Tara Lee Davis's Podcast

Send a text God has made it clear through His Word that His ways are not our ways, His thoughts not our thoughts.  And yet many of us get stuck trying to understand what He is doing, rather than just yielding.  God, much like our faith, cannot be measured.  But when His plan goes one way and ours run perpendicular to that, we are left with the ultimate reminder, the cross.  And it is the cross of...

Send a text God never promised to bring us out of the fire, but He did promise to walk with us through the fire.  And how you and I choose to walk through the difficulties of life can either point others to Jesus and make much of Him, or we can waste that opportunity.  We have been called and chosen to suffer well, Christ did.  The fire of life is a gift; it purifies, it refines, it makes us more...

Send a text Living from a place of insecurity limits me to living only in and through and for myself.  Living in confidence allows us to live fully confident in who God is, and in who He has called us to be.  We live our best lives when we live in confidence, yet it's something we all struggle with in the everyday mundane of our lives.  And yet there was one, David, an overlooked shepherd boy...

Send a text Why do we waste so much of our lives allowing others to define us?  Only the Creator has the power and authority to define us as created beings.  I AM was the name of a very holy God, long before it was a label we used to define ourselves.  When we misspeak of ourselves, we not only speak what is not true but we are also speaking those same things of the very One who created us.  So wh...

Send a text If contras is the "difference of degree of difference between the lightest and darkest parts of a picture," then what is the difference between life and death itself?  The Bible is actually a story of contrast, highlighting the epic adventure of a good God who pursues evil man with the light of His love in the midst of the darkness and we find ourselves in the middle of this...

Send a text Why does God pursue us?  Is He a control freak?  Are we mere puppets on strings?  Is following a Jesus about a list of do's and dont's, or is there more?  God simply wants a relationship with each of us, and relationship trumps religion every single time.  Religion shuts doors while relationship opens them.  In the story of the prodigal son, we see the contrast of religion an...

Send a text How do you spend your life?  Every human on the planet has the same amount of time and access to that time/ 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, yet 1 life to live.  Are you wasting your life building your own sandcastle kingdom?  Or are you living a life that will live beyond your human years on this tiny blue dot we find ourselves spinning on?

Send a text When we encounter God and we find ourselves forever wrecked, how do we maintain that heart change?  How do we ensure that it wasn't just a camp buzz, conference high, or believe the lie that nothing actually changed?  When I struggle with sin that I once repented of, did Jesus not forgive me or set me free?  How do we go home different and truly walk this thing out?

Send a text As believers, what's the first thing that we ask when the storm hits?  Where is God?  Why has He left me?  Is He not listening to my cries for help?  Could it be that our questioning of Jesus, especially in the midst of hard times, points to a deeper issue that we don't fully know who He is?  All throughout Scripture, we see story after story of those who have found Jesus rig...

Send a text Could it be that our lives are so consumed with self and what others think of us that we are missing out on the bigger picture of God using us to display His glory?  Have we exchanged the glory of God for the cheap praise of man?  Gideon proves to us that when we believe the truth of who God says we are, then God can rewrite the history books for His glory, fame, and honor.

Send a text What does Resurrection Sunday mean for us as believers?  Is there more to it than "Dead Jesus, quiet Jesus, alive Jesus, hooray"!?  The exact life and death and resurrection of Jesus was actually a blueprint for you and I and yet, we often want the resurrection power life without first dying to self.  There could be no empty tomb without first a crucifixion.  Only in the dyin...

Send a text If God's Word doesn't return void and is powerful and active, then why do we often not see good fruit growing in our lives?  We often waste incredible seeds of truth that are planted in our hearts not because it's too high and lofty or something that is unattainable for us to grasp, but simply because the soil of our hearts is hard instead of being good soil.

Send a text God created each of us to live legendary lives; lives that are full and rich, far bigger than anything we could ever hope for or imagine.  What if our tiny stories of pain and brokenness were actually apart of something much bigger that we can't always see and understand?  We will never live out the part we have to play in this big story if we don't understand the Story that&...

Send a text Jesus coming to our earth to be born as a baby reminds us of the constant tension we face between the reality of our world as we know it and the truth of God's Word and yet in the midst of that tension, Christ still chose to come...Immanuel, God with us.

Send a text We often need to be recalibrated to who we are, whose we are, and what our lives as God's children are to look like.  Can we say with confidence that God can indeed rescue, but even if He does not, He is still good and He is still God and we will still do the right thing?

Send a text Anytime you and I drink from something or someone other than Jesus, we will not only be thirsty but we will end up being dehydrated.  Jesus is the Living Water and only He can satisfy the deepest longings our hearts and souls.  The reason we are thirsty is not because Jesus isn't better or good enough, but because we are drinking from the wrong water source.

Send a text God does not mince words in 1 Corinthians 13 when He talks about love.  Think you're doing well at loving others?  Take the word "love" out and insert your own name.....Warning:  Not for the faint of heart.  We are told to love others well, simply because He first loved us.

Send a text In this introductory lesson, we give a breakdown and overview of the Parable of the Sower.  What do the four different types of soil represent?  And who is the Sower?  And who does God love anyway?

Send a text Your position determines your perspective and your perspective shifts everything.  There are countless examples of people in the Scripture who found themselves in precarious positions and yet what they held to be true deep in their hearts, is what affected them most in their outcome because how we see and view the things of life greatly affects how we live our lives.

Send a text The purpose of the fire is never to consume, but rather refine.  And when we don't trust the God behind our stories with the broken, painful pieces of our lives, we will in fact be consumed by the fire and instead of looking, sounding and smelling like Jesus, we will look like and sound like and smell like we've been in the fire.  But when we choose to trust God, and acknowle...

Send a text It was a classic, dramatic scene of panic when they woke Him that day on the boat; "Teacher, teacher.....don't You care that we are perishing?!??!"  We've all been there before, questioning what God is doing in our lives when things don't make sense.  But when we forget what He has spoken, we invite the chaos into our lives and hit the panic button prematurely.

Send a text There are many different names of God found throughout Scripture, and each one reveals the nature and character of God.  Why does it matter that God is known as the Alpha and Omega?  One word:  Sandwiches.

Send a text When the disciples tried to tell Jesus what to do, He commanded them to do the impossible.  And when a crowd of 15, 000 people were able to eat until they were satisfied AND there were 12 basket fulls left, the disciples were reminded who God was..............and it wasn't them.  The chaos of our lives is simply an invitation to Jesus, asking Him to be God, and He rsvps's a s...

Send a text Many of us have heard the crucifixion story of Jesus our entire lives, but do we really grasp what He endured to set us free? Why do we keep returning to vomit like a dog when Christ prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies? Regardless of how you and I live, Jesus loves us.

Send a text I think the question that's asked most often, when in the midst of a difficult season, is this; is it to possible to endure suffering while still following Jesus? But perhaps, all along, we've been asking ourselves the wrong question. It's not a matter of possibility, but rather worth. Is it worth following Jesus when that involves enduring suffering? Job lived a life th...