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.
06/06/2025
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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
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.