The Grace Cafe Podcast

Mar 10 2025 24 ep. 35 mins 8
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Join co-hosts Mike and Susan Adams as they share their journey out of religious obligation and into the freedom that is ours apart from religion in the New Covenant gospel of grace.

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Come Untangled: Breaking Free from Religious Control (024)

Mar 10 2025 32 mins  
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 of grace and the freedom we have in Jesus to be ourselves. Many of us lo

Why We Lose Friends When We Leave The Institutional Church (023)

Feb 10 2025 29 mins  
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, we're that spiritual! Enjoy! _____________________________ Other places you'll find u

All Sufficient Grace (022)

Dec 15 2024 29 mins  
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 is assumed. But suffering and not being able to perform reinforces the true nat

Covenant Confusion: A Conversation With Mike Kapler (021)

Dec 08 2024 64 mins  
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 lead to confusion for believers, including the Sermon on the Mount, the Prodigal Son, the

Set Free to Be Free: A Conversation with Nora Shaw (020)

Nov 30 2024 29 mins  
In this episode of The Grace Cafe we reached back to episode 50 of the old Grace Cafe podcast to a conversation Susan had with our late friend Nora Shaw. This is an energizing conversation about the freedom Jesus intends for us to experience in all of life. It's a freedom that the one-size-fits-all box church takes away through religious obligation and expectations. What makes this

Mike's Health Update (019)

May 23 2024 11 mins  
I am posting this conversation on The UnSunday Show podcast as well as here. It's a short health update from yours truly. Push play and give it a listen and thank you for following my podcasts! I was recently invited to speak on the Grace at Last podcast with Corinne Kinstler on the subject of women in the church. I would really appreciate it if you would give it a listen as well.

Sin Management (018)

Apr 28 2024 24 mins  
Welcome to the Grace Cafe! We're Mike and Susan, AKA, The Husband and Wife Grace Team! In this episode we talk about the dark side of sin management and the sin police in institutional church and religion. _____________________________ Other places you'll find us: The UnSunday Show Podcast - https://www.unsunday.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/unsundayshow/ The Grace Cafe

Who We Are in Jesus: A Deep Dive Into The Gospel of Grace with Matt McMillen (017)

Mar 31 2024 44 mins  
Who are we in Jesus? Is there anything lacking in our new identity in Jesus? Is the cross enough? Are we ever not doing enough? Does God expect more from us? Is God ever disappointed in you? Is there a list of things we need to be doing to earn God's approval? What does it mean to live in a place of rest? What about fear? Is fear of not doing or being enough a valid reaction? Is it

The Holy Spirit: Friend or Foe? (016)

Mar 24 2024 27 mins  
In this episode of The Grace Cafe, we talk about the Holy Spirit and how religion and the box church give us a version of the Holy Spirit that's more like an angry mobster than a comforter and loving friend. Along the way we talk about some of our experiences with institutional church and church cults. Be sure to check out Jason Gray's awesome video, Remind Me Who I Am, linked belo

Breaking Point with Amber Stephens (015)

Mar 17 2024 58 mins  
Our friend Amber joins us in this episode. In her own words, each of us has two stories; a life story and a faith story. Amber shares both of her stories and the breaking points that led to her seeing grace as grace and a return to the simplicity that is in Jesus and the New Covenant gospel of grace. Amber is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@honorgodsgrace247 Amber is on Inst