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.
08/02/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Learning To Break Our Evil Intents With God’s Blessed Ways (Zechariah 7:10, 1 Peter 3:8) (Sanctification)
Jeff and Mim discuss what it means to devise (scheme or plan) evil in your hearts against others, in contrast to planning and scheming to do good toward one’s neighbor. What if we spent most of our waking hours thinking about how to improve the welfare of those around us, including those who hate us. The world would be a different place. Please pray for us. We are in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China to conduct an American-style Leadership and English Immersion Camp from August 3-16. We are working with Chinese Christians to conduct this camp together. It is a beautiful testimony, in and of itself of the Holy Spirit enables us to have a spirit of unity, sympathy, and love for one another with tender hearts and humble minds.
08/01/2025
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07/31/2025
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00(Carmelcast) Endless Grace Of God (Ps 103:11; Romans 5:20 21) ( Grace)
The rising sun over Lake Carlos gives us assurance that a new day is dawning. It’s a new day in which Jesus Christ will once again engage us through the word and through His people to make us aware of his eternal presence. But the keyword today is do we experience Jesus as our gracious Savior? He came to this earth to reveal what the Heavenly Father is truly like. Jesus came to give us grace upon grace and this gracious picture is what God the Father looks like. Read John 1:14-18 to see for yourself and begin to enjoy a new day with your gracious Lord.
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?