The Water from Rock Podcast

I'm going get right to it. I want to read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus... Download a transcript for the October 12, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

It's been said that there was a little difference in people, but that little difference can make a very big difference. I'm going to talk for a few moments about a man who was a little different than those around him, but that little difference made a big difference for him for his people, and it can for you and me too... Download a transcript for the October 10, 2024 Selah episode **This transcri...

Whether it's waiting in traffic, waiting in the supermarket line, or waiting because my computer doesn't seem to be working fast enough. The digital age is teaching me that waiting is bad for me, that the waiting is keeping me from getting what I want, that waiting is holding me back from the good life. And I along with a lot of other people, I don't want to wait. I want it now, but then I see in...

Albert Einstein said that he thought the most important question facing humanity was if the universe was friendly... Well, that is an interesting question, isn't it? Asked by a man, certainly a genius, but a man who didn't think much beyond atoms and electrons and physical existence... No, I have a better question. A more wonderful question. And that is the question asked by the Apostle Paul in Ro...

It's two o'clock at night. You can't sleep. You toss and turn. The night seems so dark and you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be at two o'clock on a dark night? Are you wait nervously in the doctor's office, wringing your hands fearful about what the test results are going to show? And you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be? Download a transcript for...

Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take us in. Where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are... Download a transcript for the October 01, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accura...

Your broken places are where my light shines through. It was like... It was like the spirit of God of whispered that to me once as I was feeling very broken, it was a time of darkness for me. The feeling that things were out of control, and I sense the calm voice of God's Spirit saying, Your broken places are where my light shines through. And I thought about that for a bit, and I remember the Bib...

I have in mind any of you who feel like you're facing an impossible task. You know that God has called you to something, but you're feeling that maybe you don't have the strength, the ability, the smarts to get it done... Download a transcript for the September 26, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

My wife and I, we were in the wilderness of northern New Mexico, and God spoke to me as on a clear night, far from city lights, we saw the Milky Way spread out before us, like I had never seen the Milky Way. And God spoke to me... Download a transcript for the September 24, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Stephen Covey, in his best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People says that one of those habits is beginning with the end in view. That is having a clear idea of where you want your life to go, where you want to be, when you get to be to where you're going, and where you want to be at the end. People are often surprised when I tell them that some of the happiest, most fulfilling...

Do you ever wonder what God is up to? Do you wonder what God is thinking? What does God have in mind with our troubles and trials? As a pastor and chaplain, I've seen quite a bit of pain and suffering up close, and I could guess that I could say that I've had, well, my share of pain and suffering too. And there was a passage of scripture that I have underlined in my Bible, a big star beside it, a...

Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know, what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again, waiting for God... Download a transcript for the September 17, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was gen...

  Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone. I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It...

Hey, how about some good news? Would you like some? Well, I've got good news for you. You did nothing to make God love you, and you can't do anything to make Him stop. That's the clear message of a Psalm I'm looking at today and that I want to pass on to you. Download a transcript for the September 12, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100...

I have something very wonderful for you today, and it's all wrapped up in a little verse of scripture, 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 2. Here it is "May grace and peace, be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of our Lord, Jesus Christ, grace and peace"... Download a transcript for the September 10, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100...

Do you sense that God is calling you to do something? The God is calling you to do something, but you're not sure where it's going to lead you. Not sure what it will mean for you. Well that sense of not knowing is something I do know something about as twice, I've announced my resignation to church is saying, I know what God is calling me from, but I do not know what God is calling me to... Downlo...

I am so grateful to my mother, who was the first person to introduce me to the book of Psalms. I can remember the day when my mother took a Bible in hand and she opened it up and she showed me right there in the middle of the Bible, you can find the book of Psalms. She said, you know, it's right there in the middle is like God wanted the Psalms, to be easy for us to find. And I've been turning to...

When your lawn mower is broken, you wanna get it fixed. When your washing machine is a broken you wanna get it fixed. When something is broken, we want it fixed. Okay, but what do we do when we are what's broken? Download a transcript for the September 03, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

A very wise mentor once advised me that when I was preaching or teaching to people that I didn’t know and I wouldn't know what to talk about, he said that it would always be a good idea to talk with them about trials because... Well, most of us are in fact facing trials... Download a transcript for the August 31, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may...

...You know, there's something about being human that we want to know purpose. We want to know what something is for, and as a pastor and chaplain I have talked with many people over the years who were wanting to know their purpose. They were wanting to know what they were here for... Download a transcript for the August 29, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intellig...

You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think he would be listening to the Selah podcast, but that you have a real hunger and thirst for God, you love God and are probably growing in your understanding of God's love for you. And yet as you were growing in your understanding of how wonderful God is, you are growing in your understanding of... Download a transcript for the August 27, 20...

How are you picturing God today? I mean in your mind's eye, are you seeing God as smiling at you? Is God frowning? That is, does God look disappointed in you? Does God look like he's ticked off? Well, the reason why I'm asking is because how you and I picture God is just about the most important thing about us... Download a transcript for the August 24, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was gen...

I have a thought experiment for you today. Sometimes take a blank sheet of paper and on that paper, list your accomplishments, maybe jobs you've had, schools graduated, degrees earn honors received... Download a transcript for the August 22, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Did you see that moon last night? Wow, I mean, about 2:00 AM moonlight comes into our window, and I just had to get up and go outside and look at it, and there it was, I was moonstruck, I was mesmerized, and you know, they say that moon will be full for the next three nights if you wanna go out and look at it. But last night as I looked up at the moon... Download a transcript for the August 20, 20...

Do you remember as a child, the wonder you felt the amazement as you begin to become aware to the incredible world around you? When you first learned that funny-looking little cocoon thing hanging on a tree that would morph into a caterpillar, that would morph into a butterfly... Download a transcript for the August 17, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence...