If you’ve ever wondered whether God actually gave you free will or if this is all just one big predestined simulation… same. This episode is a raw, unfiltered journal-style wrestle with God — featuring heavy theology, honest confusion, tiny sparks of revelation, and my service dog Zola eating a sock in the background like it’s a holy act of worship.

We talk about:

• Predestination vs. free will — is this rigged??
• Sarah’s impatience, Hagar’s pain, and realizing I am both of them
• What “being made new” actually means — the non-aesthetic version
• Why God didn’t just reset the world after Adam & Eve messed up

This is not a sermon. It’s not cleaned-up. It’s me asking the questions out loud — and somehow discovering that wrestling with God might actually be holy.

If you feel too real, too angry, too confused to sound like a “good Christian”… Pull up a chair. You’re safe here.

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Mentioned concepts in this episode:

• Romans 8:28–30
• Regeneration vs. behavior modification
• Why Eden wasn’t the end — and why New Creation is different
• God’s grace toward both Sarah and Hagar

Welcome to Let’s Get Deep with Kalee Grace — the podcast for those who love Jesus but are tired of church performance, shallow answers, and coddled Christianity.

This isn’t a safe, sanitized faith space. This is for the ones who wrestle with God, carry holy questions, and refuse to pretend everything is fine when it’s not.

In this intro episode, I share:

• Who I am and why I started this — as a Navy veteran, trauma survivor, and raw Jesus follower
• What this podcast is and isn’t — no fake, no spiritual performance, no filters
• Why Zola & Co. exists — a home for the spiritually exhausted, questioning, and overlooked
• What you can expect from every episode — honesty over aesthetic, healing over hype, presence over performance

If you’ve ever felt unseen by God, burned by church culture, or spiritually starved while everyone else pretends — you’re not alone. You’re exactly who this is for.