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.
12/27/2025
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00(Mission Cast) The Incarnation: The Mighty Work Of God (Psalm 71:16 ; 1 Cor 1:23 24) (Justification)
Jeff and Mim discuss the “mighty deed” of the Lord, that he would become incarnate in the flesh, become one of us and dwell among us. He is the Word of God — Jesus Christ. Often times we associate Christmas Eve with nostalgia: Christmas Pageants, cute but fidgety children dressed as shepherds, wise men, angels and wise men to create a living nativity scene. We forget that this birth was the time of Imperial Rome forcing its vassal state citizens to register for conscription and taxation. Mary and Joseph had no choice but to make the 80-90 mile journey to Bethlehem. Were they anxious or fearful, frustrated or feeling helpless? Who knows. Yet God was quietly working a might deed so that the prophecies would be fulfilled and the Christ be born in Bethlehem. May we have confidence that God is still doing mighty deeds among us even in times of political upheaval and hardship. God is Immanuel. He is always with us. We pre-recorded this podcast because Jeff needs to fly to Oregon to see his father who had emergency surgery to clear an almost complete blockage in one of his arteries to his right leg. We were recording while he was having surgery, not knowing the outcome. We are glad to report that the operation was a success and that he is in recovery. We wish you all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas and New Year. Love to all who record and listen to the “Daily Texts” podcasts.
12/26/2025
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00(Floridacast) Angelic Faces In Times Of Suffering (Ps 19:8; Acts 6:15) (Discipleship)
Each weekday we have offered a devotional reading that you can download by clicking on the prayer journal. For today, we have posted the Benediction for Christmas Day that Nathan Hoff read yesterday. We wanted to add some extra printed resources for you during the days surrounding Christmas. It is our hope that these have been helpful to you as you take time each day to reflect on the birth of our Lord. (YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PRAYER JOURNAL TO READ A COPY OF THE. BENEDICTION THAT NATHAN SHARED WITH US YESTERDAY.
12/25/2025
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00( Theta) Merry Christmas (Lamentations 5:21 & Luke 2:11)
Merry Christmas means you have joy because of Christmas. You are merry. The joy comes from knowing that Jesus who was born on this day came as a gift with your name on it. Christmas becomes merry or joyful when we believe that Jesus came for you…that He came for me. Believing this changes our life. We become merry and bright because of the One who was born this day for us. And we stay that merry way all year through because our Lord never leaves us and keeps filling us with His joy. He tells us, “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11). (TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PROMISE, CLICK ON THE PRAYER JOURNAL FOR TODAY. GOD WANTS EVERY DAY TO BE A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR YOU!)
12/24/2025
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00(Floridacast) Christmas Eve God’s Birth Exposes How Helpless We Are (Psalm 89:14; John 1:14) (Grace)
When the gift that is given attacks our self-righteous foundation, we definitely don’t want anything to do with it. “Just leave it there under the tree and don’t bother my world view with your grace and peace.” That is the one reason people despise Christmas. God gives Himself freely for our sakes in a way we never could and really don’t want to. But God keeps giving over and over again so we will finally quit fighting and let the good news of living under grace and reality control our lives. We give up our need to be right. Know people like this person in the cartoon? Yep, “it’s a me it’s a me it’s a me old Lord, standing in the need of prayer.” Pray. Pray for yourself to receive God’s kindness. Let go of your need to be right and let the righteousness of God fill you with all the fullness of God. And then you can begin praying for others to receive what you have finally received. God’s gift of life in Jesus that frees you from yourself. Merry Christmas! (DOWNLOAD THE PRAYER JOURNAL AGAIN TODAY TO HEAR WHY GOD DIDN’T MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR MARY AND JOSEPH).
12/23/2025
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00(Irishcast) God’s Good Gift From Heaven To Earth (Haggai 2v4 2 Cor 9v6)
What’s in this package for you? We are learning this week about how God packages His love for us. Yesterday in our downloaded meditation, we discovered that God sent Jesus gift wrapped in Mary. And the promise for her is the promise for you and for me. God has a gift hidden in each of us to be unwrapped by someone who needs to know the special love of God for imperfect people. This love is called grace. This grace was born in an imperfect stable in Bethlehem and it will be born again through your imperfect world. The love of God comes looking for us. Jesus doesn’t wait for us to seek Him, he seeks and saves us who are lost. God’s love put on flesh and blood so that we might know that God’s love is for real. Today in our downloaded meditation in the prayer journal, you have a chance to hear the special love of God for you spoken in the Shepherd’s Voice. After the podcast download it and share it. Let someone speak this voice over you as you speak it over them.
12/22/2025
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00(Floridacast) All That We Have Comes From God (Habakkuk 2:6; Luke 16:10) (Repentance)
The words above come from a traditional worship song sung as our response after the offering was received. The congregation would rise after the offering and sing it. I have changed the word “alone” to “A LOAN.” My friend, John, who came to Mount Carmel every Sunday for worship taught me this way of understanding the meaning of this song. Everything belongs to God. As the text from Habakkuk declares, all we have is a gift given to us. It is a LOAN or a TRUST. But how do we treat the things we have been given? We need a spirit of repentance to consider again that everything we have comes from our God. How do we return to God what is His? And then we remember that our God is the One who lavishes upon us all He has to give. We can’t out give God! (FOR SOME EXTRA THOUGHTS ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CARRYING A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD INSIDE YOU,AS MARY DID, CLICK THE PRAYER JOURNAL LINK FOR TODAY.)
12/21/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Advent 4 Floridacast Father And Son Appearing Together (Isaiah 66:2; Titus 3:4 5) (Humility)
What’s behind the curtain? Is God hiding so we can’t see Him or are we hiding because we don’t want God to see us? The word appearing in the NT text lets us know that God has to reveal Himself to us. Until God appears to us we are in the dark, blind even. But when God appears what is revealed to us? Today’s readings are meant to make us tremble at His word and then to let that word fill us with joy.
12/20/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Love Shaped Kindness (Genesis 50:21 ; Eph 4:32) (Discipleship)
We discuss how the ability to be kind to one another and tender-hearted in rooted in a personal experience with God’s love. When we know we are truly and dearly loved by God we are able to love others as Christ has loved us. Joseph prefigures Jesus Christ, who was betrayed and sold into the hands of evil men by his brothers. Yet Christ forgave them on the cross. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We enjoyed editing two Christmas Special videos that we highly recommend, both produced by THE CHOSEN. One is “The Shepherd” and the other is “The Messengers.” As we watched them, we were deeply moved to tears as we consider that humble condition in which Jesus was born. We wish you all a very blessed Christmas and pray that the wonder of Christ’s love is restored to all of you in deeply powerful ways. Jeff and Mim.
12/19/2025
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00(Floridacast) Jesus Is Oursolid Rock (1 Sam 2:2; Eph 6:10) (Discipleship)
A rock that is hidden from our eye can be our stability in the rough waters of a river. Knowing where we can rest our leg against a rock makes the rushing waters around us a pleasant time of enjoyment instead of having the anxiety of being forced downstream by the current. Isn’t this what Jesus offers us in the middle of life’s troubles? Having Jesus to rest our body against in the middle of our difficulties helps us to relax when we might feel restless. In 1 Peter 3:15, we are told to give an account for the “hope that is in you.” We give an account of our hope because our body and soul are touching the Rock when we are surrounded by turbulence. We can be at ease in any kind of difficulty because we are resting on Jesus, our Rock who keeps us stable in tough times.
12/18/2025
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