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.
06/09/2025
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00Righteous People Should Expect Afflictions And The Holy Spirit (Psalm 34:19; Mark 13:11)
One of our callings with the Forgivin Livin ministry is to free people from some earthly wisdom that contaminates our life in Christ. Today’s texts point to a huge problem in the world that makes people feel guilty if something bad happens to them. It is built into almost every religious tradition that good people have good things happen to them and bad people have bad things happen to them. But this mindset should have no place with followers of Jesus. Why? Jesus is the only righteous person who ever lived and He suffered miserably. This picture shows the beautiful cottage where Maria sings that awful song, “Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” That song has spread lies. We are all bad. Rotten to the core. But our God loves to make bad people good. This is the power of forgiveness and forgivin livin. And as people made good by God, we will suffer afflictions that may make others suspicious of our “goodness.” But our lives are not our own, they are hidden with Christ. So know that you are under the outstretched arms of the big statue in Rio that shows us that Christ covers everything in our lives. You are not guilty. You are forgiven. You are under the gracious arms of Jesus who makes bad people good.
06/08/2025
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00(Sundaycast) The Spirit Shakes Us Up (Nehemiah 9:6; Acts 4:31)
When the Holy Spirit falls on us, we get shaken up. So why not get yourself a Pentecost shake today to celebrate the Spirit’s desire to keep surprising you with God blessed shakeups! Treat a friend to a shake today and share your story of how the Spirit has been the source of life for you. Share how the Holy Spirit is always creating new life shaking experiences for you to taste and see that the Lord is good.
06/07/2025
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(Mission Cast) No One Is Able To Withstand You (2 Chronicles 20:6; Luke 4:29 30 )
Jeff and Mim discuss Jehoshaphat's (the King of Judah) prayer. An overwhelming army (a great horde) was arrayed against Jerusalem. Defeat was all but guaranteed in the midst of overwhelming numbers, yet, the battle was not theirs to fight. The battle belonged to the Lord. The next morning, the people of Judah awoke to a great surprise. The invading army had been completely vanquished during the night. They had done nothing to secure the victory — it was all the Lord’s doing. Jesus fought our battle upon the cross and overcame the forces of sin, death and the power of the Evil One. We did nothing. Jesus did it all, as he took our sin upon himself and set us free for forgivin’ livin.’ The Lord is not slow in his return, but desires that none should be lost. A year unto the Lord is like a thousand years. A thousand years is like a year. It doesn’t matter. The Lord’s timing is impeccable. Nothing can thwart God from accomplishing his purposes or redemption and regeneration. He will complete the work. No weapon formed against you will prevail. The gates of hell cannot stand against the Lord Almighty. No nation is impenetrable for the gospel. Be of strong courage. Have faith and believe. The battle belongs to the Lord.
06/06/2025
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00The Devil Cannot Break Through Christ’s Promises (Ps 125:2; John 17:15)
The mountains that protect us from the attacks of the Evil One are the promises of God. Today’s podcast gives you some ideas for fighting the good fight of faith against the wiles of the devil. But one thing is certain, because you are in Christ and Christ is in you, will be attacked. The Evil One hates you because you are Christ’s. When you were baptized into Christ, you were marked. You died. And you now walk in newness of life with Christ (Romans 6:3-4). One of the Psalms whose words shield us from the Evil One is Psalm 16. The image above is one that was created many years ago for a sermon on this theme. The words around the edge of the shield are written as the voice of Jesus for you, the Shepherd’s Voice. If you want a printed copy of this Psalm 16 shield of God’s word against Satan’s voice, just print it off in the PDF form below. Share this with anyone you know who is fighting this battle. Read the words aloud to them that are written around the edge of the shield. You will break the Evil One’s grip over them.
06/05/2025
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00(Carmelcast) Pruning The Greenhouse Vines (Psalm 50:16 17; Matthew 7:21)
Greenhouse partners join David Blackstad to discuss how these verses reveal the necessity of having God the Father prune us. Kiera from Trinity, Draken from Canada LBI and Steven from Awaken Project are in three different Greenhouse ministries. They were all at Mount Carmel this past week. They joined together to talk about these texts that force us to take an uncomfortable look at ourselves. But when the word of God cuts us, it is for our good so that we might be more fruitful. Read page 190 in your “Daily Texts” to understand how the Triune God is working even in your life to cut away anything that keeps you from being more fruitful. Oh yes, and welcome…you also are a part of God’s greenhouse!
06/04/2025
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00I Call To My Father In Heaven ((Psalm 89:26; Matt 6:11)
Who ya gonna call? We all know someone we can count on to answer in an emergency. But can you call your Father in Heaven? That is Jesus’ message in the Lord’s Prayer and the assurance we have in the Psalm for today. You have a Father on high who will pick up your call, answer you and help you. Make the call. Know you have a Father who hears…who sees…who answers…who acts.
06/03/2025
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00(Irishcast) Responding To The Holiness Of God(Isa 6v3 Rev 14v7)
Glory be to God the creator of the heavens and the earth. That glory finds its fullest expression when God creates us in His image as the hands from the Sistene Ceiling painting reveal. But this glory given in Genesis 1 and 2 is lost in Genesis 3. But glory gets restored through Jesus. St John expresses this restoration in John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” And we get to receive this grace upon grace. When Jesus fills you with grace and truth, God’s creative light shines through you to bring God’s glory to the world.
06/02/2025
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00Jesus Breaks Down Everything To Save You (Jeremiah 8:21 22; Luke 19:9 10)
What is the cost of seeking and saving the lost? In this image, Zacchaeus is up a tree and Jesus invites him down to sup with Him. Remember the verse, “I stand at the door and knock?” (Rev 3:20). Jesus won’t take no for an answer. But the price of lunch is not the cost to Zacchaeus but it is the same price Jesus pays for anyone who will eat with Him. He gets us down from our tree (illusions, fears, doubts, suspicions, unforgiveness, resentments) but then He does for us what He did for Zacchaeus. He takes our place. You see the empty tree in the photo. He becomes what we are and He dies for it on the cross. This is how He pays the price for lunch. Jesus becomes our sin…our rebellion…our hostility and pays for it with His life. And we get off, not “scott free,” but Jesus free! Join the likes of Zacchaeus! That’s what our church is, a gang of no goods make good by God.
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