Grace Gathered

We are excited to have you join us in the first of three episodes in our summer series on prayer! In this episode we welcome new co-host, Claire! Together we share a conversation about why we pray, why we don’t pray, and what happens when we pray. The three of us share the different practices we have around prayer journaling and our experiences with the difficult and graceful balance between hopin...

We finish up our two-part season finale with conversation about how to surrender is ultimately to worship. The daily responses to grace add up to this end goal: to put God back on the thrones of our hearts. This is worship! Join us as we talk about some of the idols that rule our hearts and things that get in the way of our surrender. For further reading & reference, explore the following vers...

Welcome, friends! At our LIVE at the Gathering event in April, we took the opportunity to record a live podcast to answer questions that were submitted and share a little about ourselves! Thank you to all who participated, and a special thank you to our lovely host, Karli Bullard! Our prayer for this podcast continues to be that it would be a place to gather grace and truth, and we hope this pop-u...

In our season finale studying "Grace Upon Grace", Libbie uses the story of the prodigal son to demonstrate how each of us are relationally lost and in need of grace. Through our season, we talked about what grace can look like when it shows up in our lives, and in this message Libbie challenges us to not let grace be just an instance, but a constant posture of our lives. We know that whe...

As we near the end of Season 2 of the podcast (Season 5 of the LIVE events!) we continue the conversation about grace and how it is woven throughout our lives. We now ask the question, “what is to be our response to grace?” When we begin this journey by asking, “What can I do to show God that I’m grateful?” we are, yet again, walking the way of striving. With words from a shared devotional, we cha...

Join us as we welcome Leanna Hernandez in studio after sharing her testimony with us at our most recent LIVE at the Gathering event. Have you ever felt like you've messed things up so badly that you are no longer someone God is paying attention to? Come together with us as we talk about what it means when God is silent, how he equips us to do what He's sent us to do, and how He never stops...

The mission of both The Gathering & the Grace Gathered Podcast goes beyond the walls of our church and into the lives of other women through outreach. This season’s outreach is focusing on reaching the lives of those affected by human trafficking. Our first guest, Beverly Weeks, runs a human trafficking outreach & rescue organization called “Cry Freedom Missions.” Beverly begins with some...

Happy new year from us here at Grace Gathered! We know that the new year can bring harsh expectations and easy disappointments. God has some expectations of us, and they don't have anything to do with gym memberships or eating healthier... they have everything to do with us letting His grace flow through us to others. Join us as we talk about four practical ways we can do just that... by His g...

On the heels of an episode about discerning condemnation from conviction, we sit down with Marie to hear her story of abortion, redemption, and beauty from ashes. Each with our own secrets and shame, we discuss how important and beautiful it is to bring light to the darkness, to have community, and to watch together in awe at the work God does with it all! Marie also answers our questions about th...

Imagine the details of Jesus's life and how relatable they are! Jesus had tempations of jealousy and bad hair days, just like us. He was holy, yet made Himself breakable. John 1:14 MSG reads, "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood." What grace upon grace that God became flesh and blood to live among us, and what a thing to celebrate at Christmastime and eve...

Join us as we talk about the life-giving difference between condemnation and conviction. We imagine how the devil has tried to use shame and guilt to limit the impact of women like us in the lives of those around us, and we study the lives and legacies of the unlikely women in Jesus’ lineage to demonstrate how God works so very differently, bringing outsiders and sinners into the story of grace an...

“Let Grace abound…” a prayer that covers a multitude. Join us as we explore a Psalm of David, written from a place of devastation due to sin, but nonetheless full of hope. We can learn from David to take an honest approach to our sin, therefore realizing new depths of gratitude. As He transforms us and renews us, we learn to love what He loves and hate what He hates, rejoicing always in the grace...

We forget so easily how much we need God. We reduce the value of grace in our lives, forget about it, and steward it recklessly. Today we challenge each other to dare to ask God to remind us, and to show us His glory and grace. In the hours we do deeply know our hopelessness and helplessness, let us not also forget the second half of the story of grace: that He meets us in that place to redeem us...

Join us and our guest, Lana Lamkin, as we begin our new season talking about "Grace Upon Grace." Lana reminds us that grace is something easily overlooked, but it comes to us every day in the form of something even so simple as the air we breathe. Lana's testimony involves being a double-lung transplant survivor, and the story - full of God's grace in small ways and big ways - re...

In many ways our relationship with God is shaped by our relationships with others - it is also limited in many ways if we only know Him as "God." Join us as we study some of His names in the Bible, and let us introduce you to the God we have each come to know by different names. Discover with us where these names are revealed in Scripture, as well as some practical ways to pray them over...

We are all intentional about something, be it decorating our homes with perfect details, cutting calories, or making plans and hitting certain goals. In this episode, join us and two of our friends as we talk about love languages, and how learning a "second language" should be our number one intention and goal, whether it is the primary love language of a spouse, child, or friend. We rea...

Join us as we begin our mini-series on relationships as Christians, starting off with our relationships to who we are as a part of the whole. God gifted us each with spiritual gifts, "an act of faith designed to strengthen the faith of those around us." This episode started out by looking at one of the spiritual gifts tests (you can find it here https://gifts.churchgrowth.org ) and then...

Our first year at the Grace Gathered Podcast is coming to a close with a summer mini-series on relationships! Before we start a new season alongside our Live at the Gathering events in the fall, join us as we talk about who God gifted us to be, how we can learn to love the people around us well, and how our relationships with others effect our relationship with God (and vice versa). In the last ep...

As we wrap up our season of study on Flourishing, Libbie teaches us that to Flourish is to be as close to God's original design for us as possible, and that this is demonstrated in practicing Sabbath rest. Along with the other spiritual practices and disciplines we studied through the year, Sabbath rest is one way we lay claim to what God has for us and accept the invitation He lays before us...

Green pastures, our souls restored, a banquet set before us, goodness & mercy following always... these images from Psalm 23 paint a picture of what it looks like to Flourish. We have been studying spiritual disciplines and practices all season long to teach us how to begin , and this episode shows us how we might know when we have truly begun to Flourish: when we follow the Shepherd, our &quo...

Our constant attempts to flourish without really hearing from God are like trying to grow a plant without sunshine. And just think of the things we might miss out on if we don't hear His voice! We believe that God's plan for us to flourish not only includes a sensitivity to His direction, but chances for us to hear Him speak love into our lives. We hope to do more in this episode than simp...

Whether you are listening for the first or second (or third!) time, please enjoy this recording from our live at the Gathering Event. Here, Libbie speaks to us about how we are all being formed into someone simply by living. With our goal to be formed into the image of Jesus, she invites us to examine the things that form us, and implores us all to understand the ways we can be intentional about i...

Whether you are listening to this episode while on your feet, driving around from errand to errand, or (wishfully) relaxing at the beach, your heart is in need of the rest that the Savior alone offers. How do we do all that is asked of us and still find time to rest? Join us as we redefine things like peace, work, and rest by diving into our Bibles. Take a deep breath with us as we remember that G...

We saturate our schedules, our minds, and our attention spans all while our souls cry out to be satisfied and saturated with Jesus. Join us as we talk about slowing down, living our lives with rhythms that are modeled by Jesus, and about how one of the ways the devil comes to steal and destroy is by stealing our time and destroying our effectiveness in kingdom work. John 10:10 For reference and fu...

Whether you are listening for the first or second (or third!) time, please enjoy this recording from our live Christmas at the Gathering Event. Here, Maggie Buchanan covers us in prayer and speaks to us about the hidden work that God does in our hearts when we spend time in His presence. As in God's physical creation, our spiritual lives reflect seasons. Even in the seasons where we feel as though...