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.
08/09/2025
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00Last Words Lasting Words (Joshua 24:23; Acts 20:20 21) (Repentence)
“You will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth…” We discover how Joshua and Paul share the importance of being witnesses to the full truth of God’s message to us. At the heart of both of their messages is that each of us is tempted to turn our private longings into God’s will for our lives. For the past three days, the “Daily Texts” have called us to repent. No different from Jesus in the Garden, “not my will but thine be done.” We are headed to North Dakota this weekend to bring the truth of repenting from our resenting. We all believe that we have a right to be angry when we have been hurt. But God has a different message for each of us. “Vengeance is mine…says the Lord” (Romans 12:19). Our job is to practice the ABC’s of forgiveness. (Absolve, Bless, Constantly…Luke 6:37; Luke 6:28; Matthew 18:22). (It’s also found on page 189 in your “Daily Texts.”) Pray for us as well as we bring ‘Forgivin’ Livin’ to these new friends in North Dakota.
08/08/2025
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00Speech Therapy (Ps 39:1; James 3:10) (Repentance)
If we want to turn the world right side up we have to begin with each of us. We need help to speak blessings (green) and not curses (red). SPEECH THERAPY: a simple defninition. “Speech therapy helps children and adults improve their communication and language skills. No matter what’s affecting your ability to speak or communicate effectively, speech therapy can improve your quality of life. Talk to a healthcare provider about a speech therapy evaluation if you or someone you know has trouble talking, hearing or using language.” Sounds like all of us doesn’t it? We all need help with this since we are all born under a curse. And that curse comes out of our mouths in odd ways. How to get free from the curse and enjoy words of blessing? Welcome to the Church and the Kingdom of God. The church is here to turn our world right side up and to help us with the rest of the world as a result. It’s one of the reasons we exist to help one another experience and to live out the freedom we have in Christ of being blessed to be a blessing. Don’t miss out! Get in on it! Go to church.
08/07/2025
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00Letting God Correct You (Haggai 1:9; Luke 11:42) (Repentance)
David Blackstad was ordained on Saturday at Mount Carmel. He is now a Lutheran pastor in the LCMC. He is standing next to Tim Peterson who has been the Executive Director of Mount Carmel Ministries since 2020. Wearing the red stole is used in Lutheran churches for ordination. It is used for those special celebrations of the Holy Spirit. Other days when red stoles are worn by pastors include Pentecost Sunday, confirmation Sunday, and Reformation Sunday. David also was installed as the new Executive Director of Mount Carmel Ministries. With the big events of last weekend, we were able to give the staff a little break from their weekly podcast and CARMELCAST will return next week.
08/06/2025
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00(Floridacast) Praising God In Our Faith Journey (Exodus 15:1; 1 Cor 14:15) (Trust)
The song of victory in Exodus 15 is led by Moses and Miriam after Pharoah’s army was destroyed in the Red Sea. This hymn of praise that the rescued slaves sang is our hymn as well. Our enemy, the old self, was drowned in the waters of our baptism. Out of that death a new self emerges that is hidden in Christ. For it is no longer we who live but Christ in us. And so we sing praises with our mind and with our spirit as we journey with Jesus on the road of faith.
08/05/2025
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00(Irishcast) Tell Out My Soul (Exodus 7v1 2; 2 Tim 4v2)
Moses was commanded to proclaim. Paul commanded Timothy to proclaim. But in Athens Paul also proclaimed. “So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I PROCLAIM TO YOU. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.” Where is your Athens? Where is God commanding you to proclaim His message today?
08/04/2025
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00Wait For The Lord (Isaiah 30:18;James 1:5) (Trust)
Waiting for the Lord is our calling as those who follow Jesus. We wait because we have a God who promises to come to us, to help us, to deliver us. Consider the disciples who were waiting in fear after Good Friday but Jesus came and appeared to them. They were overjoyed. Then after Jesus ascended into heaven, the disciples waited in Jerusalem. When the power of the Holy Spirit fell on them, they were new people with new attitudes and new commitment to fulfill the calling our Lord had given them. So what about you? You are a believer. You are a follower of Jesus. You are waiting to receive something our Lord plans to give to you. You are waiting for God to act. And God will…”The Lord waits to be gracious to you and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you.” (Isaiah 30:18). Keep waiting. God is faithful.
08/03/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Following Jesus Together (Ps 32:8; John 21:22)
Jesus calls us to follow Him personally but also in community. We are not alone when we follow our Lord. As we share the texts today consider how following Jesus for you is both personal and communal. Look for ways today where you can see Christ leading you along with others.
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.