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.
07/30/2025
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00Christ’s Commands Lead Us To His Grace (Proverbs 7:2;Matt 19:29) (Law And Gospel)
The law always exposes our powerless condition. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus makes all the old laws harder to obey by showing us that the real problem is not what we do but why we do it. That’s why the disciples cry out to Jesus just after the rich young man talks to him in Matthew 19. Jesus reveals our powerlessness to keep the law from the bottom of our hearts. His solution is to have His heart as a transplant. This heart can keep the law completely because we are powered by Christ within us. This is the fulfillment of the gospel message. Christ is in us. He fulfills God’s law. It’s impossible for us but not for God.
07/29/2025
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00(Irishcast) Be Exalted, O Lord ( Ps 21v13 Luke 19v37) (Sovereignty)
From the Mount of Olives, Jesus went into Jerusalem riding on the colt of a donkey. This procession was surrounded by people praising God and declaring all the wondrous things Jesus had done. In 2019, this photo was taken of believers from Brazil singing as they marched down the hill in remembrance of Christ’s procession on Palm Sunday. They were wildly praising our God. Let us express our faith in Jesus by praising God and declaring what He has done for us.
07/28/2025
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00Understanding How We Hallow Jesus’ Name (Exodus 20:7; Matthew 6:9) (Repentence)
God knows our names, should we not know His name and what His name reveals about who He is and how He wants us to know Him better? Here is a list of 16 names for God that comes from a book, “16 names of God, a strong tower to run to.” Patsy Burnette helps us take time to dig deeper into the meaning of our God and Father and how biblical terms can give us a richer understanding of our relationship to Him. After you have taken time to learn something of the Lord’s Prayer and “hallowed by Thy name” find out more about your God than you ever knew before. And God will bless your discoveries.
07/27/2025
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00(Sundaycast) The Power To Love With Self Discipline (Psalm 29:11; 2 Tim 1:7) (Trust)
Hilde’s drawing helps us capture the connection that the gifts that our God gives us are a result of Jesus’ death on the cross. Power, love and self-discipline all flow from the cross of Christ. So just as certainly as Christ has died for you so surely have you received these three gifts from your Lord. Share with someone today how these gifts have been helping you as you follow Jesus. And ask that person how they have found these gifts to be true for themselves.
07/26/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Entrust The Gopsel To Trustworthy People (Jeremiah 21:14; Matthew 25:21) (Trust)
Jeff and Mim talk about what it means to entrust (or invest) the gospel of Jesus Christ (and our spiritual gifts) into the lives of others, who are trustworthy to receive it and will teach others. The good news of forgiveness of sins and everlasting life by grace through faith in Christ Jesus is too good keep just to ourselves. It needs to be shared. We are God’s ambassadors, entrusted with the charge and mandate to go and tell others about Jesus and to make disciples. We are faithful when we, through our words and deeds, tell others of the love of God for them. It starts with a genuine, authentic and loving relationships with others as we open the scriptures together to discover and discuss the good news of Jesus Christ so that we might be accountable to each other and encourage one another as we grow more mature, day by day, as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
07/25/2025
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00The Ears Are The Door To Faith (Psalm 44:1; 2 Timothy 4:3) (Faith)
It’s not how your ear looks on the outside. What counts to God is how His message gets through the ear to the inside, to our heart. So let’s not look at the outside ear but to the word that gets inside us through the doorway of our ear. We know this is how God’s word of life gets to our very being…through the message we hear proclaimed to us so that we may hear and believe. Listen for God’s word today so that faith may come to life within you.
07/24/2025
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00(Carmelcast) Acknowledgement Of Sin & Dependence On God (Psalm 39:12; Luke 7:37,38,50) (Confession)
How many promises has God made to us in the Bible? The rainbow was the sign of one of God’s first promises. (Genesis 9:11-13) “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” The rainbow over Mount Carmel’s lodge reminds us of the Genesis promise. In today’s texts we have two more promises God makes to us. What counts for you is not how many promises God makes in the Bible but which of God’s promises are you looking to for hope. What promise is your rainbow from God today?
07/23/2025
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00Delivered From Disappointment To Delight (Psalm 18:19; 1 Corinthians 15:10) (Forgiveness)
What color is the “D” on your forehead? Peter went from D for disappointment to D for delight. Jesus delivered Peter from his anger at himself to seeing himself through the eyes and words of our Lord. So what color is the “D” on your forehead…green for grace or red for resentment and guilt? As you listen today you will learn again how Jesus replaces one D for the other D with His personal D, His death for you on the cross.
07/22/2025
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00(Irishcast) Humbled, Forgiven,And Restored (Ps 119v67; John 21v16) (Forgiveness)
Peter’s denial on Maundy Thursday takes place at the house of Caiaphas just outside the walls of Jerusalem. There is a statue there that represents Peter’s humbling moment when he denied our Lord in front of three people. But a some days later and after a walk of about 100 miles, Jesus meets His follower who has denied Him. He’s on the beach of the Sea of Galilee and He is cooking breakfast. Peter comes to Him from the boat in which he and other disciples had been fishing all night without catching anything. But the real catch is that Peter knows Jesus has forgiven him. He doesn’t even ask to be forgiven. He just hears the words of his restored commission to love the sheep that Jesus will give him. Again there is a stature here that reminds us that if Jesus can forgive and restore someone who disappointed Him as much as Peter did there is hope for you and for me. Being humbled, being forgiven and being restored. This is the way when we follow Jesus. Peter is the first of millions of followers to show this way to us.
07/21/2025
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00Jesus Is Our Peace (Isaiah 57:19; Acts 10:36) (Peace)
Jesus is our peace. His presence gives peace to our powerless condition. Our God has this purpose for us in the Sermon on the Mount where He says, “blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” But to be that in this world, we need to let go our self-righteous Martha identity who is troubled about many things, or our Peter need to always think we need to have the right answer or even John who was always so good you could not help but love such a perfect guy. All these have to go. Then the peace of Christ can be ours when we know there is no peace without Christ alone and He will “guide our feet into the way of peace.” For a daily dose of peace, practice the prayer from Colossians that is available in the prayer journal download. Begin each day by praying it aloud. Let the peace of Christ flow into you and through you all day. Share a copy with a friend.