The Grace Cafe Podcast

This episode is a conversation about 4 areas of our lives that are radically different than they were when we were in the midst of performance-based Christianity (PBC). Our conversation centers around the topics of marriage, theology, community, and perspective. See the full description for more details.

This episode is centered around the question, "Did the Father Pour His Wrath on Jesus at the Cross and abandon Him there?" Our friends Greg and Kim join us via Zoom and asked us this question. During our conversation, a couple other questions arose related to it: "Did Jesus descend into hell when he died?" and "What is baptism for the dead?" See full description for more information.

Welcome to episode 98 of The Grace Cafe Podcast. Let's talk about some of the ways institutional Christianity has trained us to weaponize our faith and to weaponize our understanding of the Bible, especially when dealing with others whose opinions differ from out own and with whom we disagree.

This episode is a free-flowing conversation about our own detox from institutional religion and ways our thinking has changed over the years as we've distanced ourselves from performance-based Christianity and religious obligation. Our conversation revealed to us how much influence, control, and manipulation organized religion can have over us, all in the name of Jesus, while keeping us from fully experiencing Jesus. We hope you find encouragement in this episode as you listen in.

Welcome to episode 96 of The Grace Cafe Podcast. After a much needed break, we settled in behind the podcast mics to talk about life during these weird pandemic times and the importance of being kind to yourself. This free-flowing conversation touches on many subjects related to life under a global pandemic. See full description for links to what we talked about.

Welcome to episode 95 of the Grace Cafe Podcast. After a four month hiatus, we're back! We thought we would pick back up by talking about how the way we view our journey out of performance-based faith continues to change, as our understanding of who we are in Jesus becomes more clear. See full description for all the goodies!

Welcome to episode 94 of The Grace Cafe Podcast. We hope that you all are coping well with this global pandemic we find ourselves in. None of us have experienced anything like this before. It's a first for all of us and it's normal to have fears, worries, and uncertainties. We have them too. We talk about that in this episode as well as the additional noise that social media adds to our lives and Mike's decision to leave Facebook because of that noise.

Welcome to episode 93. This episode is the result of a lot of conversations the two of us have had over the last 5-6 weeks as the trajectory of our lives has undergone a definitive shift. A friend of ours, Matt McMillen, recently put this quote on Instagram:

"Sometimes it takes 10 years to get that 1 year that will change your life." 

Matt's quote was a catalyst that brought clarity and defined more precisely what we've been experiencing and talking about for the last 5-6 weeks.

Jesus told the Pharisees of his day, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness of me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." The Pharisees of Jesus' day believed that an academic pursuit of the Old Testament was life-giving and in so doing, they missed the point of the Old Testament, Jesus. They forfeited a relationship with the God of the Old Testament in favor of academic pursuit and achievement. Let's talk...

This episode is an energized conversation with Matt McMillen about the New Covenant and our identity in Jesus. See full description for details.