The Water from Rock Podcast

Do you ever read the Bible and you feel like you're reading today's headlines? Well, that's what I'm feeling today, as I read Psalm 11 where I see frightening things going on in the country as it says the good people are being targeted and the foundations are being destroyed... Download a transcript for the April 20, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and...

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... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found hel...

Henry David Thoreau said, "The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men." Good words, I think, as you and I live in a culture where it can be so tempting to take the path of least resistance, tempting to just go along, to get along. Well, I was in college, home for spring break, talking excitedly with my mom about what I was learning and what I was doing, and my mother list...

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...

Question, what do you like to call Jesus? How do you like to address Jesus when you pray? You call Jesus Lord. Savior, master, mighty God. Well, I'm gonna talk today about calling Jesus and knowing Jesus as brother. As our brother... Download a transcript for the April 11, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

It has been said that people can live 40 days without food, about three days without water. And about eight minutes without air but can only live for a second without hope. We desperately need hope. We live in some difficult times. And we need hope. But what do people do who have no hope... Download a transcript for the April 09, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial int...

I think of it as one of the perks of the profession of the minister, that I actually get to be with people in the ups and downs of life, to be with people on the mountain tops and to be with them in the valleys. I think of it is holy ground, to be with the people and the extremities of life, and to experience God's presence, and to learn a little bit more about God, and to learn a little bit more...

The children's book, "The Little Engine That Could" was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each ti...

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? When you think of Jesus, do...

Today is Holy Saturday. I know that Hallmark does not make greeting cards for Holy Saturday, and that Holy Saturday is not on most people's calendars, but it is the wisdom of Christians through the centuries to mark this day and to call this day holy as a day to pause, to pay attention, and to wait for what God is going to do. Why, just imagine yourself on that first Holy Saturday... Download a tr...

Every preacher that I've ever known, put in some long hours during Holy Week, burns some midnight oil, as we're wanting to communicate to make clear the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. And then on top of that, how do you go about explaining the meaning of these days to children who well, they might be thinking about Easter eggs and Cadbury chocolate bunnies. How do we explain the wonder, the gl...

You and I are in those wondrous days that Christians have long called Holy Week. I know you're not gonna find this week on school calendars or business calendars as they set aside time for what they like to call spring break. And even as Christians, we often skip Holy Week. We race right from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and we miss the glory, we miss the wonder, we miss the awesome holiness of th...

You and I are in those wondrous days that Christians have long called Holy Week. I know you're not gonna find this week on school calendars or business calendars as they set aside time for what they like to call spring break. And even as Christians, we often skip Holy Week. We race right from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and we miss the glory, we miss the wonder, we miss the awesome holiness of th...

How are you today? How's life treating you? 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, a power that you might never have realized.  Download a transcript for the March 23, 2024 Selah e...

Have you ever thought of your Christian life as a masterpiece? Have you ever heard God saying to you, you are my handiwork, you were special to me? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. Well, I hope that today you will hear God speaking this to you as I am in the New Testament book of Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10, and what I think has got to be one of the most amazing, most wonderful verses in all o...

Have you ever thought much about angels? That's right. I said angels. Have you ever thought much about the spirit beings that the Bible says that God has sent to help you on your way to heaven? I think that because they are spirits because they are invisible to our physical eyes, veiled to our five senses that we might not think much about angels and their vital importance in our life. But the Bib...

Do you ever struggle with prayer? Maybe struggle finding time to pray or struggle knowing how best to pray? I know I do. And I'm thinking that it's not by accident that God's people do struggle with prayer because Satan, the evil one, he doesn't attack us on the periphery. I mean, he goes straight for the jugular. He goes straight for the heart and that is wanting to stop you and me from spending...

Imagine getting a phone call from a post or market researcher in the voice on the other end of the line asks you, "What do you want most in life?" What would you say? I mean, really deep down in your heart of hearts, what is it that you really want in life? What we really want reveals a lot about us; what we really want becomes the programming of our lives, and here's where I've got good news agai...

Too soon old, too late smart. That's what I hear some people say. And well, I sure at hope that I would have been smarter by now... Do you ever feel that way? Things we wish we had known years ago... Well, I have a prayer today from the Bible that God might make us smarter, that God might wise us up to how to live... Download a transcript for the March 12, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was...

Do you ever feel like you've got more than you can handle? Do you sometimes feel loaded down or burdened needing rest? Let these words of Jesus in Matthew 11:28-30. Let them flow over you. "Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest, Take My yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls for my...

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? Download a transcript for the March 07, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be...

I have a friend that whenever I see him and ask him how he's doing. He always says, I'm blessed. I like that because it's a good reminder for me. That as followers of Jesus, that we are blessed. I wanna look at scripture for a few moments to get an inkling of just how blessed you and I are. I'm looking at... Download a transcript for the March 05, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated...

Do you ever feel like your life is going in circles? Ever fear that then maybe you're going nowhere? I mean, something happens to you out of the blue and you can't make any sense of it. Doesn’t it have any rhyme or reason to it. And sadly, today's post Christian culture, it's leaving many people feeling like Shakespeare's Macbeth- that life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signify...

I wonder if I've seen your name in the headlines? You haven't seen mine. But I say this because I have read enough headlines and I have read enough Bible to know that most names that make headlines, whether or not all that important... And names that are important, whether you say, don't make headlines. Download a transcript for the February 29, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated b...

I woke this morning with the most wonderful thought, I woke with the thought that I have a heavenly Father who loves me and who cares for me in every detail of my life. And that was a real God-send for me this morning, because while the last week has a been especially difficult, I woke this morning thinking about Jesus words in John 15:1. Download a transcript for the February 24, 2024 Selah episo...