The GraceForge Podcast
When life brings the impossible, God doesn't just show up — he forges exactly what you need to get through it.
The GraceForge Podcast is a collection of intimate conversations with people who've faced seasons of struggle that had no human solution — and discovered that God was already crafting the grace they needed. Each guest brings a story of provision that was personal, precise, and powerful.
Come hear what he made for them. And be reminded of what he can make for you.
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Episodes
19 episodes
He'll Be Dead by Then: A Daughter's Race Against Time — and God's Timing
A year before her husband lost his job, Caroline Crocker felt the Lord tell her to resign from her own position as a tech startup CEO. What followed was a season that looked, from the outside, like everything falling apart: her husband's sudden...
From Rocket Man to New Man: Rebuilding an Identity After Loss
For eight years, Dan Schlund was "Rocket Man" — one of the only professionally trained rocket-belt (jetpack) pilots on earth, flying stunt shows and live-action sequences across 35 countries and all seven continents. It was a childhood prayer a...
Do You Feel Unseen? Desiree Taylor on Walking Away From God — and Being Found Again
Connect with Karen and Michael and learn more about GraceForge at thegraceforge.comDesiree Taylor started losing her hearing around age eight, and by her teens the isolation of that loss led her to walk away from God entirely. Pregnant a...
Are You Always the Safe Place for Everyone Else? Daniel Curtis on Community and Vulnerability
Connect with Karen and Michael and learn more about GraceForge at thegraceforge.comDaniel Curtis has built a life around being the one others could lean on — the safe haven, the encourager, the one who shows up. But in this episode, he o...
When Your Testimony Isn't What You Hoped For: Jason Johnson on Purity Culture, Shame, and God's Grace
Connect with Karen and Michael and learn more about GraceForge at thegraceforge.comJason Johnson grew up inside the purity culture of the early 2000s, believing his standing with God hinged on one rule above all others. When he broke tha...
Do You Feel Like God Asked the Wrong Person? Michael Dittman on Writing In the Wake of Jesus
Connect with Karen & Michael and learn more about GraceForge at thegraceforge.comMichael Dittman opens this launch-night conversation by describing his new book, In the Wake of Jesus: Grace That Changes You and the World — t...
It's Never Too Late: Kerry Damiano on the 22-Year Wait for Her God-Given Dream
Connect with Karen and GraceForge at thegraceforge.comKerry Damiano spent 22 years sensing that God had something big in store for her — long before she had any idea what it would look like. In this episode, Kerry shares how that season ...
Drenched in Grace: Michael Dittman on Following Jesus Through Pain, Not Around It
This episode is personal — Karen's guest is her husband, Michael. Fresh out of seminary, the two of them once wondered how they'd ever minister to people in real pain, since their own life had felt easy. That question got answered fast: years o...
I Thought I Killed My Mother: Tom Snow on Guilt, Grace, and a 56-Year Walk with God
At 14, Tom Snow built an invention to capture asbestos-laden brake dust off car wheels — driven partly by a need to win his engineer father's attention. It won at the state science fair. Then his mother was diagnosed with cancer and died within...
When God Feels Silent: Paul Granger on Grace You Didn't Earn
Paul Granger has been in formal ministry for over two decades — a Christian all his life, a ministry leader, an author of more than two dozen books. But the last year and a half, he says, has felt like God went silent. In this candid conversati...
It's Always Too Soon to Quit: Jay Setchell on Surviving the Impossible, Again and Again
Jay Setchell has been declared dead and brought back more than once. At 17, he narrowly escaped a feeding auger that could have killed him instantly. At 19, he died in the Marine Corps and spent a year in the naval hospital recovering. Four yea...
From Rock Bottom to Purpose: Mia Godfrey on Grief, Addiction, and Starting Over
Mia Godfrey grew up in Romania under the communist regime, and grief has shaped nearly every chapter of her life since. She lost her father at 18 and turned to alcohol to cope, hiding her addiction by leaving home rather than shame her mother, ...
When Tragedy Strikes Twice: Deston Rogers on Grief, Community, and the Voice God Gave Him
Deston Rogers has spent over 40 years in radio, but his story is defined by loss that most people never have to face even once. In 1990, his two-and-a-half-year-old son Cody and Cody's mother were killed in a car accident. Years later, Deston r...
Why Would God Let This Happen to Me? Tim Malm's Rodeo Accident and the Deeper Faith That Followed
www.thegraceforge.comTim Malm was a PRCA steer roper finishing his first year of college when an ordinary Sunday roping practice changed everything. A rope caught his horse's leg, the horse went do...
Exhausted from Holding It All Together? Kathleen Johnson on the Fear and Self-Reliance That's Draining You
What do you do when everything you built your life around gets wiped off the board?For Kathleen Johnson, it was an unwanted divorce — a moment that exposed something she hadn't seen: she had been living in fear. Not occasional worry, but...
Does Saying Yes to God Have to Feel This Scary? Meme Mulugeta on Obedience, Calling, and the Leap That Changed Everything
Has God ever asked you to do something that made absolutely no sense on paper?Meme Mulugeta grew up in the church, the daughter of two ministers. At 19, she got pregnant — and the church turned its back on her. That single moment of reje...
Pace of Grace: Trading Burnout for God's Rhythm with Kristin Kurtz
www.thegraceforge.comAre you running so hard for God that you've forgotten how to walk with Him?Christian life coach and podcast host Kristin Kurtz knows that feeling intimately. For years she pushed full speed ahead — fu...
You Are Not Your Worst Moment: How God's Grace Rewrites Your Story with Danielle E. Bernock
www.thegraceforge.comHave you ever sat in church, heard the word grace, and still walked out feeling like you had to earn God's approval? Author and relationship repair specialist Danielle E. Bernock spent 35 years knowing in he...