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.
11/11/2024
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00Seek To Fight The Good Fight Of Faith (Hosea 3:5; Matthew 7:8)
Veteran’s Day gives us opportunities to consider how we can make a difference for the soldiers who have served in our armed forces. What can you learn today about the needs of veterans who live near you? Take time to learn about their needs. A few friends of mine want to see how an outreach to patients at the Minneapolis VA hospital could be created that would provide words of encouragement with Bible study. Please pray for this opportunity of ministry to become a reality. And ask, seek and knock to see what our Lord may want you to do.
11/10/2024
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00(Sundaycast) The Sweet Swap: Our Rags For His Robes (Isaiah 61:10; Eph 5:9)
The Forgivin’ Livin’ ministry proclaims the happy exchange or the sweet swap. It is stated in 2 Corinthians 5:21: “For our sake God made Jesus to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” But it is found in many other places in the Bible. Today we discover this sweet swap transaction in Isaiah where God trades his wedding robes of beauty and grace for our filthy rags of sin and shame (Isaiah 61:10 and Isaiah 64:6). None of us likes to think we are that bad that all our good deeds are rags, like a dirty diaper or something similar. But that is the good news message of the Bible. All your goodness stinks. You are impure. You are contaminated. The only detergent that can clean you up is the blood of Christ. His death cleans you up from the inside out. So you are pure. You are holy. It is all a gift of God. And you get new clothes out of the deal. You get to wear Jesus’ hand me downs now and for eternity.
11/09/2024
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00(Mission Cast) The Lord Still Reigns (Psalm 103:22; Eph 1:5 6)
No wing of politics, left or right, can claim God as being on its side. Jesus had his own political agenda, to do the will of his Father. Jesus cannot be made to serve the interest of one political party. Today, Jeff and Mim briefly reflect on U.S. Elections and assert that Jesus is still Lord over all. They turn their attention to what it means to disciple a generation of disaffected youth and young adults through careful mentorship and discipleship, recalling the example of “I WILL” in Shanghai, China that was shut down by the Chinese Communist Party and its founders imprisoned — all for helping young, disaffected adults grow in maturity both in Christ and as productive citizens.
11/08/2024
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00Vindictive Or Vindicated (Isaiah 63:1; Matt 20:15 16)
When people catch you doing something wrong it’s pretty easy for them to shame you, to blame you, to find fault with what you did to get in the trouble that you’re in. You also are good at saying these words if vindictiveness to yourself. When others join you in shaming yourself, it is a spiral that can lead to some pretty severe depression. How do we get free from from this kind of vindictive judgment? Someone needs to vindicate us. That someone is Jesus. Jesus gives us the power to live differently because of His presence that stands between all those who accuse you and yourself. This may even be that voice inside of you that you listen to instead of the promises of the Lord. So Jesus announces to you, “I am mighty to save. And I save you who cannot save yourself because I am generous with my grace upon grace. I am announcing my vindication to you. You are saved.” Rest in the verdict that Jesus is speaking over you. You are vindicated! You are forgiven! You are free!
11/07/2024
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11/06/2024
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The Spirit Helps Us In Our Happiness And In Our Groanings (Psalm 84:4; Romans 8:26)
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11/05/2024
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00(Irishcast) A New Heart (Ez 11 V 19 20; Luke 17 V 20 21)
Jesus makes it clear that God has voted for us. We are God’s elect. “You did not choose me, but I chose you” he declares in John 15:16. And again in Matthew 24 he declares three times that we are elected. (24:22) “And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the ELECT those days will be cut short.” (24:24) “For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the ELECT.” (24:31) “And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his ELECT from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” And our election was not based on our electability in the world. St Paul describes us this way. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 “But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” As we vote today in the United States, we do so as citizens of this nation but we are also elected by God as members of another Kingdom. As we learn in the podcast today, our Kingdom election comes with a new heart given to us by the ONE who has voted for us.
11/04/2024
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Woe To Us! (Micah 1:2; Gal
Woe to us! God has zero-tolerance for sin, No one can hide. Everyone on earth is warned. But Micah also has a message from God that has hope. Forgiveness and restoration will come to any who turn from evil. Micah includes this hope that God will relent on the promised judgment. But repentance is something God has to do in us. His creative work is our new heart. “He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19). We can be comforted by those words from our God who will help us. Micah prophesies what the benefit of forgiveness creates when we turn from evil and “walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8). Let’s ask God today “to create in us a clean heart” (Psalm 51:10) over can walk humbly with Him.
11/03/2024
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00(Sundaycast) Saints Live Differently Because We “Have It Made” (Ps 62:10; 1 Tim 6:18)
Jesus begins “The Sermon on the Mount” with these words of blessing which have been called “the Beatitudes.” It comes from the Latin word, “beatituda” meaning “blessedness.” These words of blessing are often used on the Sunday near “All Saints Day” (November 1) as a reminder that God’s saints live lives with a different purpose or power. In our podcast today, we explore how as God’s saints, we gain the power from our Lord to live with an eternal world view because we have already received the blessing which each of the “Beatitudes” promises. Jesus uses the Greek word “makarios” which described the aristocracy and it means we “have it made.” However we sometimes fail to experience the joy of these blessings, which mean we “have it made” with God. One of the reasons we miss out is we do not renounce those things which come between us and the blessing our Lord is giving us. You will hear us talk about some of these renunciations today. As you meditate on these blessings you will discover what you need to renounce to live with the claims that Christ is making for you instead of those the enemy is tempting you to trust. You may notice the color chosen for the “Beatitudes” is the color that combines the colors used for the two political parties in America, red and blue. As you pray today and through the elections this week and beyond, consider how these blessings from Jesus, free you to be purple in a country divided by red and blue.
11/02/2024
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00(Mission Cast) Our Commendation Is From The Lord (1 Samuel 26:23; 1 Corinthians 4:5)
The natural law is that we reap from we sow. If you sow apple seeds you will reap apples, not olives. Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit.” What kind of fruit do we produce? We are sinners, our lives produce the fruit of sin and the wage for that is death. What kind of fruit does God, in Christ, produce? He is righteous. His seed, the work of the cross, sown into our lives, produces faith and receives his righteousness and forgiveness. Our commendation is not ourselves but Christ alone and what he has done for us. Mim is traveling in Utah and Idaho. She shares the “Daily Texts” with her hosts, Ryan and Anique. Jeff is in Utah but is dialoguing with an old friend from his past, as he quotes T.S. Eliot’s “Choruses from ‘The Rock’, 1934.” Enjoy!