
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.
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 Jan 28, 2020
52: Jonathan Gibson | Proclaiming God is Good After Infant Loss
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Jonny and I chat about the loss of his daughter Leila, the questions his son asked about his sister, how that led to the writing of "The Moon Is Always Round" and the goodness of God.
4:55 Will you share your faith journey with us? How did you come to know Jesus?Raised as a missionary kid with Mission Aviation Fellowshipin East Africa
"Some people who come from outside Christian homes, when they're converted it is a bit like a hurricane comes into their life. The Spirit is like the wind, it blows where it pleases. But I think in Christian homes it is still the same Spirit, the same wind that comes in and converts people, but it's more like a gentle breeze. In my case, it was a gentle breeze that blew into my life and re-generated me. The Spirit of God re-generated me and gave me faith in Christ."
7:19 Your children's book The Moon is Always Roundcame to my attention at the perfect time...Tell us, when and why did you began talking to your son about the moon?Catechism:
Q: What shape is the moon tonight?
A: Crescent, Gibbous, etc.
Q: What shape is the moon always?
A: The moon is always around.
Q: What does that mean?
A: It means God is always good.
"It began as a childlike fascination with the moon that led to that connection with the moon."
8:31 Eventually your wife became pregnant with your second child, a baby girl. Will you share that journey with us?"That's really the tragedy [stillbirth of their daughter, Leila] that came into our life as a sudden surprise that we didn't see coming. All of a sudden we entered a world of pain and sorrow that we had only ever heard of and imagined, but here we were in the midst of it trying to navigate ourselves through it."
10:02I share about how I learned about The Moon Is Always Round and the story of my dear friend Andie and her son Ryker James, who was stillborn October 10, 2019.
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Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
51: Vaneetha Risner | When Suffering Is Your Story
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Vaneetha and I chat about her childhood with polio, the loss of her son Paul, the way God held her through the grief, God’s sovereignty, caring for two adolescent daughters alone, lament, and seeing God’s glory.
4:52 Vaneetha’s website is Dance in the Rain, which is very descriptive of her life. She shares her story with us, beginning with her polio diagnosis
Born in India to Christian parents
Diagnosed with polio
Moved to England and received 1st surgery at age 2
Moved to Canada
Spent the majority her time living in the Shriner’s hospital
8:43 Vaneetha shares about her suffering theology after experiencing polio. Then, she continues to share about multiple miscarriages and the loss of her 2 month old son, Paul.
“I remember hanging up the phone and begging God. Just begging Him. I will do anything if You would save my son.”
“That day and I would say for a week after, through the funeral, God just carried me. I had this sense that God was there even though I felt so devastated. There was the supernatural sense that God was with me.”
EP.36: Treva Kuyper | Hope and Healing After Unexpected Loss
14:09 Vaneetha shares how her relationship with Jesus changed in the months and years after the loss of Paul
“I remember being in the car and saying, ‘Okay God, I can’t pull away from You. Show me Your listening. Draw near to me.’ I put myself out there in a way I had been afraid to. I felt in some ways, how can I trust You God when I begged You to do something and You didn’t? I felt that I really opened my heart up to God when I asked that question….The next few moments, honestly Amber, were the most amazing moments of my life, even today. The sense of God filled my car…There was this joy and it wasn’t in anything but God.”
“It was the marker in my life that no matter what, God said, ‘I will give you this joy that you can’t explain, but it is rooted in Me and no one can take this from you’.”
Markers or Joshua Stones: Joshua 4
17:38 Years later Vaneetha was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome and her husband had an affair and left her to care for their 2 daughters alone. Vaneetha answers this question: As one blow after another came, did you cling to God, did you question him, did you shake your fists at Him, all of the above?
“I had to pare down life to the bare minimum.”
“I believe God is sovereign, so God could have stopped that. I felt so much like, ‘Why? Why are you doing this?’ It was the most personal of everything that had happened [her husband’s affair].”
“I was crumbling. I remember yelling at God, crying to God, begging God, all of those things. I remember one night…saying, ‘God, help me. What are You doing? I can’t do this.’ I read John 11, the raising of Lazarus and reading the words if you believe you will see the glory of God. I remember crying out to God, ‘I believe, help my unbelief. I want to see Your glory.’ It was another time God said, ‘I am going to hold you. You can not see what I am doing right now. You just can’t see it, but I am doing something that you need to trust’.
Christa Wells, a friend of Vaneetha’s wrote a song about Paul titled Held, which ended up being sung by Natalie Grant.
” ‘Two months is too little, but they let him go. They had no sudden healing’….I see how God used that in that crushing time in my life. The words of that song, ‘This is what it means to be HELD, how it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved and to know that the promise was when everything fell you’d be HELD.’ That is the story of my life. The sacred has been torn from my life over and over and over and yet God has HELD me. Remembering that song, remembering what God did through that song and through my life really gave me the courage to say, Okay, I am going to put a stake in the ground and trust You in the midst of this and trust that You love me even though I don’t feel loved.”
25:49 Vaneetha talks to the person who may be struggling with the belief that a good God wouldn’t allow all of this to happen.
SHOW NOTES continued
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Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
50: Rebecca Bender | Freedom From Human Trafficking
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Rebecca and I chat about the 6 years she spent being sex trafficking in Vegas, her new book In Pursuit of Love, the various forms exploitation and trafficking can take on, the increased risk for those living in vulnerable situations, the necessity of trauma informed care, God's consistent long term pursuit of her heart, and some red flags of human trafficking.
5:03 Rebecca'sstory is one of radical transformation and is shared in great detail in her new book In Pursuit of Love. She takes us back and shares her story of being trafficked as a teenage girl?"I would have never been put in an at-risk youth category."
"I met a guy who had all the answers to all my problems as a young, 18 year old, single mom...There are some real vulnerabilities in that [single, teen mom]."
"I think there is a lot to say about young girls, especially 18-24, who are raised in a culture where sex sells...."
Group Think: the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.
"According to FBI, less than 5% of trafficking victims in America are kidnapped."
"In real life it [human trafficking] doesn't happen quickly. It's a gradual expansion. There's no A to Z. It is A to B. The next month B to C. The next month C to D."
Turn out is slang for trafficking a girl.
"Working in the commercial sex industry, even if it is through dancing, through stripping, it's a way to make quick money for people that don't have a lot of options and don't have a lot of choices and feel really trapped and might not be able to wait 2 weeks to pay the rent or buy food."
"Even within strip clubs, women are being trafficked."
Stable is slang for the home the trafficker has multiple victims.
19:12Rebecca shares what a weekend was like when she was being sex trafficked."It's hard to describe. It felt like my sanity was slipping away from me. I started feeling like I was going crazy and I didn't know how to pull myself together enough to let the dust settle, because the dust never settled. I just needed a minute to think, but the minute never came. You start to feel your sanity slipping away....Just from the mental health of constant physical abuse and the constant fear."
26:56 Rebecca talks about trauma informed care and why is it vital for women and men who have been trafficked?SHOW NOTES continued
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
49: Jeremy Pryor | Family Teams
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Jeremy and I chat about differences between eastern and western family cultures, choosing a family philosophy, developing family rhythms, and building multi-generational family teams.
5:03Jeremy talks about the multi-generational business he and his wife April started, Just Sew"It grew out of a desire to integrate the generations."
"The biggest problem that plagues people in that stage of life, because people are living longer, is lack of purpose."
7:35Jeremy shares how he came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior 9:45Jeremy talks about his time living in Jerusalem, meeting his wife April, and how their time in Jerusalem shaped their view of family."In the Christian world we really adopt a western idea of family and Abraham had a very different idea. He cared so much about the descendants and where his family was going and he just seemed to see all of his life through his role as a father or patriarch of this growing family line."
13:58Jeremy dives deeper into how the Bible collides with the idea of the western idea of family"God calls Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Why does He do that? He seems to be really interested in this generational connection."
"In Genesis 1we see the reason why God created the first family, which was He wanted them to accomplish a mission: to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule. We know family has a purpose. It is not simply to just be an environment for us to get our individual needs met."
"What was in God's heart when He made this thing called family?
"When you live for generations in a wealthy culture, individualism tends to trump family and then over time the family starts to break down."
18:05Jeremy talks about choosing a family philosophy and the family team philosophy"It's important to understand ideas matter. What you think a thing is matters. You can see this with almost anything in life. What is fatherhood? What is motherhood? What is sonship? These are concepts that whatever you believe...deeply impact how you live, what you build, what you think about..."
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Monday Dec 16, 2019
48: Tori Hope Petersen | Hope For The Foster Child
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Tori and I chat about being removed from her mom's care at a young age, moving from one foster home to another, the circumstances God used to open her heart to Him, discovering God was the father she had always longed for, allowing foster children to be the voice for policy change in our current system, and the longing for discipleship she experienced as a college student in crisis.
Blog: Torisstoris.wordpress.com
Psalm 40:2
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
5:18 Tori begins sharing her story of growing up as a child who spent a stint of time in a foster home, before being reunified with her mother until age 12. She then returned to the foster system where she lived in 12 different homes before emancipating out 8:35Tori discusses replacing the lies spoken over her as a child with the truth.Mire: a situation or state of difficulty, distress or embarassment from which it is hard to exit oneself
"I am made in the image of God and that is the most important aspect of the truth. It is not about who I am alone, but who I am because Christ made me and because He dwells in me. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with Him."
"Sometimes I get so worried, 'Am I glorifying God?'....God calls us to glorify Him, but He also calls us to enjoy Him. We have to find enjoyment in those little things that are moving us toward God rather than tearing apart those little sins and big sins that are moving us away from God. We can acknowledge those, but ultimately grace has to cover over those."
13:02 Tori shares the events that led to her being placed in long term foster care"There is something about when we are ignoring a blanant aspect of someone's identity we're not learning from them, we're not learning how their fully made in God's image, and then we're losing knowledge not just of ourselves, not just about the neighbor we are supposed to love, but about Christ."
"If you can't sit across the table from uncomfortable, you can not sit across the table from love."
18:47Tori shares what it was like in the her various foster care homes"Often times I say, 'Oh, I went through 12 homes,' and it was difficult, but I learned so much about why people are the way they are. I learned that every good attribute that people have is for a reason and every bad behavior, bad characteristic someone has usually comes from a hurt that has been inflicted upon them."
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Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
47: Katherine Jackson | Empowering Refugees Through Hope Threads
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Katherine and I chat about how she began building relationships with refugee women in our community which eventually led to the launch of an educational workforce program, Hope Threads.
3:52 Katherine shares how her journey with Jesus began 6:48 Hope Threads employs refugee women living in Raleigh, NC. Katherine shares how she did you originally connected with refugee women and how that led to Hope Threads. 12:26 Katherine shares what a work day at Hope Threads looks like.“Of course, we want to pay them fair wages. We want to empower and equip them, but we want them to know Jesus and we want their kids to know Jesus.”
Windblown Jewelry– Rachel Calhoun
“We all can agree we need prayer, we make that a priority every week.”
17:06 Katherine talks about fair wages“Basically, when you say fair wage you’re saying, above minimum wage in a safe environment.”
18:23 Katherine shares a few of the challenges she faces at Hope Threads 24:53 Katherine shares what keeps her pressing on“You look all through Scripture and what is He [Jesus] doing? He’s meeting with the Samaritan woman and He’s meeting with and healing the leper and He is with those that are on the outside and He’s bringing them in. That was His ministry. When I’m thinking through my life and how I want to be like Christ and I want to be like Jesus, I can follow what He did.”
“Even the word refugee can be very polarizing for people with all of the politics going on right now. I’ll be honest, I don’t sometimes how I feel about that, but what I do know is that they’re here and they’re my neighbor and we are called to love them and to help them and I feel very passionate about that. Again, His entire ministry, Jesus while He was on this earth, was to bring in the outsider.”
27:33 Katherine shares how someone can help out with Hope Threads and the refugee community here in Raleigh- Volunteer in Hope Threads children’s program
- Shares Hope-Threads with friends and on social media platforms
- Sponsorship Program: Training women
Assimilate or Go Home by D.L. Mayfield
38:02 Katherine shares some of her hopes and dreams for Hope Threads in 2020- We would love to see 25 new sponsors/month
- Build community with employees outside of Hope Threads
- Expand social media presence
- Expand wholesale partnerships
SHOW NOTES continued
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Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
46: 2019 Gift Guide: Women, Men, and Children
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Sam (my husband) and my oldest son join me for the 2019 Gift Guide for women, men and children. We share gift recommendations in various categories including apparel, outdoor toys, experience ideas, books, jewelry, and more.
Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Kids
Bennett's Favorite: Money Soap
Zoe's Favorite: Farmer’s Popcorn Cob
- Lego Mini-Figures
- $5-10 Gift Card to Frozen Yogurt Shop
- Retro Candy (Astro Pops, Sugar Daddy, Chicklets, etc.)
- Scrunchies
- Re-useable Straws
- Rubik's Cube
- Crayola Bath Drops
- Themed Underwear and Socks (ex. Paw Patrol, Fort Nite, Frozen)
2019 Children's Gift Guide
EXPERIENCE GIFTS 3:58
- Museum Membership
- Special Activity geared toward individual interest (ex. I took my daughter to an NC State Gymnastics meet)
- Broadway Play (ex. We have seen Matilda and Lion King)
- Children’s Theatre Tickets
- Movie Gift Basket
- Concert Tickets
- Outdoor Activities (archery lessons, ropes course gift card, kayaking trip, etc.)
BOOKS 6:29
0-3 years old
- The Legend of the Candy Caneby Lori Walburg, illustrated by Richard Cowdrey paired with a Nativity Set
- Tales of Glory Nativity Play Set
4-6 years old 8:25
Great age to gift Book Treasuries
- Mike Mulligan and More, A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury
- Pinkalious, The Princess of Pink Treasury
- Illustrated Stories from Aesop
- Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon(3 in 1 book)
7-8 year old 9:46
- The Action Bible
- Bible Infographics I and II
- The Radical Book for Kidsby Champ Thornton
- Time’s Big Book of Why
- American Girl Mini Mysteries
9-11 year old 11:37
- The Way of The Warrior Kidseries by Jocko Willink
- Prince Warrior Seriesby Priscilla Shirer
- Goodnight Tales, A Family Treasury of Read Aloud Storiesby C.S. Fritz
TOYS
0-3 years old 13:25
4-6 years old 13:37
7-9 years old 14:39
Legos (Purchase a set geared toward their interests. For example, my oldest son got Harry Potter Lego sets. My daughter got gymnastics Lego set. My youngest son got a Cars Lego Junior set)
Games
10-12 years old 18:03
OUTDOOR TOYS 19:19
Step 2 Naturally Playful Sand and Water Table
Melissa and Doug Sand Toys
- Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks Molding Set of 5 Animal Shapes
- Sunny Patch Clicker Crab Sand pail and Shovel
- Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks Sand Cupcake Play Set
Slackers 56’ Ninjaline Intro Kit
Hammock
Bubble Gun
Teens 22:36
Gift Card Tree
Under Armor Shirt and Socks
Wallet with money clip
Monogrammed Stainless Steel Water Bottle
Cleaning Bucket filled with car cleaning items and gas gift card
Item for their sport or activity (shoes, money for lessons, racket, balls, leotard, etc.)
2019 Women and Men Gift Guide 23:47
BOOKS: Women
- Praying the Scripture for Your Childrenby Jodie Berndt
- Praying the Scripture for Your Teens
- Praying the Scripture for Your Adult Children
- Every Moment HolyVol. I by Douglas Kaine McKelvey
BOOKS: Men
Audible Subscription
Set up free Libby Library App
EXPERIENCE GIFTS: Women 26:52
House Cleaning Gift Certificate
EXPERIENCE GIFTS: Men
Axe Throwing
Couples Overnight
Kayak Trip
BATH AND BODY: Women 28:59
BATH AND BODY: Men
The Right to Shower Body Wash and Soap
Gillette Fusion Pro-Shield Razor
APPAREL: Women 31:08
APPAREL: Men
Socks (DivvyUp!is a favorite)
Fleece
Boots
HOUSEHOLD: Women 33:52
HOUSEHOLD: Men 35:27
Chop Saw
Miter Saw
FOOD: Women 36:43
FOOD: Men 38:22
Beef Jerky (ex.Mingua)
Smoker (ex. The Green Egg)
JEWELRY: Women 30:04
Designed for Joy Leather Earrings
Hope-Threads Mulit-Color Pendant Earrings
- Grace Enough Podcast EP. 47: Katharine Jackson
JEWELRY: Men
Garmin GPS Watch
“HARD TO BUY FOR” 42:05
Photo Calendar
Subscription Box
Make a Donation in Honor of the Gift Recipient (ex. World Vision)
Plan an experience with the gift recipient
Sam’s Final Recommendation 45:57
The Great Divorceby C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Lettersby C.S. Lewis
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Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
45: Barbara Reaoch | Advent with Children
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Barbara and I chat about advent and celebrating it with the children in your life by keeping it simple and focusing on a few key truths about Jesus. 2:57 Barbara introduces herself, shares about her time working for BSF, and talks about writing materials for children and families 4:04 Barbara shares how she came to know Jesus
"When Christ reached out to me and gave me faith to believe my life was radically changed. His love filled me to the point that His love overflowed to my children."
"When I first started reading the Bible I thought I would open it up and I would hear God telling what I needed to do. It was only as I began to study the Word of God that I realized that the Bible is His voice lovingly directing me to know Him."
"When God calls you to something, as you well know, it is often out of your inadequacy that He says, 'Step forward with me in faith to do this and I will show you that I am trustworthy. It's not about what you're bringing to me. It's about what I will give to you.' As I depended on Him, I experienced His power doing in me and through me what He had called me to do."
Barbara originally wrote devotional's and books for her grandchildren while she was living in South Africa.
Bible Study Fellowship Easter and Christmas helps for children
13:13 Barbara answers 2 questions: 1) What is advent? 2) Why is it important to?"Christmas promises us so much more joy and deeper, lasting truth than tradition ever could."
"Advent is important because it's another time for parents to pass along the great truths of the gospel and to know God's Word has the power to change kid's lives."
A Jesus Christmas: Explore God's Amazing Plan For Christmas
16:09 Barbara shares some practical, non-stressful ways to participate in advent as a family.
"Jesus is the Prince of Peace....He ushers peace into our hearts as we make Him central in our family's life."
"Keep it simple. Keep Christ central in a simple way. It will be far from simplistic. It will just be simple in terms of time and activity."
"We step into the area of trying to make the tradition the main thing instead of keeping Christ central. There's lots of ways to keep Christ central other than sticking to a particular time and method. Don't make it about the method or the system or the tradition. Make it about Christ."
Layer the information.
22:06 Barbara answers the question: Is it possible for young children to grasp the concept of "waiting" for the coming Messiah?"Our children will not understand all of that, but we can try to connect those truths to their world in something they do know." Example: Waiting for a sibling to be born. Waiting for their birthday.
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Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
44: Rebekah Hargraves | Christian Legalism
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Rebekah and I chat about what her Christian life was like when it was legalistic driven vs. Bible and grace driven. We chat about reading Scripture in context and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture. We also chat about some red flags of Christian legalism.
5:10 Legalism is heavily weaved through Rebekah's story. She shares how she came to know Jesus and what her faith journey was like in its early years?Situational ethics can be easy to fall into as a child or new believer.
"I took it personally that my parents were not on board...It was almost a security issue for me. I was basing my identity, my security, and who I was in these beliefs that I thought were thoroughly Biblical."
11:54 Rebekah defines legalism as lived out in her early Christian journey"I was a Pharisee...I would take something that may have been a principle...and I would add to it all sorts of additional requirements."
14:47 Rebekah discusses what took place in her life that led her to begin addressing the legalistic Christian life she had been living?It was the light of Christ in another girl whose clothes did not measure up to her idea of Biblical dress.
17:41 Rebekah shares a few of the beliefs she held that were legalistic driven vs. Bible driven"I would ignore the passage about Deborah."
"I got to the point where I would rather know what the whole cannon of Scripture says and be willing to embrace all of it and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture and be open to whatever it said and allow me then to have to be changed (which is painful, but it's worth it)."
Examples like Huldah the prophetess
21:31 Rebekah shares how fear can often motivate legalism"You have, maybe, a good intention, but you have become so afraid of doing something wrong, that you add all these extra parameters, all these extra barriers to keep you from that. Boundaries are good, but if you make those into law and force them on everybody else, act as if they're what the Bible says, then you have trouble. It was a thing of fear, because I wanted to honor God, but I couldn't just rest in what the Bible actually said believing that if God has not laid down a command in this area, apparently it's okay for there to not be a command....I couldn't rest in that. I had to add to it in order to feel okay, to feel better, to feel safe, and it became a thing where looking back on it, I thought I knew better than God."
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Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
43: D.L. Mayfield | When Refugees Become Neighbors and Friends
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Danielle introduces herself and shares about working with Somali Bantu Refugees in Portland, OR while she was attending Bible College.
"That experience changed my life and it upended the way I saw the world...I really had to address these two basic questions: Is my religion really good news for people who aren't just like me?...The second, is my country good news for someone who isn't exactly like me?...That is, sort of, where my life has taken me, since I was 19, on this journey with God trying to ask those questions and having my life be changed mostly by refugee communities here in the U.S."
7:19 Danielle shares how she came to know Jesus. 10:19 The subtitle of Danielle's book Assimilate or Go Home is Notes From A Failed Missionary On Rediscovering Faith. She shares a little how she failed, and what she discovered about her faith."I have been working in refugee communities now for almost 15 years and I have failed to convert anyone to be just like me. I'm a white, evangelical, middle class American woman and nobody has turned out just like me."
"Then, I was like, now what? In my classes I was never taught what to do when people were like thank you, but no. I sort of had the impression that you are supposed to move on. You are supposed to go find other people. You are supposed to keep going and try to find the ones that will convert and instead I felt God say, 'I want you to stick around. I don't want you to go anywhere'."
16:49 Danielle describes a season in life where she began to shift from the kingdom of God as a spiritual concept to the kingdom of God as being here and now, a changing of the world to reflect what God desires.Study how Jesus did His own ministry to further understand the Kingdom of God.
- Proclaim good news to the poor
- Set the captives free
- Recover site for the blind
- Set the oppressed free
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