Welcome to EP # 1042 - “Being the Bread?”

We’ve been talking about living as the Beloved of God, that He loves us and loves through us as we live from Christ as our Life. But what about brokenness? Is God breaking you?

What does that really mean for those who are made new and whole and complete and forgiven and beloved in Christ? Is God breaking down his Beloved?

We’re going to look at what this REALLY means (and what it doesn’t!), and how you get to live beautifully in the fullness of Christ as his Beloved in the world today.

Welcome to #2 in our Living as God’s Beloved series: Ep. 1041 - “The Blessedness of your Belovedness”.

It’s not that you can demand whatever you want from God, and it’s not that you get everything to go your way, God isn’t the kind of dad that spoils his kids. But because you’re Beloved, it’s nice to know the pleasure of your heavenly father toward you, isn’t it?

Pour a tall cup of coffee and pull up a comfy chair as we dive deep into the blessedness of God‘s Beloved, that’s YOU! As his child he is raising you up in the way that you should go and he’s loving you every step of the way. Do you believe it? When we do, it changes everything, and after today’s talk, you may never see it any other way!

Good MORNING Grace Tribe! Episode # 1040, “You Know What YOUR Problem is?”

It’s a good problem to have and an absolutely glorious problem to fix. And fixing THE problem, fixed pretty much everything.

I’m so excited to be back with you after a long weekend at our conference in Pennsylvania!

Can’t wait to pour a big ol’ cup of coffee and drink deeply of life in Christ reality with you all today. Grab your notebook and a comfy chair and let’s enjoy Tuesday in Him together!

Good morning Grace Tribe! Welcome to Ep. #1039 - The Redemptive Power of Emotionally Healthy Living in Christ (part for in our series on emotionally healthy living in Jesus!).

God is in the redemption business, and when we live from Christ as our Life, we join in with His redemptive work.

How? Grab your coffee and pull up a comfy chair as we diving in together to His Life in and through us for healthy emotional walking and living and relating in a broken world and with hurting people.

Welcome to Ep. #1038 - "The Courage to Be Known"! (Emotionally Healthy Life in Christ, Part 3)

You've perfected the art of being “fine”. Someone asks how you're doing and the word is out before you've even thought about it - very smooth, & yet completely unconvincing to anyone paying attention.

You’re pressing a version of you that’s well edited, and approved for public consumption. And somewhere underneath it, the real version is often exhausted and overwhelmed from not being let out.

What if this is the exact opposite of what you and others need? It feels a bit dangerous, but healthy and vulnerable, faith and authenticity are two sides of the same coin, so what if you finally let someone see you, not desperate or needy, but true, risky, vulnerable? It would be life changing, and not just for you.

Welcome to Ep. #1037 — “Are We Really Listening?”!

You’ve sat across from someone and nodded in all the right places while your mind was somewhere else entirely - or already forming your response, already waiting for your turn.

They could feel it, even if neither of you said a word. We call it listening. It might be something closer to a performance. So are we the same with God - half-present, halfhearted, half needy, (yep, 3 halves CAN’T be healthy. 😂) ~ What does it actually take to be fully present with another person - and why does it feel so rare? The answer starts somewhere you might not expect.

Welcome to Ep. #1036 - “An Emotional Awake Faith”!

We’ve all seen it and been there ourselves… Something happens and you're already reacting before you even knew you were upset. Whether we said something you didn't mean, or went quiet when you should have spoken, or spent three hours managing an emotion you never actually saw or considered the source of.

This is broken, it’s a whole culture where something inside us is running the show, playing scripts we haven’t chosen, in roles we didn’t want - and few are entirely aware of what it is or that it’s even happening.

What if the problem isn't that you feel too much — but that you've never learned to listen to what your feelings are actually telling you? And what if that changes everything about how you live, love, and trust God?

Welcome to Ep. #1035 - “Why The Cross (More Than Revelation)”

What problem did Christ solve on the cross? Was it just revelation of something about us, or is it offering, inviting something entirely different? That wasn’t yet true?