Podcast
Living the Grace Life
Living the Grace Life Podcast
with Jennifer Sakata
Welcome to the corner of real grace for your real life. Join Jennifer Sakata and special guests to explore intricate issues of forgiveness, belonging, and empowerment as faithful expressions of God’s generous grace. Living the grace life. Grace for you. Grace for them.
But what is God’s grace? What is it not?
What does grace look and sound like amid a busy and full-plated life? Through stories, authentic conversations, and biblical teaching, Jennifer helps bridge the gap between what we think about grace and how we live through it. Each episode helps shift our understanding of grace from a Sunday morning concept to an everyday, lived experience.
God’s grace is that forward movement that restores connection and rebuilds relationships.
Living the Grace Life is a solo and interview podcast committed to transformation, helping you replace the overwhelm of doing more and living less with a slower pace that nurtures God’s real grace in your real life.
Grace for you. Grace for them.
Listen in now and let’s grace this life!
Living the Grace Life
Show Notes
Ep. 66 Grieving with the Spirit of Christmas | Cynthia Ruchti
Christmas isn’t all romance movies or bright paper packages tied up with string.
For many, December ushers in the reality of a baby in the NICU, a dying loved one, an empty chair at the table, or a pending divorce—leaving people crushed and brokenhearted. Grief has a way of rising to the surface during the holidays, even when we don’t invite it.
What if, instead of trying to push past these deep pools of pain, we learned to make sacred space for them?
Ep. 67 Awakening to the Spirit of Christmas | Cynthia Ruchti
Have you ever been surprised by God—truly caught off guard by His kindness, His timing, or the quiet ways He’s been pursuing your heart?
In this final week of our Advent series with author Cynthia Ruchti and her devotional The Spirit of Christmas, we bring the journey full circle as we explore what it means to live in a continual awakening to the Spirit.
Ep. 65 Pausing with the Spirit of Christmas | Cynthia Ruchti
What if pausing with the Spirit became part of your preparation this Christmas? What might shift in your heart if you slowed your pace, lingered a little longer, and allowed the Holy Spirit to meet you in the quiet?
Advent invites us not just to keep moving toward Christmas, but to make space—to breathe, to notice, to reflect on what God is doing right here.
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Joy: In & Out of Season
with Jennifer Sakata
In Joy: In & Out of Season, host Jennifer Sakata reminds us that joy is not for the privileged few. We follow four joy-fueled friends of the Bible and discover that joy is the result of practiced choices–regardless of circumstance or season.
Like all the fruits of God’s Spirit, joy grows as we draw near to God—especially in the mix of life’s ‘hard.’
Listen in and begin living a kinder, gentler, more grace-filled life by choosing joy today!
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