The Water from Rock Podcast

“Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy,” so prayed Little Joyce in that wonderful book, Children's Letters to God. And I wonder about you today. Have you ever prayed like little Joyce where you ask God for one thing? And you're left confused and, and not very happy with what God gave you? Download a transcript for the June 18, 2024 Selah episode **This transcr...

Caught between a rock and a hard place; up a creek without a paddle. Well, we all have sayings, catchphrases for those times when, when we're feeling in over our heads. And what to do in life's hard times is what I want to talk with you about for the next few moments. Download a transcript for the June 15, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be...

How is your hope for the future right now? I don't know what you're going through today or all that is happening in your life, but how is your hope? I'm asking that because from what I've experienced, when you've lost hope, you've lost most everything. I read somewhere that... Download a transcript for the June 13, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and m...

I want to begin today with a question for you. Which is greater, your sins or God's grace? Which is greater, more powerful, more commanding the, the sum total of all of your sins or God's grace? Download a transcript for the June 11, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Isn't it fascinating how God made the human eye so that when we enter darkness, the eye dilates? The eye gets bigger to let in more light. Now, as I look at scripture, I see something similar happening that when God's people enter a dark time, the eyes of the heart dilate- they get bigger to let in more like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going throu...

Did you ever play the child game where you take a flower and you begin to pluck off the petals to see if someone loves you with each pedal you pluck? You say, she loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not until you get to the last pedal, and you sure hope, or at least I hope the last pedal would be... She loves me. Now, I talk to a lot of people, a lot of Christians who are playin...

Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son died from cancer? Actually, I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to... Download a transcript for the June 04, 2024 Selah...

Do you ever give your all in service to the Lord and then feel it wasn't enough? You gave it your best and it just didn't seem good enough to you. You think of all the ways that you might have done better. You tried, but you felt you came short. Maybe you were leading a home Bible study, serving at the food pantry, talking to a friend about Jesus…you just wish you could have done better. Download...

Do you ever wonder, wonder how our Lord Jesus has this incredible ability to see the individual in the crowd? I mean, the gospel show many times when Jesus, he would single out one individual from the multitude to focus the full force of his love and attention on that one individual. Download a transcript for the May 30, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence...

Early this morning, my wife and I were hiking on a desert mountain trail not far from our home when right in the middle of that trail, right in the middle of rocks and gravel and heat, there was a little weed that was blooming... Download a transcript for the May 28, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

What do you think about in those first early moments of your day before you throw off the covers and your feet hit the floor? What is it that you're thinking about? I'm asking that because... Download a transcript for the May 25, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how are you feeling today? Perhaps you're feeling a seven or an eight headed towards 10 or are feeling pretty low? I mean, like my sweet departed mother would say, “feeling lower than a snake's belly.” Well, wherever you are on the one through 10 scale today, I wanna share with you something that always helps me whether I'm feeling really good or really low. Download a trans...

“I don't know what God is calling me to, but I know what God is calling me from." Those are words that I have said several times in my life when I didn't have a clue as to what my next step was to be. Do you ever feel like that? Perhaps you're feeling like that today? I don't know what God is calling me to, but I know what God is calling me from. Download a transcript for the May 21, 2024 Selah ep...

It's been said that all of us are living in one of two tents. We're either living in discontent or content. Which one of those two tents would you say that you're living in today? Discontent or content? Download a transcript for the May 18, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Do you ever have mornings when your alarm goes off and you start thinking about some prickly people you're gonna have to deal with that day, or you think about problems that you're going to face? Or you just wanna curl up and go back to sleep? Or do ever have a night in the middle of the night, kind of night, so you toss and turn, you fret and worry, just wishing you had some kind of special power...

I'm hoping that by the time I'm through, that you're gonna be seen dancing, maybe even calling up a friend and celebrating the good news, that's because we're gonna take the next few moments to look at a couple of verses in the Old Testament that sound... well, they sound like they're coming from the New Testament as they are so filled with hope and good news... Download a transcript for the May 1...

Are you sensing today that God is calling you? Calling you to do something, perhaps, in your community or in your church, your family? Maybe God is calling you to do something in your career or calling you to take a big step in your life. And you're doubting, doubting yourself. “Who am I? Who am I to think that I could do something so important, so impactful, so lasting? Who am I?” Download a tran...

I heard this story about an old cowboy who applies for life insurance and the insurance agent, he asked the cowboy, he says, have you ever had any accidents? The cowboy thinks for a moment and says, no, no accidents, but... Download a transcript for the May 09, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

You know, I always thought my dad was the smartest person in the world. I mean, when I was a little boy, it seemed that I could ask my dad anything. And my dad, he always knew the answer until one day... Download a transcript for the May 7, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Are you troubled by what you see happening in our country today? I mean, look at the news and it is filled with stories of rioting, lawlessness, hatred, boiling over and we can't help but wonder what can I as one person do about this? Download a transcript for the May 4, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

How good are you at awful? That's right, I said how good are you at it? Well, if you're anything like me, you're probably pretty creative at imagining the most awful things that could happen to you. I mean, you're one of those people who gets your exercise, mountain climbing molehills, forecasting the worst that could possibly happen. Some people call this... Download a transcript for the May 2, 2...

I have some good news for you. Good news for you, as you seek to be in the world but not of the world. Good news for you is you try to navigate the craziness of a post-Christian world without being harmed, without being corrupted by the world. Some Christians choose to withdraw, to drop out from the world. While other Christians choose to compromise with the world. Download a transcript for the Ap...

Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Well, if you do have trouble sleeping, don't feel that you're alone. I mean, from what I'm hearing from a lot of people and with warnings from the Center for Disease Control and all those TV commercials about sleep aids, there seems to be a near epidemic of sleepless nights. People having trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep. We worry about our jobs, ab...

I visited a friend in the hospital yesterday, and I asked him "On a scale of one to ten, how are you?" Today, I'm wondering about you who are listening by podcast. On a scale of one to 10, how are you? Whether you're feeling a one or a ten, I have a good word for you from scripture for the life of David, from a time when David is between a rock and a hard place, a time when David is in trouble aga...

I was waiting at a crosswalk the other day, and I pushed the button for the crosswalk to let me go, and there was this rude mechanical voice commanding... Wait, wait, wait. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't like to wait whether it's waiting in traffic, waiting in the supermarket line, are waiting because my computer doesn't seem to be working fast enough. The digital age is teaching me tha...