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.
11/17/2025
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00Cabin Conversation On Persecution (Psalm 25:19; Matthew 5:11 12) (Persecution)
The prayer journal for today has a dramatic testimony of a woman in Iran who was afraid of what she might say when persecuted. The story comes from a daily email I receive from pastor Leon Stier. His ministry is called Emailmeditations. It is a devotional website to help you grow closer to Jesus. These meditations on the Christian faith and life are sent daily to subscribers at no cost. He has created over 2500 of these messages and I just looked up the word “persecution” on his web site and found the story I posted in today’s prayer journal. Leon will also be speaking next summer at Mount Carmel. Consider spending a week at this beautiful place enjoying Leon’s messages.
11/16/2025
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11/15/2025
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00(Mission Cast) God’s Satisfying Love (Psalm 90:14; 1 Tim 1:5) (Grace)
Jeff and Mim discuss what it means to be satisfied with God’s steadfast love each morning. This satisfaction is more than emotional happiness or consumerism. It is a deep, soul-satisfaction rooted in God’s divine grace and love. It is difficult to love another person if you do not first feel loved yourself by God. God’s love transforms our hearts so that we learn to love others, not through willpower or religious duty, but through the living water that flows from within your own life into others. You love with a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith that God created in you through his Holy Spirit. We cannot bear fruit in mission unless we learn first to abide in Christ’s love.
11/14/2025
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10Created To Be Sent Out (Deut 32:11; John 10:29) (Faith)
An eagle may not carry its young on its back as today’s text implies, but we do know that our Good Shepherd is always carrying His sheep on His back. And we know that as an eagle watches overs its young, so our Heavenly Father watches over us. Another reality we have in this metaphor with eagles is that we were not created to live in a nest. We were created to fly. How is your Heavenly Father giving you wings to let your life be blown by the Holy Spirit so that you may fulfill your calling for Jesus’ sake?
11/13/2025
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00(Theta) Victory (1 Samuel 2:1 & 1 Corinthians 15:57) (Shepherd’s Voice)
What gives you assurance of God’s presence? A beautiful array of the northern lights which many saw last night in the St. Croix River Valley? (Photo was taken by our granddaughter, Svea, just north of Hudson, WI). Or the voice of your Good Shepherd which comes to you from the words of the Bible? You can see both possibilities in the photo on today’s image. There is nothing wrong with loving the northern lights but they show up very rarely and only at night. And what do they tell you about God’s commitment to you? Whereas God’s word will show up day and night. God’s word will reach you anytime even if you are locked inside somewhere or wandering in the woods. God’s word will comfort and console you. So today, take a lesson from Isaiah and Nathan, who wrote out their shepherd’s voice using the “Daily Texts” for today, and write out a shepherd’s voice message for yourself. Your Good Shepherd wants to light up your world.
11/12/2025
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00(Awaken) God’s Love Is Impartial Toward You (Deut 2:27; James 2:9) (Grace)
Today’s podcast comes to us from Mount Carmel. The photo shows the backdrop of the large stone fireplace at the entrance to the dining room. Our five Awaken students are pictured with a special guest today, Lu Vitalis. Lu was at Mount Carmel for a special weekend honoring those people who support Mount Carmel. They are called “Proclaimers” since their gifts help proclaim the gospel through all of Mount Carmel’s ministries. The Awaken Project is one of those ministries that proclaims the gospel. If you want to support the Awaken Project’s ministry, you can send a gift to Mount Carmel. Learn more at www.MountCarmelMinistries.com. A few more things about Lu. As a five year old, Lu first came to Mount Carmel in 1938 when it first opened. She was one of the first prayer writers for the “Daily Texts” when we first produced them in 1997 and wrote prayers through 2024.
11/11/2025
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00(Irishcast) The Lord Says Fear Not (Joshua 8v1 Matt 9v29,30) (Trust)
November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States. It is observed on November 11th every year, regardless of the day of the week. The date was chosen to honor the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 when the armistice ending World War I was signed. So it is sometimes called Armistice Day for that reason. For Christians this day has an eternal meaning. Believers are enlisted by Christ as recorded in 2 Timothy 2:[3] “Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. [4] No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.” Jesus enlists us and calls us into active duty as members of the body of Christ, the church. Paul writes this to Timothy saying 1 Timothy 6:[12] “Fight the good fight of the faith.” As in any war, soldiers will suffer and die. But whether we live or die we know that Christ has won the victory. And so we die without fear of the outcome for the battle is not ours but the Lord’s. And one day Jesus will honor all those who fought with HIm for the Kingdom of God to come “on earth as it is in heaven” and we will then know ourselves as Veterans. Veterans of the war fought on earth for our God…not with swords of course but with the Word of God with the power of His gracious love.
11/10/2025
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00Broken People Call On The Lord To Open Their Eyes And Their Ears (Job 33:13 14; Revelation 2:7) (Guidance)
Martin Luther was not born a broken man. He believed in “will power” and put all his confidence in doing what he believed God wanted him to do. But he failed with will power. And one day a friend shook him and declared to him, “Luther, you spend so much time making yourself miserable for God’s sake. Why don’t you consider how God became miserable for your sake?” That was the straw that broke his back. That night changed his life forever. He knew he was broken. But only God could reveal to him the truth that God would make him whole. God broke through for him. Martin has been an example to all of us who know that only God can save us from our vain strivings of our will power to save ourselves. We can all be thankful that he did not stop striving until he was overcome by God. God gave him the power that his “will power” could never accomplish. How about you? Is today the day that the Holy Spirit will give you the power to believe that it is God’s work alone that makes you whole?
11/09/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Worship The Hidden God (Deut 4:23; Romans 1:20) (Judgment)
This piece of art created by Gretchen Quie in 1999 is entitled, “Glory to you O God, unto the ages.” It is created with acrylic and imitation gold leaf on paper. In the podcast today, Sonja will make some connections between this artwork and the verse from Romans 1 in today’s texts. Artists help us see what is hidden from our eyes as they create an image which opens us up to something new. God has called each of us to be a creative artist with the world God has given us to help people see the invisible God behind what is visible. You are called to use your words, your stories, your simple artistic expressions, anything for the glory of God to shine through you. Look today for your opportunity to be God’s artist in the world around you.
11/08/2025
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(Missioncast) Christ, Our Light And Guide (Isaiah 42:16; John 8:11) (Guidance)
Jeff and Mim discuss what it means to be lost and to wander aimless in life. We all get lost. We are, after all, like sheep who wander astray. We need the Good Shepherd to seek and find us and bring us safely home. Mim connects with the concept of light and darkness, sight and blindness through the stories of family members and friends who are going physically blind. Mim also relates to the spiritual blindness from which many suffer. Our comfort is that Christ leads us to good pastures, because he is the way, the life, and the truth. BONUS: We include in print this prayer (it’s not in the podcast): “Lord God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
