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Followed By Mercy

W. Austin Gardner

The Followed By Mercy PodcastReal Grace, Honest HopeYou 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:

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26:45

Rest Over Religion

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2025/11/05

Send us a text We speak plainly about money, missions, and the hope that drives both: Jesus offers rest where religion piles on rules. From Matthew 11:28 and Psalm 23, we discuss how grace relieves guilt and how giving, praying, and going can flow from love rather than pressure. Across India, Latin America, and beyond, we’ve seen people try to earn peace through rituals, diets, candles, or daily checklists. Those scenes meet the words of Jesus: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy ...

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31:05

Chosen And Accepted In Christ

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2025/11/04

Send us a text What if your identity wasn't based on your performance, your past, or your reputation, but rested on a verdict already spoken by the Father? He chose you, blessed you with every spiritual blessing, set you apart, planned your public adoption, and made you accepted in the Beloved. We start by confronting a familiar myth that the Father is a distant scorekeeper while Jesus runs interference. Paul won't allow that. Grace precedes peace because the Father moves first. That's why th...

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10:55

Why Rules Can’t Make You Holy But Love Can

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2025/11/03

Send us a text What if the most powerful force for real change isn’t pressure or fear but gratitude? In this episode, we open Galatians to discover why “faith working through love” is the heartbeat of the Christian life and how grace transforms duty into desire. Instead of chasing perfection, we explore a better way: walking with the Spirit so that Christ reproduces His life in us, one day at a time. We uncover the traps of legalism and license one crushes with demands, the other drains you o...

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11:26

Born Free: Law, Grace, And The Laughter Of Isaac

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2025/10/31

Send us a text What if the heaviness you feel isn't from sin but from spiritual striving that grace has already answered? In this episode, we walk through Paul's sweeping argument in Galatians using the vivid story of Hagar and Sarah to reveal why law and grace can't coexist in the same heart without conflict. Hagar represents Sinai's effort, rules, and slavery. Sarah embodies promise, faith, and freedom. Ishmael is what happens when we rush God's plan; Isaac is the joy born from trusting His...

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11:28

Abraham Proves It: We’re Saved By Promise, Not...

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2025/10/30

Send us a text What if the freedom you crave doesn't come from trying harder but from trusting deeper? We walk through Galatians again, tracing how the law exposes our need while grace steps in to heal, adopt, and transform. This isn't a message about lowering the bar; it's about moving from checklists to a new heart, where obedience turns from burden to joy because love has taken root. In the story of Abraham, we see that faith came before law. Long before Sinai, he believed God and was coun...

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8:30

From Law’s Diagnosis To Grace’s Cure

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2025/10/29

Send us a text What if the relief you desire isn't found in doing more, but in trusting what's already done? There is a sharp line between the law that diagnoses and the grace that heals, swapping performance-based religion for a living for a steady walk of faith. From the x-ray and mirror metaphors to Paul's piercing questions, "Did you receive the Spirit by works or by hearing with faith?" we confront the drift from gratitude to grind and show how "It is finished" functions as a verdict tha...

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10:10

Galatians: A Clear Call To Freedom From Legalism

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2025/10/28

Send us a text Freedom sounds different when you've been living on a treadmill. Paul shouts across the centuries to stop trying to earn what Jesus already gave. If performance-based religion has left you tired, ashamed, or numb, this conversation is a deep breath of grace. You'll hear why the law is a mirror that can show the dirt but never wash it off, and how the cross changes the verb tense of your story, delivered, redeemed, accepted, no first-class for rule keepers and coach for sinners;...

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18:27

Holiness Means Belonging To God

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2025/10/27

Send us a text What if "be holy" was never meant to sound like a shout from a mountaintop, but a Father's whisper of belonging? You need to shift your definition of holiness from a checklist to a relationship, from moral pressure to a life shared with the presence of God. Instead of chasing perfection: holy means set apart, spoken for, and filled with the life of Christ. We walk through vivid images that bring this home: tabernacle vessels made holy by purpose, a wedding ring that signals pro...

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5:55

From Scorecards To Sonship: Why Grace Restores Joy

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2025/10/24

Send us a text What if the Father's house felt like a home again, where judgment quiets, honesty breathes, and joy returns? In this episode, we explore the tender power of grace through the often-overlooked figure of the elder brother: the dutiful son who stood outside abundance because he couldn't believe "all I have is yours." That single line becomes our turning point, revealing how grace doesn't negotiate with our performance but invites us to trust the Father's heart. Together, we trace ...

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8:09

When Religion Turns Bitter And Joy Leaves The Church

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2025/10/23

Send us a text Ever feel like you're doing everything right and still missing the party? This episode examines the often-overlooked elder brother in Luke 15 not as a villain, but as a mirror reflecting our own quiet exhaustion. We explore how performance-based religion sneaks into our faith, draining joy and transforming the church from a refuge for the broken into a stage for the polished. With honest language and practical insight, we trace the slow drift from grace to scorekeeping: when wo...

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11:08

Resting In I Am: Letting Tomorrow Stop Stealing Today

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2025/10/22

Send us a text What if the loudest thief of joy isn’t failure or chaos, but tomorrow? We open with a poem that names what hurry hides, the way our plans and spiritual hustle can masquerade as faith while quietly draining the grace found in the present. From there, we get honest about how living split between what is and what might be creates anxiety, and we offer a slower, steadier way: gather today’s manna, trust the God who names Himself I Am, and rest in a peace that doesn’t depend on outc...

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12:58

Learning To Live Today With The Good Shepherd

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2025/10/21

Send us a text If peace always feels one step away, this conversation invites you to stop chasing the horizon and meet the Shepherd who stands in the room. We talk about how a certain kind of “spiritual hunger” can disguise plain restlessness, and why the Lord is my shepherd only changes us when we hear it in present tense. Drawing from Psalm 23, the Lord’s Prayer, Lamentations’ new mercies, and Jesus’ warning about tomorrow’s troubles, we explore a quieter way to live: trust God for this day...

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12:25

From Orphan Mindset to Beloved: The Cure for Everyday...

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2025/10/20

Send us a text What if the self-protection you’ve been practicing is the very thing stealing your peace? From a quiet hotel room in Arequipa, while traveling and staying ahead on upcoming shows, Austin speaks to the listener who feels forgotten, unseen, and tired of fighting alone. Bitterness, he says, can sound like wisdom and look like strength, but it slowly becomes a hidden prison. We call it boundaries, but sometimes it’s fear in disguise. In this episode, we talk honestly about how self...

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9:19

Bitterness Said “Build a Wall,” Jesus Brought a...

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2025/10/17

Send us a text A quiet confession opens the door: being forgotten can bruise a soul deeper than we admit. From a small hotel room in Arequipa, while traveling and staying ahead on upcoming shows, we speak to the listener who feels unseen, the one carrying silent wounds that never found closure. Bitterness can look like strength, but it slowly becomes a hidden prison. It promises protection, yet keeps the heart locked away from love. This episode offers a way out, a path from bitterness to fr...

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20:15

You weren’t bad—you were dead, and Christ made you new

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2025/10/16

Send us a text What if your story doesn’t start with “I should try harder,” but with “I was dead, and God made me alive”? In this episode, we open Ephesians 2 with raw honesty and real hope, tracing Paul’s unflinching diagnosis and the breathtaking interruption of “but God.” We begin with identity saints and faithful by gift, not grind. Then we face the hard truth, dead in trespasses and sins, so we can finally see that grace isn’t a moral upgrade but a resurrection. This isn’t about moving f...

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15:35

From Peru with Gratitude: Missions, Family, and Psalm 23

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2025/10/15

Send us a text Mercy isn’t a mood; it’s the current we keep finding ourselves in. In this episode, we sit down with Chris in Arequipa and trace a family story that spans decades of missions, a son’s cleft lip and palate surgeries, a pastor school that gathered leaders from Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina, and a faithful Shepherd guiding it all. What unfolds is a living picture of Psalm 23, the Good Shepherd steadying our steps through hard choices, holding our breath on tough day...

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13:08

You don’t need to try harder—you need to trust deeper

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2025/10/14

Send us a text What if the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is already working in your hardest places, quietly, steadily, right now? In this episode, we open Scripture and our own scars to trace a path from the pit to praise, showing how mercy follows and how weakness becomes the doorway to real strength. We explore Paul’s rich language for God’s might and anchor it in a living throne, Christ seated at the right hand of the Father, and in our present position in Him. No ladders to c...

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15:31

Wisdom, Hope, and Power: Paul’s Prison Prayer for a...

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2025/10/13

Send us a text When a man in chains prays for your freedom, it changes how you see your own life. In this episode, we walk through Ephesians 1:17–19 and listen to Paul’s prayer not for comfort or status, but for wisdom, hope, and power. From a prison cell, he asks God to open eyes, anchor hearts, and unleash the same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead. That kind of prayer reshapes how we face storms without shrinking them, and how we live with strength that’s quiet but unstopp...

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11:48

Paul’s Not Whining. Why Are We?

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2025/10/10

Send us a text Ever notice how God repeats the same truth until it finally sinks in? In this episode, we sit with Ephesians 1:15–16 and watch Paul pray not for his chains to be broken, but for people he loves. From a prison cell, he shows us a way out of self-pity and into a life marked by gratitude, intercession, and hope. Chris joins me as we discuss why repetition in Scripture isn’t wasted space, but rather God turning up the volume on what we’ve been missing. Paul’s decision to “cease not...

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13:08

What if weakness is where God’s strength shines most?

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2025/10/09

Send us a text What if the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is already at work in your everyday life? In this episode, we open Ephesians 1:19–20 and watch Paul pile up words for “power” to make sure we don’t miss it: this isn’t theory, it’s reality for those who believe. I share pieces of my own story, from cancer diagnoses and false accusations to nights when bitterness felt easier than forgiveness, and how God met me with a strength that didn’t need fireworks to be real. Resurrec...

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