Tara Lee Davis's Podcast

Send a text One of the roots of apathy is insignificance not given to God.  However, we can overcompensate and in so doing, act out of pride and disobedience.  Our pride and disobedience can actually keep us from the gifts and blessings that God wants to give us.  Moses and Aaron were prevented from entering the promised land because of their pride and disobedience.  What can we learn from their e...

Send a text In the last 2 years, apathy has swept over our young people, and adults, like a raging wild fire out of control.  What is apathy?  Where does it come from ?  What difference does it make?  This is Part 1 of a 3 part series as we look to Scripture to find out how to live the abundant life that Christ paid for us.

Send a text What if the thing we longed for the most at the start of a new year wasn't found in the gym, our amazon carts, or wrapped under the tree?  We all long to be the best version of ourselves, but what does that look like for a child of God?  Here we take a look at the 5 signs of a life hidden with and in Christ, and what a difference it can make, not only for ourselves but for those a...

Send a text Our lives are signposts, pointing to someone or something else.  What or who is your life pointing to?  The problem with a signpost is that if we follow the wrong one, we end up wasting our lives through a cycle or rerouting and we not only get to where we really want to go, but we lead others astray.

Send a text Are we living our best lives for God?  God our Father longs to give us the Kingdom, but instead we are living in poverty, merely wasting our days eating dinner out of toilets.  What does our best life for God look like that?  And what is keeping us from living our lives to the glory and honor of Christ?

Send a text Have you ever felt like the odds were stacked against you?  Are you unknowingly living with a "big me little God" mindset?  How does God respond in the midst of our fear, doubt, confusion, and anxiety?  What does God see that we cannot?  How do we fully live as His children?  Are we guaranteed victory doing things His way?  Gideon was one of the biggest wimps in Scripture, ye...

Send a text What if our lives are filled with broken pieces of disappointment, pain, and confusion?  Is it possible to worship Jesus and give Him our best?  What does giving our best look like that?  How do we keep going when we find ourselves in the dark?

Send a text What does it look like to live a life chasing after Jesus?  How can we keep running when we've grown weary, discouraged and overwhelmed?  Running with Jesus is intentional, requires discipline, and will be the greatest journey of our lives if we will simply keep going.

Send a text This week we dig into Acts 12 where we discover the purpose of persecution, the power of prayer, and the power of pride as we continue to learn from the early church.

Send a text How was David able to lament the death of Saul?  After all, Saul the king who had gone mad did try taking David out, multiple times.  David was a man after God's own heart, and was more concerned with counting his own failures and shortcomings than he was keeping a detailed list of everyone else's dirty laundry.  When we lament our own sin, then we can truly honor others, eve...

Send a text Saul has a wild encounter with God Almighty and is struck blind for 3 days, God uses a simple man to pray over the man who was having Christians locked up worldwide, and after his salvation and baptism, God uses Saul, now Paul, in powerful ways as he leads others to believe that Jesus is the Lord!

Send a text Jesus always invites us to return; return to His grace, His peace, His presence.  It's never too late to come home.

Send a text Peter, the disciple who denied Jesus not once but three times?  Yeah, he was the one who recognized Jesus making breakfast on the shore that day and after being up all night fishing swim a hundred yards to shore.  He was compelled by his love for Jesus, and it showed.  How would our lives look different if we were marked by love, love for Jesus and love for others?

Send a text An in depth look at Acts 5 and how God deals with hypocrisy within the church.

Send a text What a gift that we can count on God to be the same today as He was yesterday and He will be tomorrow!  Even when life ebbs and flows and the seasons we find ourselves in are constantly changing, we can always count on the One who never changes!

Send a text Does God call His children to excellence in all things?  Why does it matter, or does it?  What can we learn from Hezekiah's life?  Most expect the blessing of God without putting in the work, and while it may look cute on your kitchen towel, God does not, in fact, "bless our mess."

Send a text What does it mean that God prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies?  Could we possibly be saying no to the greatest invitation ever given simply by the way we live our overly busy lives?

Send a text Hope is a powerful thing, and something we all desperately need as we muddle through this ongoing pandemic.  Misplaced hope always misaligns our hearts with God and sets us up for disappointment after disappointment.  Where or what or who is your hope in?

Send a text How quickly do you forget how God has taken care of you?  Does it even matter that we remember what He did for us 7 years ago?  One of the best ways to strengthen and build up our faith is to actively remember the countless ways that God has provided for us!  Even the Israelites forgot how good God had been to them and their puny little lives and pathetic excuses made life miserable fo...

Send a text Everyone loves a good story!  But how do we live our best stories, especially when our lives are full of disappointment, pain, and heartache?  Is there more to our story than just our accomplishments and failures?  How can we live lives that are marked by Jesus and moved by love?  One sinful woman shows us how, and what appears to be an extreme waste to some ends up being extravagant l...

Send a text What is God saying in this season?  The pandemic, the political divisions, the violence, the quarantines and our lives completely upended as we knew them, is God speaking still?  Does God's still, small voice speak louder than the screaming of the world in which we live?  And why does it matter?  What if in missing God's whisper we miss out on passing on a legacy to the next...

Send a text When do we grow from emotional experiences with God to actual encounters with God?  When do we move from throw up to growing up?  When do we stop wasting our lives magnifying and instead put Jesus on display?  Is the Gospel partial to us and our own shortcomings, or is it for all?  What do our hearts reflect about us?  Jonah not only gets swallowed by a large fish for disobeying, but a...

Send a text In the midst of a pandemic and a quarantine that never seemed to end, we all found ourselves in the midst of a storm.  What if the storms of life were meant to be danced in instead of sheltered from?  How should we respond when faced with adversity?  How does God respond to us and our endless questioning?  While it's true that storms bring destruction, they also bring great growth...

Send a text Jesus gave His followers a lot of authority, but what exactly does that look like and mean for us today?  Elijah the prophet understood what it meant to stand and operate in God-given authority, and even though he stood alone, he used his God-given authority to put God on display and turn the hearts of people back to God.

Send a text The spies were sent into the land, which God has promised them in advance, for 40 days to investigate.  10 spies came back talking of the giants that inhabited the land, 2 spies came back saying that the land was theirs to take and that anything was possible because God was with them.  Because of their murmuring, complaining, groaning and grumbling, the Lord was angry and turned them b...