Living Water Radio: For Today's Christian Life

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Our vocation is a blessing with which we can be a blessing to others. It gives our work meaning as we wait for the final Day, God’s Labor’s Day, when the redemption of all things, including work itself, will be restored to the perfection for which it was intended from the beginning of Creation.     Referenced Bible verses: Genesis 3:16-19; Romans 5:12-21; Acts 4:32-35...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Corn and wheat are the main ingredients in cornbread muffins, and both start with a seed. So does evangelism. We start by sharing our stories and God guides and/or provides every step, offering and providing a better life until the final harvest comes.     Referenced Bible verses: 1 Corinthians 3:5-7; Ephesians 4:11-13; Galatians 5:22-23; Matthew 4:17; Mark 4:26-29  ...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  “Gross” can carry many meanings, but the gross forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation and the gross grace of God are deep foundations for a life that endures.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:51; John 6:53-58; Revelation 7:4     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benediction.    O...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  There is no “Way of Jesus”. Jesus is The Way in himself. He is God made visible, fully God and also fully human being. We need not be troubled about where we are going.      Referenced Bible verses: John 14:1-7; Acts 9:1-2; Acts 19:8-10; Acts 24:14-15, 22; Matthew 18:20       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to br...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Life that truly is life is Jesus Christ, and that life is never boring. It is meaningful and purposeful and filled with joy.     Referenced Bible verses: John 14:6; John 15:11; Philippians 4:4-7; Romans 6:3-5     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 Address:  Th...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Christians are variants, we are different forms of the same thing, the human race. We are a new Creation, we are born again, we are a people set apart. We are defined by the living relationship with the one true living God which is God’s gift and for which we were Created. Let’s be viral in being faithful.     Referenced Bible verses: 1 Peter 2:9-10; Romans 12:2; 2 Co...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  We are middle managers of God’s Creation under God’s dominion. Our dominion is a reflection of the living relationship with the one true living God that we have been given by God. It is loving service modeled for us on the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:6-8; Psalms 24:1-2; Genesis 2:7,15     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-scree...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Human beings have innate value because they have been created, whatever the mechanism, by God. We were created in God’s image to manage creation responsibly. We were created for a living relationship for the living God. We are of such value that God died to redeem us on the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: Genesis 1:26-27; John 3:16-17; Psalm 8     Please note that...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  A peanut butter and jelly sandwich will give us temporary nourishment in this life. Holy Communion is a present foretaste of the eternal feast to come. We work as an Olympic athlete in response to what has given us at the cross: the bread of life to sustain us now and forever: Jesus Christ.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:51-58; John 10:10, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27  ...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:  Turn away from everything that is taking you from God. Be filled with that which endures today. Receive the grace of God in Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:46-51; John 10:10     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: ...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   It may appear to us that we are making a decision for Jesus, but we cannot. We are separated from God by our sin. Jesus the bread of life, overcomes our sin and the separation comes from our sin by his death on the cross. We are drawn to God by God.      Referenced Bible verses: John 6:35, 41-45     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   We all hunger and thirst for things that will wear out. Even when we eat and drink, we will be hungry and thirsty again. Jesus offers us himself as the bread of life that satisfies us forever. He has done this at the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:30-35; John 4:13-14     Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our vide...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   Lefse is a Norwegian flatbread whose main ingredient is potatoes. It is one of the foods we make that connect us to our ancestral identity. But lefse will spoil eventually. Jesus gives us the food that endures for eternal life. He gives us a relationship with the one true living God. He gives us himself.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:24-29     Please note that...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   Jesus is with us in the midst of life's storms. That means that we're going to make it home.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:16-21     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 for a free digi...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   The world is hungry in many ways. The food given at the feeding of the 5,000 was Jesus. Jesus, the bread of life, is free food for all to receive. Receive Him today.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:1-15     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:  The...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   We would probably recognize Jesus if he walked on our streets as he is. He is revealed to us by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and Holy Communion, in service to others and in reading the Bible. We would recognize Jesus because he has been in the midst of us in worship, we have spoken with him in prayer, and we have been given a living relationship with him in faith. We w...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   The order of compassion is first teaching, second caring for physical needs, and third raising a vision of what was and what it to come. All of these things point to the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 9:36; Mark 6:30-34; John 3:16; John 10:11       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragem...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   We are afraid, we are personally ambitious, and we convince ourselves that we are not in danger. People do repent when they are invited by God through someone in their lives who is a credible witness.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 6:19-29       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the b...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   “In the game of thrones, you win or you die.” In good news of Jesus Christ, Jesus dies so that you may have abundant life.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 6:14-18; Luke 1:17-18        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.c...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   We celebrate our national Independence Day on July 4th, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from the colonial rule of Great Britain. Christians celebrate their dependence day every day. We are dependent upon God for all things and in our dependence, we receive freedom from sin, death, and from all the forces that defy God. Through God’s...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:   Many of us are wondering where we belong as we come out of the pandemic life and into the New Normal. Jesus redefined the most basic of human relationships and gave us a way forward toward the restoration of the fundamental relationship for which we were created, where we belong.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 6:1-6; Mark 3:21,32-35; Romans 8:38-39        Please n...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Some people are coming out of the pandemic wanting to do something new with their lives. God offers a new life through repentance and forgiveness, through the gift of becoming a new creation, of being born again, and all of it comes because God reinvents us through faith in the gift of Jesus on the cross.    Referenced Bible verses: John 3:5-8; 2 Corinthians 12:7b-1...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:     Summary: To remember someone in the Bible means more than to recall them, it means to encounter their essential self in the present. To remember Jesus is to receive him.     Referenced Bible verses: Malachi 4:4; Hebrews 8:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 3:16 Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragem...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    We’ve been in a storm for these past 14 months or so, but we haven’t been alone. Jesus has been with us every day of the pandemic. The living relationship with the one true living God that is God’s gift of faith to us stills the storms within. Jesus will always be with us, to the other side.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 4:35-41 Please note that Rev. Sally Welch...

Send us Fan Mail [# 122 When Your Faith Fails  June 14, 2021  TheRevsDavidandSally@gmail.com ]      Summary:    If your faith fails, it is because it is Your faith. We may move away from God, but God will never move away from us. Faith that is real is a total gift from God and will never fail.     Referenced Bible verses: Hebrews 11:1; Romans 10:17 Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-scre...