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.
12/07/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Advent 2 Jesus Loves To Work Through Our Pain (Ps 146:8; John 16:20) (Humility)
The second Sunday in Advent has the candle for peace. How can you know peace today as you consider what these verses are saying to you? Jesus tells his followers that they will experience pain. Most of the time we think of pain as something we deserve since that is how people around us make us feel. And the devil also uses your painful experience as a way of reminding you that you did something bad to deserve this pain as punishment. The word “Satan” means “accuser.” The devil accuses you of being guilty for the bad things that are happening to you. But what does Jesus say? “Welcome pain! Glad to see you afflicting my brother or sister. You know what I am going to do, I am going to use your pain to help my beloved one reveal my resurrection power to the people around him or her.” So no matter how badly you may feel right now, the Risen Jesus is working behind the scenes to make good of your pain. Trust Him. Sing this verse from “Joy to the world” and know that Jesus’ joy is on the way!
12/06/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Would You Go ( Psalm 118:25; Acts 13:2 3) (Guidance)
Jeff and Mim welcome Cheung Wing “Hosanna” to the mission cast as they discuss Psalm 118:25 and Acts 13:2-3. Much of the mission cast features her story as a child on the mission field in Germany, United States, Hong Kong, China and now the United Kingdom. We discuss how one is called and sent. Would you be willing to be “set apart and sent” like Barnabas and Paul? Just imagine at the next worship service you attend, if the Holy Spirit spoke to all the people that you were supposed to go as Christ’s ambassador to the world? Or, if the Lord spoke to you about someone to set apart and send. Would you go? Would you send and support? The world lives under the heavy veil of sin and needs Christ’s gospel to rescue us from darkness and place us into this glorious kingdom of light. The world cries out. God is listening. You are his answer.
12/05/2025
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12/04/2025
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00(Theta) Children (Deuteronomy 31:13 & Ephesians 6:4) (Shepherd’s Voice)
Our Heavenly Father is committed to bringing us up in the discipline and instruction that God knows we need. How does God use our circumstances and the people around us to accomplish this? As you walk through each day, consider the many ways that your God is leading you and guiding you. Also how correction happens for you. For we know from John 15:1-7, that the Trinity is intimately involved in all our growing under grace. And these discoveries do not come with a warning, as my mom used to say, “God’s middle name is surprise!”
12/03/2025
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00(Discipleship) Holy Spirit Empowers Ministry (Numbers 11:29; Acts 1:8) (Service)
The Discipleship House offers us a recipe for pecan bars which is included in the prayer journal notes for today. But more than that these students give us God’s recipe for living under the power of the Holy Spirit. As you listen today, may your body, spirit and soul be stimulated to devour God’s word so that you may be filled with the fullness of God in all you do. And they try making the pecan bars so you have one more thing to share with someone you meet today.
12/02/2025
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00(Irishcast) Good News For You (Jer 31v18 Acts 14v15) (Justification)
How do you hear the message of God’s good news “for you?” We may think a loudspeaker from heaven would work. But God knows that for you and for me to hear the message of the good news, we need voices near us can trust. Today we get to hear the message “for you” from Ireland. On Wednesday it will be the Discipleship youth serving at the prayer league house who will bring the good news “for you.” You know who it is that speaks the word of life “for you.” Remember someone near you today needs to hear the news that “Jesus died for you.”
12/01/2025
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00(Isabel’s Testimony Of Forgiveness) Sent Out To Forgive (Ps 43:3; Luke 2:29 32) (Forgiveness)
Simeon announces hope for us Gentiles who need the light of God’s grace to free us from the control of sin. In todays’s podcast, one of those Gentiles who received this freedom shares her testimony. The picture of her hands may give you a clue of the physical way that forgiveness happens for her. Enjoy and know there’s hope for you as well.
11/30/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Advent 1 Forgiveness Lifts The Darkness (Jer 31:34; Matt 21:15 16) (Forgiveness) 2
As we light the candle for the first Sunday in Advent, we need to consider what does it mean for us to be the light of the world? We have taken the theme of forgiveness and looked at forgiving others as God’s means of breaking through the darkness of our world consumed by hate. So when you light your Advent candle today and even throughout this week, consider practicing forgiveness with those who have caused you pain and you need to pray the peace of Christ over them. Every night before you sleep pray the light of Jesus over those people by forgiving them. “The forgiveness you give out is the forgiveness you get back.”
11/29/2025
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00(Mission Cast) About My Father’s Business (House) In China (Psalm 84:10; Luke 2:49) (Evangelism)
Mim and I (Jeff) welcome our Chinese friend “Deborah” to the mission cast. At the end of December, she will return to her home village in China. She holds a Master’s Degree in Theology. She most certainly faces hardships and persecution, but is willing to return despite warnings from her friends and relatives so that she might serve her village with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Please pray for Deborah. This podcast contains a little bit of her story and her quiet determination to honor her Lord as he gives us her comfortable life in the United States to be faithful and obedient to God’s call. Mim and I are truly humbled and inspired by her faith. We now consider ourselves what it means to be about our Father’s business in our present location. We think you will be blessed by her reflections on these texts. (Note) The drawing is AI-produced. The gate is definitely confucian style. In many Chinese churches, the cross is red, a blend of Christian and cultural symbolism. Red, in Chinese culture, signifies joy and good fortune. The cross represents forgiveness and new life. The two combined produce a meaning of joy, good fortune and new life found only in Jesus Christ our Lord.
11/28/2025
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00(Hudson Hoff Cast) Trusting In God’s Timing (Isaiah 66:22; John 1:49) (Trust)
Hope! What are you longing for in the new heavens and the new earth? Many images give some feeling of what God promises in the Bible. But it is a real place with real bodies and real food. In Isaiah 25 God is cooking a feast for us. This will be a feast that will launch eternity in a whole new life. We have little foretaste’s of what this will be like as in your Thanksgiving dinner but in this case after the dinner no one has to go home because home is where we are with God.