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**Grace Enough Podcast**

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.
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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.

Latest Episodes:

80: Kia Stephens | Exchanging Father Wounds Aug 11, 2020

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Kia and I chat about

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79: Amy Carroll | Sharing Your God Story Aug 04, 2020

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Amy and I chat about learning to listen, leveraging your feelings, and sharing your story in your day to day life by making your words consistent no matter who you are around.

Questions Amy and I Discussed:

(5:40) Share a little of your faith journey with us. How did you come to know Jesus?
(8:34) Your work focuses on coming alongside women who long for both a tender heart, steeped in God’s Word, and a strong voice that speaks up for Him in their world. How do you go about equipping them for this call?
(20:05) You also encourage women to leverage their feelings when it comes to sharing their story. What does that mean and how would someone go about doing that?
(28:20) Most Christians have a desire to share their story with others, but are often paralyzed by fear. How do you encourage women to share their life with Jesus with others?
(37:27) If you had the opportunity to sit down with your great grandchildren, what some wisdom you would like to share with them.

Quotes to Remember:

“My new tagline is tender heart, strong voices, because I really believe that God is calling all of us….to use our story, our voices for Him in the spaces that we live, wherever we have influence, in our household with our children, in our neighborhoods and communities, in our workplaces and story is such a powerful way to share God’s truth.”

“God has been teaching me to really, really listen, because if we want to use our stories, to connect with other people, we have to know their stories first.”

“One of the big things that I’ve learned about listening is listening is not agreeing. This used to be…my big problem. I felt like if I listened to someone, and they were saying things that I didn’t agree with, and if I didn’t speak it would be as if I agreed. And I have learned that is not true. Listening is not equal to agreeing, listening is equal to love.”

“I think as Christians we are called to be aware of what is going on in our world, and where to engage with the pain of people who are suffering around us and to know the stories of people who don’t have a voice so we can help share those.”

“The power of story is it connects people. And I think our faith stories is just simply sharing whatever God is doing in our lives.”

“If you would tell a story about what God had just done in your life to your Christian girlfriend, why don’t we tell these stories to our next door neighbors.”

Resources Mentioned:

Proverbs 31 Ministry
Grit -n- Grace Podcast
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Out of The Salt Shaker And Into The World
amycarroll.org
Exhale by Amy Carroll and Cheri Gregory
Breaking Up With Perfect by Amy Carroll

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78: Lisa Goldberg | Marriage Ministry After Infidelity Jul 28, 2020

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Lisa Goldberg joins me to chat about her journey from a marriage of hurt and deception to hope and redemption. We talk about the hardest part of fighting for her marriage after discovering her husband's infidelity, how God had been softening her heart long before the discovery and the way they use their experience to encourage other couples through Stay Side by Side Ministry.

Questions Lisa and I Discussed:

(5:07) How did you meet your husband Steve and what was marriage like in the early years?
(8:39) Eventually, you discovered your husband was having an affair. Will you share about that discovery and what life looked like in the months following?
(20:01) Did your husband immediately agree to go to counseling? Was it easy for him to walk away from his mistress? How was that process for him?
(23:23) What would you say is the hardest aspect of the journey of choosing to fight for your marriage after infidelity?
(25:46) Tell us a little about how Steve ended up coming to know Jesus?
(27:31) Your experience led to Stay Side by Side ministry, because you desire for all marriages to be God-centered and thriving.
(30:12) What do you do as a couple to protect your marriage now?

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77: Rosaria Butterfield | Christian Identity, Intersectionality {Part 2} Jul 21, 2020

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You can listen to {Part 1} EP. 76: Rosaria Butterfield | Radical Hospitality.

{Part 2} Rosaria and I dive deep into the topic of intersectionality and how that type of identity thinking differs from Christian identity.

1:50 You often speak and write about intersectionality. Will you define intersectionality for our listeners?

Rosaria summarizes what led to intersectionality.

"Most people did not realize that for decades and decades and decades, there's been a conversation going on in the universities and that conversation basically is this, your identity is rooted in the things you don't have that you want, and the things that you need to have in order to be fully formed. In other words, intersectionality comes from this idea that who you really are, is determined by how many victim statuses you can check off and liberation can only be had if no one disagrees with you."

Obergefell decision

"But in 2015 in the Obergefell decision, which was the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states, there was an additional, kind of beefing up of a clause that inserted this idea...of dignitary harm. This idea that people are harmed or done like violence to their person, not only because of material things that are denied them, but because their dignity has been insulted or hurt. So now with intersectionality, it isn't just race, class and gender... it could be ageism and looksism."

Intersectionality and The Church by Dr. Rosaria Butterfield

Two ways in which intersectionality is at odds with the gospel by Denny Burks

Intersectionality as Religion… It’s infecting evangelicals too by Denny Burks

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76: Rosaria Butterfield | Radical Hospitality {Part 1} Jul 14, 2020

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Rosaria and I chat about her conversion, experiencing Christian hospitality as a lesbian professor, how her family practices hospitality, and how hospitality and the gospel go hand in hand for her.

6:42 For those who aren't familiar with your books and your story, briefly share with our listeners how you came to know Jesus

"The Lord saved me 21 years ago, and at that point, I was living in serially monogamous lesbian relationships. I was a tenured professor at Syracuse University in English and women's studies, and was the co author of our domestic partnership policy, which was the forerunner for... gay marriage, both the Obergefell decision and prior to that all the little state ones. I've always had a burning desire to be a truth teller and to understand the truth. I had a sticker on my desk that said, 'I'd rather be wrong on an important point than right on a trivial one.'

I just really wanted to know why Christians hated people like me and why they just wouldn't leave consenting adults alone. So after my 10 year book was written, I started working on a book on the religious right. And in the process of that met a pastor, who was also one of my neighbors name is Ken Smith. He and his wife Floy and I became friends. And they entered my world, I entered their world....So there has this Christian world and their hospitality and my gay world and my hospitality and it had enough of a familiar sense that it was not terrifying to walk into that world and that fact that they were willing to walk into mine. Well, it was that that really allowed them to put the hand of this stranger called Rosaria into the hand of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."

9:51 Hospitality is woven through your story from your years in the LGBTQ community to being welcomed in to Ken and Floy's home to eat and to dialogue with a couple who had vastly different beliefs than you to how you interact with your current neighborhood. How did previous models of hospitality help shape your families current model?

"What we were practicing the Bible wouldn't necessarily call hospitality because that has a particular Christian grounding to it. What we were practicing was a kind of liberal communitarianism. We wanted to create a community that was bound by certain values and was willing to show up in hard places. The gospel is more than that. The gospel is that. But if the gospel isn't more than that, then it's not the gospel. Because what hospitality is, is it's welcoming a stranger to be part of your neighbor connection and then by God's grace, watching neighbors, come to Christ and become part of your family....there's a there's a difference between liberal communitarianism and hospitality."

"Every layer had so many idols attached to it. It was the idol of feminism. There was the idol of lesbianism. There was the idol of being a tenured professor at an important research university. There was the idol of my students and my dissertations that I had to direct. There is the idol of the books. There were so many idols and you know what, you don't come to Christ with your idols. Well, I mean, you do, but then they have to be destroyed."

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75: Jessica Hottle | Moving Forward After Rejection Jul 07, 2020

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Jessica and I chat about walking forward in faith after rejection. We discuss changing the narrative surrounding rejection, being humble, and growth that can result.

3:10 Share a little about your faith journey with us. How did you come to know Jesus? 6:48 Today we are going to talk about how to keep walking forward in faith after rejection. Will you share a time when you experienced rejection and how that experience launched you into this pursuit of helping women know their worth?

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero

11:21 What are some of the things you do now to help women view rejection differently?

Change the narrative
Be humble in the face of rejection
Every time there is a rejection, a no, there is an opportunity to grow

“We still have work in the promise. We still are called to show up. I think that is what we see in David. He still served the king. He played the harp, right? He served his brothers. There was servanthood in the midst of the waiting and even when Saul was after him, he still wanted to serve him… There is this heart posture that we need to get to in in that process of waiting.”

“A rejection from humans. a no from humans does not mean a no or rejection from God.”

17:48 Are there some questions that you ask yourself after experiencing rejection?

“You can generally ask yourself, what’s going on right now (both parties)? You have to understand both sides. Where is each side coming from? Because the more you can take yourself out of it, meaning, your identity and worth…. then you can start to formulate this kind of subjective view of the situation to be able to learn and grow from.”

“What can I do moving forward?”

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74: Susan Alexander Yates | Creating Connection Through Cousin Camp & Extended Family Gatherings Jun 16, 2020

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Susan and I chat about how her family vision of the love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself led her and John to begin hosting a Cousin Camp for their 21 grandchildren. We also discuss letting going of the expectation of being appreciated and creating meaningful family connections through extended family gatherings.

1:43 Susan shares about her new book Cousin Camp

Free Download: Camp at Home: 100 Practical Ideas for Families

5:06You have 21 grandchildren and have hosted a cousin camp for the past 11 years. Take us back and share what led to the first cousin campand what the week looked like.

"We had always prayed for our kids from the time they started coming...that they would learn to love the Lord with all their heart, mind and soul and then the second commandment, to love their neighbor as ourself.That's sort of been our family vision as we've raised our children."

"We've now had camp for 11 years, and all 21 of our grandchildren now come, but one of the hallmark traditions is the largest Sunday in our county, Warren County in Virginia. I bought a gutter the first year at the hardware store and then lined it with aluminum foil...and put rows and rows of ice cream and toppings and nuts and whipped cream all down the gutter."

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73: Bethany Allen | Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Leadership Development Jun 09, 2020

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Bethany and I chat about spiritual formation, consistently showing up to meet with God, how she handles questions about being a woman who teaches God's Word, and what led her to seminary.

Bridgetown Church

Practicing the Way

3:38Share a little of your faith journey with us. How did you come to know Jesus?

"I think there's a lot of merit to just that slow, good work of Jesus in our lives."

5:28What led to you to seminary?

Western Seminary

"I feel like my seminary experience had so much to do with God healing me, as opposed to just learning."

"I remember God... saying, Bethany, you can build a kingdom, you have enough charisma....You can build your kingdom and you can have influence and it would be good, it will produce goodness, but if you make that your ambition as a woman in ministry, it will be limited. If you instead yield to the reality that I am one who orchestrates my people and brings fullness of the imago dei, it means you'll have to die a lot more deaths and it will have to be your ambition is really the advancement of the kingdom of God at all costs. Which means you'll have to bow the knee in certain places, you'll have to go lower in certain places, you'll have to withstand things that you don't necessarily want to withstand, but it will mean the expansion of my kingdom on my terms."

Ephesians 4pastoral gifting

14:49What is it like to serve alongside a group of men who do look at you and value you as someone who can teach the Word of God?

"I think it really helps that I grew up in a context where my dad has always championed me. My dad's one of the most humble people in the kingdom of God. I remember him always saying, I would sweep the floors of the kingdom, if I could just be a part of it."

"I have prayed every day for friendship and favor with these men largely because I desire that more than I desire a place on the pulpit."

"I would say to anyone who asked me because it's true, he [John Mark Comer] is just as good if not better than you think. He's just as godly and humble and he's perfect? No, absolutely not. Am I? No...Those men I serve with are some of the most humble men I've ever known. They are both my covering and I'm not afraid to say that that's not triggering language for me. They are my advocates and they are my friends."

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71: Krista Boan | Tips for Parents in the Digital Age May 26, 2020

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Krista, the co-founder of We Start Now chat about building an internal framework within your child when it comes to values and digital habits. Krista also shares a variety of tips to help parents and families flourish in the digital age.

1:57 Take a moment to introduce our listeners to you, your family, and tell us a little about We START Now

A couple of years ago, my oldest daughter was in fifth grade. At that time, the hot Christmas gift was a smartphone and I knew that our family was not ready for a smartphone....I really became concerned about that and started reaching out asking if anybody else wanted to talk about it. What happened was it became a conversation ironically, of a close tiny group of people who started talking about this issue and it grew to 3000 people almost overnight. People who really were talking about what does it look like to give our kids smartphone. How do we get them ready for that? What age is the right age?"

START. It's an acronym that stands for sit together and rethink technology.

5:16 What are some of the key take aways that you applied as your family began to re-think technology?

Gabb Wireless phone

"I think that there is a very hopeful, promising movement of the next generation of parents who are beginning to say, we want to do it different and it's gonna look a little bit more incremental."

6:40 I read a study recently that the average U.S. household has eleven connected devices with seven of those, including screens to view content. What are some first steps and things that we can do to really begin to rethink technology?

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70: Rebecca Smith | Better Life Bags May 19, 2020

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The founder of Better Life Bags, Rebecca Smith, joins me to talk about growing Better Life Bags(BLB) from an Etsy shop to a large company that provides meaningful work for women in her community. We also chat about slowing down to get ahead, the mission of BLB and pursuing dreams in every season.

A Better Life: Slowing Down To Get Ahead by Rebecca Smith

4:40 Share a little of your faith journey with us. When and how did you come to know Jesus? 9:34 Take us back to being a young married woman in Savannah, Georgia and how you ended up in Hamtramck, Michigan.

"I was giving micro loans with each bag purchase to a woman who lived in a third world country."

"We moved to Michigan to this little city called Hamtramck. Our point in doing that was we were going to live here for two years immersing ourselves in a different culture. This city is very diverse... There's 26 languages spoken here in two square miles."

"I had never imagined myself going overseas for missions, but I knew God had this heart for the world and I was willing to follow if that was His plan for our life, but I was terrified."

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