Four in the Morning
How do you have hope in the darkness? If you’ve ever been up at 4am, you know it looks like it’s the middle of the night. But in reality— it’s morning.Join John and the people that inspire him as they talk about what it means to live in hopeful defiance, no matter what it looks like outside.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020
Rewriting Society's Death Sentences (Erika Brown)
A black girl from South Dallas, pregnant at 20 by a potential felon from the North Side of Houston decide to start a life together,....
How would you complete that sentence? Erika Brown, a real estat…
SNOOZE: Performance-Based Identity is a Dead End
Dr. Crawford Loritts talks about how to get free from the trap of a life motivated by being twice as good as the people around you.
Connectedness: An Antidote for Cynicism (Dr. Crawford Loritts)
How you experience the present climate is wholly shaped by your past experiences. I talk with Pastor Crawford Loritts in how he's been able to fight off cynicism in our current cultural climate.
Grief Doesn't Have an Expiration Date (Raven Thomas)
Everyone's prepared for the earthquake of grief, it's usually the aftershock that catches them off guard. My dear friend Raven Thomas talks about the uniqueness of life as an orphan and expectant mot…
Success & The Doom Called "Safety" (Andy Mineo)
Everyone knows that depression comes after people whose life has fallen apart, but how do you deal with depression when you have the life of your dreams? Andy Mineo, award-winning hip hop artist and …
Leave Some Hope in my Commissary (Jordan Rice)
Hope comes to us through the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places. I talk with lawyer and pastor Jordan Rice about finding hope in a maximum security prison.
SNOOZE: Insecurity is a Thief
If you're anything like me, whenever you walk in to the front door of a new interest, you're greeted by insecurity. Let's spend a little time this morning talking about why it's always there and how…
Permission to be Human (Shawndra Onwuchekwa)
On my 36th birthday, I reflect with my wife, Shawndra Onwuchekwa about how easy it is to build prison walls around your humanity while trying to build houses of hope for other people. She reminds us …
Dear 2020, I am NOT Reasonable (Joseph Solomon)
"Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man" - Ton…
Rise & Shine: Welcome to Four in the Morning
Let's live while we wait for our circumstances to catch up.