The Water from Rock Podcast

Some people say that the most important question in life is “Does God exist?”, but there is an even more important question that I wanna take up today, and that is the question “Do you know the God that exists as it is the clear, undeniable un-mistakable message of the Bible that through Jesus Christ, you and I can know, we can enter into a personal, intimate relationship with God?” Download a tra...

Wow. Can you believe it? It's Christmas Eve. I just love this day. From the time I was a little boy, the trajectory of my whole year was headed towards this day. And on this Christmas Eve, there was so many verses of scripture. I wish I had time to share with you so many wonderful Christmas Eve stories that, that I hardly know where to begin. But I do want to tell you a Christmas Eve story that......

It was during the Great Depression that John Niles was searching the back countries and hills of Appalachia. He was looking for original folk music, and one day he comes to this little white spot on the road, known as Murphy, North Carolina, and happens on a band of rather ragged itinerant evangelists, and just before a Preacher Morgan is to get up on the back side of his car and preach, his littl...

You know, I think I began to see through Santa Claus when I was a boy, and one day just before Christmas, I was with my mom in a department store, and there I see Santa Claus, and then I go with my mom to another store, well, where I see Santa Claus again in that store. But you know, Santa Claus did not look anything like what he looked like in the other store... Download a transcript for the Dece...

How was your vision today? How are you seeing what is going on around you? Eye doctors recommend what they call the 20 20 20 rule to see better. That is every 20 minutes, we look away from what we're doing to look at something at least 20 ft away for 20 seconds. That is the 20 20 20 rule for resting and refocusing in our eyes to give us a better vision of what is going on around us. But you know,...

Sunday school teacher, Mrs Wilson was walking from desk to desk watching her pupils working on their lessons. When she paused at one desk where, where there was a little boy, he was just working away, and she asked the boy... Download a transcript for the December 16, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than the whole world. That's what CS Lewis said of the Christmas that you and I are getting ready to celebrate. The eternal God becoming a little child, the infinite made finite God coming down to lift us up. Something really big happened in that stable. And that is what I want to reflect on for a few moments with you... Download a tr...

The Lord be with you. And I also want to say happy Hanukkah. That's right. I am a Christian who likes to celebrate Hanukkah because our Lord Jesus Christ celebrated Hanukkah. And this year I am joining my Jewish friends and neighbors in bold defiance of anti Semitism to celebrate Hanukkah, but being a Christian, well, of course, I want to look to the New Testament to see if it has anything to say...

The old song asks, “Are you facing rivers you think are impossible? Mountains you can't tunnel through?” So how about it? I mean, could that be you today? If it is, I mean, if you're going through a difficult time, I have some good news for you as I'm looking at the word of God through the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 43. Download a transcript for the December 9, 2023 Selah episode **This transc...

How about a little pep talk today? Could you use one? I mean, a little encouragement. Well, I know that I can use it. I mean, I was just looking at news of the world and which isn't so good. So in the midst of all of this, here's the pep talk, the encouragement, a good word for you and for me, straight from God's Word. Download a transcript for the December 7, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript...

I've heard it said that a pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but miles ahead in results. Well, most of us have probably needed a good kick in the pants a time or two, you know, you just can't say enough good about the power of the pat on the back or what I call the power of encouragement. Download a transcript for the December 5, 2023 Selah episode **This tra...

Did you see that moon the other night? Wow. I, I mean it was about two o'clock in the morning and moonlight comes streaming through our bedroom window and, and I just had to get up and go outside and look up at the moon. I mean, there it was, I was, I was moonstruck. I was mesmerized. Download a transcript for the December 2, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelli...

Do you sometimes feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders? I mean, do you sometimes feel like everything depends on you that, that if you let go for just a moment that it all comes crashing down? Well, if you ever felt the weight of the world or you know, someone who does I have a scripture for you? And well, it's for me too. It's Psalm 127 A Psalm by Solomon. That's right, Sol...

And a thumbs up! A thumbs up from God to all Jesus followers, a thumbs up that all is well, and the thumbs up to keep you looking up, looking up to Jesus seated at the right hand of God. This week we observe the 40-day mark after Jesus' resurrection. The day when Jesus ascended to Heaven and what's more scripture tells us that Jesus ascended with you, that Jesus ascended to take his place with you...

Well, here we are a couple of days after Thanksgiving and I'm hoping that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and that you've made your way through Black Friday and all of that. But you know our reason for Thanksgiving, well, it, it keeps right on going because, we, we have so much to be thankful for. I've heard it said that... Download a transcript for the Novmeber 25, 2023 Selah episode **This...

Happy Thanksgiving. You know, one of the things that I'm thankful for today is you. Thank you for listening to the Selah podcast. As, as I always look forward to getting to share these few moments with you. I believe that it's significant that the word thank, which we're doing today, that the word thank it comes from the same root word from which we get our word think.. Download a transcript for t...

It's Thanksgiving week, one of my absolute favorite times of the year. This is a week that, that I really like to celebrate. I know that things are crazy in the world. But you know, we all need to take some time to celebrate, to celebrate God and the goodness of life. But even in the midst of trouble, it's important that you and I make the decision to celebrate. Download a transcript for the Novem...

You might not make the front page news today. You might not get on any of the cable news channels. But I want you to see how you can make God's scrapbook of very special people to God and how you can do something today that will last forever...   Download a transcript for the November 18, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

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 No...

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, so let's talk about trials today and how followers of Jesus think about our trials. Download a transcript for the November 14, 2...

I have a God sighting that I want to share with you today. My God sighting is the people that I'm hearing say that through the difficult time that our nation has been going. I mean, through the COVID epidemic, the political turmoil, the economic upheaval, all the uncertainty that these people are saying that they have actually been drawn closer to God through this time. That they find themselves s...

Hey, I wish I could sit down with you and talk with you who are listening and get to know you. Because I know you're listening today, not because I'm anyone famous, well-known, I'm not, but I know you're listening because you love Jesus. And here's this guy who loves Jesus too, and he likes to talk about Jesus, you and I, we had this bond between us, and that's why I wanna talk with you today abou...

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, as they look to the coming of Jesus.....

Do you ever wonder where all this is headed, I mean, what we're seeing day after day on the news, a worldwide pandemic, economic chaos, and then on top of all that, what seems almost a demonic outbreak of violence and lawless is in our country. Where is it going? What are we going to end up? Download a transcript for the November 4, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial...

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, you just list the kinds of things that you put on a resume, things that you feel good about in your life, things for which people pat you on the back. I mean things you'd want your mom like about you.....