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 Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Joel and I chat about how the cross defies everything power stands for, the atonement of Jesus, and what the resurrections achieves.
4:30 Share a little of your faith journey with us. When and how did you come to know Jesus? 7:17 As we approach Easter, many Christians are reading the gospels to reflect and proclaim again the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus that saved us from our sin. You co-authored a book Recovering the Scandal of the Cross. What is the scandal of the cross?"That language comes from Paul, from1 Corinthians 1where Paul says that he preaches Christ crucified, a scandal to Jews, and foolishness to the Gentiles."
9:36 What is it about the cross of Christ that defies everything power stands for?"If you look at that text 1 Corinthians 1, why is the cross a scandal to Jews for Paul? The answer is pretty clear, because Deuteronomy 21tells us that anyone who's hung on a cross, anyone who is hung on a tree is cursed by God. So you have this weird, paradoxical, oxymoronic, putting side by side of Christ, which means Anointed One, next to crucified, which by the first century, was read in terms of Deuteronomy 21. Anointed One, cursed one, it doesn't make any sense, right? And you know, Paul picks up on that in Galatians 3, when he talks about Jesus becoming a curse for us."
15:35 There are several theories of atonement, so in your personal study and understanding of Scripture how does the cross literally and effectively deal with sin?"When 1 Petersays that Jesus bore our sins on the tree, then there's the same kind of language being used... back in Leviticus that speaks to the effectiveness of sacrifice in terms of exchange and representation...[S]in and death are transferred to the sacrificial victim. In this case, Jesus, and his purity and his life are transferred to those who receive the benefits of the sacrifice."
"The problem is not outside of us, the problem is inside of us. And so the cross is the means by which we are cleansed from sin, proceeding through death into life that opens up new life."
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Daniel and I chat about various aspects of Jesus life and how it demonstrates Jesus' kingship. We also chat about the woman who anointed Jesus with oil and how she is juxtaposed with the Pharisees.
3:18 Share with us a little bit about how you came to know Jesus and your faith journey. 8:06 Why did God have to kill his own son Jesus?"He creates mankind in His image, what we call the Imago Dei. That image is distorted when man and woman choose to rebel against Him. And because man and woman rebelled against Him, they could not pay for their sin because now they're fully sinful. God requires a perfect sacrifice because he's a perfect God."
Genesis 3:15 : I will put enmity, animosity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
Romans 5:12"Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so debt spread to all men because all sin for sin and deed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted here. There is no law yet death ran from Adam to Moses."
"If I could make it simple I'd probably say this, man sinned. Man had to die, because man could not die, because man is not perfect. Another man had to come. who is perfect to die for us."
13:40 Jesus is teaching parables in the middle of Holy week. He has been anointed with oil by the woman. He eats the last Passover meal with the disciples. There's all this stuff going on before he goes into the garden. What is something that is often overlooked in these verses that significantly adds to our understanding of Jesus as the Promised Messiah?Continued SHOW NOTES
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Dr. Chuck Quarles and I chat about the significance of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey colt, the atmosphere during Jesus final week, the passover meal, the brutality of the crucifixion, and more.
4:56 Will you share a little of your faith journey with us? How did you come to know Jesus?"What would your answer be? And my sad response was, well, I've been baptized. I tried to keep the commandments. I try to fulfill the golden rule and he [pastor] gently but firmly said, 'And who is the subject of each of those statements? I. So who are you really trusting for your salvation and forgiveness of sin, Jesus Christ, or yourself? And that began the process of exploring what Scripture talks about the way of salvation and coming to an understanding of salvation by grace, rather than through our efforts."
7:18 Let's start simple, what is Holy Week and what events does it entail? 8:47 In Matthew 20, Jesus was going up to Jerusalem when He predicts His death to His disciples. In Matthew 21, He instructs two disciples to find and bring back a donkey with her colt. The disciples place their cloaks on the colt and Jesus rides it into the city while the crowds gather waving palm branches and saying, Hosanna to the Song of David! Hosanna in the highest! These verses are packed with prophecy and details we so often miss. When you are teaching your students about this portion of Matt. 20 and 21, what are you teaching as key truths and minute details that help us better understand the full story?"The prophecy that's at the forefront of Jesus triumphal entry is Zechariah 9, where the daughter of Zion is told that her king will come riding on a donkey, on the colt of a donkey. The ancient Jews widely recognized this as a messianic prophecy....If you look at Zechariah 9 in context, you'll see that the king who's coming as foretold, is actually Yahweh himself, Jehovah."
"Psalm 48, where Yahweh is praised as the King of Zion. And remember its Daughter Zion, who was told your king is coming to you riding on the goal to the donkey."
Psalm 149identifies the key of the children of Zion as, "Israel's maker, the creator who has founded the people of Israel."
Isaiah 24:23says that the Lord of hosts a reference to Yahweh, using the Hebrew Divine Name, will reign as King on Mount Zion.
Jeremiah 8:19.... the Lord is the king and her is Zion in the parallel
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
A Prayer Amid an Epidemic by Kerry Weber for America Magazine
Melissa and I chat about the common definition of contentment vs. contentment in the life of a follower of Jesus. We also chat about the enemy of contentment and how that enemy is so often the root of all sin.
4:52 Will you share a little of your faith journey with us? How did you come to know Jesus?Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Sanderson High School
"Jesus found me in a large public high through the ministry of a woman who was there as a teacher."
"That was one of the greatest gifts- the Bible was never foreign to me."
8:34 What was going on in your life that lead to the writing of your book The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World and eventually the 8 part video teaching?"I realized I didn't have a circumstance problem back in Scotland, I had a heart problem...My heart is constantly wanting more and so maybe my lack of contentment was less about what was happening in my life and more about what was happening in my heart."
11:25 Contentment is defined as "a state of happiness and satisfaction," but how do we define contentment through the lens of the Bible?"I think what we see Biblically is contentment is this deep sense of hope and joy in the Lord and in what He has done that really is insulated from circumstances."
"The heart, in a sense, that is reigned in to God's will for His life, that is the contented heart."
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Rachel and I chat about what led them to Africa, her acculturation process, living as a minority and how that has increased her empathy for people who believe differently, what she has gleaned from the practices of her Muslim friends, and her book Stronger Than Death.
3:45 Will you share a little of your faith journey with us? When did you come to know Jesus as Savior?"The older you get the more people you love. The more people you love the more pain there is in the world. Watching God meet me in those trials and meet my friends in their trials my faith has become more of a sense of being with God, with Jesus and less some kind of conviction of right theology or right dogma."
6:28You have lived in the horn of Africa for 17 years. What led you there?As newlyweds, she and her husband lived in an apartment complex in Minnesota where most of their neighbors were Somalians.
They moved to Somaliland in 2003 with 2.5 year old twins for her husband to teach at the university.
9:45 To give our listeners a visual share a little about Djibouti....the religion, the landscape, the food, etc.- Majority population of Djibouti is Somali
- Majority religion is Muslim
- Djibouti is a desert country on the water
- Djibouti is a former French colony
- Djibouti is a stable place surrounded by war and challenges
- The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden meet, so the underwater life is beautiful.
- Djibouti has the hottest climate in the world
"I've gone through different thought processes of how I think about the character of God and the words we use to describe God or how I practice prayer. I haven't really adopted any Muslim practices, but I have been challenged by them. For example, in prayer...There's a call to prayer 5 times a day. There's mosques all over, so I can hear from work. I can hear it from my house. The call to prayer is basically, come to prayer. In the morning, the man singing it will say, 'Prayer is better than sleep. God is great. Come to prayer.' I can use that to call my own self to pray, to remember God even if I'm not following the exact same motions as a Muslim would...I can use the call to prayer to stimulate my own spiritual life."
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Kristen and I chat about redemptive parenting. What is it? How it is different from moralistic and behavior modification parenting? We also chat about allowing your kids to see your sin nature and the value of apologizing to your children.
3:30 Will you share a little of your faith journey with us? When did you come to know Jesus as Savior?"The way I see growth now is totally different than what I might have said before. Growth is NOT sinning less and less and getting better and better and doing all the right things, as I might have thought in the past. It is more about seeing our sin rightly....Seeing our sin is a good thing, because it drives us to know more of our need for a Savior."
6:57 What is redemptive parenting?"Redemption is a slave trade term. So when a redemption price was paid a slave was set free, which is exactly what Jesus did for us. He perfectly obeyed all that God required and then gave up His life in our place giving up His righteous record. So, He paid the price for what our disobedience and sin deserved."
"We were set free, but not without a price. It was God's grace to us."
"A definition [of grace] I really like is God's goodness to the guilty."
"Seeking to live redemptively, or redemptive parenting, I see it as seeking to give grace as we abide in His grace."
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Khristi and I chat about what led to the writing of Parable of The Brown Girl, providing a safe space for young girls of color to talk about their experiences, common struggles girls of color face and God’s truth that speaks to those struggles.
6:31 Will you share a little of your faith journey with us? When did you come to know Jesus as Savior? 11:20 You are passionate about providing young women and girls of color with safe and supportive spaces to help them grow and thrive. Will you share a little of what growing up as a girl of color is like and why it is vital to have safe and supportive spaces to help them thrive?“It’s really important for…girls of color that are growing up in spaces, whether they’re in spaces where people look like them or particularly the ones that are growing up around people that don’t necessarily look like them to know that they’re not blending…Sometimes, that whole we’re all one in Christ…can make it seem like we’re all, sort of, this big melting pot….They’re unique and important to the body of Christ. They’re a part of, what I mention in the book, the Imago Dei, the image of God.”
“We can’t comprehend the uniqueness and multi-facetedness of God. Because of that, we put our own limitations on God, as far as what we perceive God to be.”
“If we approached Father, Son, and Holy Spirit the way we do diversity, then we would think we [Christians] were polytheistic. We would be worshipping three gods. Yet, we can easily comprehend worshipping one God with three distinct persons, yet we don’t understand the diversity of the human body.”
16:55 Let’s talk about your book Parable of The Brown Girl. What led to the writing of this book? 20:14 Each chapter of the book covers common struggles women of color face. Struggles like being viewed as angry, not having a voice, being insecure. What has been the response of young women, as they have read and discussed the book?First Reaction of Parable of The Brown Girl Video
“She said, ‘I never really felt heard and understood. I felt like you heard me and wrote down what I felt.’….She said, ‘I even got the God part.’….That was the aha moment for me. This is what it’s all about moments….My prayer was always that people, regardless of what the topic is, they can see Christ in it.”
25:32 Not only do you share testimonies of young women of color in each chapter, you follow each story with God’s truth and what He has to say about our voice, our security, our identity and so on. Will you share a few of the truths you shared in the book?Chapter 1: The girl asked, “Why did God make me a warrior, when I am really just weak?”
“The truth that came from that, the spiritual truth, was about strength and weakness and how God, when we’re weak carries our strength. He is our strength, but also that God makes room for our weakness.”
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
One year ago the Grace Enough Podcast launched. Today, 6 listeners join me to share an episode from the last year that impacted them and a recommendation for a 2020 episode.
1:01 Kristianne
Ep. 16: Beth McCord | Your Enneagram Coach, Enneagram From A Gospel Perspective
Ep. 53: Beth and Jeff McCord | Enneagram and Relationships
Ep. 02: Nikki Speer | Redefined Courage
Ep. 49: Jeremy Pryor | Family Teams
“He said quite a few things about the family being, in westerner culture, a nest that launches individuals as opposed to the Biblical model of a family being a team.”
Ep. 40: Tim Challies | Spiritual Discernment
“The thing I took away from that was not something he said about spiritual discernment. It was that he enjoys his teenage daughters.”
“There are moments like that in the podcast that are neat. You cover these cool topics, but at the same time the whole part of delving into a little bit about them and their story is super helpful.”
Recommendations for 2020: Everyday people’s stories. Someone who is living the Christian life.
9:39 Allison
“I love the different perspectives and insights I get from the different people that you have interviewed. I feel like it has expanded my awareness about certain issues and different things people go through.”
Ep. 32: Heather Dixon | Equipping Women For Courageous Living
Heather Dixon: “We had to come face to face with the reality that we are not promised another day on this earth.”
Recommendations for 2020: A guest that has experience with coming along side families with special needs children and/or a parent of a special needs child(ren).
A guest to speak on the topic of grand parenting.
Ep. 36: Treva Kuyper | Hope and Healing After Unexpected Loss
Ep. 15: Molly Stillman | Business with Purpose
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Ep. 03: Kathleen Skaar | Christian Library International
Ep. 07: Kim Tschirret | Hope Reins
Ep. 27: Robin Fuller | Hope and Healing After Abortion
Ep. 50: Rebecca Bender | Freedom From Human Trafficking
22:05 Kelly
Ep. 41: Susan Alexander Yates | Thriving In Transition
Susan: “We tend to think and live as if stability is the norm. That’s what we expect, when things just calm down, but the reality is life never calms down. We have to switch gears in terms of our expectation. Our expectation is not that stability is the norm, but the reality is transition is the norm…Stability is those rare exceptions. I think the first thing that helps with coping with transition is to realize that this is the norm.”
“I think what we really deal with, as women, is fear. I think we cloak that word fear with concern. That’s the word that is more acceptable. ‘I’m just concerned about that older daughter and the decisions she’s making.’ But really it is a fear. That fear can be crippling and she [Susan] pointed that out.’
Susan: “Every season has challenges and every season has blessings.”
Re-configuring your marriage as an empty nester or when your adult children move back in.
Recommendations for 2020: A guest to speak to the parent/adult child relationship.
36:42 Kristin
Ep. 16: Beth McCord | Enneagram From A Gospel Perspective
Ep. 20: Cheryl Scanlan | Promised Land Living
Ep. 18: Maggie Kane | A Place At The Table
Ep. 38 Mo Isom | Sex, Jesus, and The Conversations The Church Forgot
Ep. 36: Treva Kuyper | Hope and Healing After Unexpected Loss
Treva: “I have reminded the kids over and over from the beginning that if we believe God is who He says He is, then we have two choices. We either trust Him and we walk in His ways or we roll over and we let the enemy deal with us.”
“I do believe God used that time in my life, like He used it in her [Treva] life, to really give a layer of faith that wasn’t there. There was a lot of veneer to my faith, but what was underneath was particle board instead of a solid.”
Recommendations for 2020: Rosaria Butterfield, Safe Families, Raleigh Rescue Mission, a guest who has experience with adoption/fostering children with special needs
Ep. 48: Tori Hope Petersen | Hope For The Foster Child
Ep. 37: Lindsay Hinson | Foster Parenting
45:50 Kara
Ep. 28: Jodie Berndt | Praying the Scriptures For Children
Jodie: “When we allow the words we read in Scripture to shape not just our prayers, but our perspective, how we think about things, our children, our lives, the hopes and dreams we have…As we allow Scripture to shape those things it’s interesting to see how our prayers start to line up with what God already wants to do.”
Jodie: “As I slip my hand into God’s and bring my children before Him, for me I get a peace that I don’t think I would get any other way….I know He is for us and it keeps anxiety at bay and opens the door to that peace, that contentment and that confidence in the midst of the storm.”
Psalm 91 prayer
Recommendations for 2020: Bob Goff, my mother-in-law Sandy, Cheryl Scanlan and Jan Johnson again
51:52 Vanessa
Ep. 28: Jodie Berndt | Praying The Scriptures For Your Children
“The Scripture comes alive when you begin to pray it over your people.”
Vanessa was struck by the portion of my conversation with Jodie when we discussed that we can pray anywhere.
Recommendations for 2020: A guest to speak about adoption and how to guide them through life.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Nick and I chat about his journey of discovering freedom from pornography, dealing with negative sexual history, normalizing the conversation in our churches and homes, behaviors vs. core beliefs, and how Pure Desire ministrieshelps people find freedom from sexual addiction.
4:20 As we begin, will you share with our listener's a little of your story. When did you come to know Jesus? How did you end up working at Pure Desire?"My little brain responded to it the way God has designed our brain to react to that, which is a sense of curiosity, intrigue, drawing, even maybe to level a bonding to what I'm seeing. I'm wanting to see more and yet, at the same time, this repulsion of this is wrong. I can't tell my mom and dad. I don't know what I am doing...Sex came into my life in a way that was both secretive and shameful."
"No one really knew what freedom and hope and lasting transformation looked like, so you go away thinking, 'Okay, this time I am going to try really hard not to go back there,' but because nothing on the inside has really changed it comes back."
"I remember her saying, 'It's not that I hate you, but I hate the way this makes me feel and because I don't know if it is ever going to change...I don't know if I can stay'....Because of that moment of real pain, by God's grace, He used that to direct us into Pure Desire Ministries, where we went through a year of being in groups, both for myself as the one who struggled and for her as the betrayed spouse. And also a year of counseling, that was the first time in my life I sat down with someone who knew the Bible and also understood the human brain and addiction and how all of that didn't have to be contradictory, but it all fit together."
"This was never our plan, but it became, by far, the best discipleship program we ever had"
Setting Us Freeby Nick Stumbo
"It does feel like people are making a moral choice, and they are. I don't want to in any suggest that because we understand the addictive nature of it, because we start to see what happens in the brain, that doesn't in any way excuse us from responsibility, that doesn't mean we can blame it on someone else...But it's trying to help believers see that there's more going on than just try harder and believe more."
"What happens in the church is we see someone's behaviors and we say, 'Stop that! Don't do that anymore! Read your Bible and pray and don't make that decision.' But if we don't help them see the thoughts and feelings that are driving it and even deeper, the core beliefs that in our family of origin or trauma that we've gone through or places we've been wounded...."
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Beth and Jeff chat about how the enneagram became a useful tool in their marriage, concerns a Christian may have about using the enneagram, how to encourage your spouse to use the enneagram, and how we can use it to become our healthiest self vs. as an excuse for behavior.
EP. 16 with Beth McCord | Enneagram Coach From A Biblical Perspective
4:15 For those who may not know, give a little back story on how and why you began using the enneagram as a tool in your marriage."Rather than our character defects getting in the way of our relationship they actually became an opportunity to connect with one another."
7:36 The popularity of the enneagram has skyrocketed in recent years and with that has come critique, particularly in the Christian world. Will you take a moment and address some concerns of the believer related to enneagram origins, proper use of the enneagram, etc.?"For Beth and I, the enneagram is a helpful tool, but we believe that it's the gospel that's the power of God unto salvation. It's the gospel that brings transformation. The way in which we teach it is we have either removed, replaced, or redefined anything that doesn't align with a Biblical worldview."
Jeff speaks about "plundering the Egyptians."
"The way the enneagram is taught today is radically different than the way they created it. Think of it less like Joseph Smith's, who founded Mormonism, who spoke to the angel Moroni and created an authoritative text. Think of it more like a professor who had a theory whose student's developed the theory more. It's not something that's authoritative, because you can teach it from whatever world view you bring to it."
"The great thing about the enneagram is it's just clarifying why we think, feel, and behave in particular ways. It's like an x-ray. It shows what is broken, but it can't fix it. That's where the gospel comes in. When I know that my heart is moving in a direction that is not Christ-like I want to come under the submission of Christ and the Holy Spirit and allow Him to transform that negative part of my thought processes and personality traits."
12:22 In the fall, you released the book Becoming Us, which focuses on using the enneagram to create a thriving gospel-centered marriage. Will you share a few ways the enneagram can help a marriage thrive?"It's almost like you have a new set of lenses, a new set of glasses, to be able to see yourself and your spouse. Often times, we have this way of interpreting our relationships, that it's either they're doing something that is intentionally hurtful to me or there is a character defect in me that I can't seem to overcome...It's either their fault or my fault. What the enneagram is helping us understand is that we carry a tremendous burden inside to try and make life work apart from the cross. The enneagram gives us this new understanding that I bring a great gift to my relationship and I bring a particular bent or burden to my relationship."
18:51 I asked my listeners to submit questions they would like the two of you to answer. My friend Heather is working through Becoming Us in her community group. She asked, "How do you get your husband on board?"---------------------------------------------------
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