The Water from Rock Podcast

You know that Energizer Bunny we see on TV? The pink bunny pounding the drum, wearing sunglasses and flip-flops who just keeps going and going and going? Well, I've got a verse of scripture today in which the Apostle Paul tells how the Holy Spirit can keep you and me going even when things are going against us, how the Holy Spirit can keep us going and going and going... Download a transcript for...

How are you picturing God today? I mean in your mind's eye, are you seeing God as smiling at you? Is God, is he frowning? That is does God look disappointed in you? Does God look like he's ticked off? Well, the reason why I'm asking is because how you and I picture God is just about the most important thing about us. Because how we picture God affects how we look at life, how we look at ourselves,...

Between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, up a creek without a paddle. We all have ways of describing, facing trouble, facing difficult problems, so if you find yourself in any of those hard places today or anywhere near them, I have some encouraging words for you from God's word... Download a transcript for the October 26, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was g...

Have you noticed how some people come through trials better while other people come through trials bitter? Better or bitter. Which one will be for you? Which will it be for me? This is something I wanna think about today and to see how you and I might emerge better from the trials we're facing... Download a transcript for the October 24, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artifi...

I'm gonna talk with you for a few moments about something that I do not understand, something that is beyond comprehension, that is beyond our ability to grasp, to fathom. And that is how much Jesus loves you and me. That Jesus loves you just as you are. That Jesus loves you in ways that you cannot begin to know, in ways that you cannot imagine, and I pray for you that in the next few moments that...

I do have more good news today. It's good news for anyone whose life might be falling a part, for anyone feeling at their wits end, for anyone, well, who can't see a way ahead. This good news is from the book of Psalms, from a psalm of David, when it looks like David is not gonna be king any longer, it looks like David's career was coming to an end, and even looks like David's life may be coming t...

You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think you would be listening to the Selah podcast, but that you have a real hunger and thirst for God, you love God, and are probably growing in your understanding of God's love for you. And yet as you were growing in your understanding of how wonderful God is, you are growing in your understanding of... Download a transcript for the October 17,...

Some time ago, I was browsing in an antique store and a frankly, I was surprised, and some of the things they were calling antiques that I had actually gone up with, but oh well. I would find something that I did not know what it was, and I would ask the shop owner what was this thing for? Or what was its purpose? Because you know, there was something about being human that we want to know purpose...

I am so grateful to my mother, who was the first person to introduce me to the book of Psalms. I can remember the day when my mother took a Bible in hand and she opened it up and she showed me right there in the middle of the Bible, you can find the book of Psalms. She said, you know, it's right there in the middle is like God wanted the Psalms, to be easy for us to find. And I've been turning to...

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. We find this power in a prayer of the Apostle Paul in...

What would you say that you are in your Christian life? Would you say that you've arrived... What would you say that you are right where you have wanted to be? Or would you say, no, I've not arrived? I know that there is still more... So much more of Jesus to know. Well, I wanna talk for a few moments about the joy, the joy of not having arrived, the joy of knowing there are still so much more of...

Educator, Steven Covey has said that the main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. Now, his words really speak to me today as I find it so easy to get distracted from the main thing in life, that one all important thing that matters most. I can so easily lose sight of that, and I think that's why I am so drawn to a scripture text that I wanna look at today as David models keeping the m...

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 Oc...

I wish you could have known my friend Bob. Bob was a wonderful and gracious man, but Bob wasn't always like that. I mean, Bob would have been the first to tell you. Bob wasn't born that way, he wasn't raised that way, he hadn't always been that way. But as Bob told it, his life had been one train wreck after another. He was angry, bitter, unhappy, and then finally, Bob hits bottom and he turns to...

Do you ever wonder if your life is just going around in circles? Then maybe, now you hate to think it, but maybe you're just going nowhere? I mean, this thing happens to you and then there's that thing that happens to you. Things come at you from out of the blue and you wonder, you wonder if there is any sense to it, any rhyme or reason. Download a transcript for the September 28, 2023 Selah episo...

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 liste...

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...

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 ag...

I'm gonna share with you today a brief scripture from the Old Testament Book of Job, whose name is, well, it's synonymous with suffering. And with all the questions that go with suffering, and what we might learn from suffering... Download a transcript for the September 19, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Have you ever wondered why you're here? Why God put you here? Why now at this time, with your particular gifts and talents, with your life situation, with the things that have happened to you? Why are you here? Mark Twain said, the two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. Why? That is a big question. And I've talked to a lot of people over the ye...

I was surprised one day last week, when I walked into a large chain bookstore and there was what was called the self-help section of books. Now, I have not been in the bookstore for quite a while, and the self-help section was new to me. And I looked and I saw that the self-help section of books, it was larger than the history section. Larger than a science section... Than the biography section......

Have a word for you today. It's the word peace. Is there a more lovely, a more wonderful word than peace? That's why early Christians loved to greet one another with the word peace because that's what they had experienced, peace. The Bible calls God the God of peace. And Jesus it calls the Prince of Peace. Imagine Jesus standing in a storm-rocked boat, commanding the waves, the wind, with the word...

Wow, have you seen the news today? Well, maybe you don't wanna go there, but these are troubling times, aren't they? A violence, lawlessness, civil disorder, attacks on just good old-fashioned morality, and it feels like politics is open warfare. So what is a follower of Jesus to do? Download a transcript for the September 9, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelli...

I'm thinking about that old fable about how you boil a frog... If you put a frog into boiling water, he's out of there, but if you put the frog into tepid lukewarm water well it feels good, and then you just start turning up, not too fast, but slowly, slowly... And the first thing you know you're having frog for dinner. Well, you probably know what I'm getting at, and that is that you and I can sl...

A few years ago, my wife and I spent New Year's in Rosemary Beach, Florida, with our kids and grandkids where we discovered the Sugar Shack. That has to be the largest candy store in the world. I mean, I've never seen so much candy aisles and aisles of sugar. You cannot imagine how much candy there is, and you should have seen the eyes of my grandkids and Grandpa. And I tell you that because I oft...