The Water from Rock Podcast

I wanna take a moment to tell you about my mom and an important spirit of truth that I learned from her. Why, anyone who knew my mother, one of the first things I think anyone would ever say of her is that she had a green thumb. I really do think that grass really did grow up greener on our side of the fence because my mom had a way of making the desert bloom with roses, daisies, poppies and more....

Does guilt sometimes weigh heavy on you? Are you ever burdened about things you have done or maybe burdened about things you haven't done? And you long to know if God really does forgive you, perhaps, you know, in your head that God forgives you, but your head hasn't yet notified your heart... Download a transcript for the February 20, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artifici...

Do you have any phobias? I mean, do you have an excessive fear of something? Well, I can claim a couple of phobias including ophidiophobia. That is fear of snakes. I mean, I'm not staying around long enough to find out if a snake or is whether he's poisonous or not. I mean, I'm getting out of there. But of the many phobias, the most terrifying, the most frightening is... Download a transcript for...

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. That's what Stephen Covey advises in his best selling book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. You know those words often come to my mind as I battle distractions and all those things that would cause me to lose sight of the main thing in life that that which matters most....

“Once upon a time…” Those four words, once upon a time, have charmed us have drawn us in from when we were little Children. Because once upon a time means that we're going to get to hear a story. We love stories. Stories are powerful to mold us to shape us. Jesus loved to tell stories and I have a story for you today and it's a true story. It, it's a true once upon a time that has been meaningful...

Henry Ford said that history is one darn thing after another. What is it? I mean, is history going nowhere? Is our world doomed? Do you ever wonder about that? Well, I'm looking at today's news here and you know, the world seems kind of crazy right now, doesn't it? Download a transcript for the February 10, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not b...

You know how they say that the storms of life make our roots go deeper? The storms make our roots go deeper into God, deeper and deeper into God's love for us. Well, you know, I'm actually getting to see that lived out in the lives of some friends right now who are going through difficult times. I mean, really hard times. So one of them fighting cancer and dealing with the chemotherapy, the radiat...

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...

Is there a time in your life when God's presence has been especially real to you? A time when you could just feel God right there with you? That's a precious time when God's presence is more than just an assumption in our heads, but an awareness in our heart. There came a time in my walk with God, when I longed to know I had to know God with me, in the way I'd been taught to sing as a boy about......

I'm holding here my mother's well-read, well-worn Bible, looking at and praying over one of my favorite Bible passages and from the look in my mother's Bible, it must have been one of her favorites as it is well marked up and underlined and starred... Download a transcript for the February 01, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurat...

In conversations that I've had with some friends recently I'm, I'm hearing from people who, well, they feel like they've hit the wall in life's marathon. And so for the next few moments, I, I wanna read and reflect on a very rich passage of scripture that's helped me and it's helped a lot of people who at times feel like they've hit the wall. Download a transcript for the January 30, 2024 Selah ep...

Do you ever wonder why I begin each Selah podcast with the words, ‘the Lord be with you?’ Well, I do that because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone. I don't say those words as a wish for you as a prayer for you, but I say those words as a blessing as a declaration of God's purpose. God's desire to bless you. ‘The Lord be with you’ is... Download a transcript for the January 27, 2024 Sela...

How would you like to hear a good song today? I'll spare you my singing. But I really have a beautiful song for you. You know how the Bible it's it's filled with songs. Well, this this song is one of my favorites. It's, it's a song that is found at the beginning of the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 26 where Isaiah is putting on his prophets glasses and Isaiah is telling about a song that the people o...

Do you have a favorite Bible verse? I know that might be like asking you if you have a favorite child or grandchild- you love them all. But is there a verse that you come back to again and again? The verse that picks you up when you have fallen. A verse that’s like the North Star when you’ve lost your way. The verse I want to share with you today, I am sharing for a very personal reason... Downloa...

How do you picture God today? You see, God is smiling at you or is God frowning? For a long time, I pictured God as frowning at me, it's like I thought that God was always ticked off at me that I wasn't dedicated enough that I didn't pray enough, I didn't read my Bible enough. For you see sometime early in my Christian life, I got infected, infected by legalism, that is thinking that we are put ri...

I have a question for you and it is surely one of life's most important questions. And the question is, what are your thoughts about one day standing before God? Is that a thought that frightens you or is that a thought that thrills you excites you as you think about one day seeing your Savior? Download a transcript for the January 18, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artifici...

It has been said a person can live 40 days without food three days without water, eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope. And I'm wondering how you're doing on hope today. Are you hopeful? For the next few moments, I wanna share from God's Word some thoughts about hope, hope in difficult times... Download a transcript for the January 16, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript wa...

I don't know if you've heard, but there's a story going around about, about Satan having a big yard sale. Satan is selling off his tools, he's selling off pride, envy, jealousy, hatred, things like that. And they say the demons are coming from everywhere wanting to buy his tools. And, and when one demon asks about a tool that's lying over all by itself in a corner, Satan says, "No..." Download a t...

Have you ever been in an earthquake? Everything around you is shaking the ground under your feet. It feels like jello. You don't know what to do. You don't know where to run. Well, maybe you've not lived through a real literal earthquake, but I'm wondering, have you ever lived through a time that just really shook you? Download a transcript for the January 11, 2024 Selah episode **This transcript...

Do you long for the reality of God to be more real for you? Do you long to experience more of God in your daily living? I know I do. And I'm thinking that you might as well as we begin this new year. And so I want to pass on to you what has become a very important spiritual discipline for me. One that really does make the reality of God more real for me... Download a transcript for the January 9,...

The Lord be with you in these opening days of January as a new year lies before us. So I want to suggest the resolution for your year, something that I would really like for you to consider for 2024, and in suggesting this resolution, I am going to under promise and over deliver. I say this knowing that we ministers often, well, we overpromise and we under deliver. I mean, you've heard the sermons...

I became a birdwatcher, well, because Jesus told me to. I mean, Jesus said, “Consider the birds of the air.” Now, the Greek word translated here is consider it is a vivid, intense word. That means a lot more than just to look at. It means a locked in, sustained, concentrated watching. I mean, you can't take your eyes off what you're seeing... Download a transcript for the January 04, 2024 Selah ep...

It was the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar who established January 1 as New Year's Day, as Julius Caesar thought that the month January named after the Roman God, Janus, that's spelled Jan us. Well, he thought this day as being the door to the year. He thought that because the Roman God Janus was the deity watching over doorways, watching over all entrances and exits. And, and that's the reason why Ja...

Well, here we are New Years Eve. And 2023 has been quite a year, hasn't it? And we wonder what the new year will bring and how are you feeling about the future. Well, on this last day of the year, I wanna pull up a chair and sit alongside the psalmist David-  King David- the man whom the Bible twice calls a man after God's own heart and a man who fulfilled the purpose of God and his generation. Do...

Merry Christmas. That's right. I'm still saying Merry Christmas. I'm in the Christmas spirit. But I guess that the gifts have probably all been opened by now and there's nothing left under the tree and most of the turkey and ham are gone. And, but I just hope you had a wonderful Christmas celebration of our savior's birth. And, but I know that the days after Christmas that people do talk sometimes...