The Grace Cafe Podcast

Have you ever been taught that you’re worthless, depraved, or nothing more than useless “whale spit”? In this episode, Mike and Susan talk honestly about the lingering effects of that message and how it shaped their view of themselves—and of God. They explore the freedom of discovering that God doesn’t…

Grab your favorite beverage, get comfortable, and sit with us for this informal backyard chat about the grace of God and what’s been given to us freely in Jesus.

When grace shows up, resistance follows. From religious and church traditions to personal objections, we walk through some of the fear-based objections people raise concerning grace and the surprising freedom that comes when grace breaks through.

In this episode we talk about the simplicity of the gospel and how we clutter it up and make it complicated with add-ons. But it isn’t complicated. Join us as we talk about Susan’s recent church visit and we take a look back at our gospel roots in the Jesus…

In this episode of The Grace Cafe we talk about life changes and what’s important and what isn’t as we grow older and grace becomes more important than ever. _____________________________ Other places you’ll find us: The Grace Cafe YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@GraceCafePodcast The UnSunday Show Podcast – https://www.unsunday.com The UnSunday…

Many people try to live like Jesus, thinking that’s what makes them right with God. But if Jesus is only our role model, we’re left with an impossible standard. When Jesus is viewed only as a role model, as is often the case in religious settings, His life becomes a…

Has religion tied you down instead of setting you free? In this episode, we share some of our own experiences in escaping the religious mindset so prevalent in many institutional churches. We talk about the dangers of rigid leadership, legalism, and religious tradition—how they obscure our view of the gospel…

In this episode of The Grace Cafe podcast we start out by talking about why we lose friends when we leave the institutional church. Then our conversation turns to an analogy from C.S Lewis’ book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Spiderman and Institutional religion’s preoccupation with sin. Yes,…

In this episode of The Grace Cafe, we talk about grace in the midst of suffering in the context of Mike’s cancer and his ongoing treatments. In the institutional box church, where one-size-fits-all is the assumed norm, our performance is often a barometer of our spiritual condition. An upward trajectory…

This episode of The Grace Cafe is a conversation from 2018 that Mike had with Mike Kapler of the Growing in Grace podcast. It centers around the content of Mike Kapler’s book, Clash Of The Covenants: Escaping Religious Bondage Through The Grace Guarantee. We talked about many topics that often…