Receiving grace starts by being in community, by belonging, and connecting. How does grace show up when producing a podcast? Take a listen for this behind-the-scenes look.

Before I launched the podcast, I knew I needed a team around me—people to pray for me and the podcast, give insight and ideas, offer suggestions for guests and questions to ask those guests, help me write a title that would appeal most to my listeners, and come alongside me to determine if a guest was in theological and doctrinal alignment with the podcast’s statement of faith.

And the women you are about to meet rose to that challenge to love Jesus, love me, love Grace In Real Life, and love you, my sweet listener. This team has helped me with branding and graphic design decisions along with editing scripts and voting on series ideas. If you’ve loved this podcast, it’s because Amy, Angi, Eileen, Kira, Lauren, and Nina made it so good.

Together, we break down:

• What the podcast team did and how I curated this team,
• What God taught me through the podcast,
• Podcasting surprises,
• How I select guests and how I ask them to be on the show,
• How I planned content and how I handled unexpected global events, like the pandemic and social unrest,
• AND SO MUCH MORE.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like behind the scenes here and how community has shaped what the podcast is today, listen in.

Being who you are, being who God created you to be, is the most free way to live. So how do we live in the wide open space God offers? Listen in.

Living in God’s wide open spaces means there is no condemnation in Christ. God certainly convicts and corrects, but He never assaults your identity. If the Lord has set you free, you are free indeed.

It is a grace to accept the fearful and wonderful way God designed you, not to wish you were more like someone else, not to feel confined by the belief that there’s only one way to live your life.

Friend, our God takes us away from tight spots and places us in wide-open, green pastures. We no longer need to feel as if we must contort ourselves to fit and conform to someone else’s standards or life or expectations of what we “should” be doing.

We no longer need to play the comparison game. We no longer need to feel the shame of legalism. We are free to run, dance, live, and rest in the grace of the wide open spaces of God’s provision and goodness.

In this episode, we’ll unpack how our God is a God of wide open spaces. So, how is this grace, and what do we even mean?

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It all counts. Every act the Lord asks you to do is valuable. He sees it all. It all matters. All the work given to you by God and done in love is meaningful.

I’m really good at discounting or downplaying the good ways God wired me, how He’s forming me through trials, and the work I do, the roles I hold, and how I show up in the world. And y’all, I believe that discounting is an effective - but totally flimsy - tactic of our enemy, who wants us quiet and isolated and stuck because we’re questioning our value and the goodness of God.

Y’all, Jesus sees it all. He delights in all the good you do in His name and out of love. He sees your sacrifice right now. He sees your heart trying to figure out life and how to love your people well. He knows your intentions, and God desires to help you every step of the way. All the work given to you by God and done in love is meaningful.

The FCC requires that I tell you that I'm an Amazon Affiliate, which means I earn a bit of commission on each sale. But don't worry, there's no added cost to you!

• Four Years of Podcasting Giveaway
• Safe People by Drs. Townsend and Cloud
• #194: What I Want You To Know: Grace and truth
• Lauren Gaines
• Twyla Franz
• Amber Palmer
• Katie Scott
• Mandy Pallock
• Marnie Hammar
• Kirk Freeman
• Jen Babakhan
• Yohonna Smith

• Website
• GraceInRealLifePodcast.com
• Instagram
• Subscribe to Jill’s weekly “the good + the grace” email