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.
06/25/2025
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00(Monunt Carmel Guests) God Gets To Judge We Get To Love (Zech 6:15; Rev 15:4) (Judgment)
The decision to build the Mount Carmel Chapel came as an act of faith on the part of the Board since not all the funds needed had been raised. But the promise from Zechariah in today’s text was the Old Testament reading for the day that the Board was meeting at Mount Carmel to consider the challenge ahead of us if we pushed ahead with the decision to build. The front of the chapel is pictured above. It was completed in 2008 and has been fully used in the summer programs during family weeks. The chapel also has become more fully used in the winter with the Awaken Project having about 6 students for the school year. There are an additional 40 kids from 2nd to 7th grade using the lower level 5 days a week. And there are others who are here for winter weekends and other ministry opportunities. Its debt was completely paid off a few years ago. Thanks be to God that the Board took the step of faith to build the chapel when they did.
06/24/2025
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00(Irishcast) Trusting In The Lord (Prov 3v5,6; John 21v18)
Trusting in Jesus in the difficulties of our lives is when it is the most important for us. Cecil Alexander wrote this great hymn based on the Apostles Creed about following our Lord. “Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult of our life’s wild, restless sea, day by day his voice is sounding, saying, “Christian, follow me.”
06/23/2025
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00(Glory Stories) Compassion Brings Another Child Son To Glory (Psalm 145:9; Romans 8:21) (Service) 3
Mount Carmel is a special place where people experience compassion and by the grace of God discover the glory of the Lord for themselves. In addition to the word that is preached and taught, the experience includes the beautiful setting on Lake Carlos near Alexandria and the wonderful staff who work hard to bless the people like us who come here. But another gift comes from the other guests who share this week together. Today, one of those people is shown in the photo. She shares a story of compassion on our podcast. Her name is Gloria. She has spoken to us before. She is a marvelous servant of our Lord, who works hard with people that others often reject because she knows that through our Lord’s gift of compassion, we can bring another child to glory.
06/22/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Our Lord Is Leading You (Exodus 13:21; John 5:39) (Guidance)
The promise God made to lead and to guide His people was revealed in the cloud and in the fire. God knows what we need and when we need His help. God keeps His promises to us. He is faithful. Jesus reveals this in His talks to his followers. He says, “ I am with you always” and He will help us in all things to know and to trust Him. Look to Jesus. He can keep His promises to you. Because, nothing can stop Him. He is our risen Lord who has broken the power of death.
06/21/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Signs And Wonders (Psalm 136:3 4; Acts 8:6,8 ) (Miracles)
Today, Jeff and Jill discuss the idea of signs and wonders. A sign indicates or points to something and imbues it with meaning, e.g., the shape and color of street signs mean specific things like caution, stop, or limits. A wonder is something beautiful or unexpected that causes us to pause in awe and admiration. I asked the “Perplexity AI Model” to find a picture that best captured the sense of “wonder.” The above picture is the result. It reminds me of the words of Psalm 8 — “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” Whereas the invisible attributes of God are plainly visible in his creation: His eternal power and divine nature (Romans 1:19), it is the cross of Jesus Christ where we marvel at God’s great and steadfast love for humanity and stand in awe at the empty tomb with the promise and guarantee of eternal life by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is the sign, wonder and guarantee of God’s love toward us — and you cannot buy the Spirit, only receive Him gladly through faith. Glory be to God!
06/20/2025
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00Jesus Intercedes And So Do We (Psalm 25:16; Mark 10:47) (Prayer)
The story of Moses interceding with God is found in Exodus 32:9–14. God is angry with the disobedient people and confronts Moses. “ ‘I have seen these people,’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’ But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, “It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth”? TURN FROM YOUR FIERCE ANGER; REPENT and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.”’ Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.” One of our purposes as intercessors is to stand in the gap and plead for God’s mercy. (The REPENT word is in the King James Version of the Bible)
06/19/2025
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00(Good Shepherd) (Carmelcast) Heard Unity (Isaiah 56:8; Matthew 24:14)
Mount Carmel is space of grace that is created by the promises of Jesus, our Good Shepherd. The buildings you see in this photo will be filled to overflowing in a few days by hundreds of adults and kids coming from all over the country for a special reunion. These people are the body of Christ spread out over all the earth but returning for a week of renewal with others seeking this same goal. Jesus creates the spirit of unity through His life, death and resurrection. He fills our lives with His abounding fullness. The people coming back to this community shaped under the grace of our Lord have tasted this unity and want to have that flavor of grace restored in their souls. So there is a reunion spirit that draws the people seeking again the special unity that we have in Jesus Christ.
06/18/2025
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00(Holy Spirit) Words That Delight (Jeremiah 15:16; Acts 8 :38 39)
For God’s word to become a delight and a joy for us, we need the Holy Spirit. On Pentecost the Holy Spirit opened the mouths and the ears of all those people who were gathered together. As you listen today ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and your heart so that you will have a hunger to devour His word.
06/17/2025
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00(Irishcast) Following Jesus (Gen 46 V3,4 Luke 18v28 30)
The great hymn “How Firm A Foundation” expresses this promise that God makes to Jacob. “Fear not, I am with you; O be not dismayed, for I am your God and will still give you aid; I’ll strengthen you, help you and cause you to stand upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.” It is our prayer that the daily podcasts will give you this assurance that your Heavenly Father is “with you,” Emmanuel. When you know that God is with you you can reach out your hand to join another person to God. Remember your God will help you…He is with you.
06/16/2025
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00Jesus’ Faith And Love Are In Me (Proverbs 15:1; 2 Tim 1:13)
Mount Carmel had its annual choral music festival this past weekend. You heard Rikka and Gorden and Sonja talk about this on Sunday’s podcast. Today we have one music selection from their performance that expresses the need for each of us to have the power of Christ living in our imperfect bodies. The heart of the gospel is that Jesus chooses to live in imperfect people. And He uses our imperfection as an opportunity to reveal His gracious love so that people may know that when God comes to us, He makes our imperfections His own and gives us in exchange His perfect faith and perfect love so that He absorbs our harsh words and gives us soft answers in its place. Today, you can trade in your worn out mean spiritedness and receive from Jesus a kindness and generosity that He showed the whole world when He was being killed on the cross. You can also download the article on how Luther discovered that God does want us to do good works especially in the marriage bed. That’s only possible when we have discarded our harsh words and received the soft words from Jesus.