Grace Coach

In this final episode for a while, Mike shares a personal update following a sudden heart attack and double bypass surgery. Grateful for God's grace, family support, and seven years of gospel-centered conversations with Kevin Smith, he reflects on the joy of teaching the real good news of grace through books like Romans and Ephesians. While the podcast is pausing, it will remain available and cont...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 4.  Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. 2  Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.   3  And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim th...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 3:18-25. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discourag...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 3:1-17. 3  Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.   2  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.   3  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.   4  W...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 2:1-15. 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.  17  These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.  18  Do not let any...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 2:1-15.   I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.   2  My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 1:15-29. 15  The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.   16  For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through...

Welcome to the Grace Coach Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Colossians as they dive into Chapter 1:1-14 1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2  To God's holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters  in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. 3  We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

Welcome to the Romans 16 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 16. 16  I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae.   2  I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me. 3  Greet Priscill...

Welcome to the Romans 15 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 15. 15  We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.   2  Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.   3  For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you...

Welcome to the Romans 14 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 14. 14  Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.   2  One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.   3  The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not,...

Welcome to the Romans 13 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 13. 13  Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.   2  Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instit...

Welcome to the Romans 12 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 12. 12  Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.   2  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your min...

Welcome to the Romans 11 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 11. 11  I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.   2  God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God a...

Welcome to the Romans 10 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 10. 10  Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.   2  For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.   3  Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sou...

Welcome to the Romans 9 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Romans 9:19-33. 19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?"   20  But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" [ 21  Does not the potter...

Welcome to the Romans 9 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Romans 9:1-18. 9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—   2  I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.   3  For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own ra...

Welcome to the Romans 8 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 8:31-39. 31  What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?   32  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?   33  Who will bring any charge again...

Welcome to the Romans 8 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Romans 8:12-30. 12  Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.   13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14  For those who are...

Welcome to the Romans 8 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 8:1-11. 8  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,   2  because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.   3  For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the fle...

Welcome to the Romans 7 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 7:13-25. 3  Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 14  We know that the law is spiritu...

Welcome to the Romans 7 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Romans 7:1-12. 7  Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?   2  For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies,...

Welcome to the Romans 6 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 6:15-23. 15  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!   16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obed...

Welcome to the Romans 6 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Chapter 6:1-14. 6  What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?   2  By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?   3  Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?   4...

Welcome to the Romans 5 Podcast! Mike and Kevin share their insights from the Book of Romans as they dive into Romans 5:12-21. 13  To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone's account where there is no law.   14  Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did...