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  • Everyday Grace | 62 | When Life Leaves You Asking, “What Now?”

    Everyday Grace | 62 | When Life Leaves You Asking, “What Now?”
    2026/10/07
    What do you do when you honestly don't know what to do?

    You've gathered the information.You've considered the possibilities.You've done everything you know to do.

    But the decision still has to be made.In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk turns to James 1 and discovers that sometimes we don't need more information—we need wisdom. James writes to believers experiencing real trials and tells them something surprising: count those trials as joy. Not because the difficulty itself is enjoyable, but because God can produce something through it that wasn't there before.

    The testing of faith produces endurance. Endurance matures us. And when we reach the place where we simply don't know what to do next, James gives remarkably straightforward instructions:
    Ask God.And God doesn't reluctantly hand out tiny portions of wisdom.

    James says He gives generously.Using everything from soil and seeds to her granny's heavily loaded jelly biscuits, Belinda reminds us that when our wisdom runs out, God's hasn't.

    The question isn't whether He has enough wisdom.It's whether we'll ask—and trust Him to give it.
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    32 分
  • Everyday Grace | 61 | The Weight of Our Words

    Everyday Grace | 61 | The Weight of Our Words
    2026/09/30
    How much does a word weigh?

    Belinda Kirk once tried to answer that question during a children's sermon—with actual weights.

    As she spoke discouraging words over a young man standing beside her, she placed one weight after another into his arms. Everyone knew the words weren't true. Everyone knew it was only an illustration.

    But something changed in the room.And eventually Belinda couldn't keep going.In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda returns to that unforgettable illustration and opens the book of Proverbs to explore what Scripture says about the extraordinary power of our words.

    Proverbs says death and life are in the power of the tongue. Our words can wound like a sword—or promote healing.

    They can destroy trust through gossip and dishonesty, or nourish others through encouragement, comfort, truth and loving correction.

    And sometimes wisdom simply means knowing when to stop talking.

    Every day, we're placing something into the lives of the people around us with our words.

    The question is: What are we adding?
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    30 分
  • Everyday Grace | 60 | What's It Cost?

    Everyday Grace | 60 | What's It Cost?
    2026/09/23
    We love the stories in Hebrews 11 where faith leads to victory. But what about the stories where it doesn't?

    Hebrews 11 is often called the great “faith chapter”—a remarkable list of men and women who believed God and acted on that belief. Noah built. Abraham went. Moses obeyed. Kingdoms were conquered. Lions' mouths were shut. Fire couldn't consume God's people.

    Then something changes.The same chapter begins describing faithful people who were mocked, imprisoned, tortured, destitute and killed.They had faith too.In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk walks through the comfortable—and uncomfortable—parts of Hebrews 11 to confront an important question: What happens to our faith when following Jesus doesn't produce the outcome we hoped for?

    The answer eventually takes us to Peter in John 21. Jesus tells Peter that following Him will one day cost him his life. Peter immediately looks toward John and asks, essentially, “What about him?”Jesus redirects him:

    “What is that to you? You follow Me.”

    Faith doesn't require knowing how the story will end.

    It requires knowing the One we're following is worth it.
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    30 分
  • Everyday Grace | 59 | What Are You Doing Here?

    Everyday Grace | 59 | What Are You Doing Here?
    2026/09/16
    How do you go from one of the greatest spiritual victories of your life to wanting to give up? Ask Elijah.

    In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk follows Elijah through one of Scripture's most dramatic reversals. On Mount Carmel, Elijah boldly confronts the prophets of Baal, calls Israel back to God, watches fire fall from heaven and then sees rain return after years of drought.

    Then Jezebel threatens his life—and Elijah runs.

    The fearless prophet becomes a frightened, exhausted man sitting beneath a broom tree asking God to let him die.

    But God's response may surprise us. He doesn't begin by condemning Elijah. He allows him to rest. He provides food. He leads him toward Horeb and eventually asks a penetrating question: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

    Belinda uses Elijah's story to speak directly to anyone who has stumbled, become exhausted, felt disqualified or assumed their failure means God has put them on the bench. Elijah discovered that God was still working, he wasn't nearly as alone as he thought—and God still had something for him to do.
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    36 分
  • Everyday Grace | 58 | Person of Heavenly Residence pt II

    Everyday Grace | 58 | Person of Heavenly Residence pt II
    2026/09/09
    Christians are always “wearing” something.

    Paul doesn’t merely tell believers what to take off; he gives them a new wardrobe—compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and above everything else, love. Belinda’s clothing metaphor makes the theology unusually visual and practical.

    Last week, Belinda Kirk talked about the things Christians are told to take off. But taking off the old life is only half the story.

    So what are we supposed to put on?

    In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda returns to Colossians 3 and Paul's picture of the Christian life as changing clothes. If believers are already residents of heaven, our lives should increasingly resemble the place—and the Person—to whom we belong.

    Paul's wardrobe includes tender mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, bearing with one another and forgiveness. Belinda explores what each looks like in everyday relationships, including Paul's remarkable command to forgive others as Christ has forgiven us. And then Paul gives one garment that covers everything else: love.

    Christianity isn't simply about taking sinful behavior off. It's about intentionally putting on the character of Christ
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    31 分
  • Everyday Grace | 57 | A Person of Heavenly Residence pt 1

    Everyday Grace | 57 | A Person of Heavenly Residence pt 1
    2026/09/03
    What do you look like to the people around you—not physically, but spiritually?

    If we claim to follow Christ, should there be something recognizably different about the way we live?

    In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk opens Colossians 3 and explores Paul's practical instructions for people whose identity has been completely changed by Jesus. Christians aren't simply people trying to behave a little better. Scripture says the old has passed away and believers have become new creations whose lives are now “hidden with Christ in God.”

    That new identity, however, should produce a new way of living.

    Belinda explores what it means to intentionally set our minds on things above, put sinful desires to death, and “put off” anger, malice, filthy language, sexual immorality, greed, and the other remnants of our old lives.

    Using the unforgettable picture of carrying our old clothes around in a backpack, Belinda asks why Christians sometimes unzip the bag and put the dirty clothes back on.

    The question isn't whether Christ has made you new. The question is whether the life you're living looks like the new person He has made you.
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    28 分
  • Everyday Grace | 56 | The Three R's of Relationship

    Everyday Grace | 56 | The Three R's of Relationship
    2026/08/26
    How’s your love life—with Jesus?

    It’s possible to attend church, serve faithfully, defend biblical truth, work in ministry, and do all the “right” Christian things while quietly allowing your relationship with Christ to grow cold.

    That’s exactly the problem Jesus confronted in the church at Ephesus.

    In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk walks through Revelation 2 and Christ’s message to a church that seemed remarkably healthy. The Ephesian believers worked hard. They persevered through difficulty. They rejected evil and exposed false teachers.

    Yet Jesus said, “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”

    Their work for Christ had begun to replace their relationship with Christ.

    Belinda explores Christ’s remedy through The Three R’s of Relationship: Remember, Repent, and Respond.

    Remember what your relationship with Jesus was like when spending time with Him was something you desired rather than another obligation.

    Repent—turn around and return to Him.

    Then respond by doing the things that nurture the relationship: opening His Word, praying, worshiping, talking with Him, and intentionally spending time in His presence.

    Christian activity is not a substitute for intimacy with Christ.

    If you’ve become spiritually busy but relationally distant, Jesus hasn’t abandoned the relationship. He’s inviting you home.
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    27 分
  • Everyday Grace | 55 | The Question

    Everyday Grace | 55 | The Question
    2026/08/19
    Who is Jesus?

    A great teacher? A prophet? A miracle worker? The founder of Christianity? Or something much more?

    In Matthew 16, Jesus takes His disciples away from the crowds and asks them two questions. First: “Who do men say that I am?” Then He turns the question directly toward them: “

    But who do you say that I am?”

    In this episode of Everyday Grace, Belinda Kirk explores the setting of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus' use of questions as a teaching tool, the significance of His title “Son of Man,” and the different explanations people were already offering for His identity.

    Then Peter answers: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

    But Belinda doesn't leave Peter's confession two thousand years in the past. She brings Jesus' question into everyday struggles with grief, uncertainty, heartbreak, and fear. If Jesus truly is the Christ, His identity changes how we face everything else.

    And for someone who doesn't yet know Christ, the question becomes even more important.

    You can know what your parents believe. You can know what your church teaches. You can know what culture says about Jesus. But eventually, Jesus' question becomes personal:

    Who do YOU say that I am?
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    27 分