1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville. 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: Hi everyone, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 2: Walk Nashville. Thank you everyone who has been tuning in 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: this year. If you like what you're hearing, please give 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 2: us a review and rating on Apple, Spotify, wherever you 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: get your podcast. Here with me today is Jen Johnson. 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: Jen Johnson is a Grammy nominated Christian singer, songwriter, and 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 2: worship pastor. She is the co founder of Bethel Music 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: and a senior worship pastor at Bethel Church in Reading, California. 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: She has co written Grammy nominated hits such as Goodness 11 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: of God, Holy Forever featuring C. C. Winans, and has 12 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: contributed as a writer and vocalist to eighteen Bethel Music albums. 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of the Taking a 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: Walk Nashville podcast. Welcome to Taking a Walk Nashville with 15 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: your hosts singer songwriter Sarah Harrelson. 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: Jen, Thank you so much for joining me today on 17 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 2: Taking a Walk Nashville. 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 3: So you have written Christian hits for other artists, but 19 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 3: you also perform and write with your husband, Brian Johnson, 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: and you recently released a new single together in February 21 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 3: titled Here in your arms. 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: It's a beautiful song. I love the song. And what 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 2: is it like writing and recording with your husband And 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: where did the inspiration for the song come from? 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 4: You know, we've been married for twenty five years, together 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 4: for twenty six and I'm auction working on twenty seven 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 4: right now in April, and he is my favorite. I 28 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 4: love him so much and the heart for this. You know, 29 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 4: my project that I'm putting out called Happy Is, it's 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 4: a mosaic. It's a very unique album. I don't know 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 4: if I've ever seen one like this before. I didn't 32 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 4: try to do it like this. I just, you know, 33 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 4: after being an artist for so long and just being 34 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 4: married for so long, and we have five kids and 35 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 4: a son in law and as soon to be daughter 36 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 4: in law, and you know, I just am so in 37 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 4: love with my life and my husband and my children, 38 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 4: and my daughter's even talking about having a grand baby 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 4: one day soon. So I just really love love, and 40 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 4: I am so thankful for the love of my family 41 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 4: and my church and my community. And so I wanted 42 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 4: to write a song about love, but I also wanted 43 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 4: it to be and honestly, it came from when I 44 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 4: was originally writing a song here in your Arms. I 45 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: sat down at my piano and I was writing it 46 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 4: to Jesus. Hearing your momsies, we're avon shelz, I was 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 4: writing it to Jesus, And so really, in some moments 48 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 4: and in some days, it really can be your song 49 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 4: to the Lord. You know. There's a lyric in it 50 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 4: that a lot of people are like, why are you saying? Oh, 51 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 4: you know, and I'm like, because we can be honest 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 4: with Jesus and sometimes some days feel like a glimpse 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 4: of hell, you know, emotionally, and so I just think 54 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 4: it's an honest love song to the Lord that says, 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 4: here in your arms. You know, there's so many verses 56 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 4: about being held by the Father, and here in your arms, 57 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 4: I'm safe and I can talk to you about anything, 58 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 4: or we don't need to talk because you know me. 59 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 4: So there's an instant intimate. It can be a total 60 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 4: worship song because God holds us and loves us. And 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 4: then in the exact slip side, God gives us husbands 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 4: and wives, and there's this pure biblical love that I 63 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 4: love that God started the whole Bible with a man 64 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 4: marrying a woman, and that's how life comes and so 65 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 4: just to celebrate love and children. And it was an 66 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 4: easy song to write because it's something that I've known, 67 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 4: the blessing of my whole life. And so Brian I 68 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 4: wrote the song and then Brian came in and sang 69 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 4: with me on the second verse and it's super special. 70 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a beautiful song. And I love the 71 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: title of your new album, Mosaic that drops on May 72 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: twenty second. Did you work with Brian on all of 73 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: the songs on the album. 74 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 4: We worked on a couple together, but most of them 75 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 4: I wrote with I have one with Abbi Gamboa, one 76 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 4: with Brook Legetwood, one with Dable Price, Carrie job Karnes, 77 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 4: that's one with me, and so it has a lot 78 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 4: of fun features. I have a feature that's on a 79 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 4: song that's crazy that's an African choir and also a 80 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 4: Portuguese artist and the song is in only. It's like 81 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 4: thirty percent of the song is in English, which is 82 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 4: just crazy and so fun. 83 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: So love that. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to hearing 84 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: that and all the features on it. You know, we 85 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: talk about you performing with your husband a lot, and 86 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 2: you know, time after time in the music industry, it 87 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: can be very hard for performers to be away from 88 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: their significant other while on the road, but it's exciting 89 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 2: for you because you get to be on the road 90 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 2: and perform and do ministry with your husband. Where will 91 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 2: you be performing this year? 92 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 4: You know, we are church kids, and so we've been 93 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 4: attending a local church since we were born, and we 94 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 4: just love that. So honestly, our favorite travel ministry is 95 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 4: to go to other churches and to just help them 96 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 4: with their worship teams and lead with them and strengthen them. 97 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 4: So honestly that that's always kind of been fifty percent 98 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 4: of what we've done at Athel Music and just what 99 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 4: I've given my life to is to strengthen the local church. 100 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 4: So probably a fifty percent of where you'll ever see 101 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 4: me is going to be in a local church. We're 102 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 4: going to Gateway Church this year. We're going to Bethel, 103 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,919 Speaker 4: New York. This year. I'm doing a Fearless Conference in 104 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 4: Georgia coming up here soon. It's a women's conference, all 105 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 4: you ladies in Georgia. And then I think he's in Atlanta, 106 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 4: and then we're going on vacation, which I'm most excited 107 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 4: about with all of our kids. Coming up, since that's 108 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: gonna be my favorite travel But we've also got our 109 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 4: worship school in the summer in July for five days 110 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 4: for worship and musicians, and I think it's almost sold out, 111 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 4: but there's a few tickets left for our worship school. 112 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 4: That's one of the most outstanding things we do every year. 113 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna be all over the place. 114 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the Bethel Music Worship School on the 115 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: Bethel Music site. It's in California. Correct, It's in California. Yeah. 116 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 4: You also can take it online though. We have a 117 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 4: it's called Worship University, and so if you just go 118 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 4: online and look at worship You, anyone can take the 119 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 4: courses from anywhere. And the courses aren't just for if 120 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 4: you're a musician. Therefore, if you love Jesus and you're 121 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,119 Speaker 4: a worshiper, there's a lot of heart classes from people 122 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 4: like Christine Kane has a servant called the Dark Room 123 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 4: and how God developed us in the dark like a photograph, 124 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 4: and so there's something for everybody in Worship University. But 125 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 4: you can find that on social media and online at 126 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 4: worship you dot com. 127 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 2: Very cool and we talk about how you're all over 128 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 2: the road this year doing shows and churches and doing 129 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: worship schools. Do you split your time a lot between 130 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: Nashville and California. 131 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. Our oldest daughter and her husband live here in Nashville. 132 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 4: Where in Nashville right now, they live here, So we're 133 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 4: back and forth about once a month, once every six 134 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 4: weeks something like that, or they come to us. So 135 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 4: it's a really good flow. But we have so many 136 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 4: of our friends and family obviously now that live here 137 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 4: that it definitely feels like a home away from home. 138 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. And you do a lot of work with other 139 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: Christian artists here in Nashville. Has writing music about your 140 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 2: faith and Christianity? Do you think that has brought you 141 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: closer to your faith? 142 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 4: Absolutely? You know. I think we see that very clearly 143 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 4: in the Psalms with you know, just David processing with 144 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 4: the Lord of the highs and lows through life. You know, 145 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 4: but yet God is victory. But yet you God, But 146 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 4: yet you God. And God loves when we're honest, I think, 147 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 4: you know. And so songs are a great way to 148 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 4: communicate with the Lord. I kind of see songs too differently. 149 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 4: I think I think there's some songs that when you're 150 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 4: driving in your car. They connect with your heart in 151 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 4: a special way that isn't in a place where I 152 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 4: would sing it on a stage in worship. But you know, 153 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 4: I think the Christian music industry CCM world, if you will, 154 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 4: it's really beautiful for that space. Just fun songs or 155 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 4: songs about life or love or pain or anything that 156 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 4: we go through in this life. But I think worship 157 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 4: song and I love to write those songs. By the way, 158 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 4: I love to write the CCM Christian music songs, but 159 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 4: I also really love the worship songs, and those are 160 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 4: the ones we sing corporately because when we're corporate in church, 161 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 4: we sing about who God is, what He's done, and 162 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 4: what He's doing through us, and we magnify the Lord, 163 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 4: you know. And so that's a different, unique place that 164 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 4: I think some songs fit there. There's a few crossover songs, 165 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 4: and then there's a CCM world, and you know, gospel 166 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 4: and all the other genres of music. You know. But 167 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: it's it's been beautiful and it's been a gift for 168 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 4: me to be a songwriter. Since I was a little girl, 169 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 4: I've i've I learned to play piano when I was 170 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 4: five and started leading worship in kids church at twelve 171 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 4: and writing my first song, and it's been a great 172 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 4: way not only for me to process with the Lord, 173 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 4: but also thankfully now to get other people to be 174 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 4: able to process the Lord and most importantly, magnify the Lord. 175 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think music is just such a great outlet 176 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 2: in general when you have questions about the world, to 177 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: be able to be open and honest about what you're 178 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: feeling and your situation. It's really being honest about your 179 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: faith and connecting with it. That's right. 180 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 181 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 2: So you're also an author of a book. It was 182 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: published in twenty twenty one, All Things Lively and Spiral 183 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: to health and wholeness in your home, heart and community. 184 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 2: This book is about leading a life with intention. So 185 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 2: what does that mean for you? 186 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've wanted to I had wanted to 187 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 4: write a book for a long time before this and 188 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 4: just didn't know how I'm in a zoo of my 189 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 4: life that I'd ever have time to do it. And 190 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 4: I thought, as the Lord told me to sign a 191 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 4: book deal, and so I was like, Okay, how am 192 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: I going to do this? And then the world shut 193 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 4: down with COVID, So I was like oh well great, 194 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 4: not great, but opportunity. So I wrote the book during COVID, 195 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 4: locked away in my home with my closest friends who's 196 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 4: a photographer, and we kind of did the whole book, 197 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 4: and at the end of the book, we just felt 198 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 4: so happy because we've really lived our lives by best 199 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 4: friends and I to emotionally, physically and spiritually be healthy 200 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 4: and whole and also even practically in our in our 201 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 4: family physically with natural ingredients and products and healthy food 202 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 4: and so health is a really important topic and I 203 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 4: wanted it to come from an eternal place as a 204 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 4: mom that shows family and life and worship and again 205 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 4: the mosaic of our lives that is not just one 206 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 4: aspect of it, but really truly spirit, soul and body. 207 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 4: To really help people with encouraging them to get healthy 208 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: emotionally but spiritually and physically. Yeah, I love that because 209 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 4: I think in order to be able to lift your 210 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 4: spirits and have a lot life and faith, you do 211 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 4: need to take care of your own mental and physical 212 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 4: health absolutely, And that's why this album is called Happy, 213 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 4: because it's from that place of true happiness comes from 214 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 4: a mosaic of things in life, not just one or two. 215 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 4: But true happiness, true joy is not just because you 216 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 4: have everything you want in the world or what you 217 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 4: know x y Z. True happiness is because you live 218 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 4: according to the Bible and you are happy and healthy emotionally, 219 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 4: spiritually and physically, and you're in your Word of God, 220 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 4: you're reading your Bible, you know your Bible, you're in community, 221 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 4: so so many different aspects of being happy that make 222 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 4: it that mosaic. 223 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, with factors going on in the world, 224 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: with chaos and devastation, it can be hard to find happiness. 225 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: So when listeners hear your music, do you just hope 226 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 2: them hope for them to take faith and ministry from 227 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 2: your music or happiness? What do you hope for them 228 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 2: to take? 229 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 4: Absolutely? You know, I think people are going to get 230 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 4: a really unique experience with this album because it is, 231 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 4: you know, such a selection of songs. I start the 232 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 4: song out with a song that was my favorite him 233 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 4: when I was a kid, Great as I Faithfulness singing 234 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 4: that as a little girl, that was my anchor in 235 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 4: my life. And I have my son who's he was 236 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 4: four at the time. He sings a little song that 237 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 4: I used to sing when I was little, and one 238 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 4: of the tracks is just his cute little voice at 239 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 4: four years old, singing I've got the joy, Joy, Joy, 240 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 4: Joy down in my heart. So there's pieces of my 241 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 4: childhood in there, and I think people are going to 242 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 4: connect with pieces of our childhood they're going to There's 243 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 4: a song called I've Got to Know You for Myself, 244 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 4: just really a cry for every young person out there 245 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 4: that believes in God but just really is encounter longing 246 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 4: for an encounter with God as we all are, just 247 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 4: to know Him for ourselves. That song is called know 248 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: You for my Self and it's actually a song I 249 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 4: wrote for my brother like twenty years ago. But there's 250 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 4: obviously the country love song of you know, getting married 251 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 4: and following in love on this journey of life like 252 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 4: I did. And there's a song called Walk with Me 253 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 4: that is just how God walks with us through everything 254 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 4: in life, highs and lows. And then there's that fun 255 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 4: crazy African choir Portugueze artists and it's called Look what 256 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 4: the Lord has done. He's turned my morning to dancing, 257 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 4: sorrows to joy. So there's scripture throughout this. There's creative 258 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 4: scripture throughout this because my life has been lived in 259 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 4: and drenched in the word of God, as I've been 260 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 4: faithful to the voice of God, and so you're just 261 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 4: gonna take It's gonna be a different ride for everybody. 262 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 4: And I think even as people listen to the album 263 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 4: multiple times, they're going to take a different point of 264 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 4: view or get something different from it as they keep 265 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 4: listening to it. 266 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: I love that, and I love the beautiful messages you 267 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 2: are incorporating into everything. And you know, even though it's 268 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: a Christian album, like you said, there's a little bit 269 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 2: of crossover like country, and you have an affter choir 270 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: in it, a little bit of everything. But I think 271 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: that's what's great about Christian music. It can be so 272 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 2: crossover with other genres of music totally. 273 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 4: You know what's funny is I've always been like people 274 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 4: are like, oh, that's secular, this is sacred. 275 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: No way. 276 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 4: If it's good, it's good. Whatever, it's good, whatever it's lovely, 277 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 4: whatever's pure. That's what the Bible says. So we can't 278 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 4: put labels on anything unless we say what it is. 279 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 4: And so if it's coming from a kingdom place and 280 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 4: it's pure and it's lovely and it matters to God, 281 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 4: then it is spiritual. 282 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. I think people can take what they want, 283 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 2: what messages they want from this new album. I hope 284 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: they will go and stream it check it out. Jen, 285 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: This is a question I love to ask my guest 286 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: since we're on Taking a Walk Nashville. Do you have 287 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 2: a favorite place you like to take a walk in Nashville. 288 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 4: Oh, that is an excellent question and actually exactly what 289 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: I'm doing when I get off of this call. 290 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 2: I love Radner Lake. 291 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 4: It's so beautiful there. I actually love to take my 292 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 4: kids to the park and just kind of walk around 293 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 4: the little area that they're in while they're playing at 294 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 4: the park. So I am a big walker. I put 295 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 4: in some miles girl. Every day, I try to do 296 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 4: like three to six miles. So I'm headed out to 297 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 4: do that right after this call with my little boys. 298 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I know they're still doing some clean up 299 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: over there after the power outage, doing some tree yeah 300 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 2: by Radner Lake. But I think walking in general is 301 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: such a great way to connect with yourself and connect 302 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: with your faith. 303 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 4: Absolutely, walking with me again. I have a song called 304 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 4: walk with Me for just that, because we do need 305 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 4: to just be alone with the Lord and ask him questions. 306 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 4: And ask him to speak to us. We see the 307 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 4: Lord speaking to people all through the Bible. He hasn't stopped, 308 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 4: so as we just are honest with him with our questions, Lord, 309 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 4: speak to me, Here's what I'm going through. The Lord knows, 310 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 4: but as we wait on him to answer is a 311 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 4: really beautiful moment. And going for a walk is a 312 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 4: great way to connect with God. And it's also super 313 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,359 Speaker 4: important physical activity. Not only eating healthy, but super important 314 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 4: is that we stay healthy and stay active physically because 315 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 4: even for our door and door friends and our emotions. 316 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 4: So get out there, eat healthy, and go for a 317 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 4: walk while you listen to my new album. 318 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely take a walk while listening to Jen Johnson's 319 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: new album. You can purchase her book All Things Lovely 320 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 2: and listen to her latest single Here in Your Arms. Jin. 321 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being on Taking a Walk 322 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 2: Nashville today. 323 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 4: You're so welcome. I hope you have an amazing day 324 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 4: and that you go for a walk. 325 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with Sarah Harrelson. 326 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,359 Speaker 1: Please check out our other shows produced by Buzznight Media Productions, 327 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: Comedy Save Me and Music Save Me, hosted by Lynn 328 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: Hoffman and Taking a Walk, hosted by Yours Truly buzz Night. 329 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: All shows are available on appurple Podcasts, Spotify, and are 330 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: part of the iHeart podcast network.