Followed By Mercy
The Followed By Mercy Podcast
Real Grace, Honest Hope
You might notice a new name and a fresh look, but the heart behind this podcast is the same. After years as the World Evangelism Podcast, I sensed God leading me to a deeper, more personal path centered on His relentless mercy and the kind of honest hope that can reach into every hurting place. That’s why this show is now called Followed By Mercy Podcast. The format may shift, and the tone may be a bit more personal, but my mission hasn’t changed: I still believe the world desperately needs to hear the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. You are welcome here if you’ve been with me from the beginning or just found us now.
What if God’s love is more personal, stubborn, and relentless than you ever imagined?
Welcome to The Followed By Mercy Podcast, where we get honest about pain, hope, and the kind of grace that finds you right where you are, five days a week. This isn’t about religious performance or church routines. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt worn out, unseen, or unsure if they belong in the story of God’s love. Every conversation is rooted in this reality: God loves you right now, just as you are, and He isn’t giving up on you.
Here’s what you’ll find in every episode:
Experience God’s Relentless Love
Every show starts by reminding you that the Shepherd knows your name, cares about your story, and isn’t offended by your failures or questions. This is personal—it’s about God’s unwavering affection for you.
Find Your Place in His Heart
Once you grasp how fiercely you’re loved, sharing that love with others doesn’t feel forced. It becomes the most natural thing in the world. Real grace overflows.
Prayer That Changes You
We pray together—not just for the world “out there,” but for the battles and hopes you’re carrying right now. These prayers are honest, rooted in Scripture, and meant for hearts that need a gentle touch from the Shepherd.
Discover Your Unique Role
Whether you’re called to go, give, serve, or show kindness in your corner of the world, God’s mercy meets you where you are. You’re not just a bystander. You are His beloved, invited into the story He’s writing.
When life knocks the wind out of you, this is a place to catch your breath. You’ll hear the encouragement that meets you on your hardest days, and your honest questions will be welcomed. No pretending, no heavy-handed advice—just the reminder that your Shepherd is right there with you, walking every step with you, even when you feel like giving up.
Why does this matter? Because some days, it feels like nobody sees you or cares what you’re going through. But the truth is, you have a Shepherd who never takes His eyes off you, lets you slip through the cracks, and never gives up on you. That kind of love can put you back on your feet, and it might be the hope someone else is waiting to see in you, too.
If you’re longing for more than just religious talk—if you want to know you’re not alone and that God’s mercy is following you all the way home, you’re in the right place. Whether you listen in the car, on a walk, or in a quiet moment, let every episode remind you: God’s mercy is after you right now, ready to bring real grace and honest hope.
Subscribe today and join a community to discover what happens when loved people become loving people. The journey’s just beginning, and there’s a place for you here.
Followed By Mercy
Transforming Your Mindset: Understanding True Worldliness
What if the way you think about worldliness is completely wrong? In this episode, we promise to transform your understanding with insights from Robert Dean Jr. and Thomas Ice's book, "What the Bible Teaches About Spiritual Warfare." This episode challenges the conventional notion that worldliness is about actions and instead reveals it as a mindset or worldview that conflicts with divine teachings. Get ready to uncover how this pervasive philosophy can rationalize sin and intertwine with false teachings, steering many away from God's truth.
We further dissect the alluring yet destructive nature of worldly desires like the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life. These desires, linked to greed, envy, and arrogance, are portrayed as tools of Satan to foster a self-centered way of living that opposes God's will. Join us from Medellin, Colombia, as we urge you to cultivate God-like thoughts and resist the pull of worldly thinking. This episode promises to enrich your spiritual understanding and challenge you to align your mindset with biblical teachings. Tune in and let this transformative discussion guide you towards a more spiritually grounded life.
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Each day. If you follow me on my blog, which is alignmentministriescom, and then forward slash from Austin's pen, or if you're watching me on Facebook, you know that I read a lot of books, and I read wonderful books. I learn great and wonderful truths I'm currently reading. One of the books I'm reading is a book called what the Bible Teaches About Spiritual Warfare. It's written by Robert Dean Jr and Thomas Ice and it is a wonderful book and it has what I consider to be the best explanation of what worldliness is, and I just want to share with you what they say. I'm not smart enough to have thought of this or say this, but I can read.
Speaker 1:The biblical concept of worldliness has more to do with a way of thinking, a mindset or a worldview than with particular actions. That's powerful. That's powerful. We've turned it into the way you dress and talk and act. But it's really more about a way of thinking, a mindset, a worldview. They later say in the same book, just one page later worldliness is best understood as an overall philosophy of life, a way of thinking that stirs up the flesh to indulge in specific sins such as sexual immorality, drunkenness, gossip or self-righteous arrogance. Worldliness is a way of thinking about life that is contrary to the biblical way or divine viewpoint. Worldliness may contain a large amount of truth. It is overall makeup and foundation is divorced from scriptural authority. As such, worldliness provides a rationale for sin, is often associated with false teaching that blind people to the truth and lead them away from God. That is powerful.
Speaker 1:You should go right now to alignmentministriescom, look up Austin's pen and read that, and I'm gonna. I'm gonna, just about memorize that. Let me give you the last one that. Uh. Well, I got two more, I guess here. Uh, I just want you to catch the power here. We should understand world worldly and worldliness as the external arrangement of non-biblical thinking, or what we call human viewpoint in chapter two.
Speaker 1:Worldliness is an organized and attractive system of ideas, concepts, attitudes and methods that Satan uses to compete with God's concept of how people should live on planet earth. Satan is the head and controller of this system of thinking. Whenever we think like the world, we are thinking exactly as Satan wants us to think. How about this one? The lust of the eyes is associated with greed, envy and covetousness. The boastful pride of life is cited as a third controlling factor of this royal system. It's the arrogant attitude by which people think more highly of themselves than they ought to think. It's the ambition to center one's life on self rather than on God. Can I just challenge you to go look those up? I think that'd be a blessing to you and I just wanted to challenge you. We don't want to be worldly. We want to have God-like thoughts and not world-like thoughts. We want to do what God wants us to do and not what self and sin wants us to do. God bless you today from Medellin, colombia.