The Water from Rock Podcast

The other day I was driving in my car, when a warning light on the dashboard lit up, and the warning like told me that I was about out of gas. I had not been paying attention, I'd gotten distracted and I did not realize I was seriously running on empty. I mean I didn't have far to go. Well, I wonder about you today, are there any warning lights on the dashboard of your life, is there anything tell...

I have a Bible verse that I wanna share with you today for very personal reasons, as this verse changed my life, it is a verse that got me going as a Christian, and it's a verse that keeps me going today. Download a transcript for the August 30, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Do you ever feel like, well, maybe like you're a disappointment to God? I mean, try as you may you like you just can't get it together. You believe and you doubt...You hope and you get discouraged…You feel bad about feeling good…you feel guilty about not feeling guilty…You re-dedicate your life and you're still struggling... Download a transcript for the August 29, 2023 Selah episode **This transc...

How about let's take a break today? I should take a little breather, a pause from the news, from the over-stimulation, that feeling of having too much to do, and let's reboot. Let's just turn everything off for a bit, let's put on hold what needs to be done so that we can spend time with our heavenly Father. Download a transcript for the August 26, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generate...

To boldly go where no man has gone before. Do you remember that the challenge, the mission that begin each episode of Star Trek? Well, I wanna know how those words sound to you today... To go where you've never gone before. Do they sound exciting? Do they sound well, scary? In this time of pandemic, lock down school closures, unemployment, social unrest, we're all going where we've never gone befo...

“Hey, I know what you're going through.” I wonder, has anyone ever said those words to you. I mean, your world has been turned upside down, you're just trying to put one foot in front of another, and someone who is, well, they were well-meaning, they had good intentions, they were only wanting to help and they say, ‘I know what you're going through.’ Really, you know what I'm going through? Downlo...

Do you remember falling in love? Of course you do! I mean, who can forget falling in love?...Today, I attempt to talk about something that is so amazing, it is so incredibly wonderful that I would not dare to go here, except that Jesus leads us here.  Download a transcript for the August 19, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

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 ma...

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, The Bible calls hope the anchor of the soul, because Hope anchors us who gives a s...

"I think I know you." This what a man said to me recently as we were introduced. I think I know you Really? You know me? That can actually be kind of scary to have someone say to you, I know you... For the next few moments, I want us to think about being known known by God and how that offers us an incredible opportunity for growth as there is great untapped potential in being known by God. I find...

These are the times that try men's souls. That's what Thomas Payne in the darkest days of our nation's founding, and I do not think that I would be exaggerating to say that you and I are living in times that try our souls. This is a hard time. This is a difficult time. This is big history. But I was thinking the other day about the men and women that I most admire, those to whom I look for inspira...

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. Download a...

Oh decisions, decisions. Life seems filled with decisions, doesn't it? Should I quit this job? Where should we live? Should we send the kids back to school? Should we down scale? Where does God want me to serve Him? Well, one might wish for the wisdom of Solomon...  Download a transcript for the August 5, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be...

Hey. How about some good news? Would you like some? Well, I've got good news for you. You did nothing to make God love you, and you can't do anything to make him stop. That's the clear message of a Psalm I'm looking at today and that I wanna pass on to you. This is a psalm that in Jesus’ day was a favorite, one that they often sang. We don't talk about this so much today, and I think that's becaus...

Do you ever struggle with whether or not God really forgives you? Perhaps you know in your head that God forgives you. Your theology tells you that God forgives you, but it just hasn't sunk in yet. The brain has not notified your heart, and so you live with this sense of guilt, of shame, of disappointment by God. Download a transcript for the August 1, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was gene...

I have in mind, any of you who feel like you're facing an impossible task. You know that God has called you to something. But you're feeling that maybe you don't have the strength, the ability, the smarts to get it done. Well, I know pastors who are feeling they're facing an impossible task... Download a transcript for the July 29, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial i...

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 ban especially difficult, I woke this morning thinking about Jesus’ words in John 15:1... Download a transcript for the July 27, 2023 Selah episode...

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 ho...

Now, I'm thinking that you have probably had some people do you wrong, that there have been some people who have taken advantage of you, misused you, told lies about you. Am I right? And maybe just maybe you're having a hard time letting go of all that, a hard time moving on. A hard time seeing good in it. Hey, well join the club. Download a transcript for the July 20, 2023 Selah episode **This tr...

Well, I am back in the book of Psalms today, needing to be in the book of Psalms today. As I started out the day feeling confused, upset by the news, by what's going on in the world, and I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had. She said that there's a psalm for just about ever...

My son's family has a wonderful dog that's an Australian Shepherd. Now, I don't know if you've ever had any experience with an Australian Shepherd, but just let me tell you this, it needs a job to do. It needs to work. It's active. And you know that's not just something that we would say of Australian Shepherds, it's true of we humans too, that we need a job, we need to be doing something that cou...

I have a God sighting I want to share with you today. My God sighting is a, is a friend who has cancer and has been going through lots of tests, lots of treatment, weeks of chemotherapy, lots of expense and weeks of not knowing what's ahead. And she says that during this very difficult time that she has actually been drawn closer to God. Download a transcript for the July 15, 2023 Selah episode **...

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,...

How much would you pay for peace of mind? You have an idea of what you would pay for food, for housing, for health care, what you would pay for gasoline to fill up your car? But how much would you pay for peace of mind? Download a transcript for the July 11, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Do you ever wonder what God is up to? Do you wonder what God is thinking? What does God have in mind with our troubles and trials? As a pastor and chaplain, I've seen quite a bit of pain and suffering up close, and I could guess that I could say that I've had, well, my share of pain and suffering too. And there was a passage of scripture that I have underlined in my Bible, a big star beside it, a...