Welcome to Grace Enough Podcast, where Amber Cullum and special guests fearlessly tackle challenging faith questions while unraveling the limitless grace of God. Through engaging podcast conversations, Amber dives deep into the hard truths of life and reveals the boundless grace of God through inspiring stories of men and women walking in the kingdom of God here on earth. Grace Enough's mission is to offer more than a Band-aid Bible verse or empty platitude to individuals on their spiritual journeys with Jesus. Discover a wealth of free resources at www.graceenoughpodcast.com. This podcast is specially designed to uplift and encourage Christians, reminding them that, regardless of their stories, God can use them to make an impact on His kingdom. Embracing surrender and trust, you'll discover that His grace is truly enough. Tune in now and embark on a remarkable journey of faith.
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Erica Baldwin and Amber discuss living with an invisible illness, God's sustaining grace, and suffering well.
Questions about Invisible Illness (Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) Erica and Amber Discuss:- (3:23) February is Rare Disease Month, which is near to your heart, because it is personal. Will you take us back and share the event that happened when you were 20 years old that launched you into discovering the rare/invisible disease you live with daily?
- (7:59) It wasn't until age 33 that you were diagnosed with Vascular Ehler's-Danlos Syndrome. What was life like from age 20-33 in regards to your health and what was your relationship with Jesus like during that time?
- (11:33) It was during childbirth that you came close to losing your life. Will you share a bit about your experience, recovery and how you clung to the Lord during that time?
- (18:51) VEDs is not only rare, but it is an invisible illness. What would you like people to know about living with an invisible illness?
- (21:09) Talk about suffering well, and surrendering to Christ while living life with a rare, invisible illness.
- (26:39) What are some of ways you've experienced purpose as a result of your suffering?
- (31:02) Have you had any big events since your son has been born?
- (32:51) How has the grace of God been enough for you?
- 51: Vaneetha Risner | When Suffering is Your Story
- 157: Costi Hinn | Is It Always God's Will to Heal?
- 124: Joe Delagrave | Story of Becoming A Paralympian
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
John Eldredge and Amber discuss the collective trauma experienced as we continue life during a pandemic, the practice of regular pauses, and what it means to practice benevolent detachment.
Practice. Pause. Be Present. Questions John and Amber Discuss:- (7:22) Right before the world shut down you released Get Your Life Back, which spoke to how we can "disentangle from the tragedies of this broken world". Two years of the world living during a global pandemic, I would love to hear your thoughts on the pandemic's impact on human minds and hearts.
- (11:05) What are some soul care practices we can do right now?
- (16:01) Share a bit about benevolent detachment, this truth that “we are not called to carry the burdens of the world, but our village.”
- (19:44) Speaking of our mental and emotional well being, how can we be present with our emotions in order to allow Jesus in without being ruled by them?
- (30:39) My friend Eric said you gave one of the most powerful presentations of the Gospel he's ever heard, weaving it into one story God was telling and finishing. Will you share a bit of that story with us?
- (36:18) In regards to prayer and communion, how do you relate to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit differently?
- (44:56) What are you working on right now?
- (45:39) How have you experienced the sufficiency of God's grace in your life?
- 152: Sharon Garlough Brown | Spiritual Practices & Formation
- 92: Ted Turnau & Jared Moore | Pop Culture Parent
- 154: Ashley Hales | Embracing Limits
- 29: Jan Johnson | Spiritual Direction, Hearing God's Voice
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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Chris Martin joins Amber to discuss how social media is shaping us and practical ways we push back against its negative impacts. They dive into his new book, Terms of Service.
How the Internet is Shaping Us Episode Questions:- (5:49) Share a little of your faith journey with us. When did you begin walking with Jesus?
- (11:38) In your book, Terms of Service, you write much about how the social internet has and is shaping us. Will you share a few ways we are “servants of the social internet that was originally marketed as something that would serve us”?
- (19:05) One of your chapters is titled “We believe attention assigns value”. Flesh that out for us a bit and discuss the destruction this belief is causing
- (24:19) What makes us continue to log on despite emerging research of social internet’s negative effects on us?
- (27:33) We hear the analogy “Social media is like a drug”, but you go further in saying that analogy is not as true as it could be. Will you share your analogy and what you mean by it.
- (33:40) After laying out 5 ways the social internet shapes us, you share 6 ideas of where to go from here. I am going to say those chapter titles out loud and I want you to share the first few thoughts that pop into your mind when you think about how “we can be on our way to forming the social internet more than it forms us.”
- Study History
- Admire Creation
- Value Silence
- Pursue Humility
- Establish Accountability
- Build Friendships
- (45:43) As we close, speak directly to the Christian who senses the impact the social internet is having on them, but is still struggling to set limits. How would you encourage them to take the next step?
- 71: Krista Boan | Tips for Parents in the Digital Age
- 72: Justin Whitmel Earley | Habits of Purpose in the Digital Age
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Mattie Jackson Selecman and Amber discuss her journey of finding joy in debilitating grief after the tragic loss of her husband, Ben. We also talk about honest conversation with a God who cares and living a life she never expected all of which is chronicled in her best selling memoir, Lemons on Friday .
Tidbits of Joy & Debilitating Grief Questions Discussed:- (7:05) Share a little of your faith journey with us. When did you begin walking with Jesus?
- (10:02) Share a bit of what life was like growing up as the daughter of Alan Jackson.
- (12:19) In October of 2017 you married Ben Selecman, but 3 weeks before your 1 year anniversary tragedy struck. Take us back, share about the accident with our listeners, and what life was like those days in the hospital with Ben.
- (19:29) In your grief, you began to grapple with questions like, "Why did this happen? What could I have done differently? Where is God?" What did you discover about the steadfast love of God during the first few years of grief?
- (24:28) Let's talk about finding tidbits of joy in the midst of pain and how debilitating grief can co-exist with laughter and moments of joy.
- (33:35) You've written, "One of my biggest fears when I lost Ben was that my pain wouldn’t matter. I was bold and relentless and, honestly, pretty entitled with the Lord, demanding that he make Ben’s death and my grief help others in some way, any way that might bring purpose to my pain." How have those prayers been answered?
- (37:18) As we close, speak directly to the woman whose journey of grief has just begun. How would you encourage her for the days ahead?
- 36: Treva Kuyper | Hope and Healing After Unexpected Loss
- 52: Jonathan Gibson | Proclaiming God is Good After Infant Loss
- 95: Nancy Guthrie | God Does His Best Work with Empty
Could your marriage use a tune up?
In Classic Marriage, you’ll find:
- Biblical inspiration, honesty, and self-deprecating humor from the front seat of adventure with Michelle and Phil Rayburn.
- Tips to get under the hood and keep your marriage on the road to a long future.
- Tune-up questions in every chapter to work on your communication.
- Tools for how to tinker with overheated emotions and repair broken hearts.
- Witty comments from Phil – with a chance of dad jokes.
Learn more at Classic marriage book.com
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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Mary Marantz and Amber discuss embracing the broken places of stories, how they can be made beautiful, and her personal journey written in the bestselling memoir, Dirt.
Beautiful & Broken Questions Mary and Amber Discuss:-
(5:04) Take us back to your childhood and share a little about where you grew up and what family life was like.
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(13:09) At what point did Jesus become intertwined in your story?
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(17:13) You get to a point in Dirt where you’re clearly wrestling through completely discarding your roots and embracing their beauty. You write, “I think about the boots and the bones, and how I didn’t want to be so lowly as to stoop down and help another human being shake off their layers of mud. To wind up with their dirt on my hands. I think that’s because for a long time I believed freedom looked like getting to a place where none of the people were muddy.” Flesh that out for us a bit.
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(24:00) As a young girl, your mom left to take a traveling job and over time she returned less and less. What are some of the impacts her absence had on you and how have you worked through those as an adult?
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(37:18) I found myself laughing and choking back tears as I read about Goldie and her influence in your life. What legacy would you say your grandmother left in your life?
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(45:15) You eventually move away from WV and attend Yale Law. Did you have to wrestle with your identity while attending Yale and then when visiting home?
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(51:55) Dirt is very much a story of healing and as the subtitle states, “growing strong roots in what makes the broken beautiful.” As we close, what are a few areas of personal brokenness that you have experienced God’s faithfulness to make beautiful?
- Book: Dirt by Mary Marantz
- thebookdirt.com
- Book: Slow Growth Equals Strong Roots by Mary Marantz
- Book: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Book: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero
- 51: Vaneetha Risner | When Suffering is Your Story
- 156: Bonnie Gray | Invisible Wounds & Soul Care
- 101: Paula LeJeune | When God’s Love and Adversity Collide
Could your marriage use a tune up?
In Classic Marriage, you’ll find:
- Biblical inspiration, honesty, and self-deprecating humor from the front seat of adventure with Michelle and Phil Rayburn.
- Tips to get under the hood and keep your marriage on the road to a long future.
- Tune-up questions in every chapter to work on your communication.
- Tools for how to tinker with overheated emotions and repair broken hearts.
- Witty comments from Phil – with a chance of dad jokes.
Learn more at Classic marriage book.com
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Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Costi Hinn joins Amber to discuss healing and if it is always God’s will to heal, along with his journey out of the prosperity gospel movement.
Questions Discussed During Is It Always God’s Will to Heal:- (5:13) Take our listeners back to your childhood. What was life like for you growing up as the nephew of one of the most prominent leaders of the prosperity gospel movement?
- (10:48) How would you describe your walk with Jesus during your youth?
- (15:49) What took place in your life that began to expose some of the faulty theology behind the prosperity gospel movement?
- (33:44) With that said, your perspective on Jesus as healer has not only changed, but has been tested. Your young son was diagnosed with cancer and in More Than A Healer, you write, “Now, we’re going to live what we’ve been preaching…for years we’d been telling others that God is still good, even when things in life are not.” Walk us through that experience and how it further confirmed and strengthened your faith in Jesus as healer and SO MUCH MORE.
- (42:32) In this book, you walk through 2 REALLY tough questions presenting truths in response, “Why do people get sick?” and “Is it always God’s will to heal right now?” Flesh that out for us a bit.
- (51:52) “God’s Peace is A Fact, Not A Feeling” Why is it so important to know, believe, and trust that statement?
- (58:45) “God Works All Things For Good.” While this statement is true and Biblical ,using it as a mantra to “encourage” people who are suffering has led to great pain. What is a different approach?
- Book: More Than A Healer by Costi Hinn
- Book: God, Greed, and the Prosperity Gospel by Costi Hinn
- For the Gospel
- Book: Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Book: If God Is Good by Randy Alcorn
- 96: Alisa Childers | Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity
- 106: Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer | Church Culture: Goodness vs. Abuse of Power
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Bonnie Gray joins Amber to discuss growing up as a Chinese American, the invisible wounds she experienced, and how she learned to care for her soul. Her journey is documented in her newest book, Sweet Like Jasmine.
Questions discussed surrounding Bonnie’s invisible wounds and soul care:-
(4:37) You are Chinese American and grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, much of which you write about in Sweet Like Jasmine. Take us back and share a bit of what childhood was like for you.
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(7:37) Something you share in the book is how you lived two completely different lives as a child. At home, you were fully Chinese and very much secluded from the outside world. At school, you were fully immersed in American culture. How did that impact your identity in your young years?
- (14:58) It is difficult to finally acknowledged you’ve been manipulated by your mother for decades. Would you say, you have to choose daily to forgive her?
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(30:49) At what point did Jesus enter your story?
- (39:57) Share a little about soul-care.
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(43:10) What encouragement can you offer to women who feel terribly alone in their struggles?
“I was born to a mail order bride from Hong Kong.”
“My dad left when I was seven.”
“It get got harder to talk about what was happening at home. You think it might be easier once I put myself through college, [because] it seemed like the typical overcoming achieving immigrant story, but it actually got harder…”
“I just felt like half of me was Chinese and half of me was American…There was no one place where I could be whole Bonnie.”
“I need to be more honest with myself than I’m uncomfortable with and I need to face the reality of the mother that I do have, rather than the mother that I long to bring into being.”
“I’m going to let go of hoping that she becomes or gives me the words that I really need to be loved or feel cherished. That’s really forgiveness. It’s saying, I’m letting this person go from the debt that was created in my heart, that loneliness, or those wounds, and I’m going to move on with my life. And look for those affirmation in other relationships that God provides through our friends, our spiritual family…”
“Forgiveness takes one but reconciliation takes two. For those of us who have people who have hurt us, we need to remind ourselves that God wants us to have healthy boundaries.”
Related Episodes:- 34: Dr. Michelle Deering | Psychologist, Mother/Daughter Relationships
- 101: Paula LeJeune | When God’s Love & Adveristy Collide
- 80: Kia Stephens | Exchanging Father Wounds
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Wendy Speake joins Amber to talk about fasting and how it can drive us feast upon the Lord.
Questions Wendy and Amber discuss about fasting:- (7:16) Fasting can be intimidating and like many spiritual disciplines I think Christians are unsure how to go about fasting with a focus on the Lord vs. focusing on self. Will you take us back and share when you began fasting regularly and what it looks like to rely on the Lord vs self?
- (12:07) What are some of the temptations people have shared when you’re in the middle of the fast?
- (19:49) What are some ways you encourage people to really push through the hard parts of fasting?
- (29:42) You have written the 40 day Sugar fast and the 40 day social media fast. What led you to write those books?
- (36:07) As we close, how has fasting changed your life with God?
“[To] really be undistracted so that we might be devoted to feasting on his presence, feasting on his word, feasting on this dialogue through prayer with him and and that’s really what fasting is.”
“It can be a private thing. In Matthew, we’re told fasting is done in private. But in the Old Testament we’re shown fasting is done as a corporate opportunity to trust God for deliverance together.”
Resources Mentioned:- Book: The 40 Day Sugar Fast by Wendy Speake
- Book: The 40 Day Social Media Fast by Wendy Speake
- The 40 Day Sugar Fast
- 152: Sharon Garlough Brown | Spiritual Practices & Formation
- 153: Sarah Geringer | Christian Meditation
- 154: Ashley Hales | Embracing Limits
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Ashley Hales joins Amber to discuss limits, and how slowing down and embracing limits frees us to more fully enjoy our lives.
Embracing Limits Questions:- (5:29) You've recently released A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits. Share a little of your personal backstory with the rat race, the hustle, and the Western way.
- (10:28) Mantras we frequently hear are, "Be the hero of your own story," "Follow Your Dreams," "You Got This Girl." What are some of the "mantras" Jesus spoke that promote a very different approach to life?
- (13:31) Why are we so resistant to the idea of limits?
- (15:37) How are limits actually freeing, helping us to flourish?
- (19:07) Have you found embracing limits is a choice you have to make time and time again?
- (21:33) What are pocket practices and how can they help us find a little more breathing room in life?
- (23:52) What are some practical ways we can cultivate a more spacious life?
- (29:48) How have you experienced the sufficiency of God's grace in your life?
Wendell Berry says, "We live the given life, not the planned."
"If the point of life is not self referential, but it is to find our identity in God, then our limits can actually be invitations to knowing God."
"We used to live more of given lives and now we have more options open to us and it's not necessarily a good thing."
"I think the invitation really is to acknowledge our weariness, to acknowledge our exhaustion, to acknowledge our broken relationships, and to come to God, come to Jesus, to begin to learn those unforced rhythms of grace."
Related Episodes:- 152: Sharon Garlough Brown | Spiritual Practices & Formation
- 153: Sarah Geringer | Christian Meditation
- 69: Sam and Amber Cullum | Sabbath As a Family
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Sarah Geringer joins Amber to discuss Christian meditation. What is it? How does it differ from Scripture memorization? And how it can transform your thought life.
Questions on Christian Mediation Sarah and Amber Discuss:- (8:01) In today’s culture, we hear the word meditation and think “namaste” or emptying our mind completely and focusing on self, but meditation is a Christian practice. How would you describe Christian meditation?
- (11:19) How is meditation expressed in the language of the Bible? Is it a biblical concept?
- (13:17) How did the practice of Biblical meditation become a part of your spiritual toolbox?
- (17:17) Did you realize you needed healing when the journey began?
- (22:25) What are some practical ways one can begin to practice Christian meditation?
- (25:15) Share a bit about the books you have written on Christian meditation and your hope for them?
- (29:32) What is the difference between Christian meditation and Scripture memory?
- (33:36) How have you experienced the sufficiency of God’s grace in your life?
“[Christian meditation] in the Psalms, it’s talking about focusing on and repeating God’s laws, God’s precepts, God’s character, God’s promises, all those things that we need to focus on to be equipped to live the Christian life.”
“It [Christian meditation] started releasing me from the bondage of codependency, of people pleasing, of seeking approval from others for my identity, it really changed everything for me.”
“God meets us where we’re at, whatever struggle we’re in right now. He can pull those words right off the page, and minister to us, wherever we need it.”
“Meditation is really slowing down, taking the time to process it [the Word], work through it, apply it to your life.”
When I encounter a verse, I have three questions I ask:
- What does this tell me about God?
- What does this tell me about myself?
- And what does this tell me about how I should treat other people?
- 152: Sharon Garlough Brown | Spiritual Practices & Formation
- 29: Jan Johnson | Spiritual Direction & Hearing God’s Voice
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