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.
06/30/2025
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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.
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!