Welcome to Ep. #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?

Welcome to Ep. #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?

Welcome to Ep. #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.

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.

Welcome to Ep. #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!

Welcome to Ep. 1029 — The Purpose Question

You feel it every time. Someone says something that isn’t quite right - in a comment, in a conversation, in a sermon - and you sit there carrying a question you don’t know what to do with.

Do you say something? Do you stay quiet? You’ve been running that triage your whole Christian life, and nobody ever gave you anything better than instinct to answer it with.

What if the problem isn’t that you don’t know what to say — but that you haven’t yet asked the one question that makes everything else clear? The answer might not be what you’ve been taught.

Welcome to Ep. #1028 - How Might God Make Much of Grace?

Are you shrinking so Christ can be increasing? Should you? Can you?

Stick around. This one might change everything you thought you knew about that verse - and much of how you live out His Life.

Welcome to Ep. # 1027 - The Beautiful Hazard of Life Together!”

The incredible irony that God has made us to know him through one another, and made us to live in His character with one another, is the very thing that makes us completely incompatible with one another apart from Him!

Maybe the greatest miracle in the universe, the greatest Divine feat in history, is that we can love one another today!

Grab your coffee and pull up a comfy chair and let’s dive in to the richness of his grace together as we explore this incredible mystery of how he has by Grace perfectly fitted us to one another.