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.
02/11/2025
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00(Irishcast) Impartial Loving (Lev 19:15; James 2:1) 2
The first known representation of blind Justice is Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice in Bern, Switzerland. Since that time, Lady Justice has often been depicted wearing a blindfold understood to represent impartiality. Sometimes the blindfold was meant to imply that justice has been blind to the injustices that have gone before. But what about love? How can love be completely impartial; free from prejudice and judgment. Is there anyone who could be outside the scope of God’s love? Is there anyone outside the scope of your love? Today’s podcast will give you the chance to think this over and to lead you to seek help from the One who is love.
02/10/2025
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02/09/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Fragrant Forgiveness (Ezekiel 3:1; Matt 13:23)
Bearing fruit for God hundredfold, sixtyfold and thirtyfold begins with forgiving the people whose sins crush you. Like the violet, you will be stepped on in life. People will trespass on you as Jesus says in our Lord’s Prayer. What fragrance you exude depends on what your life is being lived for. Living for Jesus creates the fragrance Jesus gave when He was crushed.
02/08/2025
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00(Missioncast) What Is Jesus Known For (Psalm 111:4; 1 Cor 10:16)
Jeff and Mim discuss the question: What is Jesus best known for among people throughout the world? Would people talk about his miracles? If so, which ones? Would they talk about his parables and teachings? If so, which ones? Would they talk of his crucifixion, death and resurrection? They ponder whether we would know anything of Jesus (what he said and did) were it not for his crucifixion and resurrection. Jeff shares a personal story of his first communion when the gospel of Jesus Christ, the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, became a living message of hope for him. Jeff also draws attention to Rembrandt’s paint of Jesus breaking bread with the two disciples in Emmaus — only then did they recognize him as the Christ. We can know Jesus today in his word and in his cup of blessing. What does communion mean for you?
02/07/2025
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02/06/2025
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00(Theta) Open Heart (Genesis 8:21 & John 3:17)
Today’s verses reveal the nature of our divided heart and how only one person can bring us together. That person is Jesus. He took our hardened heart into himself and gave us in exchange His heart that is the only possibility of true unity. United with God, the Father, the Holy Spirit and Himself, this heart is the one that we receive by grace through faith as a gift. Treasure this blessing that unites you together with God for eternity.
02/05/2025
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00Were You There Yes (Isaiah 50:6; John 15:13)
Today’s verses reveal the truth of how our sins are the reason Christ died. We can’t hide from this reality. Our Father gave Jesus to die for us but God also gave Jesus to die because of us.
02/04/2025
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00(Irishcast) God’s Fire, Hammer And Sword (Jeremiah 23:29; Hebrews 4:12)
The Spirit uses the word to cleanse us like fire, to divide our thoughts like a sword, and to crack our hardened ways as a hammer. God knows what is needed to bring about the changes in our lives. As God “works the word, the word works.” Let our Lord work the word in you today.
02/03/2025
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00(Familycast) Standing Firm For The Freedom Of The Gospel (Ezra 8:31; 2 Timothy 3:11)
Today’s message on deliverance from persecution is the theme of the movie, “Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven.” Neri was a Roman Catholic priest who wanted to go to India as part of the ministry of the Jesuits. But God wanted him to go somewhere else. He was to be a minister to the lost children of Rome. His story parallels the theology of Martin Luther who lived at the same time. Neri believed God had called him to bring the freedom of the gospel to the people he served. One freeing thing about the film is how he absolved hundreds of people and never demand acts of penitence from them. Neri found his calling from God, like Abraham in Sunday’s texts, to lead him to places and people where he did not choose to go but once there his heart held him close to them. For all you saints who wonder about your calling, or your vocation, know that Jesus has appointed you for His work to be done where you are. Remember the promise from Ephesians 2:10. Your God has some good works prepared for you to do. Look for them today. And like all these other saints, Ezra and Paul, walk into them by faith. (And if you want to watch the movie, it’s produced by Ignatius Press. www.ignatius.com)
02/02/2025
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00(Sundaycast) Prayer Writers Share Stories Of Faithful Living (Numbers 9:18; Hebrews 11:8)
Prayer writers at Mount Carmel share the message of what it means to let Christ command us to follow Him in ways for which we cannot see the ending. Their stories will help you take those steps of faith like our ancestor Abraham and the Israelites did.