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.
07/23/2025
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00Delivered From Disappointment To Delight (Psalm 18:19; 1 Corinthians 15:10) (Forgiveness)
What color is the “D” on your forehead? Peter went from D for disappointment to D for delight. Jesus delivered Peter from his anger at himself to seeing himself through the eyes and words of our Lord. So what color is the “D” on your forehead…green for grace or red for resentment and guilt? As you listen today you will learn again how Jesus replaces one D for the other D with His personal D, His death for you on the cross.
07/22/2025
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00(Irishcast) Humbled, Forgiven,And Restored (Ps 119v67; John 21v16) (Forgiveness)
Peter’s denial on Maundy Thursday takes place at the house of Caiaphas just outside the walls of Jerusalem. There is a statue there that represents Peter’s humbling moment when he denied our Lord in front of three people. But a some days later and after a walk of about 100 miles, Jesus meets His follower who has denied Him. He’s on the beach of the Sea of Galilee and He is cooking breakfast. Peter comes to Him from the boat in which he and other disciples had been fishing all night without catching anything. But the real catch is that Peter knows Jesus has forgiven him. He doesn’t even ask to be forgiven. He just hears the words of his restored commission to love the sheep that Jesus will give him. Again there is a stature here that reminds us that if Jesus can forgive and restore someone who disappointed Him as much as Peter did there is hope for you and for me. Being humbled, being forgiven and being restored. This is the way when we follow Jesus. Peter is the first of millions of followers to show this way to us.
07/21/2025
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00Jesus Is Our Peace (Isaiah 57:19; Acts 10:36) (Peace)
Jesus is our peace. His presence gives peace to our powerless condition. Our God has this purpose for us in the Sermon on the Mount where He says, “blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” But to be that in this world, we need to let go our self-righteous Martha identity who is troubled about many things, or our Peter need to always think we need to have the right answer or even John who was always so good you could not help but love such a perfect guy. All these have to go. Then the peace of Christ can be ours when we know there is no peace without Christ alone and He will “guide our feet into the way of peace.” For a daily dose of peace, practice the prayer from Colossians that is available in the prayer journal download. Begin each day by praying it aloud. Let the peace of Christ flow into you and through you all day. Share a copy with a friend.
07/20/2025
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01(Sundaycast) Powerless Believers Have God With Them (Jeremiah 14:9; Acts 11:26)
The first Antioch mentioned in the book of Acts is the large city in Syria (Acts 11:19-30). Syrian Antioch was the Roman world's third greatest city with a population of about 300,000 people. It was a significant business center. Antioch stood 25km up river from its seaport Selucia, where the Crontes River entered the Mediterranean. The center of Christian ministry was here. Barbara’s came here to encourage believers. Realizing that he needed assistance with the burgeoning group of disciples, he made the three-day journey to Tarsus to find Paul. Their partnership began in Antioch and oversaw a growing congregation called “Christians” by their pagan neighbors. (Whether this term was meant to be pejorative is debated, but it stuck to designate followers of Christ, even through today.) The arrival of these apostles from Jerusalem prompted the first Christian cross-cultural act of relief.Several missionary outreaches left from Antioch. Antioch was also the center of a controversy involving Gentile Christians and Jewish law (Acts 11:19-22, Acts 15:22-35,Galatians 2:11-21).
07/19/2025
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00(Mission Cast) Resting In God’s Peace (Psalm 62:1 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:6 7) (Prayer)
Jeff & Mim discuss with special friends, Doug & Kathleen, what enables a person to remain calm and at peace in the midst of pressure situations. Such peace comes as a grace, in the moment, but is also built over time, like filling a reservoir, through times of prayer, from which one can draw upon in times of trial and persecution. People today are easily offended and react with anger and even violence. How can one engage with fighting the injustices of the world without becoming angry or hostile? One must have a deep and abiding trust that God is both merciful and a righteous and fair judge. He will give relief to the afflicted but will also rightly judge the oppressor. Our peace with God comes with the certainty that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. This truly releases us from an anxious life and sets us free for forgiven living.
07/18/2025
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00Our Only Redeemer Is Jesus (Isaiah 59:12 13; 1 John 2:1) (Law And Gospel)
Law and gospel are expressed as contrasts by the stone tablets given to Moses and the cross that killed Jesus on Good Friday. Our ForgivinLivin.org ministry is grounded in the truth that we cannot do what the law requires and in fact we do the opposite of what its demands. And as a result we hate the law. It always reminds us of how far short we have fallen. But without this verdict of our loss, of our failure, of our intimate love for evil, we would never know how deeply we need the absolute love of God revealed to us in Jesus Christ our Lord. In his death, Jesus becomes our transgressions and our rebellion and our denial. When God opens our eyes to see this wonderful exchange or sweet swap, that Jesus becomes our sin and we become His holiness, we begin to love without limit our Christ on the cross, who completely removes all our transgressions and iniquities by making them His own. Consider this verse from John 1:17: “the law was given through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
07/17/2025
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00(Carmelcast) Jesus Values Your Surrender (Jeremiah 17:14; Luke 5:24 25) (Sovereignty)
Mount Carmel creates community under the grace of Jesus Christ. In today’s healing verse, friends of the sick man had to surrender their mission to heal their friend by lowering him through the ceiling. They had to surrender to God’s grace. When you come to Mount Carmel you have to surrender your “do your own thing” mindset to the mind of Christ. Jesus heals you from your need to control by helping you surrender to His grace. All the people in the photo are smiling because of the joy a surrendered week at Mount Carmel creates. Plan to join them some day.
07/16/2025
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00Praying For Our Leaders And Our Communities (Psalm 127:1; 1 Tim 2:1 2) (Prayer)
God watches over our cities and countries but we are called by God to pray for these place and our leaders who serve us there. We are not to worship them. But prayer is needed for every person who is elected or appointed to public office. There is plenty of temptation for elected officials to serve themselves as they are serving you and me. Your prayers can make a difference in how they use their calling for a higher calling than just what suits them or their group. And when you are praying for them, you will also hold them accountable for the work they are doing on your behalf and on behalf of your city, state or country. So let us pray. Today. And every day.
07/15/2025
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00(Irishcast) The God Of The Highest Heaven Is To Be Worshipped (1 Kings 8v27; John 4v23)
Both these men understand worship. Bob Dylan wrote his song “Gotta serve somebody” where he says, “You’re going to have to serve somebody, Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, But you’re going to have to serve somebody.” And CS Lewis writes: “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” The texts this week are asking us to consider who or what we worship. Martin Luther once commented on our idol worship by saying, “Your god is whatever makes you anxious when it is absent.” Now it’s up to you. You’ve heard from Bob Dylan, CS Lewis and Martin Luther. Listen to the IRISHCAST and let the Spirit change your mind to worship the most high God.
07/14/2025
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00(Floridacast) Understanding The Temptation Of Idols (Jeremiah 2:28; 1 Cor 10:14) (Trust)
The Florida cast is at Mount Rushmore today. One of the questions that comes up is, how do how are we tempted to idolize and even worship our leaders? Whatever your idea about idolatry might be the real question for each of us is how do we get free from its power when it attempts us away from God? That’s at the heart of life for each of us as we live in a world that is at war with God and we often side with the enemy instead of with God alone. How do we repent of this temptation?