Woohoo - it’s Triber Tuesday! Welcome to Ep. #1052: “Triber Tuesday w/ guest Steve Eden!” 

 Steve has served as a pastor with Grace Church in Oklahoma for many years, and partners with this ministry on many levels, including co-leading our weekly podcast: “The 24:7 Podcast” (The247Podcast.com or wherever you listen to podcasts)! 

 You’re going to love hearing his story and insight as Mike and Steve talk about a whole lot of grace over a little bit of coffee.

Welcome to Ep. #1051 — "Living as the Saint You Already Are!" 

If grace has already made you righteous, forgiven, accepted, and new, what exactly are you supposed to do with the Christian life? Does resting in Christ make you passive—or does trying harder quietly put you right back at the center of a life only He can live? 

So how do saints actually live? Where do grace, faith, obedience, effort, and spiritual growth fit together? The answer might not be what you’ve been taught.

Welcome to Ep. #1050 — “Forever Loved, Forever Forgiven!” (part 7 in our SAINTED devotional series) 

 You know grace is true - until you stumble yet again.  Then that quiet question starts creeping in: Is God disappointed with you now?  Did you damage something between you and Him? 

 Do you need to get yourself together before you can come confidently to Him again?  Are you even saved?  So, the question: Can your failures actually change God’s relationship with you?  The answer: not quite what most of us heard or at least had implied, most of our lives in church.

Welcome to Ep. #1049 — "Enough Already!"  (Part 6 of our SAINTED series about what’s really true if you by grace!) 

 If you’re like most people, you see the truth in scripture of what God is in us, how Christ lives through us and produces life and love and power in our lives and conversations, and you wonder why you feel like you’re falling short? 

 Why isn’t MY soul-tank feeling full – enough love and patience and wisdom for the next conversation or the deadline or the demands of the circumstances? 

 So, what if you don't have enough? What if you’re not equipped for what’s in front of you, or you have the shame of not having had enough for what’s behind you?

Welcome to Ep. #1048 - "Christ Didn't Visit. He Moved In!" 

 It’s like we keep glancing at the driveway, isn’t it? Waiting for God to pull in, to show up, to finally feel close after you've prayed enough, read enough, gotten quiet enough.  We’ve measured our whole religious life by perceived distance - how near we as Christians feel, how far we’ve drifted - like closeness to God was a commute you might not finish today. 

 So where is Jesus, actually, right now? We know the answers, and yet still miss the powerful truth so often, don’t we? This is the question this we answer together today.

Welcome to Ep. #1047 — SAINTED, Part 4: “Are You Righteous?” 

 Did God really change you - or just your eternal address? 

So what happened to you the moment you trusted Christ — improvement, or something else entirely? 

Today’s episode answers that plainly, and it’s a much bigger deal than most of us were ever taught to expect.

Welcome to Ep. #1046 — “Raised Brand New! 

 Of course, we KNOW what Scripture says about being a new creation, but sometimes our own experience seems to argue back, doesn’t it?  You still recognize old reactions, familiar fears, and patterns you thought should have disappeared by now. 

 It’s easy to begin to wonder if anything really changed - or if you’re just trying to become a better version of the same old person.

Good morning, Grace Tribe and welcome to Ep. #1045: SAINTED part 2 - “Dead Means Dead”! 

Grab a coffee and pull up your cozy chair as we dive into understanding what it means that the old US is dead and the new you is in Christ!  We are alive and well in him today. 

Welcome to Ep. #1044 — SAINTED, Part 1: “Who Gets to Be Called a Saint?” 

 You probably wouldn’t think twice about calling yourself forgiven.  But would you ever call yourself a saint?  Something in you hesitates.  It sounds arrogant, almost wrong, because you’ve quietly learned to define yourself more by your struggles than by what God says is true of you. 

 What does it actually mean to be a saint? And why did the Apostle Paul call ordinary, struggling believers’ “saints” instead of “sinners”?  The answer might not be what you’ve been taught.

Welcome to Episode # 1043, “You really are the Gift” 

Have you heard people sarcastically say “well, you really are God’s gift, aren’t you,” meaning your stuck up and prideful.

But what if true humility is embracing divinely given adequacy for others?  

What if you really ARE God’s beloved gift to those around you today?