Eliya recounts her journey, starting with her upbringing in Christianity and her decision to step away in search of something more. Along the way, she experimented with drugs, relationships, and compulsive exercise. Despite it all, Jesus pursued her, transforming her life completely. Now overflowing with joy, she shares how her relationship with Jesus brought her true fulfillment and healing.

In this episode, Grace Evelyn shares her mental health journey through anxiety and depression and how she overcame. She discusses the power of scripture, the importance of inviting someone into your struggle, and other practical steps that can help you heal.  She discussed the hope we can have in God’s promises and the beauty in taking off the blinders and looking for the evidence of God working. She emphasizes that you are never alone! Looking back on her darkest moments, she can see that the Lord was always there. He heals, He strengthens, He covers in peace.

In this episode, Riley Grace interviews Alessandra. Alessandra explains that in a performance driven society, we can rest by surrendering our dreams and desires to the one who holds it all. He has a plan for your life, and you can be confident that in seeking him, no matter your qualifications or lack thereof, he will take you on the journey he has for you. His GRACE covers all and in Jesus, we can have confidence and peace in who HE is and what HE can do IN and THROUGH us. He wants to lead you to FULLNESS of life and FREEDOM.

In this episode, Riley Grace shares her experiences seeing God as a personal God of detail and care. In a world where we ache to be known and loved personally, there IS a God who wants our heart. The God who created us wants to be in relationship with us. She tells stories of God revealing himself in big ways to herself and people around her.

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Riley Grace interviews Isaac Frank, a full-ride scholar studying at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University. Isaac openly recounts his Faith journey–leaving his faith in early high school as a result of believing there was no evidence for God, to discovering drugs and psychedelics, to then meeting Jesus. Isaac explains the way Jesus completely restored his life, and how he intellectually came to the realization that Jesus is the way.

Riley Grace interviews her great Aunt Teddy Sawka. She has been a Christian missionary in Japan for the past 50 years and after the tsunami in 2011, she created a women’s knitting club, Yarn Alive that gained worldwide recognition and even made the Wall Street journal.  Suicides were common among the elderly after big natural disasters left them homeless and without a family, and she wanted to make sure that didn’t happen to the women of her town. Not only did it keep them alive but they sent the clothes and blankets they created to hundreds of Syrian refugees and all over the world as natural disasters occurred in other countries. This is the power in obedience. God did more than she ever hoped or could dream.

Riley Grace interviews her high school friend, Lilli Joy Johnson about the question of suffering, the dichotomy of the existence of a good God, while pain exists. Lilli has immense wisdom gained from the experience of losing her dad to cancer, yet a joyful unwavering faith through it all.

Riley Grace interviews Hanna Elks Smith, an economics student at Duke University who recently transferred from the Naval Academy. Hanna Elks recounts her journey in pivoting from her life long dream to pursue what she knew was best for her. Along the way she found Jesus and he completely changed her life. She finishes by sharing the story of how God paved the way through her transition to Duke, and brought her lifelong friends in the first few weeks.

In this episode, Riley explains the power of storytelling and the greatest story of all. Join her as she walks through some of her life's biggest stories and the way she saw God moving through all of them.