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.
04/14/2026
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00(Irishcast) Forgiveness In Christ (2 Sam 24 V10 1 John 1v9)(Repentance)
During the Last Supper, Jesus washed the disciples’ feet and he taught them that love means absolution. In our image today we have a sponge. A sponge absorbs messes. A sponge cleans up our skin. Both of these meanings apply to absolution. In absolution, we are cleansed of what has made us feel dirty. Our guilt is forgiven. Our resentment is removed. But for the power of this act to impact us, the dirty mess has to go somewhere. It goes into God. Jesus absorbs our dirt into Himself. He is the One whose word of absolution absorbs what He forgives into Himself. King David was forgiven. He was cleansed. His sin no longer was sticking to his body and stinking up his life. Instead his filthy actions were now sticking to God. If God can forgive someone as bad as King David was, there is hope for you and for me. Jesus absolves you. Your sin is now absorbed into His body. He carried it into the grave. It is gone. You are pure. You are clean. Jesus has become all your dirtiness. In exchange, Jesus has given you all his cleanness. You are clean. You are pure. You can rest in all God does for you and enjoy His sponge bath that makes you clean.
04/13/2026
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00Living Wisely Can Be Uncomfortable (Psalm 31:15; Ephesians 5:15) (Guidance)
Do you remember the song, “the wise man built his house upon a rock?” The wisdom of course is that the rock foundation will help us when problems arise in life, like rain storms and floods. When our house, our life, is built on the rock, it will not be washed away. So our wise decision is to make sure we take time to get the foundation of our life on the solid rock of Christ alone. The next step is to have a wise friend whom we can trust to help us when these problems arise for us. Jesus warns us that we will have problems. When they arise, we need someone we can trust to help us through the hard times. We need a friend who will help us stand firm on our faith in Christ. But they also may ask any hard questions that need to be answered. Who is that person for you? If you can’t think of someone, ask our Lord to lead you to a person who can be that rock solid support for you.
04/12/2026
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00(Sundaycast) Testimony Of Jesse On Freedom From Fear (Psalm 116:7; Johnson:26) (Discipleship)
Our Freedom from Fear weekend gives us the testimony of Jesse, one of our participants in the weekend. We had 21 people involved in the weekend from Friday to Sunday morning. We were at the Camp St. Croix YMCA facility. It was beautiful and we did see eagles flying and nesting around us. But the power of our time is the honesty of the people who joined in. Gary is our leader and his honesty helped the rest of us to be honest as well. We shared our struggles with each other and we received the power of Christ in our conversation and in the word of God which we gave to each other. We confessed our guilt and resentments to each other. We practiced our calling as the priesthood of believers by forgiving the ones whose confession we heard. We also shared the Shepherd’s Voice with amazing effects on the souls of those who heard this personal word spoken over them. We also had a physical healing in one woman who had suffered from back pain since she was a 13 years old. God did amazing things for all of us here. I thank all of you for praying for us. We have enjoyed a taste of grace that we will not lose as we were freed from fears we had carried with us and we will go home without these fears controlling us.
04/11/2026
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00(Mission Cast) Help For The Drowning Soul(Psalm 38:4; Luke 23:42 43) ( Forgiveness)
Jeff and Mim discuss what it is like to be “downing in your sin and iniquity” (Psalm 38). Like David, the penitent thief on the cross reached out to God for mercy — he talked directly to God incarnate in the flesh, Jesus Christ. Paul writes in 2 Corinathians 5:21 — “For our sake, God made him (Jesus) to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus absolved the thief of his sins while on the cross. He took the thief’s sin upon himself and gave him his righteousness. Profound Grace. All that happened that day was intentional and part of the plan.
04/10/2026
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00Testimony Of St Francis (Gen 28:13, 15; Luke 22:35) (Testimony)
Giotto was the Italian artist who painted large images of St Francis in the Basilica in Assisi around 1299. The 3 additional drawings were created by a young Florida artist. Giotto’s piece shows Francis trading his wealthy garments for the rougher clothes of a poor man he met. The three added art pieces are the three items that Jesus told His disciples they could do without. When Francis saw this poor man, he felt an overwhelming compassion that led him to trade his clothes with him. Francis spent the rest of life looking for ways to give up anything that he might claim as his own for the sake of the poor and needy in his world. His community of “Lesser Brothers” became known as the Franciscans. They wore a brown garment as a sign of their identity to serve those to whom our Lord would send them. The texts for today and several from this week reveal the words that got into the heart of Francis and his followers about serving the poor. He fulfilled his mission with joy. Certainly when he met his Lord face to face, at the young age of 44, he would answer the question from today’s texts, “No Lord, I lacked for nothing and it was a privilege to live without so that I could help others discover your life within!”
04/09/2026
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00( Theta) Shhhh, He Knows (Ecclesiastes 5:2 & Matthew6:8) Trust
Jesus declares that our Father in heaven knows. He knows our needs. He knows what we are going to ask. Our Father is intimately connected to you and to me. This means we can rest in God. We can let go of all our words for things to make sense our way. We can trust God’s word on this. He is our creator. He is the One who sent His only Son to die for us to save us from our sins. He has given us the Holy Spirit to comfort and to guide us. So today, when you get anxious about anything, your Father knows. Trust Him.
04/08/2026
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00(Awaken) A Kingdom Of Foreigners (Zechariah 7:10; Matthew 24:34,35) (Judgment)
Who is included in the Kingdom of God? Do you recognize who it is that Jesus is talking about in today’s texts? We like to paint our identity in God’s Kingdom using all the comforts that we feel we have in our Lord. But Jesus gives us some uncomfortable language today that begins with the calling of Abraham. He was blessed to “be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2). We are partners with Abraham in that calling. Who are we to bless? When Jesus was raised from the dead, he did not go back to insiders like Pilate or the Jewish leaders in order to validate His purpose in coming to earth. He announced HIs Risen victory to the stranger, the foreigner, the poor, the fatherless, the widow…all those who are outsiders in this world. But each of us knows we also belong in one of those groups. In a world that tries to define us by what we accomplish, we are embraced by what Christ has accomplished for us…He died for you…He chose you…you belong to Him…you are a member of His Kingdom. You have been blessed to be a blessing. Look for others you know who feel like outsiders and help them to see the truth you have found in God’s Kingdom. Jesus has made room for you, you can help other outsiders know there is room for them as well.
04/07/2026
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00(Irishcast) Love That Excels (Deut 10v18 19; Matt 25v 34,36) (Faith)
These photos from Zhenya and Ivan in Sumy, Ukraine reveal the ministry of clothing and feeding those people God sends to them. As you will hear in the podcast, the church in Sumy is a shelter for those longing for the loving touch of believers who express the heart of our Risen Lord for the least, the last and the lost. Where is your Sumy? God has appointed you for this. Jesus says, “I chose you and appointed you to go and to bear much fruit and that your fruit would last.” ( John 15:16-17). Ask Jesus today, “where do you want me to go?”
04/06/2026
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00(Floridacast) Nothing Will Separate You (Deut
Easter Monday gives us Bible verses of assurance. You are the apple of God’s eye. Nothing will separate you from His love. The reflection of the setting sun over this part of Florida on Easter weekend created an image of light in the clouds that reminded me of God stretching His arms out over us. One of our granddaughters added some drawings from the text in Deuteronomy. What does God need to do to prove His steadfast love for us? There are the words in the Bible. There is the worship celebration of Easter. There are little surprises in nature. But ultimately, we need to trust every thing God gives us so that we may live with the assurance that we are held in God’s palm. Nothing will be able to steal us from God’s grasp. So let the love of God flow through you today no matter what your condition. God is not going to let you go.
04/05/2026
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00(Sundaycast) What Makes Easter Happy (Psalm 23:5; 1 Corinthians 15:26) (Hope)
The assurance of Christ’s victory on Easter helps us through our times of suffering. Solveig and Elsa, our granddaughters, saw a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis (or cocoon) on Saturday. A table on their front porch was used by a caterpillar for its final resting place. Then yesterday the butterfly emerged. This led to significant conversation about the relationship between the hatching of a butterfly and the empty tomb from which Jesus emerged as a new creation. It also created an opportunity for some artwork by each of the girls on the fragile creature they saw come out of its own tomb. It entered a caterpillar and left a butterfly. What does this mean for us who have to face deathly difficulties in this life? We enter our struggles however sad and even deadly they may be with the assurance that our Lord will be with us through the suffering. Jesus will lead us to a resurrection reality. This realty is hidden to us much like the butterfly is hidden to the caterpillar. So trust Jesus in your darkest times. Know that what God did for Him on Easter, God will also do for you. Jesus has a resurrection reality waiting for you.