Who’s saying Grace?

What do you know about Hell? The Danes call it Valhalla. Do you fear Hell, demons, spirits, witches, curses, etc. What you think and how you think, becomes your reality. Your brain is very powerful. It causes your body to act in positive and negative ways. When you let fear control your brain, you act irrational and chaos ensues. You will find what you are looking for, negativity and chaos or posi...

Many people take time every year to make New Year’s resolutions. They take time to reflect on the past year before making new goals. How do you decide what to stop doing and what to build on with future goals? Most people’s goals are motivated by money, power, and love. Which one motivates you? Or is there something else that motivates your goals? Should you have similar goals in a marriage? What...

It was our greatest pleasure to talk with long time friend Jeannie. She shares her history with church and tradition, her church trauma, and what she believes about God. Her two basic principles to live by will blow you away.

Are you allowed to change your mind? Or are you allowed to make a choice that goes against your culture or traditional upbringing that won’t bring severe backlash? How can we give each other permission and safety to change our mind about a choice or position?

*Sensitive material* We talk about rape in this episode. Can rape happen in dating relationships or Christian marriages? How do we trust that certain people won’t hurt us, even the people we love? Trust is very important in relationships. How do we trust people?

Can a marriage survive on love alone? What about respect? A very popular Christian marriage advice has been, men are to love their wives and women are to respect or reverence their husbands. But will this bring happiness. Should Christian marriages be happy? What is the purpose of marriage?

Will revenge give you peace? Does justice bring peace? When someone wrongs you and hurts you, do you get peace from the revenge or justice? Forgiveness ultimately brings peace but forgiveness is hard when you are only focused on revenge. If you are struggling with peace and forgiveness because someone has hurt you, I invite you to think about what you believe and what drives your actions. There is...

We fake our identities and manipulate circumstances out of fear to prove who we are and seek validation from others. This just ends up hurting ourselves and the people we love, losing our identity in the process. But when we are true to our identity and purpose, no one can take that away. It is who we are. How does the Holy Spirit and prayer help us find our identity? Go check out some of Paul’s p...

Who is your authority and why? What drives you? How do you make decisions? As we have seen, fear drives most people. When we feel threatened, we make poor decisions. We grasp for power and control. Our pride and ego is hurt so we manipulate people to make ourselves look better. It’s hard to have humility when you feel threatened. We are either an army or a church processional. Where do you see thi...

As we come to the end of the first season of the Netflix series, The Last Kingdom, it seems there is peace in Wessex and beyond. And of course, that peace will not be the case for long. As Brida says paraphrased, “Peace makes people grow fat!” People get restless and want more. Starting the second season we see every character in the show, just like us, has a purpose, a motivation, a reason for wh...

Warning: Sensitive material. Aleswith and Alfred seem to be the perfect Christians, blessed beyond measure. But their world is crashing around them. Their prayers are not working. What is God doing??? Maybe they need to pray harder or differently. Does God bless people more when they obey him more, go to church more, serve more, give more money, or pray better? Hild, a devoted woman of God suffers...

The struggle continues: Uhtred and Mildrith, Law and grace. The honeymoon is over. There is no reconciliation. Uhtred will never be accepted because he can’t turn a blind eye toward conflicting information in the church. Mildrith won’t budge from tradition and her church is shaming everyone and anyone who doesn’t fit their mold. Again, fear keeps people under control. Why do people blindly follow...

“There’s no justice here, only the church.” - Uhtred. “It (Justice) comes to those who have faith.” - Mildrith. It can feel like the church of today and yesteryear, uses its power to manipulate situations for control. Why does the church need to have control? To us it seems like fear is driving that need for control. What does the church fear? The Saxons think they can expel their own fear with kn...

Grace doctrine allows us to question why we do what we do. And when that happens, the answers and discussions can ruffle a lot of feathers. The fourth episode of Season one of The Last Kingdom brings up some feather ruffling topics. And today, we go there. We are questioning. A scene where Alfred and Uhtred have a provoking conversation while overlooking this majestic scenery. It stirs up some dee...

Even though there is no plumbing in the 9th century, it is still the age of Grace. Because the Netflix series The Last Kingdom is set so long ago, it can be hard to see that the characters are like us. They are doing life, encountering struggles, and making decisions just like us. Grace applies to them in the same way it applies to us today. In this episode, we are peeling back the layers of these...

Today’s church seems to unknowingly struggle with not being able to separate the law from grace. It’s like one big stew pot with all the covenants mixed together. Because of this, we get caught up in law based religious thinking. It causes us to have to prove God. It leads to misunderstanding of sin and temptation. And it confuses God’s will. This episode of The Last Kingdom is full of law. From t...

Grace allows us to question. Questioning why we do what we do is so imperative to understanding religious practices. We are diving into the Netflix series The Last Kingdom. The Danes and The Saxons seem to have opposing views of how to live life. But are they really both just blindly following what they have been taught without wonderment? Blindly obeying, following, and accepting can lead one dow...

Grace is the God given ability to choose our own destiny. But don’t take our word for it. We are just two traumatized recovering Bible belt cousins using pop culture to tell you why we think Grace will bring world peace. Is everything planned out in life by a higher power? Or is it our consequences from our choices that create our path? In this episode, meet your fearless emcees, find out what the...