Living Water Radio: For Today's Christian Life

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:   Messiah drought? Prophet drought? God ended them with Baptism. Spiritual drought? God’s promise is Baptism. Today, we’re going to find out how that works.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 5:14-15; John 1:1-18; Romans 8:28; John 3:5-8; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:17      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos t...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary:   We’ve begun a new year! So what? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 5:14-15; John 1:1-18; Romans 8:28; John 3:5-8; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:17      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavidandSally@gmail.c...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We are celebrating a birth today that launched the most important events in human history, and it happened through a young woman whose place in human history was otherwise irrelevant. Today, we’re going to find out how that worked.     Referenced Bible verses: Luke 2:1-20    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bri...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Lots of people are looking up these days. For drones. There is a better reason to look up today, and it promises a much better outcome. Today, we’re going to find out what it us.    Referenced Bible verses: Psalm 24:7-8; John 10:10; Luke 1:39-55; Luke 21:28    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: The gospel reading that will be shared in the vast majority of churches in the world this coming Sunday contains one of the funniest verses in the Bible. At least I thought so. And then I didn’t. Today, we’re going to find out why.     Referenced Bible verses: Luke 3:7-18; Galatians 5:22-23; Matthew 18:20      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: How do we dig below the fantasyland that the world’s celebration of Christmas occupies? How do we prepare the foundation for something that’s real? Today, we’re going to find out.        Referenced Bible verses: Luke 3:1-6    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Add...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Bart Simpson’s Thanksgiving prayer included the words, “thanks for nothing.” Today, we’re going to see why those are good words for a Day of Thanksgiving.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 5:26-33; I Kings 19:11-12      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Addres...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: What’s the difference between debts and trespasses? And what does that have to do with Christ the King Sunday? Or not? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: John 18:33-37; John 14:6-7; John 8:31-32; Revelation 22:20      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Everything is temporary. Every-thing-is-temporary. The sooner we realize that the sooner we can get prepared for what’s coming. That’s our primary reason for optimism. Today, we’re going to find out why.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 13:1-8; Psalm 146:3, 10; Romans 8:18-25      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: There is said to be a lot of concern today over who we can trust. Today, we’re going to consider our answer.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 12:38-42; Genesis 1:27; Romans 8:31-39; Galatians 5:22-23      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavida...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Oscar Wilde wrote in one of his plays, “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future”. Today, we’re going to find out why both may be true and how both the past and the future shape the present.     Referenced Bible verses: John 11:32-44; John 11:25-26; John 10:17-18; Romans 6:3-5    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: One day really bothered me, and it bothered me for a few days. Another day made all of us new, and it made us new forever. Today we’re going to find out what they both have to do with Halloween.    Referenced Bible verses: Romans 1:16-17; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 8:31-36; John 14:6    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We all think we should run the business to be the greatest. But what if the lowest paid worker is the greatest? Does that seem right? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 10:35-45; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Galatians 5:13-24; 1 John 4:19    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encour...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: When it comes to heaven, who’s in and who’s out? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 10:17-31; Psalm 14:2-3; 1 Timothy 6:10; Mark 8:36-37; John 3:16; John 16:33      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavidandSally@gm...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We’re going to see two sides of what the Church offers the world this Sunday, and both of them are offensive. Or not. Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 10:2-26; Matthew 7:1; Deuteronomy 24:1-4; John 10:10; John 3:16-17; Mark 1:14-15      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring enc...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: It’s been said that growing old is required. Growing-up is optional. I’ve said it. But, is it? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 9:38-50; Matthew 16:25; Galatians 5:22-26; Hebrews 15:11-14;  Philippians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 5:16-17; 1 Corinthians 13:11-13         Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Everybody likes the stories of Jesus and the children, but what are they intended to teach us? Nothing. They are meant to transform us. Today, we’re going to find out why.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 9:30-37; Titus 3:9; Mark 9:42; Romans 10:2        Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We sometimes say, “That’s a good question” whether we know the answer or not. Jesus once asked a question when he knew that the answer was not the answer. What? Today, we’re going to find out.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 8:27-38; Matthew 16:16-17; Matthew 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 9:7; John 16:33      Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: The official tagline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, my home denomination, is “God’s work. Our hands.” It’s too long. Today, we’re going to find out why.     Referenced Bible verses: Matthew 25:40; Mark 7:24-37; Romans 5:8-9; 1 Peter 2:9-10; John 20:30-31; Romans 10:17; John 14:6       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: We can’t earn our way into heaven, but we can eat our way there. Today, we’re going to find out how.     Referenced Bible verses: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23; Romans 4:13; John 6:51; Galatians 5:22-23    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavidandSal...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: What image comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “The Staff of Life”? Today, we’re going to learn a new one, and what it has to do with the renewal of the Church     Referenced Bible verses: Hebrews 11:21; Leviticus 26:26; John 6:56-69: John 6:51    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and ben...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: If you wanted to describe what Jesus did for us on the cross, you couldn’t find a more difficult way than the way Jesus describes it in John 6. Today, we’re going to find out why that’s a good thing.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:51-58    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benedictio...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: You can buy a loaf of bread at the grocery store for between $5 and $7. Jesus gave the world a bread that transforms and feeds us forever. Today, we’re going to find out what it is.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:35, 41-51; 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 benedicti...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: If doing the work of God isn’t impossible, you’re doing it wrong. Today, we’re going to find out why.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:1-21; Matthew 6:31-33; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Matthew 5:16; Matthew 19:25-26       Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:...

Send us Fan Mail     Summary: Two big stories will dominate our consciousness this week, and they happened almost back-to-back. Two thousand years ago. Today, we’ll find out what they are.     Referenced Bible verses: John 6:1-21    Please note that Rev. Sally Welch appears on-screen in the first 30-or so of our videos to bring encouragement and benediction.    Our Email Address:  TheRevsDavidandS...