Forgivin' Livin' Daily Podcast
Our podcasts are 5-8 minutes in length. We create these messages using one or two brief verses from the Bible that come from a devotional book. Our purpose is to help you hear the grace of Jesus in these verses so that your life may find its grounding in Christ alone. It is this grounding in grace that makes forgivin’ livin’ your way of freedom.
10/28/2025
-
00(Irishcast) Pride Versus Humility (Proverbs 16v18 Mark 7v20) (Humility)
In Luther’s commentary on “The Magnificat,” he has this line about anyone who is truly humble. They have no clue that they are humble. It’s impossible to be conscious of your humility without becoming proud that you are humble. For us to be free from pride and to experience humility, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has another answer. He connects humility with confessing our sins personally to another person. Our Table Talk ministry invites people to start the process of confession and absolution. We shared this in Honolulu on Sunday and will speak on Wednesday in California and again on Sunday in Washington. To learn more about Bonhoeffer’s insight into humility that corrects pride, download the prayer journal for today. And pray for Sonja and me that those who hear us proclaim this gift of confession and absolution may join the priesthood of all believers to bring the healing of absolution to guilty and angry people.
10/27/2025
-
00(Hawaiicast) Jesus Fills Our Desires (Psalm 145:15 16; Luke 3:11) (Trust)
Our closing days in Hawaii came with a very powerful morning worship among many people who were called to worship just for yesterday’s gathering. The good news is that they came here looking to our Father to fill their needs and to satisfy their desires and God met them. It is our prayer that each of us can share with someone today what our Father has done this for us. Open your hand. Open your mouth. Let God speak through you.
10/26/2025
-
00(Sundaycast) Forgiveness Is For Evil People (Proverbs 3:27:James 2:2 4) (Forgiveness)
Rikka and Gorden and Sonja and I are helping with the Reformation worship service today at Prince of Peace in Honolulu. The pastor is Gloria Imamura, a good friend of Ground Up Grace, and a friend from our years at Mount Carmel. She gets copies of the “Daily Texts” for her members and even encourages them to listen to the podcast regularly. So our Sundaycast voices are familiar to the people we will be worshiping with today. Now just so you know, we don’t make judgments about which church we should be at for Reformation Sunday just because the pastor supports our GUG outreach but it probably helps to have Pastor Gloria who really wants us here on this weekend. So we are going to be a part of the Sunday morning worship and doing our “Table Talk” ministry of sharing how we forgive one another during the meal that will follow the worship. We will gladly come to your church too. Just let us know. Here is the link for today’s 10AM service, princeofpeacewaikiki.com, in Honolulu if you want to join the live stream.
10/25/2025
-
00(Missioncast) The Sacramental Quality Of Mission (Lev 26:5; John 6:33) (Peace)
Jeff reflects on the sacramental nature of missions. We are blessed, broken, and sent into the world as ambassadors for Christ, laying down our lives in his service, as he laid down his for us, so that the others might know Christ and have eternal life. I asked AI to generate a fractal image of the Last Supper which captures the sacramental nature of discipleship, i.e., that we are blessed to be broken and given to the world as Christ’s ambassadors of love and grace, proclaiming salvation in Christ Jesus through faith alone. This is what AI came up with. As the Father sent the Son, the Father and Son sent the Holy Spirit, so we are sent by Jesus Christ into the world as his disciples to make disciples.
10/24/2025
-
00(Hawaiicast) Hope Abounds For Us In This Week’s Texts (Jeremiah 31:17; Ephesians 2:7) (Hope)
Driving up to the 10026 elevation of Mount Haleakala on Maui was based on the hope that we would see the renown sunset that comes from this spectacular location. We did see a little of the sun and a lot of mist from the clouds. We missed the sunset but our hope is not based on sunsets but on the Risen Son who fillls our lives with hope because He is the one who raises us up from any graves of doubt that may over come us. Look to Jesus to fill you with hope today.
10/23/2025
-
00(Theta)Attachment (Isaiah 49:15 & 1 John 4:8)
How do you know your God? How has God revealed His identity to you? What words do you use to describe God’s relationship to you? Take time to explore how you communicate with your Lord, when and why. Share your discoveries with someone you know today.
10/22/2025
-
00(Hawaiicast) Jesus Suffers With Us (Jeremiah 32:42; 2 Cor 1:7) (Trust)
The texts for today raise the problem of why we suffer. For all humans, we believe that we bring suffering upon us and it is in some way punishment for our wrong behavior, or our sinful thoughts words or deeds. But today as we consider these verses, we are able to see the light of Jesus who enters the darkness of our suffering and reaches into the world of our confusion with the light of His word, His promise, His presence. Jesus says, “I am with you always” and this includes all our suffering.
10/21/2025
-
00(Irishcast) With A:B:E We Are Always Blessed Everyday (Genesis 12v4; Romans 9v24) (Sanctification)
Abraham’s blessing and our blessing both are confirmed through Jesus Christ. The same Lord, who promised to Abraham that he was blessed to be a blessing is our Lord. And we are blessed in Jesus just as Abraham was. So today we are going to use a little acronym called ABE. It is of course Abe and it means “always blessed every day” for that is what we have because of Jesus Christ. What was given to Abraham is given to you. It’s given to me. Trust how the Lord will use you to be a blessing again this day.
10/20/2025
-
00(Hawaiicast) Satan Always Lies To Give Us A Feeling Of Dominion (Zech 9:10; Matt 4:8 10) (Sovereignty)
We are in Maui involved in some ministry opportunities as we serve God in the calling to help people discover what it means to give and to receive forgiveness (Table Talk). But we are also enjoying this time together as our GUG team celebrates five years since we first began sending out the “Daily Texts.” Our photo captures the five of us from five years ago in Jill’s mom’s garage in Park Rapids but with the sunset backdrop from Maui last night. We finish this Hawaii time on Reformation Sunday serving a church in Honolulu which gives the “Daily Texts” to its members and also encourages its members to listen to the podcast regularly.
10/19/2025
-
00(Sundaycast) We Are All Captives Needing Freedom (Ps 83:1 2; Luke 22:49)
Trapped! Captive! Unfree! That is our human condition. We don’t want to admit it. We pretend to be free but we are free finally only to feel sorry for ourselves and to take matters into our own hands when we get hurt. Christ breaks into our compound to free us. This freedom begins when we die to ourselves. This is the promise in baptism which unites you to the death of Christ who then leads you to walk with Him in His resurrection power of forgivin’ livin’ under His grace and walking in His way, His truth and His life each day. We lay down our swords and take up His cross.