Living On Purpose In Christ | Emotions, Feeling and Feelings, Biblical Encouragement, Aromatherapy, Devotions, Essential Oils

Preached live at Chappell Hill Methodist Church/ Chappell Hill, Texas (Feb, 2012) Have you ever felt the distance between you and God growing wider despite your best efforts? King David's powerful journey from proud self-sufficiency to joyful surrender offers a roadmap for your own spiritual reconnection. Through David's words in Psalm 30, we discover how easily we can drift from God&apo...

Get the full episode here: Quenching the Soul Water from a rock—it seems impossible until you're desperate enough to believe. This soul-stirring episode takes us on a journey through the parched wilderness with Moses and the Israelites, revealing profound truths about our own spiritual thirsts that often go unquenched. Beginning with an engaging story about a failing drugstore in South Dakota...

Get the full episode here: Living a Life of Divine Grace and Boundless Love At the heart of this episode lies the Apostle Paul's profound message from 2 Corinthians 6 about embracing both sorrow and rejoicing with open hearts. This paradoxical wisdom isn't contradictory but reveals the beautiful complexity of authentic faith. Through a delightful story about cows unexpectedly joining an...

Get the full episode here: Moving Beyond the "Back to Egypt" Mentality   The road to freedom is rarely straight, and the journey from captivity to liberation involves more than just physical movement. Drawing from a powerful sermon that shaped my own transition from traditional pulpit ministry to podcasting during the pandemic, this episode explores how the Israelites' wilderness ex...

Get the full episode here: The Sacred Tradition of Essential Oils In Scripture The sacred history of essential oils offers an extraordinary window into God's provision for our spiritual and physical wellbeing. Journey with me as we uncover how these powerful plant extracts appear from the very first chapters of Genesis—where Adam tended aromatic plants in Eden—to the final pages where Joseph...

Get the full episode here: Finding Forgiveness: Biblical Wisdom Faith often demands we cross our own personal Red Seas, standing between painful pasts and uncertain futures. Through powerful archaeological evidence and scriptural insights, this episode reveals how the ancient Israelites' literal journey across an impossible sea creates a profound metaphor for our spiritual crossings today. Ar...

Get the full episode here: The Unburnt Bush: Exploring Curiosity as a Path to God - https://paulabehrens.com/blog/42435/the-unburnt-bush-exploring-curiosity-as-a-path-to-god   Have you ever felt unqualified for what God is calling you to do? Drawing from the powerful story of Moses at the burning bush, this episode explores how God meets us in our doubts and hesitations, calling us by name into pu...