Living Water Radio: For Today's Christian Life

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    The already but not yet Kingdom of God is where God reigns. It is planted by God and grows into something substantial by God’s hand.  In it, the living relationship between human beings from Creation, i.e. faith, is restored by the gift of God at the cross in the power of the Holy Spirit.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 4:26-34; Mark 1:15; John 15:16-17; 1 Corinth...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    We remember and give thanks for all those who have died in our nations wars to make this world a better place. And we thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human being, whose death on the cross made this world and our eternity a better place.     Referenced Bible verses: John 15:13-15; Romans 5:6-10; John 3:16 Please note that Rev. Sally Welch...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    We believe in one God, The Father (or Creator), the Son (or Redeemer), and the Holy Spirit (or Sanctifier). One God who is three persons and each person is fully God: The Holy Trinity. We cannot understand The Trinity except as it is revealed to us in the Bible. That’s the necessary mystery of The Trinity.     Referenced Bible verses:  Matthew 3:13-17; Matthew 28:18...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    The Shopping Cart Theory is that returning your shopping cart to the collection racks, “is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.” Christians do what is right under the direction of the Holy Spirit who reforms who they are in a living relationship with the one true living God. Receive that relationship today.     Referenced Bible...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Holy Communion is the organic presence of Jesus Christ in the forms of bread and wine. This food is free, but it’s not cheap. It is Christ himself, given for us for the remission of our sins.      Referenced Bible verses:  Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23; John 6:53-59 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:    God tends us like roses. We are fed by the Sacraments and the Word of God, receive the radiance of the Son, the light of the world, are pruned by God’s grace in our repentance and forgiveness, and watered with the streams of living water that are the Holy Spirit, opening us to the gift of faith by God the master gardener. In this is eternal life.     Referenced Bibl...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    The fig tree represents both blessing and judgement in the Bible. God’s people are both tree and seed, nourished and sent by the Holy Spirit, as we emerge into the New Normal.     Referenced Bible verses:  Genesis 1:9-13; Mark 11:12-14, 20-21; Luke 13:6-9; Matthew 7:15-20; Galatians 5:22-23        Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-o...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    The Holy Spirit is sometimes represented as a dove in the Bible. The most important thing you will ever hear might just come from a "bird".     Referenced Bible verses:  Genesis 1:20-23; Genesis 8:6-12; Matthew 10:26-31; Matthew 3:13-17      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and t...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Christians are like salt. It doesn't take a lot of us to preserve what is good or to transform the culture around us. We just have to be what we are.     Referenced Bible verses:  Matthew 5:13; Colossians 4:6      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 Addr...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Our culture needs less heat and more light. Jesus is the light of the world. That light has overcome the darkness. We are not the light. We are reflectors of that light. We don’t achieve the light; we receive it and pass it on.     Referenced Bible verses: Genesis 1:14-19;  2 Corinthians 4:5-7;  John 1:1-5; Matthew 4:12-17    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appear...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    It doesn’t take a lot of Christians to change the world. It only takes people who open their hearts to receive God’s gift of new life and act in the transformational power of the Holy Spirit, the streams of living water within us, and to be who we have been made to be, like leaven in bread.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 13:33; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8    Please no...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    What can local churches learn from a local hardware store? Provide what we say we provide, offer opportunities to encounter credible people who really care about what they need, and be genuine in our community.     Referenced Bible verses: Romans 10:14-17    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:    Justice is doing God’s will. We know God’s will is being done when are responding to the leadership and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Justice can only be done with authority through the work of the transcendent God, not by human beings. Justice is seen most clearly on the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: Romans 6:20-23; Galatians 3:27-29; Amos 5:25    Please no...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Streaming video is the means we have become accustomed to for receiving information. Streams bring the water that is necessary for life. The Holy Spirit is described in both the Old and New Testament sections of the Bible as “Streams of Living Water”. It brings understanding and life to those in a spiritual desert, an abundance of something that is otherwise scarce....

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    “Of” is a small word, but it is cosmic in meaning. We are children of God and heirs of God’s promise. Jesus, the Lamb of God, fully God and fully human being, died to take away our sin. He is  revealed by the Holy Spirit, the streams of living water, within us and draws us together as the Body of Christ, the Church. “Of” means that, by God’s grace, we belong.      R...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary:    Birth and death and resurrection are all the same because we have received the gifts of a living relationship with the one true living God and our adoption in our baptism.      Referenced Bible verses: Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 6:3-5; Matthew 4:3-4; Luke 24:1-5; Philippians 1:21;  Romans 15:8            Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary    Water is necessary for life. Baptism is the water and the Word of God that brings new life. This new life is increasingly distinguishable from our increasingly secular culture.     Referenced Bible verses: Romans 6:3-5; Romans 4:10-14    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    SOLW is an acronym for Streams of Living Water. SLOW is an acronym with the same words but in a different order, reminding us that sometimes we must reexamine the order of things to most clearly know their true meaning. Easter is much more than bunnies. It is the celebration of the pivotal event in human history.     Referenced Bible verses: Jeremiah 2:11-13; John 7:...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary    We do not make ourselves. We are constructed as Christians and as the Church by the Holy Spirit. Maundy Thursday points to the death of Jesus, fully God and fully human being, to make us children of God.      Referenced Bible verses: 1 Corinthians 4:9-10; John 13:34-35; John 14:6-7          Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary       A witness is someone who tells about something they have seen. A Christian is a witness who tells their story or the stories of other Christians about what God has done and is doing in their lives. A Christian witness is credible, need not be long, prepared and guided by the Holy Spirit, often results in action, and points to life transformation by the work of the...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary    We don’t live by the things we see or by the desires of our heart. We don’t live by the appearances of the deep fakes and lies of this world. We live and are formed by the deep love of God, the deep selfless love modeled most clearly for us on the cross.     Referenced Bible verses: 1 Corinthians 15:20-26; 1 Corinthians 13:11-13; Romans 11:33-36; Romans 5:6-8    Plea...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary    Worship in the new Small Normal post-pandemic world will reflect people’s hunger for community. It will be built around the needs of clusters of small groups. It will be nimble, built from the spiritual gifts of its participants, and open to the work of the Holy Spirit.       Referenced Bible verses: Luke 12:32-36    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-scree...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary    The Christian world is both large and small. We are both the Body of Christ and individually members of it. The Body of Christ, the Church, is huge and encompasses the full range of human diversity. Yet in the Holy Spirit, there are 0 degrees of separation between us.     Referenced Bible verses: Galatians 3:27-29; I Corinthians 12:27-30; John 7:37-39    Please note...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary       A big part of The New Normal will be small groups. They will provide fellowship, help with the discipleship of new or lapsed Christians, will be structured for growth and will be the building bocks of Christian community worship. Though we are small, our strength is in our character.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 18:19-20; Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 13:33   ...

Send us Fan Mail    Summary       We are the lilies of the field. How do they grow? They don’t do anything. They receive the gifts of God, and there is no growth more spectacular.     Referenced Bible verses: John 15:1-11; Luke 12:25-31 (Matthew 12:25-34); Romans 6:3-11    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and the benedic...