Living Water Radio: For Today's Christian Life

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:   Advent is a season to prepare and right now most people are preparing to celebrate Christmas, the first Advent. But there are two advents in Christian history. Today, we’re going to talk about the other one.     Referenced Bible verses:  Revelation 19:11-16; Revelation 22:20; Matthew 24:36,44; Romans 14:7-8     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We took a journey on a Christmas Cycle last time. Today we’re going to explore the mystery of the Easter Cycle. And, we’re going to celebrate a birthday!     Referenced Bible verses:  1 Corinthians 15:1-26; Acts 1:4-5     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benediction.    Our Email Add...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:  Happy New Year! That’s right. We began a new Church Year last Sunday. We started a New Year five weeks before the New Year.     How does that work? Why doesn’t the Church have the same year as everybody else? Do I need to buy another calendar? Today we’re going to find out.      Referenced Bible verses:  Luke 4:14-20; Acts 2:42; 1 Corinthians 14:40     Please note th...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: What has cold water done for you lately? Everything. Today, we’re going to find out why.    Referenced Bible verses:  Romans 6:3-4; John 4:5-14; Matthew 10:40-42     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavidandSally@gmail.com    Here’s the link...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: I don’t like to wear hats and I mostly don’t, but I like hats and I have a lot of them. Did Jesus wear a hat? Today, we’re going to find out.    Referenced Bible verses:  1 Corinthians 11:1-16; John 19:1-3; Romans 13:11-14; John 3:16     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benediction....

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We all experience a lot of background noise in our lives. How do we filter out what’s not important so that we can focus on what is important? Today, we’re going to find out.    Referenced Bible verses:  1 Corinthians 13; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encourage...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We are experiencing serious supply chain issues that are not likely to be fixed until after Christmas. Christians have been having supply chain issues since the first Christmas. Check it out to find out why, and what we can do about them.    Referenced Bible verses:  John 4:10-42; Isaiah 6:1-8       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-o...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:  Jesus gave us a new commandment, or “mandate”, to love one another as he loved us. We love one another in this way when we sacrifice for one another.    Referenced Bible verses:  John 13:34-35; Matthew 20:25-28; Philippians 4:11-13; Philippians 2:2-8; Romans 14:7-8     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring en...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Cancel Culture is a way people apply fear and social pressure to promote the beliefs and behavior they value. God does not cancel us. God cancels our sins.    Referenced Bible verses:  Matthew 7:5; John 8:7; Matthew 4:17; Acts 3:19; 1 John 1:8-9; Romans 3:22b-25a; Colossians 2:13-14           Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We are all saints because we have been made righteous through faith, by God’s grace, and in baptism. But we still struggle with sin and sometimes we fail. We then have only to repent (go the other direction in life) and turn toward God, to trust in God and to live boldly in God’s power as the community of God’s saints.     Referenced Bible verses:  1 Corinthians 1:1-3...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: The Reformation begun by church reformer Martin Luther in 1517 is still felt today in everything from how we believe we get to heaven, the relationship of Christians to their government, to the way we view work. It even effects the taste of beer.     Referenced Bible verses:  Romans 1:16-17; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 8:33-36       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We have several real things to celebrate this week: faith, baptism, and salvation, all gifts from God. The Truth that is Jesus has set us free.     Referenced Bible verses:  John 8:31-32: Ephesians 6:10-18; John 14:6       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benediction.    Our Email Ad...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:  It’s been said that there are none so blind as those who will not see. Blind Bartimaeus saw Jesus by faith before his sight was restored. We can follow Jesus on our streets  when the Holy Spirit opens out eyes to see God at work and follow him on the way.     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:52; John 14:4-6; Acts 11:26-27; Mark 13:2; Revelation 21:3-4        Please...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary: Jesus’ miracles were not a suspension of the laws of nature, they point to the origin of nature, and the way things are supposed to be. Jesus has a miracle for you right now.     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:46-52a; Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20-21a,24,26-27    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragemen...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary: Have you ever wanted to be a servant? Why does God call us to be servants of one another? We are servants in response to God’s love for us, shown on the cross. “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:37b; Mark 10:41-45; Galatians 5:13-14; 1 John 4:19      Please note that Rev...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary: The VIPs in the Reign of God are those who have shared the most, trusted the most, sacrificed the most, suffered the most, been the most dependent on God, and lived their lives by faith in a living relationship with the one true living God, as a new Creation in response to the free gift of God in Jesus Christ on the cross.     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:35-40; M...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary No matter the news, no matter the times, good or bad, God is present calling and equipping we who are in this world but not of this world, for a life that truly is life, lived in love of God and of one another. It is lived in response to the gift of God at the cross, the very good news for all people.     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:28-31; Matthew 16:15-18; Matthe...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary The problem in wealth is that it tends to make us think that we are independent of God. We who are wealthy are to be rich toward God. Poverty makes us more likely to know that we are dependent upon God. But there is also no romanticization of poverty in the Christian life. All we who have means for ministry are called to use them in service of God toward those who can b...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Jesus welcomes all people to life in the Reign of God and points to children as models of dependence upon God. We are called to receive faith in a childlike relationship with God, not a childish one.     Referenced Bible verses:  Mark 10:13-16; Mark 9:42; Hebrews 15:11-14; 1 Corinthians 3:1-2           Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 3...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Jesus’ strict teaching on divorce was to correct those who were focused on finding loopholes rather than knowing their need of a Savior.      Referenced Bible verses:  Matthew 7:5, Mark 10:2-12; Matthew 7:1; Deuteronomy 24:1-4; John 10:10; John 3:16-17; Romans 5:6-8; Luke 18:9-14; Luke 7:47         Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  The pomegranate, as a symbol, reminds us that the abundant life Jesus came to give is eternal. That is, it is both here and now and forever. Like a cracked-open pomegranate, Jesus was broken and poured out so that all who believe and are baptized will be saved. This is our eternal witness for these uncertain times.     Referenced Bible verses:  Song of Solomon 8:2; De...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  What brings us through this current polarization will be our willingness to moderate our extremes, our willingness to bear the weight of the task before us, keeping our focus on what we have in common in the Word and Sacraments, and the love of God that abides in us, expressed in our love for one another.     Referenced Bible verses:  1 Peter 1:22 - 2:3; John 13:34-35...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  God the Holy Spirit can speak to the viewer in the act of viewing art just as to the artist in the act of making art. Each can be a witness to the creative, redeeming, and transformative presence of God.     Referenced Bible verses:  Psalm 23:1; Matthew 13:10-16         Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring en...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  We can only see the meaning of stained-glass because of the light. Jesus is walking with in the darkness of this pandemic and showing us the way because Jesus is the light of the world. That way is through sacrificial service to the world because the light has overcome the darkness forever.     Referenced Bible verses:  John 8:12; John 1:1-5; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Colos...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  The pandemic has been a journey through change toward a New Normal. The Christian faith is a journey from death to life. It is a transformational gift in Jesus who is, in himself, the way, and the truth, and the life.     Referenced Bible verses: Acts 22:3-21; Matthew 28:18-20; John 14:6         Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so...