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.
07/22/2026
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07/21/2026
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07/20/2026
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07/19/2026
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(Sundaycast) Jesus Becomes Us And We Become Jesus (Psalm 6:1; 2 Cor 5:21) (Law And Gospel)
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07/18/2026
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(Mission Cast) We Have Dignity As Humans Created In God’s Image (Genesis 5:2; Romans 12:10) (Discipleship)
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07/17/2026
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00Jesus Declares You Are Not Alone (Isaiah 63:15; John 14:18) (Peace)
One of the men who was raised as an orphan was Immanuel Kant. He was a German philosopher in the 1700s. One of his lines that has always intrigued me is the one about the crooked wood that parallels our human character. The crooked tree is a reflection of this wood. But the other quote comes from St. Teresa of Avila. She was from Spain and lived during the 1500s dying in 1582. She wrote several books on the promise of our new life in Christ which is grounded in Jesus’ resurrection. In 1970 was she was acknowledged by Pope Paul VI as the first female Doctor of the Church. I encourage you to meditate on the drawing and the quotes. What do you see? You Kant miss it with the help of our Lord. (Romans 8:28 may give you a clue.)
07/16/2026
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00(Carmelcast) Jesus Helps His Troubled Mother (Psalm 46:1 2; John 19:26 27) (Trust)
Do you believe that God is your refuge and strength? Can you imagine that God was looking out for His mother when He was dying on the cross? Compassion. Yesterday we learned that this is how God wants to be known. But for each of us, compassion is missing when we get obsessed with our need for control. On Sunday, Pastor David Blackstad preached on how the Holy Spirit frees us from ourselves. The filling of the Spirit shows us the eternal world for which we are created. And He helps us love others with the tender mercy of our God. You can read David’s sermon, “Shrinking or Drinking,” by downloading it on your “prayer journal download.” May you know what it means to be free to love.
07/15/2026
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07/14/2026
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00(Irishcast) God Dwells With His People (Isa 40v10 Rev 21v3) (Hope)
The arms race was a race for supremacy in nuclear power between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies during the Cold War. Today’s texts reveal the nature of God’s arms race. What is the might that God’s arm chooses to use to dismantle the powers of darkness? God chooses to die. His arm is nailed to a cross. He takes the nails meant for us into His arm. Our sin becomes His and our sin kills him. By dying, Jesus puts an end to all our efforts to arm ourselves for self- defense in this world. His death frees us. Isaiah 59:1 declares: “Behold, the Lord’s hand (arm) is not shortened, that it cannot save…” His arm saved us on the cross. We now are armed with the power of God’s grace to love the world as He loves us. Our arms race is now for Christ alone and for His will to be done in the world by the power of His suffering love.
07/13/2026
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