Podcast
Lifesongs.com
Hosted by LifeSongs Radio · EN
Lifesongs Radio | God is Good All The Time
17episodes
Episodes
Newest firstAll episodes
The End of 2025 | Julie
Dec 2600:02:11Tap to summarizeWe hope your Christmas was filled with incredible joy, celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior! As the year rapidly comes to a close, this is a wonderful time to reflect on the blessings of 2025 and look forward to the opportunities of the new year. LifeSongs is grateful for your partnership, which allows us to share Jesus with Southeast Louisiana every single day. Your financial gift makes an incredible difference to this ministry! And since LifeSongs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry, your year-end gift is tax-deductible for 2025—but you must act before midnight on December 31st. While the holidays are a time of joy for us, many are still searching for hope. Every song we play and every message we share is an opportunity to point them to Jesus. Thank you for making that possible. Each person God reaches through LifeSongs is because of you! Karen said, “My radio stays on 24 hours a day in the house, in the kitchen. And I love the fact that when I wake up in the middle of the night and I hear the song that’s playing, I just love that. It’s just so much peace that flows through this house. And I know, it’s because of LifeSongs.” If you are not currently a monthly donor, we encourage you to start the new year with a resolution to give monthly in 2026. Your recurring monthly gift allows us to consistently pursue our mission: “Sharing God’s love with Southeast Louisiana through authentic and uplifting radio.” We are so blessed by your partnership. Your giving is what makes LifeSongs possible, and we are incredibly thankful that you choose to stand with this ministry as we head into an exciting new year. To claim your tax deduction for 2025, your gift must be postmarked or completed at LifeSongs.com by midnight, December 31st. Your support now ensures we can hit the ground running in 2026!
Transcribe →Christmas is Here | Libby
Dec 900:02:14Tap to summarizeThe Christmas season is here! Is there a gift you received in your lifetime that you will always treasure? Maybe it’s something you got as a child, or something a loved one made for you. Perhaps it’s not something tangible, but something someone did for you or time they spent with you. There’s always a story behind a meaningful gift. What’s yours? I can think of many that stand out over the years. A hard to find toy I didn’t think anyone knew I wanted. Homemade pottery from a relative. Someone giving the gift of their time – it may feel like a small gesture, but it can mean the world to someone who needs it. Thanksgiving the day may be over, but a season of thanks & giving continues. As we reflect on the many things we have to be grateful for (and those memorable gifts we still treasure), let’s embrace a spirit of giving. You never know – your gift could be the one someone never forgets. Breann recently shared with us, “I grew up in a small town in Canada and my family stumbled across your radio station, and it’s been our go-to station ever since. After my husband and I got married, we had a season of baby loss – it was an incredibly difficult time in our lives. In the darkest moments when I felt so broken, I would turn on your station and even though I was in pain, it uplifted my soul the only way that a Christian community can. I would cry and sing and just praise through it all. Our rainbow baby is just over 6 months old now and I want to thank LifeSongs for helping me to carry on through that season. The grief is still there but I know LifeSongs is just a click away in the times of celebration and also the times of pain. Thank you.” Thank you so much for your generous gifts to LifeSongs. You are the reason LifeSongs was there for Breann when she needed it most. So many of us need a message of hope. As we celebrate this season with Christmas music on LifeSongs, our prayer is that anyone who stumbles across these familiar holiday songs would find the true thrill of HOPE: Jesus. We wish you a merry Christmas and may you treasure the greatest gift ever given, our Savior.
Transcribe →Giving Back Tuesday | Josh
Dec 300:01:39Tap to summarizeI’m so thankful for the friendship and partnership we have with Global Maritime Ministries! On Giving BACK Tuesday (The National Day of Giving #givingtuesday) we teamed up with the Port Ministry to give out Christmas treats and goodies to the truckers working the Port of New Orleans and it was such a joyful experience! We danced to Christmas music on LifeSongs to keep warm as we shared hot chocolate and coffee and cookies and presents with the hard working truck drivers. It was the most Christmassy thing I can remember doing in recent years. I hope and pray you get to experience that real joy of Christmas this year – through giving and serving and loving well. And while Christmas music only lasts through December 25th, that spirit of love is alive and well all year long on LifeSongs! That’s because of your generous giving. And we are so very thankful. We got to shake hands, fist bump and hug nearly a hundred truck drivers and share stories while chugging lots of hot cocoa. The men and women who keep goods flowing in and out of the Port of New Orleans literally make our modern lives possible. And they were so kind and excited to celebrate Christmas with us on a blustery December Tuesday. Our friends at Global Maritime Ministries work all year long with Port workers, and the men and women who serve aboard the ships that flow in and out of New Orleans and other locations in Southeast Louisiana. They share the Gospel and the love of Jesus every day to folks who are far from home – folks who then take the seed of the Gospel with them around the world! Be in prayer for those efforts and be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram to see how the Good News is changing lives at sea! View this post on Instagram A post shared by LifeSongs (@lifesongsfm)
Transcribe →Come to the Table | Libby
Nov 2500:01:58Tap to summarizeMmmmm…I can almost smell the cornbread dressing and the pecan pie already. Thanksgiving is almost here! I love this opportunity to sit down together and connect over a family meal. Putting phones away and welcoming friends and family to the table is something I count as a blessing. Even though there may be awkward moments or tension, food allergies or burnt pie crusts, there are also stories to share and laughs to be had together. And the food! While it can be tempting to give in to frustration or focus on what we lack, I want to encourage you to look through a lens of gratitude. We have so much to be thankful for! We are blessed by a God who loves us. That is reason alone to be grateful. 1 Chronicles 16:34 reminds us to “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever!” One way we can express our gratitude is through our actions. With a thankful heart, let’s extend this great love to others. Invite them to your table. Choose forgiveness. Be kind and encouraging. Bring joy to others. Let someone know how much you appreciate them and why. Be a generous listener. Look for opportunities to share the HOPE we have in Jesus. In fact, we’ve got one way you can do just that, coming up Thanksgiving evening at 8pm! That’s when LifeSongs becomes your Christmas soundtrack. Why Christmas music? There are so many people searching. Looking for connection, for comfort, for hope. Our prayer is that those who may stumble upon LifeSongs and hear a familiar holiday tune would find the true “thrill of HOPE” in our only source, and in the reason we have to celebrate: Jesus. Please pray for them, invite them to the table, and that they stick around, even after Christmas, to continue hearing messages of good news and great joy on LifeSongs. Christmas may be a rare season that has its own soundtrack, but there are so many songs of gratitude and thanks that might be perfect to incorporate around your Thanksgiving table! Here are a few of my favorites: Happy Thanksgiving! My heart is full of gratitude for you. Now, pass those sweet potatoes!
Transcribe →Patrick Mayberry | Morning Show
Nov 2000:15:01Tap to summarizeJosh got to meet/chat with Patrick Mayberry on the LifeSongs Morning Show. This Tennessee native is an incredible and humble worship leader with some exceptional new music! Give the podcast a listen to be super encouraged… and wowed by Patrick’s ability to lie directly to Josh’s face. #maybeitsMayberry
Transcribe →Talk Turkey To Me | Morning Show
Nov 1400:05:08Tap to summarizeAn annual tradition as old as stuffing – Josh chats with the turkey experts from the Butterball Talkline! Are you already defrosting your big centerpiece? It might be a little too early for that actually. But if you want the official PANTS of Thanksgiving then you need to give this a listen! Visit Butterball.com Call 1-800-BUTTERBALL Text 844-877-3456 To chat with a bonafide turkey expert! **Transcription** Josh: It’s the Life Songs Morning Show. Hey, I’m Josh and I’m very excited to have a professional that we all need to know and love. Michael Maddox, the Turkey Talk line expert from Butterball is with us this morning. Michael, welcome to Life Songs. Michael Maddox: Good morning, Josh. Thank you for having me, and I’m, I’m very happy to be here and talking about Butterball Turkey. What, what a wonderful. Josh: Now down here in southeast Louisiana, Michael, when we prepare a Turkey, it is, it is 50 50 between smoking it and deep frying at a lot of Cajun deep fried turkeys. But are there any new Turkey trends this year that we should know about? Michael Maddox: We see a lot of, you know, a lot of different techniques and things and you know, for us we say the open pan method is the recommended method, but. My father likes to deep fry his as well, and we see cooking in the bag. So we do, we actually have Butterball University that we have our 50 experts that we do every year like that. And just kinda looking at new trends, but also looking at people who have those electric roasters and kind of looking at different ways just to try to accommodate everyone who was kind of cook the cookie different ways. Josh: So we should not shove a whole frozen butterball Turkey into the air fryer and expect it to be ready in half an hour. Michael Maddox: Correct? Yeah. That would be, that’s called not having butterball Turkey for lunch that day because it’s, yeah, not a, not a good idea. Josh: Awesome. Michael. Um, what is the deal? I sound like Seinfeld there. What’s the deal with Thanksgiving hosting pants? This is popping up all over the internet right now. Where did this idea come from and how do I get me some. Michael Maddox: Yeah, great question. Yeah, this year we’re helping holiday hosts get a leg up, uh, by partnering with Hedley and Bennett to create Thanksgiving hosting pants. And these are just fun pants and giving confidence to the seasoned veterans, but also to the new host, right, because they’re getting kind of nervous about hosting. And so, you know, we dress for success and confidence and those kind of things. And so if you visit thanksgiving hosting pants.com. And they’re gonna be available the first three Mondays of November while supplies last. And you can get these wonderful hosting pants by Butterball and a Headley and Bennett, and they’re blue and yellow. Let our Butterball colors, and it was kind of fun. They have a place for a thermometer, a place to hold your towel, a place from other gadgets, even has a bottle of openers. Hydration’s important this time of year. And then also a um, 1-800-BUTTERBALL little sticker on there, a emblem on there in case you need to sneak into the closet and give us a call and help you out. Josh: I hope they have some stretch to them, right, because if I’m eating Turkey, I’m gonna correct. Yeah. All right. Michael. Social media presents a lot of creative ways to rere prepare Thanksgiving leftovers. I’ve seen stuffing waffles, which looks cool, wraps and all kinds of stuff. Do you have a favorite way of eating leftover? Michael Maddox: You know what’s kind of funny and it, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of a unique one is, is making a, like a Thanksgiving day sandwich, but you put everything on it, right? You have a nice baguette or a nice, uh, like a submarine bowl, uh, bread like that. Josh: And we call it a Poe Boy down here. Michael Maddox: Oh yeah. Po Yeah. I, I love New Orleans. I’ve been there quite a few times and, and myself, I brush it with some garlic oil, and then you put the cranberries, like the cranberry chutney on there. You put the stuffing on there, the Turkey on there. I’m a spicy person. I like a little bit of like jalapeno, uh, cheddar cheese or jack cheese on that, and it’s just wonderful way to have that sandwich and kinda all the best of all worlds and an easy hand ready bite. Josh: Yeah, Michael has won me over to the leftover sandwich. That sounds like a phenomenal recipe. So Michael, what are the ways that the Life science family can get in touch with Butterball? If we need some help, if we need some tips, if we need some recipes, where do we go? Who do we call? What do we do? Michael Maddox: Sure. Great question. butterball.com would be their website and it has great recipes on there. It has some how to videos. It has a product locator, so in case you’re trying to get a certain one. If you’re trying to figure out how much you need per person or how big a Turkey to get, that’s on there as well. You can also do text and chat. You can also call 1-800-BUTTERBALL and we are here available to help you from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM uh, central standard time. And on Thanksgiving we have extended hours because we start early in the morning and we go into the evening like that, trying to help, uh, help the host with their butterball turkeys. And also we can help with side dishes and sauces and all those kind of things too, which is fun. Josh: Yeah, can we just give a round of applause to the Butterball team members that literally take their Thanksgiving and give in an active service to care for all of us? Trying desperately to impress our in-laws like that is a ton of work, a lot of stressed out people, and we are grateful for all that you guys do at Butterball. Michael Maddox: Well, thank you so much. ’cause it’s our 44th year of the Butterball Turkey talk line. And what’s fun is we have over 50 culinary experts, so chefs, teachers, food sciences, registered dieticians. So for us it’s, it’s a good, great group of people together. And we, we have a wonderful time because we’re passing the love on and having fun talking and texting and chatting with, uh, the hosts. Josh: Well, just because the Thanksgiving meal is mostly beige doesn’t mean it can’t be packed full of flavor. Thank you so much, Michael for. Spending some time talking with us and um, we’ll have all the links and stuff up for butterball on life songs.com and I’ve gotta go order those pants now, those Thanksgiving hosting pants. Michael Maddox: Thank you Joshua, my pleasure to be with you and your listeners today.
Transcribe →Veterans Day 2025
Nov 1100:03:26Tap to summarizeVance Hughes is not only the Underwriting Director at LifeSongs, but a proud Veteran. Each year he hangs with Josh and they talk about service life, resources for our Veterans and offer our thanks. To all the service men and women in the LifeSongs family: Thank you.
Transcribe →