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.
06/01/2025
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00(Sundaycast) God Creates Expectations (1 Samuel 1:11; Luke 1:57 58)
Mary and Elizabeth touch the babies each of them is carrying. How many of you have had the blessing of touching the body of a pregnant woman to feel the life of the child growing within? The artist, Van Der Weyden, in this detail of his art, “The Visitation,” captures a vital part of the story of how God’s Kingdom comes on earth. It comes through the natural creative gift of child bearing. The touch that the women share adds the powerful connection that women give to one another when they know that their bodies are creating a new human being. What every mother also knows is that the calm connection these two are sharing will become a moment of anguish and pain as their children are finally born. The difference between being pregnant and giving birth reveals one of the hardest truths of following Jesus. Trouble, disappointment, difficulty, and even sadness are a part of living in the Kingdom. But life comes out of such challenges and pain just as it does in giving birth to a child. When you follow Jesus you will have both.
05/31/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Generous Livin’ (Psalm 112:5; 1 Timothy 6:18 19)
How is contentment related with hospitality? Who or what enables us to become generous and kind to others? The love and grace of Jesus Christ is abundant and overflows into our lives and into the lives of others. There is plenty to go around. God’s love and grace is abundant and a never-ending river of life. Most of first experience God’s generosity through the lives of others. The word (and the love) of God is always incarnated in the flesh. The Holy Spirit lives in us and we are now the aroma of Christ, his word inscribed upon our hearts. Who in your sphere of influence needs to experience God’s love through you? It is someone close to you? Someone you take for granted? It is someone strange to you? Someone out of sight and out of mind? May God give you grace to conduct your affairs with justice. — Jeff & Mim
05/30/2025
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00Trip To Exult In The Name Of Jesus (Psalm 5:11; Acts 5:41 42)
Before St Paul became a statue in front of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, he had to battle the same kind of challenges other followers of Jesus faced. They were persecuted for believing in the name of Jesus. Here Paul reminds us of the outcome of his personal struggle that is recorded in 2 Corinthians 12 where he is seeking some clarity from our Lord on the hardships he was going through as a follower. You wont get a statue in Rome for exulting in the name of Jesus, but you will get the joy and peace that comes when you proclaim the good news of being saved by grace through your Lord Jesus Christ. So what’s holding you back? Just do it! You may find a few statues around you will start melting when you speak.
05/29/2025
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00(Theta) Peace Ascending (Leviticus 26:6 & Luke 11:20)
Ascension Day affirms the body. Christ ascends bodily. It affirms our identity as people who are bodies as well as souls and spirits. We don’t have a body. We are a body. And the ascension foreshadows the reality that Jesus who ascends bodily will return bodily to bring us with Him body, soul and spirit. The Spanish artist, Camilo, who painted this bodily resurrection also includes a very important detail in the body of Christ. You will find this detail in His hands and His feet. These holes will always be part of His body.
05/28/2025
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00God Begin With Me (Isaiah 2:2,4; Hebrew 12:14)
Every war begins in an angry, hurt, fearful person. Every peace begins when that person no longer lives but Christ lives in them.
05/27/2025
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00(Irishcast) God Our Rock And Deliverer (Ps 18v31; 2 Cor 1v 9,10)
Followers of Jesus have had to fight battles. In these battles millions have died. St Paul describes a battle in today’s text where he experienced the sentence of death. But this time he was spared. Another day in Rome, his prayer in Philippians 1:23 was answered, “I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.” He died that day. Like St Paul, Martin Luther also fought many battles and had close encounters with death. When he came back to Wittenberg after hiding out in the Wartburg Castle, the Elector Frederick discouraged him. But Luther affirms his action by claiming “I have a higher protector than you…” and even if he should die, Luther claimed he was walking as God wanted him to go. In the midst of his battles, Luther found comfort in the Psalms and wrote hymns based on them. The picture above shows how verse 3 of one of his favorite hymns comes from Psalm 130:5-6. Take time to listen to the whole hymn today, “OUT OF THE DEPTHS I CRY TO YOU.” Read Psalm 130 as you do. Then share what this hymn means to you with someone you know who is in trouble.
05/26/2025
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00(Share Cast Memorial Day) The Spirit Works In Weakness (Zach 4:6; Luke 1:35)
This cemetery is in Normandy, France where the legendary D-Day beach landings took place. On June 6th 1944, 4000 soldiers were killed here. Now this site is a memorial to the Americans who died fighting for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi war machine. Today the Normandy American Cemetery, sited on a bluff high above the coast, is one of the world’s best-known military memorials.These grounds preserve the remains of nearly 9,400 Americans who died during the Allied liberation of France. But there is another cemetery that is even larger, known as the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, located in France near the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon. It is a World War I cemetery containing the graves of nearly 14,250 war dead and nearly 1,000 names on the Walls of the Missing. The cemetery is the largest American military cemetery in Europe and is located about 150 miles northeast of Paris. Cemeteries mark the Memorial Day activities in our country. But we know that soldiers have died all over the world fighting in wars that their country enlisted them to fight for. As we remember Americans who have died, let us also take time today to realize how many grieving families there are in our modern war zones of Ukraine and Gaza. Let us pray for these who have died as well today,
05/25/2025
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(Sundaycast) Open Hands (Deut 15: 7, James 2: 14) 3
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05/24/2025
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00(Mission Cast) God Gives You A New Heart (1 Kings 8:39 ; John 1:47 48)
Jesus knows us before we know him — and he loves us. We are aware of our own brokenness. Our hearts are full of sinful desires, lust, greed, murderous intent. Although are spirits might be willing, the flesh is weak. We do not love God with our whole heart, nor do we love our neighbors as ourselves. Jesus knew this. That is why he died for us to create within us new and clean hearts through the gift of his forgiveness and the Holy Spirit. Now, not even our hearts can separate us from the love of Jesus Christ. We live in the light of his light and love, free to love others in the same way we have been loved. We are thankful for all the podcast teams and their faithful witness. It’s not easy getting these podcasts out, but it is a joyful service. We just want to say thank you to all who make the podcasts, those who participate in the discussions and those who listen and share with others. We love you all! — Jeff & Mim
05/23/2025
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00Our Father Is Bringing Us Home (Jer 31:8; Luke 14:21)
Our Father qualifies us to be included in His banquet, in His presence, in His family. But we feel disqualified by circumstances in our life that may have separated us from others. These circumstances become a barrier or a gap between us and God. The photo is taken of a tram or cable car that carries people up a mountain in Brazil. But to get onto this cable car you have to cross a small gap. This gap may seem like nothing to you but there are other gaps in your life that you are unable to cross in your own strength. You feel disqualified. You can only cross these gaps by walking on your Lord. But know this, that your Heavenly Father has sent Jesus for just this reason to bring you lame, crippled, poor, disabled ones to Himself. That’s how badly He wants you at His banquet.