Episode # 1026, “Not from around here, are you?”

Episode # 1034, "Perfect Joy of Beautiful Focus!"

Welcome to Ep. #1034 [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/1034] - Perfect Joy of Beautiful Focus! Have you ever had a hard week - your temper short, your thought life a mess, your devotion thin - and underneath the discouragement, a quieter, colder question surfaced?  What if I'm not really saved?  Maybe you've never heard that taught directly, but you've felt it in the air: if you were truly reborn, your life would show consistent, increasing victory over sin, right?  And if it doesn't always, so maybe you were never saved at all? What’s real?  What’s true?  How do we know?

Episode # 1033, "Not so Wormy!"

Welcome to Ep. #1033 [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/1033] - “Not so Wormy!”  There’s a voice that says the most honest thing about you is your wretchedness.  That your joy is shallowness.  That your peace is naivety.  That if you just felt broken enough, long enough, deeply enough — then maybe God would finally be satisfied with you.  But what if that voice isn’t speaking for God at all?  What if the most radical thing you could do isn’t feel worse about yourself, after all? How do we know what to believe when self-deprecating religion sounds so humble?

Episode # 1032, "Always Enough!"

Welcome to Ep. #1032 [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/1032] - “Always Enough!”  No matter how hard we try, why doesn’t it feel like enough?  We want to do better, to do more for God and others, but we have real limits - is our hope that God understands or that He will make up the difference because we get a “A” for effort?  Should we feel good or bad about all the trying and not quite arriving?  What if obedience was never meant to work the way you’ve been living it?  The answer might not be what you’ve been taught.

Episode # 1031, "Never Enough! Part 1 of the Truth About Obedience & Growth"

Welcome to Ep. 1031 - Never Enough!  We've tried and worked, then failed and felt horrible.   Doesn’t God deserve more of our effort?  Should we be more committed?  Isn’t that maturity?  What if the whole framework of striving for obedience and growth was wrong from the start? What if obedience was never meant to work that way? The answer might not be what you’ve been taught.

Episode # 1030, "What Makes THIS Rich? - The Purpose Question"

Welcome to Ep. #1030 [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/1030] - "What Makes THIS Rich? - The Purpose Question".   What brings life and fullness into every situation, and shouldn't God's purpose for each room and conversation fulfill God's purpose FOR us as well.  Grab your coffee and pull up a comfy chair to join Mike and the Grace Tribe for this message from Bonhoeffer to Paul to Proverbs to discover the enriching reality of The Purpose Question for you and all you encounter this week!