The Water from Rock Podcast

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...

Hey, things are really kind of crazy right now aren't they? And at a time when it feels like so many things are up for grabs, I want to look today at the one constant in this topsy turby world, the one thing that you and I that we can stake our lives on, and that is the character of our heavily, father. That God is unchanging. That God is unwavering. That you can count on God always being there fo...

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 abo...

Isn't it fascinating how a God made the human eye so that when we enter darkness the eye dilates the eye gets bigger to let in more light? Now, as I look at scripture, I see something similar happening that when God's people enter a dark time. The eyes of the heart dilate, they get bigger to let in more light. Much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going thr...

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 June 27, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and m...

Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Scottish poet Robert Burns long for that gift, but I see in God's word an even greater gift and that is the gift to see ourselves as God sees us. It could be huge for us. Then we're going to look at this today in the Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 6. Here is the back story... Download a transcript for the June 24, 2023 Selah episode **This...

I find myself in difficult times coming back again and again to stories about David and two psalms of David, we know more about David and the inner life, the inner workings of David, than any other person in scripture and that's why David makes for such wonderful case studies, for just about any life situation. Download a transcript for the June 22, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generat...

Delight and desire. That's right, I wanna talk with you for a few moments about delight and desire. Something we don't talk much about in sermons and in Christian circles, but something we really should talk about, and that is how important it is for our lives to be marked by delight and desire. That is to have the fire, the passion of delight and desire in us. Download a transcript for the June 2...

I'm looking at an email here from a dear friend who tells me that she's in a dark place that she's struggling with depression. Well, I know something about depression. I remember a time when the biggest victory of my day was just getting out of bed in the morning. And, and so I wanna share with you a passage of scripture that's been a real lifeline for me and, and I hope that it might encourage yo...

I have something very wonderful for you today, and it's all wrapped up in a little verse of scripture, 2 Peter 1:2. Here it is "May grace and peace, be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of our Lord, Jesus Christ, grace and peace." Well, you probably recognize that as a usual greeting in the New Testament, Grace and peace to you. In fact, 18 times we hear this greeting or a variation o...

Do you sense that God is calling you to do something? That God is calling you to do something, but you're not sure where it's going to lead you? Not sure what it will mean for you? Well, that sense of not knowing is something I do know something about as twice, I've announced... Download a transcript for the June 13, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and...

It has been said that every major portion of the Bible was written by someone going through a difficult time, to someone going through a difficult time. Now, I don't know whether or not that's always true, but I do know that those passages of the scripture that we love the most that those are the ones we turn to in time of trouble, and I don't think there is a passage of scripture that is more lov...

When your lawn mower is broken, you wanna get it fixed. When your washing machine is a broken you wanna get it fixed. When something is broken, we want it fixed. Okay, but what do we do when we are what's broken?  Download a transcript for the June 8, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

I've heard it said that I had on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but miles ahead in results...Well, most of those 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 of what I call the power of encouragement. As everybody today is facing something and need some encouragement,...

"May your life be interesting." That is said to be an old curse, wishing on someone an interesting life. But we're certainly living in interesting times, aren't we? Times that we don't always understand; times that we don't always know what's happening that we don't always know what to do. May your life be interesting for the next few moments with Bible in hand.  Download a transcript for the June...

Are you ever fearful about things happening in your life or in the lives of those whom you love? Maybe fearful about things going on in our country? And believe me, I know fear, as fear is after all, a natural reaction to things that we sense, threaten us that threaten our sense of safety... Download a transcript for the June 1, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial inte...

This morning as I was thinking about the difficult time through which our nation is going I thought of a children's sermon that I used to do years ago in which I would hold up in one hand, a thermometer and hold up in the other hand, a thermostat and I would ask the Children, are you being a thermometer or are you being a thermostat that is, are you reflecting what is going on around you?   Downlo...

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 May 27, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated b...

Do you remember as a child, the wonder you felt the amazement as you begin to become aware to the incredible world around you? When you first learned that funny-looking little cocoon thing hanging on a tree that would morph into a caterpillar, that would morph into a butterfly... Download a transcript for the May 25, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and...

What do you like to do when trouble strikes when you get bad news? What is your default, your preferred option for taking on trouble when the bottom drops out? When everything you thought you had nailed down is flying loose. That's what I want to think about with you for the, for the next few moments. What do we do when trouble strikes and to do that? Download a transcript for the May 23, 2023 Sel...

Do you know what today is? Yeah, I know it's Thursday. But you know what day this is that makes this one of the most important days on the calendar, one of the most important days in all of human history, the history of the whole cosmos, why my father would have called this a red letter day. This day has huge implications for you and me today and for all eternity, this is ascension day. Download a...

Where do you live? Where you live? Where you call home is something that I want to think about with you for the next few moments. And when I ask you, ‘where do you live?’ I'm not asking you what part of the country you live in or whether you live in an apartment, a house, a mobile home, a condominium, a tent. No, I have something much more foundational, much more essential when I ask you, where do...

I have encouraging words for you today. Encouraging words for you who love the Lord Jesus and are seeking to serve him. Encouraging words for you who teach a children's Sunday school class, who serve in the homeless shelter, who lead a home Bible study, who care for a home bound loved one, you who serve on the church board. And the encouraging words, I take straight from scripture... Download a tr...

Good ole Yogi Beira said that if you don't know where you're going, you might not get there. Well, I wonder today where you're going. Where you're going in life. Do you know what kind of person you want to be? That that is a good question to think about. And counselors say that would be good to every day to visualize... Download a transcript for the May 11, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was...

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. There were names, the world knows and names God knows. I'm gonna look at this today in the Book...