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.
03/31/2026
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00(Irishcast) Our Suffering Savior (Daniel 9v14 Luke 24v26)(Justification)
On Holy Tuesday, Jesus is back in the Temple. But this time instead of cleansing, He is teaching. He’s been here before on a Tuesday when He was 12. Somehow his parents thought He was with other family members after the Passover. Luke 2:46-47 records this story. “After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.” The painting of the young Jesus by Hofman is famous. But on this Tuesday, 21 years later, Jesus is still teaching “in my Father’s house” (Luke 2:49) but His focus is directed against those who want to kill him. He teaches in parables. The parable of the tenants (Matthew 21:33-44) depicts the violent reality of Jesus’ eventual sacrifice which He and His Heavenly Father knew had to be accomplished. In each parable, He speaks with certainty that He knows He is the Messiah, the anointed One, the Christ. He will suffer and die at the hands of these very people He is speaking to this day in His Father’s house. But remember, it is also for these very people that Jesus was crucified so that their sins, be they scarlet, could also be white as cotton (or snow). Aren’t you glad Jesus died for these enemies? There’s hope for us!
03/30/2026
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00God Accomplishes Great Things Through Us (Deut 4:2; Romans 15:18) (Hope)
On Monday in Holy Week, Jesus cleanses the temple. This mosaic from a church in Palermo, Italy is just one of many renderings of Jesus cleansing the temple. But why did He do this? His commandment is what He declares in Matthew 21:13. “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” The temple cleansing is needed to make it accessible for all who seek a relationship with God. This is Holy Week’s purpose. But not for the temple in Jerusalem. God wants our lives to be cleansed to be His temple so that people may find access to the living God through us. Paul writes this in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? [17] If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.” Our temple, that is our body, is to be a house of prayer. God has chosen to dwell in you and in me so that our lives may be shaped by prayer in Jesus’ name. What needs to be cleansed in us today so that we might be renewed to be God’s temple on this earth?
03/29/2026
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00(Sundaycast) Resting In God’s Presence (Exodus 33:15; John 12:13) (Peace)
Palm Sunday shows us how our King comes to us. Our King chooses to show himself as humble and lowly so that no one will feel insecure or fearful in His presence. When the three Magi or Wise Men worshipped Jesus, the King of the Jews, in the stable, they were not put off by His humble birth. He was lowly then. He is lowly on Palm Sunday. We know from this that our King is one we can meet and know and love because He comes to us when we are not what we think a King would want in His Kingdom. But the truth is He is the King of the weak and lowly. So open your palms and receive Jesus as your King today.
03/28/2026
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00(Mission Cast)Call Out To Jesus (Psalm 80:18; Luke 17:15) (Hope)
Jeff and Mim discuss where they have recently seen God’s life among the Chinese Immigrant community. Mim also shares a personal story of healing as the result of prayer. Both discuss the importance of calling upon the name of the Lord in prayer in times of trouble, praise, and thanksgiving (cf. Luther’s Small Catechism, 2nd Commandment) as a sign of public witness to God’s steadfast love and faithfulness. We experienced recent Chinese immigrants sharing the joy of how they came to discover the love of Jesus Christ for them through the loving witness of others at the Chinese Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Hawaii. The Apostle Paul’s admonished: “Imitate me as I imitate Christ.” In these two pictures Zhu Ming is washing a child’s feet and then helps him to wash another child’s feet, while teaching him about Jesus who loved and washed his disciples feet. Don’t be afraid to name Jesus. He is our Savior and Lord, in whom we have forgiveness, redemption and everlasting life.
03/27/2026
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00Only The Spirit Sows Life (Proverbs 11:19; Galatians 6:8) (Guidance)
Until the day we die, we will have this battle inside ourselves. It is between the flesh and the sprit. The flesh is like Adam and Eve in the garden. It will never tell us to something that is evil. Remember what it says in Genesis 3: 6: the fruit was “good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise.” Those are all good things. But taking the fruit was against God’s will for them. Our flesh does the same every day. It will just tell us to do something that leads us away from letting the Holy Spirit fight for us. God knows that you can’t fight the flesh on your own strength. You will lose that battle. So God fights for you with the power of the Holy Spirit. As you have heard it said often, “just let go and let God” but this time let God fight for you.
03/26/2026
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00( Theta) Pleasure (Psalm 34:1 & Ephesians 1:5 6) (Shepherd’s Voice)
GOD LOVES HAVING YOU IN HIS FAMILY. Here is how the New Living Translation offers the text in Eph 1:5-6. “God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.” Great pleasure. That is what parents who adopt a child feel. Ask any one of them. They were delighted to make a home for a child. This is how God wants us to know His great love for you and for me. God adopted us. God chose us. We are precious to God. It is no accident that God chose you and wanted you to share His love. The word for this love in the Old Testament is called “hesed.” In the New Testament it is called “grace.” Trust God’s word today that declares to you that God is pleased with you and it gives Him great pleasure to call you His child.
03/25/2026
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00(Awaken) Nothing We Do Can Hold Jesus Down (Psalm 9:19; Mark 9:31) (Hope)
The Awaken team spent a ministry week recently with other young adults at the Canada Lutheran Bible Institute. Here is the photo of everyone who was a part of that time together. At the heart of these Greenhouse Movement communities is a desire to find a way to serve our Lord. The gap year programs provided by Awaken, CLBI, Theta, Discipleship and other groups that gather young adults together are creating the future leaders for our congregations. Please keep all these young people in your prayers as they are in training to serve Christ in ministries around the world and maybe even some day in your own community.
03/24/2026
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00(Irishcast) Strength To The Weak (Genesis 24v7; Luke 22 V42,43) (Guidance)
We know the Bible is filled with angels. Today’s texts reveal two times when angels were sent by God the Father to minister to people in need, including His son, Jesus. But can you imagine that God could call you to be an angel for someone today? Angels are messengers sent from God. You can be a messenger sent to someone today. You may be surprised when, where and how God will use you. But trust God knowing that the Holy Spirit will guide you where you need to go. Remember, when you are called you may resist the leading of the Spirit. But give the Spirit a chance to help you let go of your first thought. Then you will get a second thought which says, “here I am, send me.” And see what blessings will come to you as you serve your Lord as one of His angels.
03/23/2026
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00The “I Am” Is With Us (Isaiah 43:11; John 10:30) (Shepherd’s Voice)
This is a picture of the Chinese Children’s camp in Honolulu that Mim and Jeff Nellermoe led this past week. Maybe you heard some of the stories that were shared by the leaders on Saturday’s podcast. If you didn’t hear it yet, take time to do so! Here you see all of the faces looking together revealing the GREATNESS of GOD in their smiles. It is magnified through this oblique showing the oneness of Christ, in the Father and in His Body the church! The Jewish people recite Deut. 6: 4 twice a day as a reminder to HEAR that the Lord our God is One. This is called the SHEMA which means HEAR. As you open your ears today to hear the voice of Jesus, your good shepherd leading you on the way, remember that he is the GREAT I AM along with His father in heaven. Praise and Thanks to the Almighty for His GREATNESS.
03/22/2026
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10(Sundaycast) Freed From Lies (Exodus 20:16; 1 John 2:21) (Discipleship)
Gossiping is widespread. Most conversation is comprised of discussion about other people, their problems, successes, and their habits. Most of the time this is not harmful. But it is so easy for us to fall into the trap of comparing our well being with another’s misfortune. How do we let the Holy Spirit change our habit of talking about people to our own advantage? Today’s texts force us to see how deeply affected we are by this need. We need to begin by praying. Ask. Seek. Knock. Let God lead you to the truth that will set you free.