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Bought + Beloved with Kirby Kelly

Don't Waste Your Valley Season ft. Jonathan McReynolds

Bought + Beloved with Kirby Kelly

Bought + Beloved with Kirby Kelly

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Self-improvement, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What if the valley had just as much to offer as the mountain? I think that because of certain poetic language in the Bible about the valley, we forsake it and idolize the mountaintop moments alone; my friend Jonathan McReynolds agrees! But God might be calling some of us off of the mountain to meet Him in the valley to develop our character, grow us in wisdom, and bless us with beauty we didn't know we could find there. I hope you enjoy this week's episode as we dive into this topic of conversation!

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0:00.0

Life Audio Everybody talks about the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain you're climbing, the mountain that God's presence is resting upon.

0:10.6

But we don't talk enough about the valley and the fruit and the character and the wisdom that's found in that place.

0:17.8

That is what we're talking about today.

0:24.1

Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents and welcome to this week's episode of the

0:28.1

Vaugh and Beloved podcast. As always, it's a girl, Kirby Kelly, back at it again with another

0:33.4

incredible guest. And I'm so excited to have gospel singer and songwriter Jonathan McReynolds here on the

0:41.5

podcast. Oh my goodness. This is such a big deal. I'm so excited to have him on today. And we're actually

0:47.6

talking about a book that he recently came out with. Like literally today is launch day. So you

0:53.4

have to get it once the episode

0:54.9

is done, right? But it's called Before You Climb Any Higher. And I specifically love the tagline.

1:02.0

So Jonathan, you and your team did a really good job with that. But the tagline is Valley Wisdom for

1:08.5

Mountain Dreams. I love it. But before we even dive into any of that today,

1:14.3

Jonathan, thank you for being here. Can you just tell everybody a little bit about who you are,

1:19.2

what you're passionate about, and what makes you you? Sure. And thank you so much. I am a

1:24.7

Chicagoan, Chicago-born. I don't live there anymore, but I hold on to it. I am a church

1:32.3

kid, musician turned nerd, turned gospel artist. I don't know how it all happened. I suddenly

1:40.4

expected to be a computer engineer or something else, but it turns out God had

1:46.1

artistic plans for me.

1:47.8

And so for the past, now, 10, maybe almost 15 years, I've been traveling around the world,

1:56.4

singing gospel music, you know, trying to lead people to Christ, point people to Christ. I've been in a lot

2:03.7

of different places. I haven't just done kind of the church world, but I've taken Jesus into

2:08.9

the, the weirder places as well. And so it's been really fun for me as this, you know, nerd to try to figure out this whole life in the music world.

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