By His Grace
Jordan Raynor: The Creator in You

Jordan Raynor: The Creator in You

Jordan Raynor helps Christians respond to the radical, biblical truth that their work matters for eternity. In this episode, Misty and Jordan discuss how our work differs and shares similarities with God’s work, our ideas about why God desires for us to be co-creators with Him, and the hope that scripture holds to the young person searching for the value of his work. Lastly, we discuss Jesus’ vocation, importance, and impact on the Kingdom of Heaven. 

The Creator In You – Help your kids view work with God-ordained purpose, enthusiasm, and joy!

Key Takeaways

  • “God works unlike us, and that should lead us to awe and worship.” 
  • “I think He invites us to work alongside Him because He wants to work alongside of His kids.” 
  • “The thorns and thistles that push back against our work today cause us to run to the Father.” 
  • “This work is hard, but it’s got to be good.” 
  • “Work is going to be perfect worship once again.” 
  • “The work that we do today is good and it’s God-like.” 
  • “He is working through all of us.”

Resources 

Jordan’s website

Jordan’s new book: The Creator in You

Jordan’s Podcast

Follow Jordan on Social Media! 

Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordanraynor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jordanraynor/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanraynor?s=21&t=uXJiZjj2s0kcyMM0emH9TQ

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Roger Parrott: Opportunity Leadership

Roger Parrott: Opportunity Leadership

In this episode of By His Grace, Misty Phillip sits down with Dr. Roger Parrott.

Dr. Roger Parrott is one of America’s most experienced presidents. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Higher Education Administration. Dr. Parrott is a third-generation College president and was one of America’s youngest college presidents first elected at age 34. He has served on various boards and was Chair of the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization hosted by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. Dr. Parrott is the author of The Longview: Lasting Strategies for Rising Leaders and Opportunity Leadership: Stop Planning And Start Leading. His wife, MaryLou, earned her Ph.D. in English and is a Professor at Belhaven. They have two adult children who graduated from Belhaven.

Key Takeaways

“So I think sometimes God just waits for us to let go so he can take charge and it came out so much better”

“Capture the opportunities for our kids, not the plan.”

“We are gonna catch God’s best opportunities. We’re gonna serve best where He has already given us opportunities to serve and the people He has called us too.”

“We are expected to have long-range plan.”

“In capturing God’s opportunities rather than our plans, were able to do so much than we would plan to do.”

Resources

Lucas Miles: Dangers of Deconstruction

Lucas Miles: Dangers of Deconstruction

In the final installation of her series from the National Religious Broadcast Media event (NRB), the host of the By his Grace podcast Misty Phillip sat down with Lucas Miles.

Lucas Miles is a trusted voice in the American church who has consistently addressed some of the most challenging topics in theology, politics, and culture. He is the host of Edifi’s award-winning The Lucas Miles Show and a co-host of The Church Boys podcast, where he has interviewed some of the biggest names in media such as Mario Lopez, Jim Cavaziel, Kathie Lee Gifford, Candace Bure, Charlie Kirk, and Sean Hannity. Lucas and his work have been featured in books and on TV and radio programs, as well as syndicated in articles across both political and religious news outlets, such as The Blaze, Faithwire, Fox News, The Washington Times, CBN, The Stream, Bible Gateway, and The Christian Post. He is also the author of the best-selling book, The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church, as well as the critically acclaimed book Good God: The One We Want to Believe In but Are Afraid to Embrace.

An ordained pastor with over twenty years of ministry experience, Lucas has been involved in dozens of church planting efforts in the US and in remote locations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia, not least of which is his local ministry, Nfluence Church, where he and his wife, Krissy, have been serving since planting the church in 2004. Lucas had the honor of receiving an invitation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., in both 2018 and 2020, as well as an invitation as a US delegate to the 2018 Ukrainian National Christian Thanksgiving Celebration.

Additionally, Lucas is known for his work in Hollywood producing films and offering confidential pastoral support to many up-and-coming and established actors and artists. He has directed and produced several nationally released films, including Rodeo GirlCrowning Jules, and The Penitent Thief, as well as consulted on dozens of entertainment and literary projects. His work has been featured on Netflix, Showtime, Fox, Redbox, Sony, and Pure Flix.

Lucas is a sought-after speaker at colleges, conferences, and churches on topics such as theology, Christian living, politics, and media. Whether he is preaching through the book of Romans or discussing trends in media and culture, Lucas’ heart for the gospel, philosophical prowess, and love of people always shines through, making him a perfect keynote speaker or lecturer for meetings of all sizes.

Key Takeaways

“They are trying to distract us from the unity we have in Christ.”

“The best way to deal with the feeling of doubt that sparks deconstruction, is to take time to bring them back to the cross.”

“We are seeing the cross, the stories of God, and the Word of God diminished in favor of uplifting cultural views instead of biblical views.”

“It is ok to question God, you can ask why, just don’t get stuck in the why.”

“We need to go back to what made us fall in love with God in the first place, that will draw us back to Christ as our source.”

“This world is not our home, we cannot fix every problem in the world even though we want to and try, ultimately we know that our salvation is found in Christ.”

“Revelations talks about how people overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony, we have to keep coming back to that as the source.”

 

Resources

Meet Lucas

Podcast

Books

Keith Stubbs: Laughter is Good Medicine

Keith Stubbs: Laughter is Good Medicine

Once again continuing her series from the National Religious Broadcast Media event, host of By his Grace podcast Misty Phillip sat down with Keith Stubbs. Keith is an actor and writer, known for Dry Bar Comedy (2017), Straggler of ’45 (2011) and An Evening at the Improv (1981).

The Bible tells us that laughter is good medicine! laughter is good medicine because it draws people together in ways that trigger healthy physical and emotional changes in the body. Laughter strengthens your immune system, boosts mood, diminishes pain, and protects you from the damaging effects of stress. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hope, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert. It also helps you release anger and forgive sooner.

Today I am excited to bring you the president of dry bar comedy. DryBarComedy is the largest catalog library of clean comedy in the world.  Keith stubs is a triple threat in show business in entertainment, he is a hilarious stand up comedian, talented actor, and an award winning radio personality. He founded DryBarComedy, which has become the fastest growing stand-up comedy streaming series in the world garnering up to 150 million monthly views across the brands social and app platforms with new content being posted daily on social media. 

Key Takeaways

“Largest catalog, library of clean comedy in the world”

“500 Comedy Special shareable great and very funny”

“Not much comedy, you can listen to with family members, or people that don’t want to go through the garbage”

“10 million social media followers!”

You can find DryBarComedy on the Angel Studios app.

If you need a good laugh I encourage you to check out DryBarComedy! 

Rick Green: Biblical Citizenship not White Nationalism

Rick Green: Biblical Citizenship not White Nationalism

Continuing her series from the National Religious Broadcast Media event, host of By his Grace podcast Misty Phillip sat down with Rick Green to discussion Biblical Citizenship, Biblical Worldview, and the Patriot Academy.We have a role to play in Restoring America’s Biblical & Constitutional Foundations of Freedom! Inspire Patriotism, Equip Citizens, Educate A Nation

Rick Green

Rick Green is a former Texas State Representative, national speaker, author, and radio host. Rick travels the nation speaking for David Barton’s WallBuilders organization and Rick and David co-host the national daily radio program, WallBuilders Live! Rick is the author and executive producer of Constitution Alive!, America’s most engaging and entertaining study of the U.S. Constitution. Rick is the founder and president of Patriot Academy, which trains young leaders in founding principles as they participate in mock legislative sessions held in state capitols across the nation.

Key Takeaways 

“But The best part is they are having to apply a biblical worldview, not just learn a biblical worldview deal with the hottest issues of the day whatever that piece of legislation may be and think through what does the Bible say about this, what does the constitution say about it what can I learn from history.”

LIFT Principles – Limited Government. Individual Liberties, Free Enterprise, Timeless Truth

“Listen if I’m gonna be a good follower of Christ that I’m supposed to be all his commands, that’s a great commission right is to make disciples that will obey all his commands.”

“If we don’t fall in love with God’s word again,  all the things we are doing to get good people elected and be involved: “politically” none of it’s gonna work. We have to be in God’s word first and then take his word and go truly be soft not just a preservative but also bring out the best flavor in the culture.”

“We have to be in God’s word first, and then take his word and go truly be salt, not just the preservative, but also bring out the best flavor in the culture.”

“America thrives when the Bible is infused into the culture that’s why we became the most powerful, most free, most benevolent nation in history because the Bible was infusing the best principles and the salt was bringing out the best flavors.”

“We don’t have very good flavor in America right now, because we aren’t being the salt.”

“That’s what the course became, a biblical perspective on government, combined with our particular constitutional knowledge that was not taught in schools.”

“We are teaching, through the Church, what the schools should have taught, but in a biblical setting.

Resources

RickGreen4Texas.com

The Light and the Glory – Peter Marshall

Wall Builders

Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution & Religion

Daniel Harmon: World Changing Cartoon

Daniel Harmon: World Changing Cartoon

Continuing her series from the National Religious Broadcast Media event, host of By his Grace podcast Misty Phillip sat down with Daniel Harmon to discuss the Tuttle Twins. The Tuttle Twins is a successful books series that teaches kids economic principles. The book based on The Law by Frederic Bastait was a HUGE success. Daniel and the author Connor Boyack are friends and Daniel wanted to turn the books into an animation series. The Harmon Brothers have revolutionized the film industry, and are providing amazing family-friendly content.

Key Takeaways

“The focus is on teaching principals like rights to life, liberty, and property, the golden rule, entrepreneurship, inflation.”

“We are teaching about inflation.”

“Parents are starving for a resource like this.”

“A coolness and a fun factor”

“They can watch it for free.”

“It is all about the ideas.”

“Disagree doesn’t mean enemy.”

Daniel Harmon

Daniel Harmon is the Chief Creative Officer and the Harmon Brothers Agency, founder. Coincidentally, he is also one of the founding brothers in the Harmon family. Daniel is known for his advertising work directing the viral Squatty Potty, Purple Mattress, Chatbooks, Fiber Fix, and Camp Chef ads. Under his creative leadership, Harmon Brothers ads have driven over $400 million in sales and reached over 1.4 billion views (which is only like 20% of the world’s population #dobetter).

Tuttle Twins animation has sold over 3 million books and crowdfunded over $3.7 million for Season 1. Thus creating immense demand to open another crowdfunding campaign for Season 2. Season 1 is already releasing episodes on the Angel App. Tuttle Twins made the Angel App Top 100 on the app store within the first 24 hours of releasing Season 1. It gets 4.6 out of 5 stars in the app store and is rated 9.7 on IMDb.

Invest in Tuttle Twins Animation

About Tuttle Twins

How do you describe economics to a 7-year-old? Should your preteen care about the government? Are your kids learning about the free market in class? Parents have been at the mercy of professional curriculum developers for too long to instruct their children. History is watered down, fundamental principles omitted altogether, and time and attention given to things of lesser importance. Freedom-loving parents have long been left alone to shoulder the burden of educating their children and passing down a love of liberty. While many books teach these ideas to adults, there has been a profound void in the children’s literature market. The Tuttle Twins series closes the gap, helping parents convey the principles of freedom to their kids in a fun way. Each book in this series focuses on a different aspect of the principles of a free society: free markets, competition, individual rights, the non-aggression principle, personal responsibility, protectionism, and a variety of other issues—all boiled down to core concepts that children of different ages can quickly grasp.

About the Author
Connor Boyack is the founder and president of Libertas Institute, a free-market think tank. Connor’s leadership has led to dozens of legislative victories spanning a wide range of areas such as privacy, government transparency, property rights, entrepreneurship, education, personal freedom, and more.

About the Illustrator
Elijah Stanfield is the owner of Red House Motion Imaging, a media production company in Washington. A longtime student of Austrian economics, history, and classical liberal philosophy, Elijah has dedicated much of his time and energy to promoting the ideas of free markets and individual liberty.

Resources

The Inflation Monster | Tuttle Twins | Full Episode | S1 E6

Did you know that candy used to cost as little as a penny? Seeing a movie in a theater used to cost as little as $5. But over time, costs have gone up. In this episode, Connor and Brittany discuss the “Creature from Jekyll Island” and why this ghastly creature is causing prices to go up.

26. What is Inflation?

The Tuttle Twins and the Creature from Jekyll Island

How to Teach Free Market Principles to Your Children

Economic Curriculum for Families

Bill Reeves: Reaching the World Through Media

Bill Reeves: Reaching the World Through Media

For this episode of the By His Grace podcast, Misty Phillip sits down with Bill Reeves. Bill is the CEO at EMF/KLOVE/Air1. His goal is to affect the culture around the world by developing, branding, and bringing to market products that share a Christian worldview.

Misty and Bill discuss the importance of business and ministry coming together to reach people with the gospel with a multi-generational approach. Their far-reaching conversation includes the challenges, and blessings of leading a nonprofit, creating multi-generational content, homeschooling, disciplining their children, and communicating messages of hope through media.

Key Takeaways

“You see the breadcrumbs along b the way that God laid to get you where you needed to be to use skills that he gifted you with”

“How do we serve audiences we are4 not currently serving?”

“We get really limited. We don’t think big enough for our audience.

“One of the things about podcasting is it helps us getting to the audience because there is a lot of that age group that will never listen to a radio station.”

“Out of the crash of live events, K-Love birthed our on-demand platform.”

“We are seeing the church explode!”

“I love being where the body of Christ is gathered.”

“As we build out an organization that has been entrusted to share the gospel, we don’t just believe it is to our K-Love audience, but to their kids and grandkids.”

Resources

EMF Broadcasting Educational Media Foundation (EMF) is a nonprofit, multi-platform media company on a mission to draw people closer to Christ. They were founded in 1982 in Santa Rosa, CA, with a singular radio station. EMF today owns and operates the nation’s two largest Christian music radio networks (K-LOVE and Air1), with over 1,000 broadcast signals across all 50 states and streaming audio reaching worldwide audiences. EMF is a growing family of media ministries, including podcasts, books, films, concerts, and events. EMF employs nearly 500 team members between its offices in Nashville, TN, Rocklin, CA, and field locations around the country.

K-Love & Air1 are top Christian radio stations with  a mission to create compelling media that inspires and encourages you to have a meaningful relationship with Christ.

WTA Media is a faith-based film marketing, financing, and literary representation leader. Our services include product development and business operations, helping creatives develop their product and drive the go-to-market strategy, including production, marketing, and distribution strategies.

Access More creates compelling media that inspires and encourages people to have a meaningful relationship with Christ. They’ve created an ever-growing space to host faith-based content and dive even deeper into subjects that interest listeners.

Helen Smallbone: Motherhood Behind the Lights

Bill Reeves

Favorite Core Value: Create an Extraordinary Impact – We serve an extraordinary God who deserves our all. He allows us to create, produce and share media with His life-changing message.

Bill Reeves joined Educational Media Foundation as CEO in 2019 with more than 30 years of experience in Christian media.
At age 15, he felt a calling on his life to share Christ with the world, and by age 18, he identified the path by which he’d do it.
“I knew my calling was to use music, movies, and books as my pulpit,” Bill explains. “So, I set out to tell the world about Jesus through entertainment.”

Bill’s passion and professional experiences align perfectly with EMF’s mission to create compelling media that inspires and encourages audiences to have a meaningful relationship with Christ.

Bill and Heidi, his bride of 26 years, relocated from Nashville to Northern California to live near EMF with their teenage son, Denham. Their older children, Julianna and Jon, reside in Tennessee near the family farm where they were raised.

Heather Wilson: Sanctification of Motherhood

Heather Wilson: Sanctification of Motherhood

God can do amazing things through moms! Continuing in the National Religious Broadcast Media Convention series, we have another great interview for you! In today’s episode, By His Grace host, Misty Phillip, sits down with Heather Wilson, wife, mom to many blessings, and Co-Founder of Give Send Go, the #1 free Christian crowdfunding site.

Heather shares her incredible motherhood journey of unexpectedly becoming pregnant at almost 40. She had a big gap between her older kids and this surprise baby. They began praying about adopting or becoming foster parents. She went on a cruise with her mom. Her phone blew up with text messages when she got an internet connection saying five children needed to be emergency removed from their home, and would they take them? She came home to 5 foster children.

We also discuss Give Send Go crowdfunding for the defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Canadian Convoy for adopting a trucker for the Freedom Convoy, and the impact on Give Send Go.

Key Takeaways

“A journey of probably the hardest almost two years of my life.”

“It’s cool looking back, and you see how faithful God is. You see all the things that he is doing in your life; a lot of times, you don’t notice at the time, but as you look back, I can look back and see God preparing me for you and what’s going on in Give Send Go today.

“By leading me to this place of you know I was a great Christian I’ve served in church I did children’s ministry I was very involved my whole life years old, and I feel like I love people like I will I love like Jesus.

“Throw angry traumatized kids into the mix, and I realize I was a pretty miserable person. I lost my temper. I had days that I was just done. I didn’t want to do it anymore. I didn’t want the millions of piles of laundry and the dinner preparation for nine people, nine children living in my house at the time.

“I now cherish the times in my life where I feel the pain of being chiseled by God because I know that it’s the outcome is going to be way better than I ever could of imagined.”

“Walking through this hard, hard time learning to love by Jesus, I have story after story of times where God revealed himself to me through these children and teaching me to be more like them.”

“When you have those children in your home and raising your children and it’s hard right is really hard and I think those hard times prepared you for the hard that he has you in now and I think he gives you those moments the glimmers of hope to know that he is faithful to know that he is with you.”

“Changing people‘s hearts toward God is what’s gonna change our country.”

“He wants you to use to share His hope with the world.”

Resources

Give Send Go is a free Christian Crowd Funding and Fundraising Site that allows you to easily and effectively raise money for whatever mission God has given you.

Heather Wilson

Heather Wilson is a wife, mother, and Co-founder of GiveSendGo.com. Throughout Heather’s life, she has found success everywhere she has placed her foot. From building successful children’s ministries from the ground up to growing a professional photography business while her children were young. She most recently co-founded GiveSendGo.com, the
world’s largest Christian crowdfunding platform. Heather is currently a mother to 6 children. She and her husband have been foster parents to 5 foster children and have recently adopted a 12-year-old son into their family. Despite any value of the accomplishments of her life, Heather believes that the most important thing she can leave behind in this world is a legacy of a life defined not by the work she did but by the work Jesus did through her.

Phil Cooke: Ideas on a Deadline

Phil Cooke: Ideas on a Deadline

Continuing her series from the National Religious Broadcast Media event, host of By his Grace podcast Misty Phillip sat down with Hollywood Producer, Author, and Influencer Phil Cooke to discuss his book Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock is Ticking. Phil Cooke shares insight from the lives of the Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, to Charles Dickens, and Thomas Edison. This episode discusses how to be creative when the clock is ticking and what you can do to spark creativity. Including practical takeaways, like walking, being in the shower, and taking notice of patterns in our dreams help us tap into our creativity. Also, the importance of taking Sabbath and learning to say no to help you focus and be more productive.

 

Key Takeaways

“Just Start”

“Don’t be Held Back by Fear.”

“Be a Willing Vessel”

“Just say Yes.”

“We live in the most distracted culture in the history of the world, and if we don’t take that time off or just going to burn out.” 

“While we are sleeping, our brain is trying to make connections from experiences we’ve had during the day… if we are open to it, we will see connections in our dreams we didn’t see before.” 

“Have pen and paper next to the bed.” 

“When God calls us to something important, we have to say no to some stuff.” 

“List of gracious ways of saying no” 

“Find the most creative part of your day.” 

“Understand when and where you like to be creative” “use do not disturb on your phone.”

Scripture Reference

Do not despise humble beginnings – “For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD; they run to and fro through the whole earth.” – Zechariah 4:10 ESV

Resources

Atheism on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Case for Unbelief by Mark Lanier 

Pastor Jarrett Stephens – The Always God

AquaNotes® is a waterproof notepad that allows you to record your great ideas while you’re in the shower. 

Phil’s Book

Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock is Ticking

Phil Cooke

Phil Cooke, PhD., is co-founder and CEO of Cooke Media Group in Los Angeles and the nonprofit The Influence Lab. 

He has produced media programming in nearly 70 countries and created many of the most influential inspirational TV programs. Phil has a client list that includes Hollywood studios, significant nonprofits, and many of the most respected faith-based organizations in the world. He’s written 12 books and hundreds of magazine articles, TV programs, commercial scripts, and a highly respected blog at philcooke.com. Member of The Producer’s Guild of America and The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He’s been called “one of the most innovative communicators of our generation.”

If you have a powerful message or story that could influence the world, media producer, consultant, and author Phil Cooke will teach you what you need to know about creativity, communication, Hollywood, media, culture, and the faith to make it happen.

Phil Cooke website & blog

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