The Water from Rock Podcast

Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Well, if you do, don't feel your the Lone Ranger, it seems the coronavirus pandemic has become a kronosomia pandemic, an epidemic of people having trouble sleeping, trouble following asleep, trouble staying the sleep... Download a transcript for the August 15, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accura...

Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Download a transcript for the August 13, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligenc...

Why do bad things happen? The good people pay. That's a question that I and a lot of people struggle with. Why, our Lord Jesus Christ struggled with it on the cross. Why, God, why have you forsaken me? As a pastor and chaplain, I've been with people in all kinds of suffering: physically, emotionally, spiritually and together we ask why. Download a transcript for the August 10, 2024 Selah episode *...

“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” Perhaps you recognize those as the words of the little engine in that popular children's story The Little Engine that Could. Download a transcript for the August 8, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

“Tell me what the world is saying today and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.” Those are the words of philosopher theologian Francis Schafer. I think that his words reminds us that as Christians, you and I are... Download a transcript for the August 6, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

What most people did not know was at one of my mom's secrets as a gardener, was my mom had a compost pit that was out behind the house, and into that compost pit, my mom would put cuttings from the garden, grass clippings, piles of dead leaves, kitchen scraps...And my mom would look for it. She would hunt it down to put it into her compost pit, and then my mom would put some dirt over the pile and...

Do you ever struggle with whether or not God really forgives you? Perhaps you know in your head that God forgives you. Your theology tells you that God forgives you, but it just hasn't sunk in yet. The brain has not notified your heart, and so you live with this sense of guilt, of shame, of disappointment by God... Download a transcript for the August 1, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was ge...

Most of us, even as Christians, who do believe God's good news, we know what it is sometimes a struggle with the guilt to feel that we are forgiven. I wanna share a verse with you that really helps me a lot in all of this, and it's Romans 8:1. Download a transcript for the July 30, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Do you ever get the feeling that Jesus might need to get a new press agent? And that he might need a new PR person to help him spin his message in this time of self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-esteem? What are we to make of Jesus talking so much about denying self and taking up crosses to follow him? How do you spin that? How good does that pull in a “me” generation? It is a curious, sho...

Could you use some power? Power for getting through the day, power for dealing with the pressure you're under, power for being a follower of Jesus? Well, I don't have any power for you, but I'll go one better, I will show you the power that you already have... Download a transcript for the July 25, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% ac...

I didn't know what to talk about with you today. I was feeling scattered, bothered, weighed down, I just couldn't get it together. And then I thought about what I was feeling, and I remembered a time in the life of David when he was feeling something like that, and it helped me to remember what David did when he was burdened, and that took me to a Psalm of David... Download a transcript for the Ju...

I'm gonna get right to it. I wanna 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. First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled...

Now, you may not make the front page news today, and you may not get on cable news, but I want us to see how you can make God's scrapbook of very special people, and how you can do something today that will last forever. I'm looking at the Old Testament prophet Malachi, who is writing at a time not so unlike our time... Download a transcript for the July 18, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript wa...

These are challenging times, aren't they? These past weeks we've been bombarded with with difficult news and it can be hard to find peace with the constant stream of late breaking news. So for the next few moments, I wanna step back, take a breath and to be reminded of a powerful truth from God's word when the world feels so uncertain, so unstable... Download a transcript for the July 16, 2024 Sel...

Tears are a language God understands. Those are the words of a worship song. I learned a few years ago and, and words that have come to mean a lot to me. Tears are a language God understands. I want to talk with you for the next few moments about tears and how God does understand and God cares. Download a transcript for the July 13, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial...

Mark Twain said that the two most important days in your life or the day that you're born and the day that you find out why. How about you? Have you found out your “why” yet? Have you found out why you were born? Why, why God put you here at this time and place with Bible in hand? I want to take the next few moments to explore the why... Download a transcript for the July 11, 2024 Selah episode **...

Elizabeth Elliott in her fine book titled Suffering Is Never for Nothing, she says the deepest things I've learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering and out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come. The deepest things I know about God. How about you today? Could you say that? That the deepest things you know about God and the deepest things you have learned about lif...

I think I'd always known that to have hope for the future was important, but I've not known how essential, how necessary it is to have hope until I was a chaplain for hospice. Spending time with people who measured out the future in weeks days and some even in hours, the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky said that to live without hope is to cease to live. Download a transcript for the July 6, 202...

“When in the course of human events…” I've always thrilled to the sound of those words beginning our Declaration of Independence and, and the words that follow about how you and I are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Download a transcript for the July 4, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by arti...

David and Goliath. What a story. It's a story a lot of us have loved from the time that we were little kids. A story that thrills us, that inspires us. It is a classic underdog story where against all odds, a young shepherd boy, he takes on and he defeats the giant warrior Goliath and he sends the Philistines running. Even people who don't know much about the Bible, well, they know the story of Da...

Did you know that the most important conversation you're going to have today is that conversation that you'll be having with yourself today? You're going to have conversations with yourself about the past. You will talk to yourself about the future. You'll be talking to yourself about all that's going on in your life. And no one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to...

The agony of the tea leaves is what sets apart really good tea from the tasteless tea bags in our supermarkets. The agony describes the writhing, the twisting, the unfurling of tea leaves as boiling water is poured over them. And it is in that moment of agony that... Download a transcript for the June 27, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be...

As I started out the day feeling confused, upset by the news, by what's going on in the world, and I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had. She said that there's a psalm for just about every life situation, and you know... Download a transcript for the June 25, 2024 Selah epis...

John Wooden is remembered as one of the greatest coaches in sports history. Although he's long gone from us, he continues to inspire with his emphasis on fundamentals, teamwork and character. John Wooden said that the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. What we do when no one is watching is something I've been thinking about recently and something that I want to...

I've heard it said that there were three kinds of prayer: there's “help”, there's “thanks”, and there's “wow.” And it's a “wow” kind of prayer that I'm praying today. And a “wow” prayer that I'm eager to share with you is a, there is a sense of astonishment, amazement. Download a transcript for the June 19, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not b...