Grace Unscripted

“…His plans are always good. It’s scary to surrender because it’s unknown, but that’s faith and trust and knowing that His plans are going to be good.” – Leah Bender This week on the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we get to hear the touching story of Leah Bender. Leah got to experience the love and faithfulness of God in an incredibly real and tangible way. Thr...

“He doesn’t want you to come when your perfect…He loves you even when you are at your worst, when you are at your lowest. When you feel like you’re so broken and no one can love you, He does, and He always will.” – Devin Thompson This week on the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we get to hear the wild and incredible story of Devin Thompson! From a hectic childhood and...

“One day no matter what I will be cancer-free, I know this. Cancer does not get to end my story. It may end this earthly life, but it doesn’t win. There’s no scenario in which that happens and I’m good with that, I am very very good with that.” – Jody Shumway On this week’s episode of the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we hear about Jody’s battle with cancer and how she is using the time God has...

“Why would God create such a beautiful child for her to be harmed so early in her life and be so misunderstood? But now, I can see that I had to get to a place where I also had to be prepared, that I had to trust God and completely surrender to him.” – Jen Dougall On this week’s episode of the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we get to hear the incredible story of Jen Dougall and...

“He has done amazing things, given me grace again, and favored me. I didn’t think that I could measure up to those things you know in a lot of ways because I know my beginnings and what my future was supposed to be…He used me to serve and be served at the same time.” – Nardos Street This week on the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we get to hear the incredible story of Nard...

“All of a sudden, I’m back in Ohio and I was thirty years old and there was this feeling of this can’t go on forever. I’m chasing the wind. I’m never getting fulfilled. There has to be something in Christian faith because my grandfather and great grandfather were believers, and they were pastors. There has to be something! I’m going to give it a chance and what...

“Jeff sometimes has those tag lines at the bottom of the notes. This one was ‘total surrender equals total freedom.’ That is a huge statement because I always had an internal storm, and if anybody would have ever asked me what do you want? I want peace and freedom from the internal restlessness.” – Tim Perdion On this week’s episode of the Grace Unscripted Podca...

“When I look at the gifts God gave me and the opportunities He has given me, there is a fork in the road of do I use these for my own comfort, my own success, or my own fame, or do I use these gifts so that they were not given in vain.” – Eric Bosshard On this week’s episode of the Grace Unscripted Podcast, we get to hear the dynamic story of Eric Bosshard! From his experie...

“I try to have my faith be the filter through which I do everything. So, if it’s my marriage, if it’s the workplace, a family party, or family relationships, I try not to just have faith on Sunday mornings…It’s really just living out the calling God has for us to be salt and be light. ” – Chris Winkelmann On this week’s episode of the Grace Unscripte...

“If you had a movie title to describe your life, what would it be?…Mine would be The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly because all of us have lives that are a combination of those things. Are you willing to admit the bad, lean into the good, and even look at some of the ugly at times that’s in your life? Humble yourself and allow God to bring about healing in your life and bring a rede...

“For the first time in my whole life, I looked at myself and self-reflected. I am looking at all these kids, ‘yes, Jesus is the best thing ever. Yes, this is what life is about. Yes, you can have joy and all of this stuff.’ But I don’t have this. I have heard all of the things, but I don’t know all of the things…I could just feel that something happened in this...

“Open up your heart. Jesus is knocking and when you look back across your life, you will see that He has been standing next to every step of the journey in the highs and the lows.” – Stacy Dutt On this week’s episode of Grace Unscripted, we get to hear the powerful story of Stacy Dutt. Stacy’s story is an amazing example how faithful God is in both the highs and lows...

“It has recently really repositioned me to see that God still has good plans. He is not finished with me yet if I still have breath in my lungs. He is still working, and He’s not done.” – Madds Higgins This week on Grace Unscripted, we get to hear the story of Madds Higgins! From growing up around the church to fully diving into pursuing God and what he has planned for her,...

“I’m not that person that I used to be. I’m not this person that is still struggling with this daily sin. I am God’s child. He loves me. He loved me during the parties. He loved me my whole life. He loved me when I was sinning. When I will sin, He will still love me.” – Jack Latkovic On this week’s episode of Grace Unscripted, we dive deep into the story o...

“I feel like God gives us these trials to use for His purpose. If I’m not sharing my story. If I’m not ministering to someone. If I’m not relating myself. I understand mental illness. I get it. I lived through it. I hate it. I hate it, but who else is going to listen?” – Amy Kubbins On this week’s episode of Grace Unscripted, we get to hear the powerful st...

“There are hundreds…thousands of people out there who are good at hiding in the corner. Jesus has convicted every single one of us that those are people that we need to reach as well. I think it is really easy to fly under the radar for a very long time and the craziness for probably most people who are listening to this is that you’ll encounter hundreds of people in a day possib...

“Something I noticed looking back, was that my faith wasn’t in Jesus. It was in the people that surrounded Jesus. That was a very unstable ground, obviously. In those times of really struggling with my family, and this relationship I had as a teenager, I didn’t have a stable foundation because I didn’t know Jesus. I just knew the people around Him. I collected information a...

“…being able to be there for them and saying to them up front, you’re going to have challenges that you can’t even imagine, but God…so let’s place Him at the beginning. Let’s place Him in the center and invite Him in, to this marriage, to this relationship, to the raising of these kids, while teaching our kids to pray.” – Terri Doherty On this...

“I remember talking to a mentor of mine right after I finished my second year of college. I was like, I really don’t want to do this whole accounting thing. I feel called to be here right now. It’s really hard to focus on debits and credits when life change is happening…I’m still pretty young in my faith, but I’ve realized in this time as a Christian that whatev...

“It was probably the angriest I have been at God and also the closest. It’s like I have nothing else but faith at this point. Everything that we built, everything that I built, everything I thought I was doing was just done.” – Nate Rayl This week on Unscripted, we get to hear the amazing story of Pastor Nate Rayl. From Ohio country kid to the wilds of Russia and New York,...

“I learned about this God who loved me and who sent his son to die for me. I saw that tangible expression of who Jesus was all throughout my freshman year while being at YoungLife and being involved in that community and going to camp. It was displayed in a way that I understood, not fully knowing what Jesus looked like, but knowing that I wanted that instead of what I was doing before.&#822...

“Early on, I realized why God had me in the development field. Most of the people at the time were not followers. It became really apparent that God had me around these people because he loved them enough to share his love with them through me. I don’t feel in any way shape or form adequate to be that guy on the front lines, but I could tell that is where God had me.” On this wee...

“If you are seeking identity in people or your career, those things are going to let you down, but the Lord never does. He never lets you down. He is constantly pursuing and loving you.” – Jeri Ball This week’s Unscripted conversation dives deep into the story of Jeri Ball. Hear how she went from finding her identity in the world around her, to experiencing the love of God,...

“When I have no control, I can count on and hold onto Jesus and the fact that he is in control and knows what he is doing. He has my best interest in mind. Even if I have nobody, I have him.” This week’s Unscripted conversation jumps into the story of one of Grace’s Student Ministry Interns, Jocelynn Olminsky. Hear how the experiences of her childhood and teenage years, alo...

“I fell in love with working with teenagers…they have zeal and when they grab ahold of something they will run through a wall. That’s why I am more excited about teenagers today than I have ever been. They have so much fire inside them and when they really believe it and when they get ahold of following Jesus, it changes their whole destiny. When you think about the decisions the...