Welcome to Ep. #871 — “Signed in Blood: The Declaration That Frees” (Series: Truly Free — Liberty by Grace) We talk about freedom a lot—especially this week. But if we’re already free in Christ… why don’t we live like it? Why does shame still feel like our native language? Why do we still second-guess grace, tiptoe through forgiveness, and secretly wonder if we’re on spiritual probation? With Independence Day around the corner, we’re looking at what real freedom means—and whether we’re actually ...
Jun 30, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 871
Welcome to Ep. #870 — Sharpening the Saw: Thinking Well as Worship Why do we so often react without reflection… consume without clarity… absorb without asking if it’s even true? If your mind is meant to be a vessel for grace, how do you steward it in a world of noise? How might we as Christ-indwelt children of God grow in wisdom and truth without striving in flesh?
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 870
Welcome to Ep. #869 — Seek to Engage Deeply, Then Usefully Why is it so hard to just be present with someone—without fixing, preaching, or explaining? How might Christ’s presence in you change how you are with others today?
Jun 25, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 869
Welcome to Ep. #868 — Begin with the Grace in Mind What do you do when the finish line disappears? How do you move forward when you can’t see how it ends… or when it doesn’t look like what you imagined? Is it possible to live with confidence—even when the outcome is unclear?
Jun 24, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 868
Welcome to Ep. #867 — The Power of Divine Initiative Happy Monday! What if the biggest obstacle in your life… isn’t just about what’s happening to you, but what you’re waiting for? While everyone is waiting for someone or something, as they delay, deflect, and do the bare minimum, you’ve been equipped to go live a different kind of life. This isn’t worldly ambition or taking charge. It’s holy action. And it starts right where you are....
Jun 23, 2025•42 min•Season 1Ep. 867
Welcome to Ep. #866 — “Another Christ Life Q&A Day” (Spiritual conversation over Grace & Coffee) Today we’re leaning into more honest, thoughtful questions about life in Christ: • When and where is God in control or in charge? • Can we actually meet our own spirit? • Aren’t we still transactional with God when verses like Deuteronomy 28 say blessing depends on obedience? • Isn’t the one doing the hurting one of His kids too? That’s hard to reconcile. • Did Judas have a choice to walk awa...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 866
Welcome to Ep. #865 Grace Tribe Q&A! (Series: Grace & Coffee Conversations) We are dealing with relationships, spiritual life, and biblical clarity in a handful of interesting topics today! Can we understand what God controls? What does it mean to honor a parent who’s caused deep pain? How do two spirits become one—like God’s and mine? Was Judas ever really free to walk away? And what in the world is “Jeremiah Counsel”… and should we care? And more!...
Jun 16, 2025•51 min•Season 1Ep. 865
Welcome to Ep. #864 — Out Here on the Fringe ~ (Series: Relational Living from the Inside Out) We’re surrounded by people—and somehow still starving for connection. Is it possible that our shallowest relationships are pointing to a deeper ache? Let’s talk about the strangers in our lives… and the story God might be writing through them. Not as a burden or checkbox, but an easy flowing, divine participation, threshold to intimacy with Christ opportunity to open our eyes to the truth and power and...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 864
Welcome to Ep. #863— Getting Real About Relationships Beyond Projects and Neediness (Series: Relational Living from the Inside Out) Why do so many of us feel unseen in a world of constant connection? We joke, we text, we hang out—but when the dust settles, are we really known? Have friendships become more about escape than engagement? Performance more than presence?
Jun 11, 2025•52 min•Season 1Ep. 863
Welcome to Ep. #862 — Relating as a Grace-Based Person (Series: Relational Living from the Inside Out – Part 2) Why do the people closest to us often hurt us the most? Why do we keep trying to fix today’s relationships with yesterday’s wounds? What if the real issue isn’t just about them… but something deeper we carry into every room?
Jun 10, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 862
Ep. #861 — The Center Holds: Living From Relationship, Not for It (Series: Relational Living from the Inside Out — Part 1) Why does loving the people closest to us often feel the hardest? We want connection, but instead we manage tension. We try to serve, and somehow still feel unseen. We reach out for comfort, and wind up more wounded than when we started. Our families exhaust us. Our friendships confuse us. Our ministries burn us out. If relationships are the fabric of life… then why does it f...
Jun 09, 2025•50 min•Season 1Ep. 861
Good morning Gracers! Welcome to Ep. #860 — “Reflection & Realignment: Grace-Based Reset” (Summer Launch Series, Day 4) Is your soul tired from trying to stay on track… or unsure what the track even is? What if your life isn’t out of control—it’s just out of rhythm? Let’s talk about why even our best intentions to reset sometimes leave us more exhausted than encouraged.
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 860
Welcome to Ep. #859 — Summer Tables & Sacred Time: Building What Matters Most (Summer Launch Series, Day 3) We’re halfway through the year, trying to reset… But what if the thing that really needs attention isn’t your plan… It’s your presence? What happens when we’ve got food on the table—but no time for the people around it? What if the most important thing this summer isn’t what you accomplish… But who you might be missing?...
Jun 04, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 859
Welcome to Triber Tuesday with our guest, Neil Pledger! (Ep. #858 – Summer Launch Series, Day 2) What happens when we stop chasing the hustle and start trusting the harvest? Can we really reset our rhythms—and our hearts—around grace, not grind? Join Mike & UK guest Neil Pledger for a refreshing, honest conversation about performance, pace, and the peace of living from our union with Christ.
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 858
Welcome to Ep. #857 — Midyear, Not Midmess: A Graceful Reset (Summer Launch Series, Day 1) We’re halfway through the year… so why do so many of us feel behind, burned out, or just plain blurry? What happens when the vision we had in January doesn’t match the life we’re actually living in June? Is it too late to realign? Too soon to start again? Or have we been measuring the wrong things all along? Could this summer be an invitation—not to hustle harder—but to walk into a season of sweet solace, ...
Jun 02, 2025•51 min•Season 1Ep. 857
Welcome to Ep. #856 — The Freedom to Grow Slowly. (We’ve been talking about: freedom - its cost, its impact, Its value, and more!) Ever feel like you’re behind? Like you should be further along by now—spiritually, emotionally, maybe just with your inbox? But what if all that pressure… isn’t coming from God?
May 29, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 856
Happy Wednesday! Welcome to Ep. #855 — “The Freedom That Worships” (Series: A Week of Freedom & Grace) What do you do with a freedom that cost everything? What if worship isn’t what we think it is? And what if the most faithful thing today… is the thing that doesn’t feel spiritual at all? Brew something warm. Bring an open heart. Let’s wrestle with the mystery of real freedom and grace from a biblical powerful perspective together....
May 28, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 855
Welcome to Ep. #854 — “Giving Value: A Life of Love in Action” What does it mean to give someone value? Why does it matter in a world that measures worth in likes, speed, and status?
May 27, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 854
Welcome to Ep. #853 — The Cost of Freedom. On this Memorial Day, we’re not just firing up the grill—we’re lighting a flame of remembrance. What if the most Christlike thing someone can do… is give their life so others can live free? Join us as we take a sacred pause to celebrate the liberty Christ secured by His sacrifice—and to honor those who’ve mirrored that love in service to our nation. Freedom is always costly. But when it’s born of grace and given in love… it’s worth every drop....
May 26, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 853
Welcome to Ep. #852 — Grace Beyond the Greats Some of the most powerful voices in Christian history have stirred our souls—Tozer, Chambers, Spurgeon, Lewis… and more. But is it possible that even the greatest teachers sometimes missed the fullness of the Gospel? What if some taught grace that forgives—but not grace that indwells and truly transforms? Can someone revere God deeply… and still wear a theology that doesn’t quite fit the finished work of Christ?...
May 22, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 852
Welcome to Ep. #851 — “Grace in the Reroute”. Ever make all the right moves… only to watch the plan fall apart? What if the detour isn’t a mistake? How do we live with that? Where do we find security and hope when the road changes without warning?
May 21, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 851
Woohoo - it’s Triber Tuesday! Welcome to Ep. #850 : “Triber Tuesday w/ guest Diana Hamidi!” Diana is a gifted discipleship counselor in many areas in her story is transformative. You’re goanna love hearing from her insight as Mike and Diana talk about a whole lot of grace over a little bit of coffee.
May 20, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 850
Welcome to Ep. #849 — “You Don’t Have to Walk on Water—You Just Have to Enjoy Jesus in the Rain” ~ (Series: Living Essentially) Life doesn’t have to be ideal for you to be full. On today’s episode, we’re wrapping the week with a grace-soaked reminder: peace and joy aren’t waiting on better circumstances—they’re found in knowing Christ where you are, even in the rain.
May 15, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 849
Welcome to Ep. #848 — “Living Essentially is Learning to Live in the Freedom of Christ as Life” ~ (Series: Living Essentially) What happens when even our pursuit of “what matters most” becomes a quiet rejection of grace? Today we’re exploring how the soul can slip from trusting Christ to trying to manage life—even with good intentions.
May 14, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 848
Welcome to Ep. #847 — “The Trap of Trying to Enjoy” (Series: Living Essentially) Sometimes the harder we try to enjoy life, the more it slips through our fingers. What if joy isn’t something we curate, but something we receive? Join us this morning as we stop staging peace and start living from the Presence of Christ in the now.
May 13, 2025•37 min•Season 1Ep. 847
Welcome to Ep. #846 — “Diluted Joy & the Death of Now” (New Series: Living Essentially) It’s a brand-new week—and maybe what we need most isn’t more momentum, but more deliberate presence. Lets settle our souls into the sufficiency of Christ, sip some coffee, and stop chasing the next thing long enough to enjoy the grace that’s already here.
May 12, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 846
Welcome to Ep. #845 — Now Is the Time: What the I Am Is Up To in You. (Series: Now Is the Time — Living Eternal Purpose in a Tick-Tock World) Ever feel like you’re waiting for life to slow down… or start, or get right-side-up – waiting to finally feel ready to live on purpose? What if the I Am is already working in your right now, not waiting for you to catch up?
May 08, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 845
Welcome to Ep. #844 — The Fallacy of Fretting: Stop Stressing, Start Living ~ (Series: Now Is the Time — Living Eternal Purpose in a Tick-Tock World) Ever feel caught in the cycle of worry, like you’re always a step behind? What if the real invitation isn’t to fix the past or catch up, but to walk freely with Jesus right now?
May 07, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 844
Oh Yeah!! It’s TRIBER TUESDAY, with Mike & our guest Neil Pledger! Join Mike and Neil as we discuss truth, freedom, grace, body, life, and more to make real Grace life practical for you and me. It’s going to be a fantastic morning.
May 06, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 843
Ep. #842 — Redeeming Your Time is Just Walking by GRACE! We’re launching a brand-new series this week! Ever feel like you’re failing at managing your time? Wondering how to really redeem the moments God gives you? Feeling panicky pressure that you’re not making the most of your time? Life does not need to be that hard, my friends!
May 05, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 842
