voice, but also because we announce an unplanned sabbatical! On this episode we talk about what we hope to do, how long we're on sabbatical for and a little of the why behind asking...
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285: Special Guest Stephen James
Stephen James is the founder and executive director of Sage Hill Counseling and the creator and CEO of The Leadership Lab. But he’s also a generous man, a brilliant t...
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