Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today are award-winning

singers, songwriters, and authors Mark Lowry and Andrew Greer. Mark and Andrew are the hosts of a video series that appears on iTunes,

YouTube, and Facebook called Dinner Conversations, Turning the Light on One Question

at a Time. The two friends began the show as a way for people they admire and respect to have candid conversations about life, faith, and the things that matter to them most.

Mark and Andrew both also share their backgrounds and a love of storytelling and why

honest and open conversation has always meant so much to them both.

Hey I'm Andrew Greer and I am a singer, a songwriter, and author, a conversation

starter here in Nashville, Tennessee. And my name is Mark Lowry, and I am the old one of this duo. I've been around and doing a lot of stuff for a long time. I write songs, I've written books, I've written children's books, I've sung in a quartet, I've written books I've written children's books I've sung in a quartet I've sung solo I've been

accused of being a comedian I'm a storyteller that's probably that's probably it in a

nutshell because everything is just about the story.

I remember my dad and his brothers, the Lowry Boys, they would sit around and tell stories

when they were young and my dad said I was like five or six and I walked up and I wanted

to tell a story about something I'd done and my dad stopped me and said he said

whoa whoa whoa mark he? Because it just probably happened yesterday.

And it's like, you got a lot of years past

before you go back and tell these stories.

My mother played piano in church.

I wasn't athletic.

I went out for Pee Wee everything and they made me the water boy because I'd get out in

left field. My dad said I told me this the other day he said he looked out there and I was sitting down and he said

None of our people none of my friends can hit it this far out. You know that was my thing. Why would I

break? Why would I stand when I can sit so I wasn't good at

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