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.
07/05/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Fully Known Fully Loved (Lamentations 1:20;John 4:29)
Welcome to the Mission Cast! (Mim is away in Southern California conducting a camp for Chinese Immigrant Children with a local Chinese church. We will report more on the camp next week.). I (Jeff) am solo today and reflect upon the idea of being fully known and fully loved. As a youth I was afraid of God as being hash and condemning. I was fearful of God knowing everything about me. Then, I met Jesus and knew him to be a God of mercy and compassion, grace and forgiveness. His love toward me was steadfast and everlasting. My sin causes sorrow to God and harm to others and myself, but it is not enough to separate me from God — only to hide God’s face from me, because I choose to hide from him. When we step into the light of confession and forgiveness, we experience God’s redeeming love. Our sin is nailed to the cross. The consequence of our sin is death and the tomb. But all these things were left behind when Jesus rose from the dead. My sin is forgiven and removed from God’s presence. As I am with Jesus there is only life. He has called me out of darkness and into his glorious light of love.
07/04/2025
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00(Familycast) Jesus Frees Us From The Fear Of Death (Psalm 119:114; John 6:40) (Faith)
When Christ frees us from the fear of dying, we are free. We are free to take up our cross daily and follow Jesus wherever He may lead us. In 1776 the signers of the Declaration of Independence were people like this. They knew they were branded as traitors and could be executed for treason. And many were. When they fought with Washington, they knew that many of the citizenry of the colonies were unwilling to join them for fear of recrimination by the King. Fear keeps people from freedom. Christ has to free us to fight for the causes that God has called us to. As we celebrate the memory of this day of freedom, may we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world who are still engaged in battles to free themselves from the oppression which fights against them day after day. These people are in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and many other nations. Pray! May our Lord Jesus give them courage to continue the fight.
07/03/2025
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00(Carmelcast) Freedom In The Unknown (Prov 19:9; Col 3:17) (Vocation)
Even the cabins at Mount Carmel know that being thankful shines our light in any darkness we have to go through. God is with you and Jesus lives in you. And Jesus is the light of the world and of your world. So if your life feels dark right now, talk to Jesus. Ask Him to help you be thankful in the midst of your difficult times. He knows that being thankful doesn’t change our circumstances but it does change how we feel when we are going through them. So ask! Jesus will help you.
07/02/2025
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00Being Honest Before God (Ps 138:6; Luke 12:19 20) (Humility)
The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard knows how vital it is to be truthful about yourself. His comment about the importance of being honest before God is at the heart of why pride is so common and humility is so rare. We don’t like the truth when it reveals things about ourselves we have been trying to hide or avoid. As you reflect today on the texts and listen to the podcast, ask the Holy Spirit to help you with this kind of honest awareness. Remember Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to us to lead us into the truth, “when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.” (John 16:3). So go ahead and ask the Spirit to be your helper in this kind of “simple human honest” living.
07/01/2025
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00(Irishcast) God My Strength And My Portion (Psalm 73v26; Rev 3v7 8) (Sovereignty)
For the third day in a row we have a picture of our God opening and closing opportunities around us. Doors close. Doors open. God is behind them. We can become frustrated. We can become bitter. We can also rest in the sovereignty of our God who has chosen us and promises to dwell within us whether doors are open or closed. In God we trust. But even more, what does Jesus tell us about Himself? (John 10:9) “I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” This DOOR never closes but is always open because our Lord is THE door. Today, look to Jesus to help you understand how He is your door in any circumstance of trouble or difficulty you are going through. Go through Him, your door.
06/30/2025
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00(Familycast) God Knows Our Misery And Gives Compassion (Job 3:20 21; James 5:11) (Trust)
Yesterday we had Jonah in the body of the fish for 3 days. Today we have Job in a different fishy predicament which held him captive for about 37 chapters when God finally gets a chance to interrupt his miserable and bitter process of thinking. God seeks to bring life and light to his misery just like he wants to do with us. What holds us back is what held Job back…our misery and bitterness becomes our life…it is our WAY. For us to get free we need to know the one who is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. Listen and discover how free God wants you to be.
06/29/2025
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00(Sundaycast) God Frustrates Us For Our Good (Psalm 33:10; Acts 5:38 39) (Guidance)
Today’s verses remind us of many times when our will has been frustrated by God who wants us to conform to His will. The picture of Jonah in the belly of the fish reminds us that our distress is one time when we realize we have fallen away from God. But even this distress not change Jonah’s heart. At the end of his book, Jonah is still arguing with God about showing mercy on the wretched Ninevites. Who are the Ninevites on your list of people who don’t deserve God’s mercy and grace? Maybe today, a good way to begin your prayer time is to thank your Lord Jesus for taking your wretchedness into His belly and giving you His goodness and kindness in exchange. Then begin to look around you at people you despise and pour some of our Lord’s gift of goodness and kindness on them.
06/28/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Words And Deeds Of Love (Isaiah 11:4; Matthew 11:4 5 ) (Judgment)
Jeff and Mim discuss how the Messiah (Jesus) will judge with righteousness and equity for the poor and the oppressed (cf. Isaiah 11:4). This will be light and truth (Lux et Veritas) The statistics regarding the poor are staggering: 8.5 percent of the world’s population (ca. 700 million people) live is extreme poverty on less that $2.12 USD per day. Another 17.5 percent of world’s population (ca. 1.1 billion people) live in acute multidimensional poverty — half of whom are children. Truly, as Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11). But what is our response? When we serve the least of these, we also serve Jesus himself (cf. Matthew 25:31-46). Jeff mention’s the Cape Town Commitment (2010) from the Lausanne Movement for World Evangelism, where the church is tasked with integral mission — to proclaim both the truth of the gospel and to show the truth through loving care and actions.
06/27/2025
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00(Wmpl Cast)Living And Dying For Jesus (1 Sam 2:6; Romans 14:8)
Ruth and Luke joined Nels and Sonja by sharing their lives as missionaries for the World Mission Prayer League. Their ministry is one of many of the League sites where their location has to be held secret. Their family is the Missionary in Residence this week at Mount Carmel. This year all of the Missionaries serving each week at Mount Carmel are doing their outreach to unreached peoples’ groups around the world. You can learn more about this family and become a prayer supporter for them by going to the WMPL.Org web page.
06/26/2025
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(Carmelcast) Your Childhood Begins Every Time God Teaches You God Teaches You (Deut 4:10; 2 Timothy 3:14 15) (Guidance)
Our God tells us that ”unless you become as a little child you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matt 18:3). Becoming a little child can happen in many ways. But one way is that children are willing to learn. Children are willing to admit that they don’t know things. And our God is willing to teach you. When you ask God to help you, you become a little child and God helps you.