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 Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Heather and I chat about the power of God's Word to change lives, the loss she has experienced in her life, dealing with anxiety, and her Bible studies: Ready and Determined.
4:08 Heather shares her story of coming to know Jesus and how her love of God's Word took root in her heart
10:42 Heather walks us through the major medical events in her life that led to a diagnosis of vEDS (Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) and how that has challenged and changed her faith.
Major Medical Events: Pre-mature birth, Colon rupture, miscarriage, two aneurysm flare ups (kidney and gut), kidney infarction, and left carotid artery rupture.
vEDS makes your blood vessels and organs prone to rupture.
There is no cure or treatment for vEDS. "The prescription he gave me was prepare your bucket list and live your life well, because the average life expectancy of someone with Vascular EDS is 48 years."
18:22 Heathertalks about the days and months following the diagnosis.
"I wasn't afraid to die. I wasn't afraid to go see Jesus. I hunger to see Jesus. The hardest thing for me was coming to terms with the fact that God would take care of my husband and son."
"We had to come face to face with the reality that we are not promised another day on this earth."
"During that season I literally sat an alarm on my phone every 60 minutes to pray, because that was about as long I would last before I felt a wave of a panic attack coming on."
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live20 and that you may love the Lordyour God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lordis your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
"I said, Okay, I am going to choose life. I am going to put two feet on the floor.... choose life, Heather. You still have life to live. If you have a pulse, you have a purpose."
"I don't think God intentionally caused pain, but I do think He used that pain to bring me to my knees, to a place where I had to confess to Him, I'm not giving You everything. I am not giving you my trust over my husband and my son and their life. It was that moment when he said, 'Choose life. I got you. I got your family, choose life'."
25:58 Have a wholistic tool box when dealing with anxiety.
29:39Heathershares encouragement and tools she uses in dealing with anxiety.
- You are not alone in this struggle. Other humans struggle with it, but so did Jesus. "At the final moments of the cross in Luke 22, He is literally sweating blood, because He is so afraid." There is a Greek term used agonia for agony in the passage, when Jesus is praying to God out of fear for His life. "We serve a Savior who understands what it feels like to battle that in His body physically, in His mind. He understands what it feels like to cry out to God for relief."
- Don't expect to fix it all at once
- Make intentional, sustainable choices
35:58Heather shares about the 2 Bible studies she has written.
- READY: FINDING THE COURAGE TO FACE THE UNKNOWN | A SIX-WEEK BIBLE STUDY ON JOSHUA 1-5
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DETERMINED: LIVING LIKE JESUS IN EVERY MOMENT | A SIX-WEEK BIBLE STUDY ON LUKE
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Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Lara and Hayley, the founders of Layers of Dignity, and I chat about how they began donating totes full of clothing and other items to emergency rooms and advocacy centers to be given to sexual assault survivors immediately after evidence collection. We chat about Layers mission to provide hope and connection for survivors, so they know they are not alone.
4:46 Hayley shares about Layers of Dignity(what it is, what they do, etc.)
Tote bag includes:
- Brand new outfit
- Toiletries
- Resources
- Love note from another survivor
7:14 Lara shares about how the anger they experienced following Hayley's assault turned to righteous anger, which led to Layers of Dignity
"This anger, it's there, it's purposeful, it makes sense, it is allowed to be there. It [sexual assault] is a thing that is wrong. It is something God weeps over. The anger can happen, but if you just stay there it can get dangerous real quick. Moving it into a righteous anger almost definitely means there is going to be some kind of positive action. We came up with the idea to give clothes to the hospital..."
Vintage Church has been a huge support.
10:05 Hayley shares about their first delivery and how Layers has spread to other hospitals and advocacy centers
12:02 1 in 6 women will experience a sexual assault or attempted assault in their lifetime. 98% of women will experience symptoms of PTSD during the two weeks after an assault and 1 in 10 sexual assault survivors are male.
Hayley discusses how Layers of Dignityis helping to decrease that 98% experiencing PTSD
"One of our main missions and goals is to be a catalyst for hope and redemption as early as possible and part of that is creating a community. Going through that [assault] is/has been the darkest time in my life and even though I had the best support system....Even though you are totally surrounded, you still feel the loneliest you've ever felt, so I think if you can create a place where you feel known there can be less of that loneliness, which hopefully will lead to less depression, anxiety, and hopefully bring that trauma to a place where it can be dealt with early on."
13:23 They share about the notes included in each tote from a sexual assault survivor
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Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Sarah and I chat about identifying that passion God has placed deep within you and living it out. For Sarah, it is gathering people around a table to connect over food and helping others to do the same by crafting hand made tables through Neighbor's Table.
2:41 Sarah shares how a pastor friend helped her shift her identify from work back into Christ.
"I learned to not strive so much, but rest in who God made me to be... Come to find out God made me to be a people gatherer."
"I thought back to the very best moments of my life and they were always around the table."
"I think God made me to gather people at the table."
Sarah set a goal to serve 500 people around the table in her backyard and on Thanksgiving the 500th guest walked down the driveway.
7:00 "The best part of what we now call Neighbor's Tableis my friend called about a year and half in and said, 'Sarah, I see God getting a lot of glory around your table and I wonder if He has something outside your own yard?'....I started thinking there's other people wired just like me. There's other people gatherer's in the world. What if I could find those people? And what if I could cheer them on?....Neighbor's Table is my full time job now."
Neighbor's Tablebuilds hand-crafted tables and deliver them across the country and cheer people on to love their neighbor's.
"People might say we're in the table business, but I really like to think we're in the people business."
9:25 Sarah shares the who, what, when, where and how she hosted the first gathering in her backyard
Who: 300 closest neighbors (91 people attended)
What: A potluck So-Hip Soiree
Where: Sarah's backyard
"I learned that night that people just want to be invited. There's something special about being invited to the table."
"My rule at my house is there's no private party, so if any neighbor sees there's an open seat they can join me. I pass plates of food over the fence. People stop and say hello."
14:45 Sarah shares her faith journey with us and how she discovered God created her to be a people gatherer
"I think people gathering probably looks a little like evangelism with a dinner napkin wrapped around it...I just love people....Now we say Neighbor's Tableis a love mission. I want to be very missional about the way we love people and not in a project kind of way, but in a real, genuine, as a believer, I have the light of Christ inside of me [kind of way]."
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Jan and I chat about enjoying Jesus, quieting the mind, ridding your life of life-draining behaviors, and God’s invitation.
4:12 Jan shares how she came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior
“I always had a sense that Jesus was everywhere.”
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
- During the time of writing Enjoying the Presence of God is when Jan began to ask what it was like to meditate on Scripture, to hang out with God. God’s Word became less of a checklist and more of a relationship.
- God became the companion of her soul during this time.
6:55 Jan discusses spiritual formation, partnering with God in caring for the voiceless, and living with purposeful intentionality.
“Spiritual formation is really discipleship, but it’s not just doing practices. It’s about letting the Spirit transform you into Christlikeness.”
Spiritual practices = different ways of connecting with God
8:35 “The focus of attention in spiritual formation isn’t on me and how I am doing….It’s always about oneness with God, union with God.”
“What would it look like to love God for the next 10 minutes?”
10:50 Jan talks about having a voice for the voiceless
“That is what Jesus did. The people nobody wanted to hang out with, there He was.”
13:36 “What breaks your heart that breaks the heart of God?….Different things break people’s hearts differently, which is great, because then we are all the hands and feet of Jesus in so many different ways.”
“Ask God for a next step?”
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Jodie and I chat about praying for your children throughout their lives, how God delights in hearing from His children, and how praying the Scripture brings peace and aligns our heart with God's heart.
6:07 Jodieshares her faith journey, mothering in the early years, and how her first book, Praying the Scripture for Your Children came to be
"I turned Eph. 4:29 in to a prayer for me and my family."
She did a paper survey asking one question, "If you could ask God to do one thing for your children, for your family, what would it be?"
She used the top 20 answers to create a table of contents of what might become a book. Then, she dug into God's Word to see what it said about each topic.
All 3 books are cataloged by topics.
11:16 Jodie shares what she has experienced in her own personal prayer life as she has prayed the Scriptures for her children
"There is a lot of richness and depth and variety as we lift our prayers out of Scripture, but not only that, I think they become a lot more powerful. God says in Isaiah 55 that His word will not return empty, but will accomplish the purposes for which it's sent. I have really seen that His Word goes forth and it accomplishes things."
"It's this beautiful hand in hand partnership where God invites us to partner with Him in accomplishing these purposes through prayer."
"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, because even if I not yet seen the result (even if I am still in the thick of whatever the issue is) I know God is at work. I have released it to Him. 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."
"Share your heart with Him even in the midst of the mayhem."
Praying the Scripture for Your Teens
Praying the Scripture for Your Adult Children
15:35 Jodie shares how praying changed as her children got older.
"Their needs may change and their friendships may change, but at the end of the day we want them to have godly friends."
Parent's of adult children don't have the same community as parents of young children, so that is challenging. They can feel alone, so that is why I wrote praying the scripture for your adult children.
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Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Robin and I chat her own abortion, hope and healing after abortion, purity, forgiveness, and ministry leadership.
4:04 Robin shares her faith journey with us, the abortion she had in college, and how she tried to maintain the "perfect" mask.
"At 3 years old there were some people who paired me off with this little boy named Glenn and they thought it was really cute. And something really got inside of me at that time where I felt I needed a guy to complete me. I had a boyfriend from Kindergarten all the way through and if I didn't have one I was looking."
Prior to the start of her junior year of college at Oral Roberts University, Robin had a positive pregnancy test.
After telling her mother, she went and told the chaplain of Oral Roberts and she was asked to leave. She had broken the moral code she had signed.
7:00 "I got on a Greyhound bus and I traveled across the country, all by myself from Oklahoma to California, into the arms of my boyfriend. Somehow within a week I found myself in an abortion clinic in Fresno, California having an abortion. I remember laying on that table praying my boyfriend would come and save me and he didn't. I remember waking up and I remember getting in the car and he looked at me and said, 'I wish we hadn't done that.' "
9:17 Robin shares a little of what life was like following the abortion
10:45 Robin begins sharing about becoming the director of a pregnancy center at the age of 25.
"I knew I needed healing from my own abortion experience when I attended training on the very first day and they actually showed a video of an abortion being done...and I drove away and I knew I wasn't okay. Thankfully, these sweet women took me under their wing and taught me about Post-abortion Syndrome and they helped me get the healing I needed."
13:13 Robin shares more about Post-abortion Syndrome
14:42 Robin shares a God moment with us regarding a vision of her aborted son
Daniel James was the name God gave Robin during that vision for the curly haired boy she saw coming toward her.
"This little boy, about 6 years old, looked at me and ....said, 'I love you mommy.' He said, 'I forgive you and I can't wait to see you someday.' "
"They say 70% of women who have abortions attend a protestant or a Catholic church."
19:13 Robin shares about her own crisis pregnancy while she was director of a pregnancy center
"Here I was living this expected "godly" lifestyle, but I was still holding part of myself back from the Lord. I wasn't fully living for Him, but when I got pregnant this time I committed to the Lord to be all in."
"I walked into the board meeting and told them of my situation, that I was pregnant and it wasn't my husbands child (I was still married. He was not complying with the divorce at that point). I told the board and their response blew me away. They said, 'If you're not a crisis pregnancy, we don't know who is and there's no way we could turn our back on you.' They allowed me to stay in the position....That board extended grace to me."
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Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Jillian and I chat about the work she does with the non-profit Created to come alongside women in the sex industry.
4:06 Jillian shares what Created does on a day to day basis to build relationships with women coming out of the sex industry
Created’s goal is to provide a place of belonging and refuge to every woman they meet that is coming from the sex industry.
5 of the 9 staff at Created Women are survivor leaders.
7:37 Jillian shares some statistics about the sex industry, particularly in Tampa, Florida where they are located
- Tampa is 3rd in the U.S. for the number of men, women, and children who are brought into the country for sex trafficking
- Tampa has more strip clubs per capita than any other city in the U.S.
- Tampa is 3rd in the U.S. for illicit massage parlors
10:49 “Think about, what are the things that happened in their lives that led them here, because no child is ever like that is what I want to do when I grow up. That’s how I want to make my way through college is to dance and strip…It is not a normal thing. It has to come from some brokenness that is happening, whether to them or around them.”
11:50 Jillian walks us through her time as a street outreach volunteer, residential program coordinator, and now executive director at Created.
17:58 “So many times we go into ministry like, ‘Oh, this is going to be so great’….but real ministry is hard. People are broken and they don’t want your help and they don’t want your good words or whatever you think you can give. At the end of the day, that is the biggest thing I have had to learn, all I can offer is Jesus and the kindness and peace that He brings.”
20:20 Jillian shares obstacles and success stories
27:07 “We have 5 members of our staff team are graduates of our program. To watch them every day reinvest their lives into the women we’re serving and use their stories to cultivate change that nobody else could is amazing.”
“It’s all the small moments that really matter. The graduating from drug treatment, starting trauma therapy; it is all the small steps, because even when a relapse happens or something happens and a woman decides to leave our program we can always go back and think, ‘She made it this many months clean this time and she made through these classes and life skills that she never had before.’ The likelihood of her coming back from that relapse is so much higher than it was before.”
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Kate and I chat about her children's book, The Giving Crusade, which is a little book with a big mission, to teach kids that giving a little can do a lot.
3:54 Kate shares the inspiration behind The Giving Crusade
“It’s my job as an aunt, to take the good work parents have done and make it even better.”
Kate shares 3 things she would want to leave as a legacy for her nieces and nephew.
- Her creativity
- Her philanthropy and good works
- Her kindness
10:06 "It wasn't my goal. I never dreamed of being a children's author. I dreamed of being a writer. I always say I am a storyteller with photography."
11:50 Kate shares 3 stories of giving that have resulted from The Giving Crusade
- Smilestones by Molly
- K.I.D.S. = Kids Inspired and Determined to Serve
- St. Pius Catholic School
16:35 "Their principle used the terminology 'quietly generous' and there is no better way to put that. Truly, there is such beauty in being quietly generous. Where you are not looking for any sort of return, there is no expectation on the gifts that you are giving. It is purely done, because you care and you won't to make the world a better place."
"The book focuses on a $5 gift as the launching point for conversation, but .... [the gift] doesn't have to be money. You have your gifts in terms of talent and time and love and being a good steward in your community. All of that is just as important as any money you can give."
18:50 Kate shares about Crusader Cash
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
B.J. and I chat about coming to know Jesus through Young Life, how various job experiences led him to All Pro Dad, what All Pro Dad offers to assist dads in their relationship with their children, and how he deals with conflict when his content rubs people the wrong way.
4:11: B.J. begins sharing how his faith journey with Jesus began
"She [mom] brought me up with this really rich Catholic foundation, which gave me essentially a deep respect for God's holiness, for His judgement, the fact that He is somebody to be revered, to be feared (in a healthy way)."
He started going to Young Life in high school.
"He [Young Life leader] talked about Jesus in a way that made Him very relatable."
7:55 So you marry this beautiful foundation of respect for God's holiness with the personal relationship aspect with Jesus and you have a beautiful marriage.
10:57B.J. talks about going on Young Life staff after working in a variety of fields
Susan Merrill, one of the founders of Family First
13:01 B.J. begins talking about All Pro Dad: the mission, resources they provide, etc.
Malachi 4:6 "He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”
"The lack of the love of a father, the lack of presence of a father leaves a gaping hole."
85% of incarcerated individuals grow up without a dad.
You can engage as an All Pro Dadis 3 ways:
- Sign up for All Pro Dademail, which helps dad's be intentional with their time with their children
- One hour every month, attend an All Pro Chapter(or start a chapter) at your local school
- Attend an All Pro Dad Experience at an NFL Stadium/College Stadium
17:47 B.J. talks about the importance of a father being involved in their child's life
19:45 We begin discussing the articles B.J. has written/continues to write for All Pro Dad.
Here are a few:
- 7 Things that Lead Kids Down the Wrong Road
- 7 Notes You Should Write to Your Children
- 20 Things Wives Love to Hear from Their Husbands
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Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Today, I chat with Veronica Greear, the wife of Southern Baptist ConventionPresident, J.D. Greear. We chat about her journey with Jesus, challenges that come with being a pastor's wife, her families transition as J.D. stepped into his role as SBC President, and loving your people well.
8:39 Veronica begins sharing how her faith journey began
9:15 “I was trying to keep God happy with me. I wanted Him to like me….I wanted that on one hand, but on the other I wanted all of my friends and peers to like me and be happy with me. And in high school, those usually don’t overlap very much… Now, when I say keeping Him happy with me, that was obviously the way I was looking at it. What we know is that because of God’s grace and His sacrifice He can’t be happier with you, if that is how you want to put it. He loves you. He is not unclear on who you are. He is not unclear on the fact that you came from dust, but I think I was unclear on that.”
13:53 "God, I pray that Veronica will understand that You do not care who she is. You don't care what she does. You were not fooled when You died on the cross, but that You care whose she is, who she belongs to and that is You. From that point on, I thought, why would I run away from this? If anybody was fooled on this relationship, it certainly wasn't Him. He loves me."
16:10Veronica begins sharing things she does on a day to day basis to continue growing in her walk with Jesus.
22:26 Veronica shares about her career as a teacher, prior to becoming a stay at home mom, and how she continues to nurture that love of teaching today.
24:13Veronica shares about some of the challenges of being a pastor's wife
"It was weird for me to recognize that even though I wasn't always thinking I am married to the pastor, they [congregation] usually are."
"You are going to have to dig deep to remember and remind yourself that your worth is not in what other people think of you. Your worth is only and always in Christ and that is true for you NO MATTER WHAT."
"For me, people pleasing has always been a struggle. I have to seek the Lord on where I am letting someone down and have to be fine with it (and that is really hard for me) or where I am letting someone down and no that is something I need to fix."
In a multitude of counsel, there is wisdom.
Proverbs 15:22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed
Proverbs 11:14 For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.
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Multiple barriers exist that prevent these women from traditional employment opportunities, as most of them do not have cars to get them to work, the finances to pay for childcare, or the language skills to communicate and advocate for themselves. Hope Threadswas born out of relationships formed over years of serving these women by teaching them English or caring for their children as they learn. They are graciously hosted by North Ridge Bible Chapel and have virtually no overhead costs, as volunteers teach sewing skills and care for children in a gospel centered children’s program.
They started with baby items and have now expanded into also making women’s earrings and dish cloths. You can find them online at hope-Threads.com or on Instagram at hope.threads.
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