The Water from Rock Podcast: Recent Episodes
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I'm going get right to it. I want to read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus...
Download a transcript for the October 12, 2024 Selah episode
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It's been said that there was a little difference in people, but that little difference can make a very big difference. I'm going to talk for a few moments about a man who was a little different than those around him, but that little difference made a big difference for him for his people, and it can for you and me too...
Download a transcript for the October 10, 2024 Selah episode
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Whether it's waiting in traffic, waiting in the supermarket line, or waiting because my computer doesn't seem to be working fast enough. The digital age is teaching me that waiting is bad for me, that the waiting is keeping me from getting what I want, that waiting is holding me back from the good life. And I along with a lot of other people, I don't want to wait. I want it now, but then I see in the Bible, I see God's people waiting...
Download a transcript for the October 08, 2024 Selah episode
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Albert Einstein said that he thought the most important question facing humanity was if the universe was friendly... Well, that is an interesting question, isn't it? Asked by a man, certainly a genius, but a man who didn't think much beyond atoms and electrons and physical existence... No, I have a better question. A more wonderful question. And that is the question asked by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 8, verse 31...
Download a transcript for the October 05, 2024 Selah episode
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It's two o'clock at night. You can't sleep. You toss and turn. The night seems so dark and you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be at two o'clock on a dark night? Are you wait nervously in the doctor's office, wringing your hands fearful about what the test results are going to show? And you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be?
Download a transcript for the October 03, 2024 Selah episode
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Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take us in. Where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are...
Download a transcript for the October 01, 2024 Selah episode
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Your broken places are where my light shines through. It was like... It was like the spirit of God of whispered that to me once as I was feeling very broken, it was a time of darkness for me. The feeling that things were out of control, and I sense the calm voice of God's Spirit saying, Your broken places are where my light shines through. And I thought about that for a bit, and I remember the Bible story I learned in children Sunday school about Gideon.
Download a transcript for the September 28, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the September 26, 2024 Selah episode
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My wife and I, we were in the wilderness of northern New Mexico, and God spoke to me as on a clear night, far from city lights, we saw the Milky Way spread out before us, like I had never seen the Milky Way. And God spoke to me...
Download a transcript for the September 24, 2024 Selah episode
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Stephen Covey, in his best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People says that one of those habits is beginning with the end in view. That is having a clear idea of where you want your life to go, where you want to be, when you get to be to where you're going, and where you want to be at the end. People are often surprised when I tell them that some of the happiest, most fulfilling years of my life were the years...
Download a transcript for the September 21, 2024 Selah episode
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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 passage that helps me a lot to get a glimpse of what God is up to in our affliction and pain...
Download a transcript for the September 19, 2024 Selah episode
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Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know, what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again, waiting for God...
Download a transcript for the September 17, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone. I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It would go like this...
Download a transcript for the September 14, 2024 Selah episode
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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 want to pass on to you.
Download a transcript for the September 12, 2024 Selah episode
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I have something very wonderful for you today, and it's all wrapped up in a little verse of scripture, 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 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"...
Download a transcript for the September 10, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you sense that God is calling you to do something? The 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 my resignation to church is saying, I know what God is calling me from, but I do not know what God is calling me to...
Download a transcript for the September 7, 2024 Selah episode
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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 the Psalms for the rest of my life...
Download a transcript for the September 5, 2024 Selah episode
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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 September 03, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the August 31, 2024 Selah episode
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...You know, there's something about being human that we want to know purpose. We want to know what something is for, and as a pastor and chaplain I have talked with many people over the years who were wanting to know their purpose. They were wanting to know what they were here for...
Download a transcript for the August 29, 2024 Selah episode
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You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think he 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 August 27, 2024 Selah episode
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How are you picturing God today? I mean in your mind's eye, are you seeing God as smiling at you? Is God 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...
Download a transcript for the August 24, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the August 22, 2024 Selah episode
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Did you see that moon last night? Wow, I mean, about 2:00 AM moonlight comes into our window, and I just had to get up and go outside and look at it, and there it was, I was moonstruck, I was mesmerized, and you know, they say that moon will be full for the next three nights if you wanna go out and look at it. But last night as I looked up at the moon...
Download a transcript for the August 20, 2024 Selah episode
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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 August 17, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Well, if you do, don't feel your the Lone Ranger, it seems the coronavirus pandemic has become a kronosomia pandemic, an epidemic of people having trouble sleeping, trouble following asleep, trouble staying the sleep...
Download a transcript for the August 15, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can...
Download a transcript for the August 13, 2024 Selah episode
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Why do bad things happen? The good people pay. That's a question that I and a lot of people struggle with. Why, our Lord Jesus Christ struggled with it on the cross. Why, God, why have you forsaken me? As a pastor and chaplain, I've been with people in all kinds of suffering: physically, emotionally, spiritually and together we ask why.
Download a transcript for the August 10, 2024 Selah episode
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“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” Perhaps you recognize those as the words of the little engine in that popular children's story The Little Engine that Could.
Download a transcript for the August 8, 2024 Selah episode
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“Tell me what the world is saying today and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.” Those are the words of philosopher theologian Francis Schafer. I think that his words reminds us that as Christians, you and I are...
Download a transcript for the August 6, 2024 Selah episode
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What most people did not know was at one of my mom's secrets as a gardener, was my mom had a compost pit that was out behind the house, and into that compost pit, my mom would put cuttings from the garden, grass clippings, piles of dead leaves, kitchen scraps...And my mom would look for it. She would hunt it down to put it into her compost pit, and then my mom would put some dirt over the pile and should sprinkle some water over it and she would wait...
Download a transcript for the August 3, 2024 Selah episode
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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, 2024 Selah episode
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Most of us, even as Christians, who do believe God's good news, we know what it is sometimes a struggle with the guilt to feel that we are forgiven. I wanna share a verse with you that really helps me a lot in all of this, and it's Romans 8:1.
Download a transcript for the July 30, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever get the feeling that Jesus might need to get a new press agent? And that he might need a new PR person to help him spin his message in this time of self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-esteem? What are we to make of Jesus talking so much about denying self and taking up crosses to follow him? How do you spin that? How good does that pull in a “me” generation? It is a curious, should I say, a provocative message about how to find real life, but it's a message that can change our lives...
Download a transcript for the July 27, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the July 25, 2024 Selah episode
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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 July 23, 2024 Selah episode
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I'm gonna get right to it. I wanna read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus. First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God...
Download a transcript for the July 20, 2024 Selah episode
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Now, you may not make the front page news today, and you may not get on cable news, but I want us to see how you can make God's scrapbook of very special people, and how you can do something today that will last forever. I'm looking at the Old Testament prophet Malachi, who is writing at a time not so unlike our time...
Download a transcript for the July 18, 2024 Selah episode
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These are challenging times, aren't they? These past weeks we've been bombarded with with difficult news and it can be hard to find peace with the constant stream of late breaking news. So for the next few moments, I wanna step back, take a breath and to be reminded of a powerful truth from God's word when the world feels so uncertain, so unstable...
Download a transcript for the July 16, 2024 Selah episode
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Tears are a language God understands. Those are the words of a worship song. I learned a few years ago and, and words that have come to mean a lot to me. Tears are a language God understands. I want to talk with you for the next few moments about tears and how God does understand and God cares.
Download a transcript for the July 13, 2024 Selah episode
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Mark Twain said that the two most important days in your life or the day that you're born and the day that you find out why. How about you? Have you found out your “why” yet? Have you found out why you were born? Why, why God put you here at this time and place with Bible in hand? I want to take the next few moments to explore the why...
Download a transcript for the July 11, 2024 Selah episode
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Elizabeth Elliott in her fine book titled Suffering Is Never for Nothing, she says the deepest things I've learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering and out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come. The deepest things I know about God. How about you today? Could you say that? That the deepest things you know about God and the deepest things you have learned about life that it's come to you from your deepest suffering...
Download a transcript for the July 9, 2024 Selah episode
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I think I'd always known that to have hope for the future was important, but I've not known how essential, how necessary it is to have hope until I was a chaplain for hospice. Spending time with people who measured out the future in weeks days and some even in hours, the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky said that to live without hope is to cease to live.
Download a transcript for the July 6, 2024 Selah episode
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“When in the course of human events…” I've always thrilled to the sound of those words beginning our Declaration of Independence and, and the words that follow about how you and I are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Download a transcript for the July 4, 2024 Selah episode
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David and Goliath. What a story. It's a story a lot of us have loved from the time that we were little kids. A story that thrills us, that inspires us. It is a classic underdog story where against all odds, a young shepherd boy, he takes on and he defeats the giant warrior Goliath and he sends the Philistines running. Even people who don't know much about the Bible, well, they know the story of David and Goliath, but...
Download a transcript for the July 02, 2024 Selah episode
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Did you know that the most important conversation you're going to have today is that conversation that you'll be having with yourself today? You're going to have conversations with yourself about the past. You will talk to yourself about the future. You'll be talking to yourself about all that's going on in your life. And no one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you as much as you talk to yourself.
Download a transcript for the June 29, 2024 Selah episode
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The agony of the tea leaves is what sets apart really good tea from the tasteless tea bags in our supermarkets. The agony describes the writhing, the twisting, the unfurling of tea leaves as boiling water is poured over them. And it is in that moment of agony that...
Download a transcript for the June 27, 2024 Selah episode
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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 every life situation, and you know...
Download a transcript for the June 25, 2024 Selah episode
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John Wooden is remembered as one of the greatest coaches in sports history. Although he's long gone from us, he continues to inspire with his emphasis on fundamentals, teamwork and character. John Wooden said that the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. What we do when no one is watching is something I've been thinking about recently and something that I want to think aloud with you for the next few moments.
Download a transcript for the June 22, 2024 Selah episode
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I've heard it said that there were three kinds of prayer: there's “help”, there's “thanks”, and there's “wow.” And it's a “wow” kind of prayer that I'm praying today. And a “wow” prayer that I'm eager to share with you is a, there is a sense of astonishment, amazement.
Download a transcript for the June 19, 2024 Selah episode
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“Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy,” so prayed Little Joyce in that wonderful book, Children's Letters to God. And I wonder about you today. Have you ever prayed like little Joyce where you ask God for one thing? And you're left confused and, and not very happy with what God gave you?
Download a transcript for the June 18, 2024 Selah episode
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Caught between a rock and a hard place; up a creek without a paddle. Well, we all have sayings, catchphrases for those times when, when we're feeling in over our heads. And what to do in life's hard times is what I want to talk with you about for the next few moments.
Download a transcript for the June 15, 2024 Selah episode
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How is your hope for the future right now? I don't know what you're going through today or all that is happening in your life, but how is your hope? I'm asking that because from what I've experienced, when you've lost hope, you've lost most everything. I read somewhere that...
Download a transcript for the June 13, 2024 Selah episode
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I want to begin today with a question for you. Which is greater, your sins or God's grace? Which is greater, more powerful, more commanding the, the sum total of all of your sins or God's grace?
Download a transcript for the June 11, 2024 Selah episode
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Isn't it fascinating how 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 like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.
Download a transcript for the June 08, 2024 Selah episode
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Did you ever play the child game where you take a flower and you begin to pluck off the petals to see if someone loves you with each pedal you pluck? You say, she loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not until you get to the last pedal, and you sure hope, or at least I hope the last pedal would be... She loves me. Now, I talk to a lot of people, a lot of Christians who are playing a game like that with God...
Download a transcript for the June 6, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son died from cancer? Actually, I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to...
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Do you ever give your all in service to the Lord and then feel it wasn't enough? You gave it your best and it just didn't seem good enough to you. You think of all the ways that you might have done better. You tried, but you felt you came short. Maybe you were leading a home Bible study, serving at the food pantry, talking to a friend about Jesus…you just wish you could have done better.
Download a transcript for the June 1, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever wonder, wonder how our Lord Jesus has this incredible ability to see the individual in the crowd? I mean, the gospel show many times when Jesus, he would single out one individual from the multitude to focus the full force of his love and attention on that one individual.
Download a transcript for the May 30, 2024 Selah episode
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Early this morning, my wife and I were hiking on a desert mountain trail not far from our home when right in the middle of that trail, right in the middle of rocks and gravel and heat, there was a little weed that was blooming...
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What do you think about in those first early moments of your day before you throw off the covers and your feet hit the floor? What is it that you're thinking about? I'm asking that because...
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how are you feeling today? Perhaps you're feeling a seven or an eight headed towards 10 or are feeling pretty low? I mean, like my sweet departed mother would say, “feeling lower than a snake's belly.” Well, wherever you are on the one through 10 scale today, I wanna share with you something that always helps me whether I'm feeling really good or really low.
Download a transcript for the May 23, 2024 Selah episode
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“I don't know what God is calling me to, but I know what God is calling me from." Those are words that I have said several times in my life when I didn't have a clue as to what my next step was to be. Do you ever feel like that? Perhaps you're feeling like that today? I don't know what God is calling me to, but I know what God is calling me from.
Download a transcript for the May 21, 2024 Selah episode
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It's been said that all of us are living in one of two tents. We're either living in discontent or content. Which one of those two tents would you say that you're living in today? Discontent or content?
Download a transcript for the May 18, 2024 Selah episode
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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?
Download a transcript for the May 16, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
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Are you sensing today that God is calling you? Calling you to do something, perhaps, in your community or in your church, your family? Maybe God is calling you to do something in your career or calling you to take a big step in your life. And you're doubting, doubting yourself. “Who am I? Who am I to think that I could do something so important, so impactful, so lasting? Who am I?”
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I heard this story about an old cowboy who applies for life insurance and the insurance agent, he asked the cowboy, he says, have you ever had any accidents? The cowboy thinks for a moment and says, no, no accidents, but...
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You know, I always thought my dad was the smartest person in the world. I mean, when I was a little boy, it seemed that I could ask my dad anything. And my dad, he always knew the answer until one day...
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Are you troubled by what you see happening in our country today? I mean, look at the news and it is filled with stories of rioting, lawlessness, hatred, boiling over and we can't help but wonder what can I as one person do about this?
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How good are you at awful? That's right, I said how good are you at it? Well, if you're anything like me, you're probably pretty creative at imagining the most awful things that could happen to you. I mean, you're one of those people who gets your exercise, mountain climbing molehills, forecasting the worst that could possibly happen. Some people call this...
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I have some good news for you. Good news for you, as you seek to be in the world but not of the world. Good news for you is you try to navigate the craziness of a post-Christian world without being harmed, without being corrupted by the world. Some Christians choose to withdraw, to drop out from the world. While other Christians choose to compromise with the world.
Download a transcript for the April 30, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Well, if you do have trouble sleeping, don't feel that you're alone. I mean, from what I'm hearing from a lot of people and with warnings from the Center for Disease Control and all those TV commercials about sleep aids, there seems to be a near epidemic of sleepless nights. People having trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep. We worry about our jobs, about the economy, about our health, about what's going on in the country. I know quite a bit about sleepless nights myself, which takes me to the word of God...
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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 again, and David has something good to teach us about difficult times.
Download a transcript for the April 25, 2024 Selah episode
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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 that...
Download a transcript for the April 23, 2024 Selah episode
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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 April 20, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found helpful in moments like that...
Download a transcript for the April 18, 2024 Selah episode
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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 listened quietly, and then she warned me, "Tim, you're like a sponge soaking up everything around you..."
Download a transcript for the April 16, 2024 Selah episode
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Albert Einstein said that he thought the most important question facing humanity was if the universe was friendly... Well, that is an interesting question, isn't it? Asked by a man, certainly a genius, but a man who didn't think much beyond atoms and electrons and physical existence... No, I have a better question. A more wonderful question. And that is the question asked by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 8, verse 31...
Download a transcript for the April 12, 2024 Selah episode
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Question, what do you like to call Jesus? How do you like to address Jesus when you pray? You call Jesus Lord. Savior, master, mighty God. Well, I'm gonna talk today about calling Jesus and knowing Jesus as brother. As our brother...
Download a transcript for the April 11, 2024 Selah episode
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It has been said that people can live 40 days without food, about three days without water. And about eight minutes without air but can only live for a second without hope. We desperately need hope. We live in some difficult times. And we need hope. But what do people do who have no hope...
Download a transcript for the April 09, 2024 Selah episode
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I think of it as one of the perks of the profession of the minister, that I actually get to be with people in the ups and downs of life, to be with people on the mountain tops and to be with them in the valleys. I think of it is holy ground, to be with the people and the extremities of life, and to experience God's presence, and to learn a little bit more about God, and to learn a little bit more about the mystery of suffering...
Download a transcript for the April 6, 2024 Selah episode
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The children's book, "The Little Engine That Could" was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each time a little faster than before and up over the mountain, the little engine goes...
Download a transcript for the April 4, 2024 Selah episode
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It's two o'clock at night. You can't sleep, you toss and turn the night seems so dark and you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be at two o'clock on a dark night? Are you wait nervously in the doctor's office, wringing your hands fearful about what the test results are going to show? And you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be? When you think of Jesus, do you think of Jesus primarily as high up there in the heavens for away from you and your troubles and fears? Well, you ask most any child in Sunday school and they're gonna get it right...
Download a transcript for the April 2, 2024 Selah episode
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Today is Holy Saturday. I know that Hallmark does not make greeting cards for Holy Saturday, and that Holy Saturday is not on most people's calendars, but it is the wisdom of Christians through the centuries to mark this day and to call this day holy as a day to pause, to pay attention, and to wait for what God is going to do. Why, just imagine yourself on that first Holy Saturday...
Download a transcript for the March 30, 2024 Selah episode
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Every preacher that I've ever known, put in some long hours during Holy Week, burns some midnight oil, as we're wanting to communicate to make clear the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. And then on top of that, how do you go about explaining the meaning of these days to children who well, they might be thinking about Easter eggs and Cadbury chocolate bunnies. How do we explain the wonder, the glory of what God has done for us in Christ Jesus?
Download a transcript for the March 28, 2024 Selah episode
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You and I are in those wondrous days that Christians have long called Holy Week. I know you're not gonna find this week on school calendars or business calendars as they set aside time for what they like to call spring break. And even as Christians, we often skip Holy Week. We race right from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and we miss the glory, we miss the wonder, we miss the awesome holiness of these days that forever changed the world that forever changed our lives and change our destinies...
Download a transcript for the March 26, 2024 Selah episode
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You and I are in those wondrous days that Christians have long called Holy Week. I know you're not gonna find this week on school calendars or business calendars as they set aside time for what they like to call spring break. And even as Christians, we often skip Holy Week. We race right from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and we miss the glory, we miss the wonder, we miss the awesome holiness of these days that forever changed the world that forever changed our lives and change our destinies...
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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.
Download a transcript for the March 23, 2024 Selah episode
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Have you ever thought of your Christian life as a masterpiece? Have you ever heard God saying to you, you are my handiwork, you were special to me? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. Well, I hope that today you will hear God speaking this to you as I am in the New Testament book of Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10, and what I think has got to be one of the most amazing, most wonderful verses in all of the Bible...
Download a transcript for the March 21, 2024 Selah episode
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Have you ever thought much about angels? That's right. I said angels. Have you ever thought much about the spirit beings that the Bible says that God has sent to help you on your way to heaven? I think that because they are spirits because they are invisible to our physical eyes, veiled to our five senses that we might not think much about angels and their vital importance in our life. But the Bible does give us...
Download a transcript for the March 19, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever struggle with prayer? Maybe struggle finding time to pray or struggle knowing how best to pray? I know I do. And I'm thinking that it's not by accident that God's people do struggle with prayer because Satan, the evil one, he doesn't attack us on the periphery. I mean, he goes straight for the jugular. He goes straight for the heart and that is wanting to stop you and me from spending time with our Father.
Download a transcript for the March 16, 2024 Selah episode
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Imagine getting a phone call from a post or market researcher in the voice on the other end of the line asks you, "What do you want most in life?" What would you say? I mean, really deep down in your heart of hearts, what is it that you really want in life? What we really want reveals a lot about us; what we really want becomes the programming of our lives, and here's where I've got good news again for you day...
Download a transcript for the March 14, 2024 Selah episode
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Too soon old, too late smart. That's what I hear some people say. And well, I sure at hope that I would have been smarter by now... Do you ever feel that way? Things we wish we had known years ago... Well, I have a prayer today from the Bible that God might make us smarter, that God might wise us up to how to live...
Download a transcript for the March 12, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever feel like you've got more than you can handle? Do you sometimes feel loaded down or burdened needing rest? Let these words of Jesus in Matthew 11:28-30. Let them flow over you. "Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest, Take My yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Download a transcript for the March 9, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son died from cancer?
Download a transcript for the March 07, 2024 Selah episode
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I have a friend that whenever I see him and ask him how he's doing. He always says, I'm blessed. I like that because it's a good reminder for me. That as followers of Jesus, that we are blessed. I wanna look at scripture for a few moments to get an inkling of just how blessed you and I are. I'm looking at...
Download a transcript for the March 05, 2024 Selah episode
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Do you ever feel like your life is going in circles? Ever fear that then maybe you're going nowhere? I mean, something happens to you out of the blue and you can't make any sense of it. Doesn’t it have any rhyme or reason to it. And sadly, today's post Christian culture, it's leaving many people feeling like Shakespeare's Macbeth- that life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing...
Download a transcript for the March 2, 2024 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the February 29, 2024 Selah episode
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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 been especially difficult, I woke this morning thinking about Jesus words in John 15:1.
Download a transcript for the February 24, 2024 Selah episode
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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. Why, my mom could coax beauty out of the stubborn clichy soil of Arizona.
Download a transcript for the February 22, 2024 Selah episode
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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
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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 February 17, 2024 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the February 15, 2024 Selah episode
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“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 to me and I think it might be for you too.
Download a transcript for the February 13, 2024 Selah episode
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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
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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 radiation, all of that. And then, well, another who's grieving the loss of a son...
Download a transcript for the February 08, 2024 Selah episode
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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?
Download a transcript for the February 06, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
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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
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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 episode
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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 Selah episode
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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 of God, the redeemed of the Lord that they're gonna sing after Messiah's coming.
Download a transcript for the January 25, 2024 Selah episode
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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 transcript for the January 23, 2024 Selah episode
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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 right with God by what we do, legalism says, do but the gospel says, Done.
Download a transcript for the January 20, 2024 Selah episode
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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
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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
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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 transcript for the January 13, 2024 Selah episode
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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
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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, 2024 Selah episode
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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 and I preached a few of them myself and we end up disappointed, but I wanna give you a promise today because this is a promise that you will find God over deliver in your life in the coming year...
Download a transcript for the January 04, 2024 Selah episode
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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...
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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 Janice is always portrayed as having two faces...
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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.
Download a transcript for the December 30, 2023 Selah episode
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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 about post Christmas blues and post Christmas let down. But you know, what happens on those days after Christmas is...
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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?”
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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...
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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 little daughter, Annie starts to sing these words...
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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...
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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, I find that I need...
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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...
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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...
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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 about Hanukkah.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, Solomon...
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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 at the right hand of God.
Download a transcript for the November 28, 2023 Selah episode
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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...
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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..
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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 November 21, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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 November 16, 2023 Selah episode
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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, 2023 Selah episode
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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 sinking their roots deeper into God's love.
Download a transcript for the November 11, 2023 Selah episode
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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 about something that is so important, and that is how the power of Jesus can be released through you and me into a world that frankly is very much needing to see the power of Jesus.
Download a transcript for the November 9, 2023 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the November 7, 2023 Selah episode
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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?
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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...
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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 the October 31, 2023 Selah episode
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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 we look at others...
Download a transcript for the October 28, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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...
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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 you will let yourself go, that you will let yourself sink deep into the boundless ocean of God's love, where your feet will never touch bottom...
Download a transcript for the October 21, 2023 Selah episode
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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 to an end. I'm looking at Psalm 3...
Download a transcript for the October 19, 2023 Selah episode
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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, 2023 Selah episode
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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, we want to know what something is for...
Download a transcript for the October 14, 2023 Selah episode
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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 the Psalms for the rest of my life. I turn to the Psalms when I'm happy and wanting to give things, I turn to the Psalms when I've sinned as they help me pour out my heart in confession. I turned to the Psalms when I'm confused, feeling overwhelmed, and I don't know what to do, I turn to the Psalms...
Download a transcript for the October 12, 2023 Selah episode
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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 Ephesians Chapter 1, beginning at verse 17...
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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 Jesus and the life and Jesus to know, the wonder of going after the more...
Download a transcript for the October 7, 2023 Selah episode
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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 main thing, the main thing.
Download a transcript for the October 05, 2023 Selah episode
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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 October 3, 2023 Selah episode
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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 God.
September 30, 2023 Selah episode
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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 episode
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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 listened quietly, and then she warned me, Tim, you're like a sponge soaking up everything around you...
Download a transcript for the September 26, 2023 Selah episode
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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 that waiting is bad for me, but the waiting is keeping me from getting what I want, that waiting is holding me back from the good life. And I along with a lot of other people, I don't want to wait. I want it now, but then I see in the Bible, I see God's people waiting.
Download a transcript for the September 23, 2023 Selah episode
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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 again, and David has something good to teach us about difficult times
Download a transcript for the September 21, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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 years that live through life, not knowing why they're here because of a lot of hurt, a lot of wrong turns, a lot of emptiness. Well, let's see if we can't figure out why...
Download a transcript for the September 16, 2023 Selah episode
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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...
Download a transcript for the September 14, 2023 Selah episode
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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 peace.
Download a transcript for the September 12, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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 slowly get used to getting used to, well, we can get used to what's going on around us...
Download a transcript for the September 7, 2023 Selah episode
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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 often feel like a little boy in a candy store when I open up God's word is there is so much here...
Download a transcript for the September 4, 2023 Selah episode
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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 telling you that you might be running on empty?
Download a transcript for the September 2, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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
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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
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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 before, and that means uncertainty, anxiety, confusion.
Download a transcript for the August 24, 2023 Selah episode
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“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?
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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
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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 main thing, the main thing.
Download a transcript for the August 17, 2023 Selah episode
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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 stability in all the storms of life.
Download a transcript for the August 15, 2023 Selah episode
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"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 this in a prayer, a prayer of David in Psalm 139, verses 23-24.
Download a transcript for the August 12, 2023 Selah episode
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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 inspiration for courage, I realized that...
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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 transcript for the August 8, 2023 Selah episode
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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...
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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 because...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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 how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own.
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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
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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 every life situation, and you know...my mom was right...
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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 counts. That makes a difference.
Download a transcript for the July 18, 2023 Selah episode
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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
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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 we look at others.
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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?
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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 passage that helps me a lot to get a glimpse of what God is up to in our affliction and pain...
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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, we want to know what something is for...
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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 for you.
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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 about something that is so important, and that is how the power of Jesus can be released through you and me into a world that frankly is very much needing to see the power of Jesus.
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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 through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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 you today if you're in some kind of darkness and that it might also help you as you seek to encourage others.
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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 of it. Paul begins...
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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...
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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 loved or more familiar to people today than the passage I want to meditate on briefly today, and that is Psalm 23. The beloved shepherd psalm.
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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?
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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, don't you like it when someone begins to conversation with the words, "I want to encourage you"...
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"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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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 you live?
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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...
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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...
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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 of Exodus, in the Hebrew Bible, the name for this book that we call Exodus in a Hebrew Bible, it is called names.
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Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, “Why doesn't God do something about this pandemic?” “Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son die from cancer?“ Actually, I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to, well, to leave with God as I've come to realize that God is working on a much higher level than I am and there are questions that I would actually need the mind of God to understand the answer.
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She loves me, she loves me not. Did you ever play that game? They say it's actually quite an old game where you take a flower and you begin to pick off the pedals one by one, and with each pedal you pick off, you say, he loves me, he loves me not. Or, she loves me, she loves me not. And you keep on picking off the pedals until you come to that last pedal and that's supposed to tell you... He loves me or he loves me not. Do you ever play that game with God?
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It's been said that there was a little difference in people, but that little difference can make a very big difference. I'm going to talk for a few moments about a man who was a little different than those around him, but that little difference made a big difference for him for his people, and it can for you and me too.
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This morning as I was making coffee, I thought of the instant coffee theory of life that's put forward by Rabbi Harold Kushner. And with the instant coffee theory of life, you open a new jar of instant coffee and you dole out generous heaping spoon fulls because, well, you have a whole jar of it, but then by the time you start getting towards the bottom of the jar, you realize that that you don't have that much coffee left, and so you carefully go after every grain of coffee in the jar...
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Theologian Ray Anderson suggests that on the day after the father throws that big homecoming party for his prodigal son, that on the day after the prodigal son returns to the far country, but that he returns in order to tell everyone how he had lied about his father; to tell everyone in truth how extravagantly loving his father is. To tell everyone how his father forgives, rejoices and celebrates a prodigal come home.
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found helpful in moments like that...
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I have some good news for you. Good news for you, as you seek to be in the world but not of the world. Good news for you is you try to navigate the craziness of a post-Christian world without being harmed, without being corrupted by the world. Some Christians choose to withdraw, to drop out from the world. While other Christians choose to compromise with the world.
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I wonder if you ever have days, ever have nights when you feel like Atlas. Like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. If you're feeling that weight today as you're doing ministry, and if you're feeling that weight as a parent trying to provide and hold your family together in a time of pandemic. Maybe you're feeling that weight as a worker, just trying to keep your head above water. Well, I think I have something good for you today, something for anyone feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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Imagine sitting with a close friend for an hour or so and looking back at your life, talking about some of the highs, the lows, some good days, some perhaps not so good, but looking back on your life, I just bet that you would have some lessons learned. Some real distilled wisdom...
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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 like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.
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Question: what do you like to call Jesus? How do you like to address Jesus when you pray? You call Jesus Lord. Savior, master, mighty God? Well, I'm gonna talk today about calling Jesus and knowing Jesus as brother. As our brother. And this all has to do with what happened on Good Friday and Easter, that Jesus, through His death and resurrection, he becomes our brother.
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Today is Holy Saturday. I know that Hallmark does not make greeting cards for Holy Saturday, and that Holy Saturday is not on most people's calendars, but it is the wisdom of Christians through the centuries to mark this day and to call this day holy as a day to pause, to pay attention, and to wait for what God is going to do. Why just imagine yourself on that first Holy Saturday...
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Have you seen that beautiful Passover moon looking down on us the past few nights? What that Passover Moon is telling us is that this is Holy Week. We are in those wondrous and holy days in which we follow our Lord Jesus from His triumphal entry, through the agony of the cross, to the glory of His resurrection. And I don't want to let these days just slip by us without stopping to think about the meaning of our Lord's passion, his suffering and death, and his resurrection. So for today, I want to look at the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans in Chapter Four, as Paul is pointing us to Abraham to show how we are put right with God...
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Every preacher that I've ever known put in some long hours during Holy Week, burns some midnight oil, as we're wanting to communicate to make clear the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. And then on top of that, how do you go about explaining the meaning of these days to children who, well, they might be thinking about Easter eggs and Cadbury chocolate bunnies? How do we explain the wonder, the glory of what God has done for us in Christ Jesus? Well, I'm encouraged in this task by a great preacher, a great theologian who lived some 500 years ago, who had a passion to communicate what these days mean...
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I have a question for you. How do you and I, as believers in Jesus Christ, how do we not just survive, but how do we actually thrive in what are some admittedly difficult days for our country? What does God's word have to say to us about actually being blessed? About leading fruitful lives in a time of uncertainty and upheaval?
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One does not know who he is until one knows whose he is.” That's what a missionary statesman, E. Stanley Jones said, “one does not know who he is until one knows whose he is.” And I wonder about you today. Do you know whose you are? Do you know to whom your life belongs? Do you know from whom your life came and to whom your life will one day return? Today, I want us to see that you and I that we belong to God. That's whose we are. We don't belong to the culture, to an institution. We do not belong to another human being, but we belong to the maker of heaven and earth.
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"God has forgotten me." Those were her exact words. "God has forgotten me." So I pulled up a chair and sat by her hospital bed as the patient poured forth her pain and despair. "God has forgotten me," she said in many tears and suffering. As a pastor and Chaplain, I've heard those words or words like them many times. And truth be told, I've thought and said those words myself. God has forgotten me. That's what our feelings sometimes tell us, but you know our feelings are not right. Our emotional responses to life's pain and trouble may be authentic, but they're not accurate because you and I, we are unforgettable to God.
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It's two o'clock at night. You can't sleep, you toss and turn the night seems so dark and you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be at two o'clock on a dark night? Are you wait nervously in the doctor's office, wringing your hands fearful about what the test results are going to show? And you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be? When you think of Jesus, do you think of Jesus primarily as high up there in the heavens for away from you and your troubles and fears? Well, you ask most any child in Sunday school and they're gonna get it right. You ask them where Jesus lives. And they will tell you. They will tell you that Jesus lives in our hearts...
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I wanna read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus. First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God.
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How is your heart today? Is your heart at peace? Or how about your conscience? Are you plagued by nagging, guilty conscience, are you frequently bothered that you don't do enough for God, that you don't do enough for others, do you feel that you're not measuring up to being a good Christian? Or do you sometimes even wonder if you are a Christian? Well, I have some encouraging words for you from the Bible, for any of you feeling you're not a good enough Christian feeling that you don't measure up...
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Recently, a wise friend reminded me, Tim, what we're facing in our country right now and in our lives, it's really a spiritual battle, because we are at a struggle against unseen forces of spiritual darkness. Now, as soon as my friend said that, I knew she was right. What we're facing today is what the Apostle Paul calls a struggle, not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against spiritual forces of evil. And as I prayed about what my friend told me, I thought of the powerful scene from the Bible that encourages me in the struggle and I'm gonna share it with you today, and I hope that it encourages you as well.
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People say that you got to have self-confidence... That it's all about self-confidence. That if you don't have self-confidence that you're going to be insecure, that you're going to stumble through life and fail. And so when I was a teenager, I wanted self-confidence, and so I read books and magazines on how to build my self-confidence... Well, it took some time, but over the years, I found something much more wonderful than self-confidence...
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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? My go to verse when I'm needing special power, special wisdom, is...
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Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home?
The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sin where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are. We remember Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who says, There's no place like home. And with those words and three clicks of her heels, Dorothy is back home from the land of Oz, back home with Auntie Em, the cowardly lion, and the tin man and all that really matters. It's at home. Most of us know about Dorothy is feeling that there is no place like home. Sure, we love to travel and to explore the wondrous big world, but it is good to come home, home is where the heart is, we say.
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Hey, could you just give it to me quick? I hear that a lot these days, people on the go want a quick answer, they want in 140 characters or less just... Spare me the details. Tell me quick what counts. What counts in being a Christian? Do you ever wonder about that? But what does count? And being a Christian. When you boil it all down, after all the sermons you've heard, all the books you've read, when you get down to its essence, what counts in being a Christian?
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Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about. Beginning in verse one. Oh, give thanks. You can feel the intensity, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the lord of lords, for His steadfast love endures forever. Who alone does great wonders for His steadfast love endures forever. How... You probably know what the next line is going to be, don't you?
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Now we know that God works all things together for good, for those who love him, we know that. But do you ever wonder if the troubles you're going through right now? If God is really working them for good. How about the pain, the disappointment, the failure, is God really doing something with that? I wanna think about this for a few moments as I tell a quick Bible story and then tie that story with another scripture...
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Are you ever fearful about what you're reading in the news? Fearful about what you see happening in the world? I mean, there's inflation, there's lawlessness, war in the Ukraine, pandemic, and it seems that more and more people are calling evil good and calling good evil. Things seem kind of upside down right now, don't they? Are you fearful? Fear is a natural reaction to things that seem to threaten our safety, things have seemed to threaten our sense of well-being and trying to ignore our fear. Pretending that we're not afraid, well, that actually makes fear worse...
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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 like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.
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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. David is a man who can rise to great heights and he can sink to great lows. I like to study David, because Scripture twice says of David that he is a man after God's own heart. Now, we've looked at David before in trouble, but it's gonna take a man David size to get himself into the mess we find Him in today.
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I have a friend that whenever I see him and ask him how he's doing. He always says, I'm blessed. I like that because it's a good reminder for me. That as followers of Jesus, that we are blessed. I wanna look at scripture for a few moments to get an inkling of just how blessed you and I are. I'm looking at Ephesians Chapter 1:3, and this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible, as there was so much here.
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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.
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Do you ever feel like you're running on empty? I don't mean your car, but in your life. Are there times when you feel like you're running on empty, when you don't know where you're gonna get the power to handle the problems that you're facing? Where you're gonna get the power to make the most of opportunity? Where do we get the power not just to keep going, but to thrive? That is a question that I've often had to deal with in my life in my ministry. Today, I've turned to a scripture that it really helps me when I'm looking for power to keep going and to thrive.
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The only constant in life is change. So said the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, 2500 years ago. The only constant in life is change, and there sure has been a lot of change since then. As you and I, we face changes every day, whether it is a simple change in the weather, change in our schedule or expected change of seasons, and it seems like though we are living in a time of a lot of change and we wonder how to deal with it. This past week, I was encouraged...
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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 every life situation, and you know... My mom was right.
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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 how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own. I needed that to be more than just a song I needed to know that it was real for my life. It was through a Bible verse that David taught me something about the daily practice of the presence of God who was always present to us...
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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, is here was the back story. As the nation of Israel is on lockdown, this is a low point in Israel's history. Judge 6 opens by saying that the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the people have been brought to their knees by the Midianites.
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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...
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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 every life situation, and you know... My mom was right. As the Psalms have helped me so much through the years. And that's why I've come today to my old friend, the Book of Psalms. I don't have one particular psalm to share with you today so much as I have a life lesson learned from the book of Psalms...
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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? Well, I have something from God's Word for us today. And with that, I want to take a look at what is going on behind the news.
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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 with what the pandemic seems to be doing to churches, there are parents of school-aged children feeling that today, caregivers of loved ones feeling that...
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found helpful in moments like that.
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Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again, waiting for God...
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I remember as a boy watching a parade and seeing horses wearing with what looked to me like blind folds, and I asked my dad why they were wearing pieces of cloth around their eye. And my dad who had been raised on a farm, who had worked with horses my dad explained that sometimes horses needed to wear what was called blinders to keep their eyes focused on what was straight ahead rather than being distracted by what was going on around them or behind them. My dad said that without the blinders, horses that were working or racing could easily startle in fear and run off, and so you know, with all that's going on in our country today...
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Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone, I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It would go like this one person would say The Lord be with you, and the other would respond the Lord bless you. Check it out in the Book of Ruth...
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Imagine getting a phone call from a post or market researcher in the voice on the other end of the line asks you, "What do you want most in life?" What would you say? I mean, really deep down in your heart of hearts, what is it that you really want in life? What we really want reveals a lot about us, what we really want becomes the programming of our lives, and here's where I've got good news again for you day, because the greatest thing did you could ever want. The greatest thing that you could ever desire can be yours.
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Now, I've heard that feeling thankful can present a real problem to an atheist or an agnostic, they don't know who or what to thank. Well, a Christian never has that problem, we know who to thank for our many blessings, we thank our Father in Heaven, but sometimes we might wonder how best to thank our Father for all that he does for us.
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Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sit where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are.
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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...
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The children's book, The Little Engine That Could was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each time a little faster than before and up over the mountain, the little engine goes... I think I can, I think I can. I think, again, I think again... Well, I love the story, but... Well, it's not entirely biblical.
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Did you know that God not only loves you, that God not only likes you, but the God takes pleasure in you? That God delights in you? That having you as his child makes God smile?
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These early days of January, I always think of as a good time for looking back and good for looking ahead. As we are in the month that the Romans named Januarius, they named it after the Roman god Janus. That was the god of doors, of gates, of endings, and beginnings. And the god Janus was always represented as having two faces. That is one face for looking backward and one for looking forward. And I'm gonna take a little time with you today to look back over the past year and to look ahead. And in order to do that, well, I wanna tell you about my mom and to talk about something very important that I learned from my mother.
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, wonderful celebration of Jesus as Immanuel, God is with us. And now as we're off into a new year, I'm wondering how the new year is going for you. Is 2023 feeling, well, a little bit like 2022? Maybe you're feeling a little burdened today, a little stressed by the weight of a new year. Let the words of Jesus flow over you as in Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30...
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Do you ever get the feeling that Jesus might need to get a new press agent? And that he might need a new PR person to help him spin his message in this time of Self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-esteem? What are we to make of Jesus talking so much about denying self and taking up crosses to follow him? How do you spin that?
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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.
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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.
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I just love Christmas Eve. From the time I was a little boy, the trajectory of my whole year was headed towards Christmas Eve. I look forward to this day. And there's so many wonderful verses of scripture that I wish I had time to share with you and so many wonderful Christmas Eve stories that I really hardly know where to begin. But I do want to tell you a Christmas Eve story...
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Immanuel, God is with us. That has been the daily theme of our Advent devotional this year. As the Gospel of Matthew opens with that wonderful Christmas time prophecy of Isaiah that says, Behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Immanuel, which means God is with us.
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I have a question for you. Where have you seen Jesus coming to you recently? I ask you about seeing Jesus coming to you recently because we are, after all, in the season of Advent, and the word Advent means coming. This is a time that we celebrate Jesus first coming to us as a baby in the manger at Bethlehem. We celebrate Jesus second coming to us in power and great glory, but we also celebrate Jesus coming to us in our everyday lives.
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Well, I don't know about you, but I'm in the Christmas spirit. I mean, after such a strange and difficult year, I am more than ready to celebrate Christmas, and so the other night, I sat down to listen to Christmas carols, I stopped everything else I was doing just to take in the joy and beauty of Christmas music. And you know, there was one song that just reached out and grabbed me, one song that really moved me...
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I just love Advent and Christmas. I mean, I feel like a little boy this time to hear, it's such a wonderful season as we look back and as we look ahead, we look back to Christ's first advent as a tiny, vulnerable, helpless newborn lying in a feeding trough for cattle. And we also are looking ahead, eagerly looking ahead to Christ's second Advent, when he will put right this weary broken world.
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Christmas is the time for giving. I mean, that's what we're told this time of year. I mean, I saw it in a store today. I saw it the other night on TV that Christmas is a time for giving. But you know, I'm not sure that if the people who were there at that first Christmas, I'm not sure that they would have thought of Christmas as a time for giving...
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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...
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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...
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Proverbs chapter 4 verse 18 says that the path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn which shines brighter and brighter until full day. And for the next few moments I want to talk with you about a man whose life shines brighter and brighter over the centuries...
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Do the holidays ever seem to you like the hollow days? Well, they did for me many, many years ago when my young wife had died from cancer. Let me tell you, the holidays were tough. And when I was a chaplain for hospice we would often speak of the holidays as the hollow days...
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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...
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Well, Christmas is just around the corner. And just the other day, I was thinking about a large pre-COVID Christmas, you know, when we could all get together as a large family to celebrate, and a cousin who lives in a different state, she told me that she was sorry that she had never gotten to know my father. And you know, when she told me that she had never gotten to know my father, I was sad. I was sad because I really love my father.
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What do you sense that God might be saying to you? I ask that because He is, after all, a God who speaks, a God who reveals Himself. We call Jesus the Word as it is God's very nature to want to speak, to want to reveal Himself to us. So I ask, what do you sense that God might be saying to you?
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Happy Thanksgiving! A blessed Thanksgiving to you. One of the things that I'm especially thankful for today is you. Thank you for listening to the Selah podcast. I always look forward to getting to share these few moments with you.
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I'm really excited that this is Thanksgiving week and we're going to be with our kids and grandkids and we're going to be eating and we're going to be celebrating and then it's going to be Advent and Christmas and it can't come too soon for me as this has been kind of a crazy year with one train wreck after another and so it's really going to be good to have some days to celebrate. And in all of this I am reminded of a story that is told by Leo Buscaglia...
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It has been said that a Puritan lives with the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be having a good time. Well, while I don't think that's exactly fair to the Puritans, it probably is fair to say that Christians can give the impression that we are against having a good time, but you know, Jesus seems to have left no one thinking that he was against a good time...
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Are you experiencing a Christian life as rest? I know, for some people, rest is the last thing they think of when they think of being a Christian is for them, being a Christian is a lot of hard work, a lot of pressure, or a lot of trying hard, a lot of guilt. But you know, Jesus did promise anyone who would follow Him that He would give rest, and so I often like to ask myself if I am experiencing the rest that Jesus promises, because I haven't always experienced a Christian life, or ministry as a rest.
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You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think he 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...
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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.
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Have you ever thought of your Christian life as a masterpiece? Have you ever heard God saying to you, you are my handiwork, you were special to me? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. Well, I hope that today you will hear God speaking this to you as I am in the New Testament book of Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10, and what I think has got to be one of the most amazing, most wonderful verses in all of the Bible.
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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.
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Hey, how's the water today? Is the water hot? Is it boiling yet?
Well, 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.
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I'm looking at the news today and wondering, I can't help but wonder, how you're thinking about the future. There's a lot of trying things going on. There's inflation, there's a high cost of fuel, there's violence and crime, and we can't help but be wondering about the days ahead. In several of our Selah of conversations we've been looking at life with David as there was so much that we can learn from David about life.
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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.
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I have a question for you. The question, just between you and me, the question is what do you feel most proud of in your life? What gives you the most satisfaction, the most good feelings about you?
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Do you ever have days when you feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders? When you feel like everything depends on you? It might be in your family, your ministry, your business, your job where you're trying so hard just to keep it together and you're feeling the way of the world. You might feel like the proverbial hamster on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying just to keep up.
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She loves me, she loves me not. Did you ever play that game? They say it's actually quite an old game where you take a flower and you begin to pick off the pedals one by one, and with each pedal you pick off, you say, he loves me, he loves me not. Or, she loves me, she loves me not. And you keep on picking off the pedals until you come to that last pedal and that's supposed to tell you...
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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. Carl Minnegar, the fame psychiatrist, founder of the Minnegar Clinic, said...
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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?
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I have a thought experiment for you today. Sometime 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...
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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.
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I call these few moments that we are together, I call them Selah, which is a word from the Hebrew Bible that's... Well, it's sort of like a railroad crossing sign that you find in the Book of Psalms. It says, Stop, Look and Listen. And I think that that's a good thing to do in the midst of life's busyness.
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Just about everybody I know, and that's me included, we want to make a difference in the world. We wanna do something with our lives that is worthwhile, something that will endure, that will remain, that well, might even go on beyond us. And we don't wanna waste our time here. We want it to count.
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I am so thankful to my mother. Thankful that when I was a boy, my mom took a Bible and she showed me how to find the Book of Psalms. She showed me, I mean, it was easy. You just open your Bible and right there in the middle of the Bible is the Book of Psalms.
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A question for you. How do you and I, as believers in Jesus, as God's beloved people, how do we not just survive difficult times, but how do we actually thrive at a time that our nation, our culture is going through a whole lot of pain and trouble? What does God's word have to say to us about actually being blessed?
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Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God. But you know, what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again waiting for God.
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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 grown 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?
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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.
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Now we know that God works all things together for good, for those who love him, we know that. But do you ever wonder if the troubles you're going through right now? If God is really working them for good. How about the pain, the disappointment, the failure, is God really doing something with that? I wanna think about this for a few moments as I tell a quick Bible story and then tie that story with another scripture.
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I remember as a boy learning the Mother Goose nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty. You know, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. And I remember seeing pictures of my children's story book of the King's horses with their hooves trying to put Humpty together. And then there were the king's men trying to put Humpty together, and they couldn't.
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It is a favorite Bible verse of many people. It's a verse, that you often seen greeting cards or a verse celebrated in song. Why, it might even be a verse you have memorized. I mean it's a great one.
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Do you have an "I don't understand" file? What I mean is, do you have a place where you file the things that happen in your life that you just do not understand?
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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 at the right hand of God.
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If you are facing difficulty of any kind today, I think I have something for you that you're gonna wanna hear. It's something that helps me when the going gets tough, and something that we see in the Bible that God's people do in times of trouble. Now, it's something that's going to sound almost counter-intuitive, it certainly is countercultural, but it is something of great power and potential for your life and mine.
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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?
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Do you ever get the feeling that Jesus might need to get a new press agent? And that he might need a new PR person to help him spin his message in this time of Self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-esteem? What are we to make of Jesus talking so much about denying self and taking up crosses to follow him? How do you spin that?
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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.
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Do you ever feel like, well, maybe like you're a disappointment to God? I mean, try as you may you... You feel 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. I mean, did you ever think that maybe that just maybe you would arrive spiritually and you haven't? Well, if you've ever felt any of this I have good news for you.
Download a transcript for the September 6, 2022 Selah episode
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Do you ever feel small on the world stage? Do you ever feel like no more than a pawn in world history? Do you read the news and wonder if there's anything that you can do in the face of what is going on in the world? Well, if you feel small and insignificant, that is exactly what the evil one Satan wants you to feel, and so with the Bible in hand, I want to speak to the feeling that there's nothing that you and I can do.
Download a transcript for the September 3, 2022 Selah episode
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How are you today? On a scale of one to 10, how are you? When being the lowest in the pits, or are you feeling out of 10 feeling on top of the world? I'm asking how you are today because well, we've been going through some difficult days, or should I say difficult months: A worldwide pandemic, lockdowns, violence, inflation, and the huge, huge jump in depression among young and old. So that I'm asking today, how are you?
Download a transcript for the September 1, 2022 Selah episode
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May I talk with you for a few moments about your daily calendar? Whether you keep your calendar on your phone, your computer, or your day timer, or whether you keep your calendar in your head, I wonder how was your calendar looking?
Download a transcript for the August 30, 2022 Selah episode
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People say that you got to have self-confidence... That it's all about self-confidence. That if you don't have self-confidence that you're going to be insecure, that you're going to stumble through life and fail. And so when I was a teenager, I wanted self-confidence, and so I read books and magazines on how to build my self-confidence... Well, it took some time, but over the years, I found something much more wonderful than self-confidence. I began to discover God confidence. And let me tell you that God confidence works so much better than self-confidence. God confidence makes life an adventure.
Download a transcript for the August 27, 2022 Selah episode
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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 August 25, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the August 23, 2022 Selah episode
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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 August 20, 2022 Selah episode
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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 August 18, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the August 16, 2022 Selah episode
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Wow! Did you see that supermoon the other night? It was so beautiful. A supermoon is when the moon comes closest to the earth and it is so big and bright. Well, I looked up at that supermoon and I thought, I thought how the Psalmist is right, that the heavens do declare the glory of God. But sometimes when I look up at the sky, I think the Hubble Telescope reveals that there are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on all of the earth's deserts and beaches. I look up at the sky and I can feel so small, so insignificant, and I wonder, what does it mean for us to be human beings...
Download a transcript for the August 13, 2022 Selah episode
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I love how in Acts chapter 13 it says of David, after David had served the purpose of God in His own generation, he died. Wouldn't we all like that to be said of us someday? That after serving the purpose of God in our generation, we died. I'm always wanting to know more about David, wanting to know what makes David tick, what makes them one of the great persons in all history, and I think that the secret to David's life, that it's really found in the God in whom David believed.
Download a transcript for the August 11, 2022 Selah episode
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Often in these Selah reflections, you'll hear me talking about David in the Bible, talking about David's boldness, his fearlessness, his courage, but I don't do that as a call for us to be like David, but rather as a call for us to believe in David's God. That is to put our trust into God whom David put his trust in. For you see, David did not look within himself or courage, nor do we. Rather we want to look to David's God, to look to the God that David believed in. And as we do that, we can be as courageous as David if we keep our eyes on David's God. So today we're looking again at a Psalm of David in order to see the God and whom David believes, the God on whom David literally stakes his life.
Download a transcript for the August 9, 2022 Selah episode
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As a pastor and a Chaplain, I've often been asked through the years to read two psalms to people. Two psalms that just really seem to speak to and encourage people, whether they're struggling with cancer or they're wanting to get ahead. You probably won't be surprised by the first psalm that I'm so often asked to read, it's Psalm 23, that great shepherd psalm about the Lord as our Shepherd. The next Psalm, I am often asked to read a Psalm 139, it is a wonderful Psalm, a psalm that my wife and I read together most every night before we go to sleep. I don't have time today to look at the entire psalm, but I do want to introduce it...
Download a transcript for the August 6, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the August 04, 2022 Selah episode
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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 counts. That makes a difference. Well, even if we're retired, we want to be doing something in this world for God, and his kingdom. We want to do good works.
Download a transcript for the August 2, 2022 Selah episode
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Albert Einstein said that he thought the most important question facing humanity was if the universe was friendly... Well, that is an interesting question, isn't it? Asked by a man, certainly a genius, but a man who didn't think much beyond atoms and electrons and physical existence... No, I have a better question. A more wonderful question. And that is the question asked by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 8, verse 31, What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? That's a better question. And then whether the universe is friendly or not. If God is for us, who is against us?
Download a transcript for the July 30, 2022 Selah episode
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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 listened quietly, and then she warned me, Tim, you're like a sponge soaking up everything around you.
Download a transcript for the July 28, 2022 Selah episode
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I have some good news for you. Good news for you, as you seek to be in the world but not of the world. Good news for you as you try to navigate the craziness of a post-Christian world without being harmed, without being corrupted by the world.
Download a transcript for the July 26, 2022 Selah episode
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Have you ever been going through a difficult time and someone says to you, I know what you're going through? As well-intention as those words might be, I know what you're going through can sound hollow when you just buried your husband. Or when you're caring for a special needs child. Or when you've lost your job.
Download a transcript for the July 23, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the July 21, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the July 19, 2022 Selah episode
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How would you like to hear a good song? I will spare you my singing, but I've got a really beautiful song for you.
Download a transcript for the July 16, 2022 Selah episode
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Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone. I don't say those words as a wish, as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you.
Download a transcript for the July 14, 2022 Selah episode
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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 July 12, 2022 Selah episode
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Do you sometimes feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders? There's all these things that you need to do, and it feels like it all depends on you. I mean, you feel like you're a hamster running the hamster wheel?
Download a transcript for the July 9, 2022 Selah episode
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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 turvy world, the one thing that you and I that we can stake our lives on, and that is the character of our heavenly father. That God is unchanging. That God is unwavering. That you can count on God always being there for you.
Download a transcript for the July 7, 2022 Selah episode
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“We just want to be happy.” I can't tell you how many times I've heard those words and meeting with couples were counseling or a meeting with individuals, when I ask what they want in life, what their goal in life is... Again and again, I hear the words, "We just want to be happy."
Download a transcript for the July 5, 2022 Selah episode
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Imagine sitting with a close friend for an hour or so and looking back at your life, talking about some of the highest, the lows, some good days, some perhaps not so good, but looking back on your life, I just bet that you would have some lessons learned, some real distilled wisdom.
Download a transcript for the July 2, 2022 Selah episode
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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 30, 2022 Selah episode
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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 June 28, 2022 Selah episode
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She loves me, she loves me not. Did you ever play that game? They say it's actually quite an old game where you take a flower and you begin to pick off the pedals one by one, and with each pedal you pick off, you say, he loves me, he loves me not, or she loves me, she loves me not.
Download a transcript for the June 25, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
Download a transcript for the June 23, 2022 Selah episode
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Do you ever think about angels? About the role, the part that angels are playing in your life? Of course, as Christians, we do not worship angels as the Bible commands us against that, but what role are angels playing in your life?
Download a transcript for the June 21, 2022 Selah episode
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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 we look at others.
Download a transcript for the June 18, 2022 Selah episode
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Did you know that God not only loves you, that God not only likes you, but that God takes pleasure in you? That God delights in you? That having you as his child makes God smile?
Download a transcript for the June 16, 2022 Selah episode
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Some time ago, I was browsing in an antique store and a frankly, I was surprised, at some of the things they were calling antiques that I had actually grown 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?
Download a transcript for the June 14, 2022 Selah episode
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Well, our poor country is going through a hard time right now, aren't we? We're seeing a lot of violence, lawless, unrest, turmoil on so many fronts. And what are we who seek to follow Jesus? What are we to do at this very difficult time in the life of our nation? Well, this is just a time that I like to turn to my go-to book of the Bible the little book of 1 Timothy.
Download a transcript for the June 11, 2022 Selah episode
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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 transcript for the June 9, 2022 Selah episode
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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. And that is for you to see yourself as God sees you. To see yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you infinitely. Someone who is always on your side. Someone who seeks your highest good, someone who longs to be with you forever. I'm looking at Jesus prayer in John 17, as these are Jesus last words before the agony of Gethsemane, before the cross. And Jesus is taking these last moments to pray for you, to pray for me, to pray for all who believe in Him. I pick up as Jesus prays there in John 17, verses 24 through 26. Father, I desire that those also whom you have given me may be with me where I am, to see my glory which you have given me because you love me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world does not know you. But I know you and these know that you have sent me.
Download a transcript for the June 7, 2022 Selah episode
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What do you do when you're really down on yourself? What do you do when you're confused about life? What do you do when God feels so far, far away from you? I want to talk with you for the next few moments about what I'm learning to do and say when the bottom drops out, when life comes unglued.
Download a transcript for the June 4, 2022 Selah episode
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You must be a person hungry for God. You love God and are probably growing in your understanding of God's love for you. And yet as you are growing in your understanding of how wonderful God is, you are growing in your understanding of how you fall short; growing in your understanding of where God is nudging you to grow; growing in your understanding of sin in your life. I mean, it might seem that the more you were growing in your faith, the more you were sensing how far you have to go...What's going on here?
Download a transcript for the June 2, 2022 Selah episode
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Jesus loves you just as you are. 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 you will let yourself go, that you will let yourself sink deep into the boundless ocean of God's love, where your feet will never touch bottom. I'm praying a prayer, the Apostle Paul, prays for all Christians to know Jesus' love. Now, you would think that Christians would already know Jesus' love. Well, we're just getting started.
Download a transcript for the May 31, 2022 Selah episode
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Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son died from cancer?
Download a transcript for the May 28, 2022 Selah episode
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I was planning to talk about something different today, but I can't... I can't bring myself to do it because I'm still reeling from the slaughter of little children in Uvalde. I'm trying to pull myself together in face of this unspeakable horror, and if our grief were not enough, we have to endure the politicians and the name calling and agitating and so I've been thinking and I've been searching for how a Jesus follower is to think and to act in the face of Uvalde.
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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 at the right hand of God. And what a view it is from the right-hand of God. We will see that seated with Christ there today. The world looks different. Life looks different, and I'm hoping that today Selah that it... Well, well, that it might be a new pair of glasses, for you and for me to give us new vision that we might see life seated at the right hand of God.
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I live in the Great Southwest of United States where I frequently see or hear the Spanish phrase, mi casa es su casa, that is, My House is your House. They are warm words of invitation. Come right on in. And make yourself at home. My house is your house. Those words come to mind today as I ponder words of Jesus that I wanna share with you.
Download a transcript for the May 21, 2022 Selah episode
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Lower than a snake's belly. That's what my mother used to say when she was feeling really down. Lower than a snake's belly. Do you ever feel that low? In the ups and downs of life, you're feeling really down, maybe even wondering if you'll ever get up... Well, when I'm feeling really down, there is a psalm that I like to turn to, a psalm that God uses, again and again, to pick me up, to put me on my feet, and get me going.
Download a transcript for the May 19, 2022Selah episode
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How aware are you of God's presence with you? During the day, during the night, I asked that because God is always present with us. The Apostle Paul in Acts Chapter 17 verse 28, speaks of God in whom we live and move and have our being. Think about that, God in whom we live and move and have our being. We can't get away from God because God loves us. God is always present to us, but we are not always present to God. We're not always aware of God's presence with us. And so I want to share with you a spiritual practice that has really meant a lot to me, as it has helped me to become so much more aware of God's presence.
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those are words right out of our Declaration of Independence. We are all pursuing happiness, but how to be happy? That is the question. It is a multi-billion-dollar industry of books, articles, and seminars on how to be happy. I'm going to share with you today a psalm that is about, well, it's about God's way to being happy.
Download a transcript for the May 14, 2022, Selah episode
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How does the thought of hidden treasure strike you? The thought that there was something hidden that is of great value for you? The hidden treasure of who you are in Christ is what I want to explore for the next few moments.
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Imagine with me for a moment. Imagine that you are climbing, making your way to a 12000-foot mountain peak, and you've got a ways to go yet, and your legs are feeling like jello and you're exhausted, not sure if you can even go on. What do you do? Well, I want to suggest that rather than looking at the high mountain before you, you take some time to look behind you, to look back from where you have come to look back and to remember.
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Now, there was a story going around about Satan having a big yard sale and Satan is selling office tools, he's selling off pride, envy, jealousy, hatred, things like that, and demons are showing up to buy... I wanna buy this tool, I wanna buy that one, but when the demon ask about a tool that's lying all by itself, over in a corner, Satan says No, no, no, no, keep your hands off of that one, not that one, that tool is not for sale. Why that tool has always been my best tool for attacking people, it's discouragement, discouragement works for me when all my other tools don't, Satan says... And he says, The good thing about discouragement is that people don't think of discouragement as coming from me. Defensible story? Well, yes, but not so fencible. God's people sometimes do struggle with discouragement in following Jesus... Well, have a scripture for you today that helps me when I am discouraged in following Jesus.
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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 of Exodus, in the Hebrew Bible, the name for this book that we call Exodus in a Hebrew Bible, it is called names.
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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 not just an assumption in our heads but also an awareness in our hearts.
May 5, 2022 Selah episode
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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.
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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 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. It is the verse I clung to years ago when my young wife died from cancer. It is a verse that helped me make sense of suddenly being a single dad with two little boys trying to pastor a church. And well, it helped me then, and it helps me now to live life with joy.
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Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Scottish poet Robert Burns longs 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.
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I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to, well, to leave with God as I've come to realize that God is working on a much higher level than I am and there are questions that I would actually need the mind of God to understand the answer. I learned about having an I don't understand file from the psalmist, David, in Psalm 131; it has been said of the Psalm that it is one of the shortest psalms to read but one of the longest to learn, and it is a short Psalm, it is a mere 33 words in the original Hebrew, but it is so big in its impact.
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The Lord be with you. And Happy Easter. That's right, Happy Easter. We are Easter people as Easter... Well, it's far too grand to rush past it, which takes me to a Bible verse. It is about God's Easter power alive in you and me as we follow after Jesus. The verse I have in mind is in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Roman Christians.
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It was sometime between midnight in the morning of December 4, 1875, that the German steamship Doeclan ran aground off the English coast, and the steamship and medial began taking on water, and 78 lives were lost. Among them were five Franciscan nuns who had been forced out of Germany. Now, in wake of that tragedy, English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poem in which he celebrated the lives of those five Franciscans that he celebrated Christ's victory over death. Now, there was a line in the poem that is... Well, it's actually a prayer in which he asked, Let Christ Easter in us, and today, as you and I, as we face pandemic, war, upheaval, tragedy, so we would pray, let Christ Easter in us. That is let the meaning of Easter. The good news of Easter, let it fill us and permeate every fiber of our being.
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Well, it's springtime, and where I live, we have that wonderful fragrance of 0range blossoms, there's Jasmine budding, and there are the dazzling yellow blooms of paloverde trees. It's just really beautiful. And for Christians, Easter is well; it's the high point of the year. And Easter is more than a spring celebration; Easter is more than sap rising in the trees. Easter is a celebration that our Lord Jesus Christ lives and that by His death, He defeats death, and Jesus opens the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
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As we are in these holiest days of our Lord's passion, we're coming up to Good Friday. I have a question for you. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? That is the haunting question that is put to us by that old spiritual...
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble. Tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? What do you say to that question? Were you there?
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I want to take the next few moments with you to read between the lines of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, to read between the line to see there what I would call the Gospel according to Barabbas. Now, Barabbas comes up in all four of the New Testament Gospels, which tells us that Barabbas is a significant figure in the Gospel story. Why Jesus' birth is mentioned in only two Gospels and off all the miracles that Jesus performed only one, the feeding of the 5000 is mentioned in all four Gospels. So the fact that Barabbas is mentioned in all four Gospels tells us that there was something in Barabbas' story that we dare not miss.
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What does the cross, the cross of Jesus mean for you? That's something I wanna think about. As we're coming up to Holy Week to Good Friday and Easter, what is the meaning of Jesus cross for you and me? As I asked this, I'm reminded of a couple who called themselves CEO's, that is... They were Christmas, Easter only church goers. Well, when Easter morning, those two CEO's are walking into church with their little daughter, now she's about four or five years of age, and the little girl sees a cross up at the front of the sanctuary, and the little girl was overheard to say excitedly, look Mommy look at the big plus sign. I like that, out of the mouths of babes. Look at the big plus sign, because the cross is God's big plus sign for you and for me and for the world.
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When I was a pastor, I did children's sermons that were actually object lessons. I would take an object from everyday life, like a work glove, a bar of soap, and I would use it to teach the children a spiritual truth. But I remember how even adults during those object lessons that they would rouse themselves away and set up and pay attention because whatever our age, we like visuals, we like object lessons as they communicate at a deep level. Perhaps the most eloquent, the most dramatic object lesson in all of history is that God gave that the moment that Jesus cried out on a cross, It is finished.
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Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again waiting for God...
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Recently, a wise friend reminded me, Tim, what we're facing in our country right now and in our lives, it's really a spiritual battle, because we are at a struggle against unseen forces of spiritual darkness. Now, as soon as my friend said that, I knew she was right. What we're facing today is what the Apostle Paul calls a struggle, not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against spiritual forces of evil. And as I prayed about what my friend told me, I thought of the powerful scene from the Bible that encourages me in the struggle and I'm gonna share it with you today, and I hope that it encourages you as well.
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Theologian Ray Anderson suggests that on the day after the father throws that big homecoming party for his prodigal son, on the day after the prodigal son returns to the far country, he returns to tell everyone how He had lied about his father, to tell everyone in truth, how extravagantly loving his father is. To tell everyone how his father forgives, rejoices, and celebrates a prodigal come home. I'm thinking about that today as I ponder some amazing words from the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah.
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How do you and I as believers, as God's people, how do we not just survive, but how do we actually thrive and what are admittedly some very difficult days? What does God's word have to say to us about actually being blessed, about leading fruitful lives at a time of pandemic of uncertainty and fear. Well, I wanna read a brief scripture passage and then take a few moments to think about being blessed and being fruitful in a difficult time...
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Do you sense that God is calling you to do something? The 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 my resignation to church is saying, I know what God is calling me from, but I do not know what God is calling me to. I knew just enough for the next step, but not what would come after that. Well, maybe you are like that today, you know what happened as well with the beginning of this ministry, Water From Rock. I didn't know what it would all mean, I didn't have a clear road map for the way ahead and that's why I like to say that Abraham is my patron saint. As scripture says that Abraham entered God's call and he went out not knowing where he was going.
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I have something very wonderful for you today, and it's all wrapped up in a little verse of scripture, 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 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 of it...
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Do you know how long God has loved you? Has God loved you from the time you were a child, or has God loved you from the time you started loving him? How long do you think God has loved you? How long... How long do you think that God has been head over heels crazy about you? It can be fun to think about...
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Now, I've heard that feeling thankful can present a real problem to an atheist or an agnostic, they don't know who or what to thank. Well, a Christian never has that problem, we know who to thank for our many blessings, we thank our Father in Heaven, but sometimes we might wonder how best to thank our Father for all that he does for us. Well today, I'm looking at a psalm where the psalmist is wondering how, how to thank God...
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
That's what General George Patton wrote to his troops during the darkest days of World War II. Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Well, it's been true in my life, I get fatigued, worn down, discouraged, and I wanna quit, to chuck it all. Perhaps that's been true for you too.
I wonder about you, this expense of covid, of economic hardship, churches shut down, ministries closed. Are you maybe growing weary? Sometimes finding it hard to keep going? It's not wrong to feel weary, but we don't want to let feeling where we get the best of us so that we lose heart. And we quit. And so the apostle Paul is writing to us, "Let us not grow weary in doing what is right. For we will reap that harvest time." We will reap a harvest time.
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The world breaks all of us. That's what Ernest Hemingway said, the world breaks all of this, but there are some who grow stronger at the broken places.
And I'm wondering if you might be feeling broken today. I mean with everything going on in the world and everything going on in your life and the lives of those around you. How is it that there are, like Hemingway said, that there are people who actually grow stronger at the broken places? That's what I want to explore for the next few moments, growing stronger at our broken places.
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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 you will let yourself go, that you will let yourself sink deep into the boundless ocean of God's love, where your feet will never touch bottom. I'm praying a prayer, the Apostle Paul prays for all Christians to know Jesus' love. Now, you would think that Christians would already know Jesus' love. Well, we're just getting started.
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I'm talking today with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Because well, have you seen the news coming out of Ukraine? It's hard to watch, isn't it? Pictures of cities under siege, hospitals being bombed, two and a half million refugees, half of them children who are fleeing, and no one has a clue as to where it's all going. And so today's news has me again, turning to the Bible, turning to that little power-packed book of a Habakkuk...
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What do you sense God calling you to do with your life? Looking at everything going on in our world today, you look at the needs, the hurts, and yes, the opportunities. What is it that God wants from you? It's a question I think about a lot. The question that is always fresh, a question I want to reflect on today with the help of the Apostle Paul as he writes, and what God is calling him to do and what God is calling you and me to do.
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you sense God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you.
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What do you do when trouble strikes? What do you do when out of nowhere you get hit by bad news? When you see the horrific images out of Ukraine and other troubled places in the world, what do you do? I wanna share with you something that I like to do, something that helps me with trouble strikes when something rocks my world. I'd like to turn to Psalm 46 and reflect on the opening words that I read right now...
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Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home?
The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sin where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are. We remember Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who says, There's no place like home. And with those words and three clicks of her heels, Dorothy is back home from the land of Oz, back home with Auntie Em, the cowardly lion, and the tin man and all that really matters. It's at home. Most of us know about Dorothy is feeling that there is no place like home. Sure, we love to travel and to explore the wondrous big world, but it is good to come home, home is where the heart is, we say. Bartlett Geomati, former commissioner of baseball, and before that president of Yale University, when asked to explain the popularity of baseball in America, Geomati said, Well, baseball is all about going home, and we all want to get home. It's our longing to get home. That is at the heart of a passage from the Psalms that I wanna share with you today in Psalm 84.
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Hey, could you just give it to me quick? I hear that a lot these days, people on the go want a quick answer, they want in 140 characters or less just... Spare me the details. Tell me quick what counts. What counts as being a Christian? Do you ever wonder about that? But what does count? And being a Christian. When you boil it all down, after all the sermons you've heard, all the books you've read, when you get down to its essence, what counts is being a Christian? Well, I can't answer that. Or should I say...
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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 turvy 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 for you.
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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 to like about you... Okay, you've got your list...
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Wow, have you seen the news today? Well, maybe you don't wanna go there, but these are troubling times, aren't they? 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? Well, I have something from God's Word for us today. And with that, I want to take a look at what is going on behind the news.
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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, well they are not all that important... And names that are important, well they don't usually make headlines. There were names, the world knows and names God knows. I'm gonna look at this today in the Book of Exodus, in the Hebrew Bible, the name for this book that we call Exodus in a Hebrew Bible, it is called names...
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Did you ever play the child game where you take a flower and you begin to pluck off the petals to see if someone loves you with each pedal you pluck? You say, she loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not until you get to the last pedal, and you sure hope, or at least I hope the last pedal would be... She loves me.
Now, I talk to a lot of people, a lot of Christians who are playing again like that with God, something good happens to them, and they say, Well, God loves me. Something bad happens and they say, God loves me not... Or after doing something good, they say, Oh, God loves me, we're at... They're doing something. Not so good. They say God loves me not. Well, for anyone who ever plays any version of that game with God... I have a prayer for us, it's a prayer the apostle Paul prays in Ephesians...
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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 like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day. I mean with everything that's going on in our country I really need this passage, Isaiah chapter 43, as this comes at a section of the prophecy of Isaiah, that begins comfort ye, comfort ye my people says Your God. God wants to comfort his people who aren't so sure they are God's people any longer, not so sure that God would still claim them.
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Do you ever feel like you're running on empty?
I don't mean your car, but in your life where you feel like you're running on fumes perhaps not quite sure where you're going to get the power to keep going. That's how some people I know are feeling after months of a pandemic, and then piled on top of that or the tragic headlines in the news recently. And then there's my friend, who's fighting a battle against cancer and he's feeling exhausted.
Where do we go to get the strength to keep going?
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Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about. Beginning in verse one. Oh, give thanks. You can feel the intensity, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the lord of lords, for His steadfast love endures forever. Who alone does great wonders for His steadfast love endures forever. How... You probably know what the next line is going to be, don't you?
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It's been called the second law of spiritual thermodynamics, that says that the greater the heat, the greater the expansion, the greater the heat that Satan puts on the church, the greater the church expands in the world... We see it throughout history, and if you are a follower of Jesus, just know that Satan is going to give you heat. In fact, you wouldn't be a follower of Jesus if you didn't get heat if you didn't have enemies, people who oppose you... It's like Jesus said, Whoa, to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. So when you're following Jesus and not everybody's speaking well of you, then you've got enemies for Jesus's sake. There's a very special verse I wanna share with you today, and I think you'll be encouraged by it is Psalm 23, the Shepherd Psalm.
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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 Ephesians Chapter 1, beginning at verse 17, I'm not just going to read this, I'm going to pray this for you, and for me...
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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 every life situation, and you know... My mom was right. As the Psalms have helped me so much through the years. And that's why I've come today to my old friend, the Book of Psalms. I don't have one particular psalm to share with you today so much as I have a life lesson learned from the book of Psalms, and that lesson comes with learning the three major types of Psalms there are. And learning how these three types speak to our different life situations.
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Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son die from cancer? Actually, I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to, well, to leave with God as I've come to realize that God is working on a much higher level than I am and there are questions that I would actually need the mind of God to understand the answer.
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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... Psalm 55. And I will admit straight up that I wasn't facing anything like what David is facing in Psalm 55, but you know, it helped me to see how David deals with burdens. And I think it can help you too when you are burdened, bothered, just can't get it together.
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Have you ever felt that God gave you more than you can bear? And then someone tells you, Oh, that God promises us that he'll never give us more than we can bear. Well, you look at the Bible and you will see that God never promises that he won't give us more than we can bear, but God does promise us something more wonderful, and it's that wonderful that I wanna look at today. I am in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, where the great apostle Paul is telling us about a chapter in his life when God did give him more than he could bear, and how out of that, God gave him something very wonderful.
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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 does God look disappointed in you. Does God look like he's ticked off? Well, the reason why I'm asking is that 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 we look at others. There is a soul secret that we tend to move in the direction of the way we picture God, and so I wanna see if we can't use some scripture today to see if we can't bring into focus the way we picture God.
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Did you see that moon last night? Wow, I mean, about 2:00 AM moonlights comes into our window, and I just had to get up and go outside and look at it, and there it was, I was moonstruck, I was mesmerized, and you know, they say that moon will be full for the next three nights if you wanna go out and look at it. But last night as I looked up at the moon, what came to mind were the words of the Psalm of David in Psalm 19, "The heavens are telling the Glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handy work. Day-to-day pours for speech and night to night declares knowledge." That means that every day, every night, you look up and the sky declares the power, the wisdom, the majesty of God, it's all there.
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Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us.
Scottish poet Robert Burns longs 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.
We're going to look at this today in the Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 6, here is the back story.
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The Psalms have helped me so much through the years. And that's why I've come today to my old friend, the Book of Psalms. I don't have one particular psalm to share with you today so much as I have a life lesson learned from the book of Psalms, and that lesson comes with learning the three major types of Psalms there are. And learning how these three types speak to our different life situations. Now, there are different names that Bible students give to these three types of psalms, but I like the names that Walter Brookerman, an Old Testament scholar gives them. He calls them Psalms of orientation, Psalms of disorientation, and Psalms of new orientation. And knowing these three types of Psalms can help us in reading the Psalms and help us in reading our own lives, so let's look at these three types, first, Psalms of orientation.
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Now, there was a story going around about Satan having a big yard sale and Satan is selling office tools, he's selling off pride, envy, jealousy, hatred, things like that, and demons are showing up to buy... I wanna buy this tool, I wanna buy that one, but when the demon ask about a tool that's lying all by itself, over in a corner, Satan says No, no, no, no, keep your hands off of that one, not that one, that tool is not for sale. Why that tool has always been my best tool for attacking people, it's discouragement, discouragement works for me when all my other tools don't, Satan says... And he says, The good thing about discouragement is that people don't think of discouragement as coming from me. Defensible story? Well, yes, but not so fencible. God's people sometimes do struggle with discouragement in following Jesus...
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When you come to the fork in the road, take it. That's a yogi-ism, it was spoken by famed New York Yankee catcher, Yogi Berra. That's what Yogi told teammate Joe Gratia about getting to his house. When you come to the fork in the road, take it... You know, there's some pretty good advice in that old yogi-ism is that when you come to a fork in the road of life when you come to that place where you have to choose to go one way or the other, you can't just wait there, you can't turn back, you have to choose a way to take... And you know sometimes that your whole future depends on the way that you take, and you want God's help.
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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.
I discovered this verse when I was 18 years old, my whole life ahead of me, but I was discouraged about the Christian life. I was trying harder, it didn't feel like I was getting anywhere, and I really wasn't sure how long I could hang on... I don't know if you could identify with me and any of that, but the Christian life was not a joy for me. And that's when I found Philippians 1:6...
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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 because it is so repetitive that is... It just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. It keeps on saying, The steadfast love of the Lord endures forever. No matter what you've done, no matter what you have gotten yourself into, the steadfast love of the Lord for you endures forever.
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Happy New Year! I hope your new year is off to a good start, and I wanna give you some encouragement for the new year, and I'm praying that what I have to say in the next few moments, that it will be a big boost to you as you begin the year, but it's not really what I have to say, it's what God's word has to say that, well, it really encourages me today, and I pray that it will encourage you too. I'm looking at a passage of scripture that is often read during added and Christmas, about the Son of God humbling himself and becoming one with us, and how we too should humble ourselves and give of ourselves, but I wanna begin reading a little bit earlier in this text, and we usually begin.
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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.
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Today, on the verge of this new year, I'm looking at a Bible text that every time I read it, I think about my mom's compost pit because it's a verse that tells us that God has His compost... God's compost of redemption. I'm looking at Romans Chapter 8:28, where he says that we know that God works all things for good for those who love him, who are called according to His purpose. I like that as it says, We know that God works all things. Not some things, not most things, but we know that God works all things together for good.
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Wow. Another year is gone.
We are about ready to say goodbye to 2021, and I wonder, how are you thinking about the new year? How does the future look for you?
If you've listened to the Selah podcasts for any length of time, you might have noticed that I often talk about David and about David's Psalms. The Bible actually tells us more about David than it tells us about any other person in scripture. Scripture tells us that David was a man after God's own heart. It tells us that David fulfills the purpose of God in his generation. There's a lot that we can learn from David from as many ups and downs through his good times and through his failures. And so today, as we think about a new year coming, I wanna pull up a chair and sit for a few moments alongside David and ask David, how he has learned to look at life and how he looks at the future.
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I hope you're having a joyful, blessed day. Celebrating the good news that is Christmas.
Did you ever wonder what Mary did on Christmas Day? Well, the Gospel of Luke leaves unsaid that she was changing diapers nursing the baby, but the Gospel of Luke does say that Mary treasured all the words of the shepherds about the angels and their glad tidings, that Mary treasured and pondered them in her heart. And I think that would be a good thing for us to do in the midst of a lot of activity. To take a few moments to ponder and to treasure, the glad tidings of great joy proclaim to the shepherds by the angels. Now, it seems to me that the more familiar I am with a Bible story like Christmas, but the more difficult it can be for me to see it with fresh... So let's see if we can't climb back over 2000 years to see the Shepherds with new eyes.
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It's almost Christmas. I just love Christmas. From the time I was a little boy, I have loved Christmas. The trajectory of my whole year heads towards Christmas, and I noticed around us that a lot of people have put up Christmas lights and decorations early this year as it seems after an especially painful, difficult 2021, that we are more than ready to rejoice and celebrate Christmas
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We are hearing a lot these days about vaccines, about variants, and about building up immunity against Covid, and it's all got me to wondering if it's possible, if it's possible that you and I might be building up an immunity to Christmas... An immunity to the sheer wonder, the joy, the amazement that is Christmas. What I mean is, do you think it's possible that as we celebrate Christmas each year, then we get used to Christmas, that we build up a resistance to all that Christmas means for us. I've often said that the Christmas sermon is the hardest sermon of the year to preach, I mean, we know the story, we know it well, it's almost a familiarity that breeds immunity to the real wonder and joy that is Christmas. Today, I wanna look at a scripture text that takes us to the very heart of Christmas, what Christmas is all about.
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I was five, maybe six years old at the time, and I was in our little church's Christmas pageant. I had wanted to be a wise man, but I got the role of the in-keeper instead, you know the in-keeper guy, and a little girl and boy playing Mary and Joseph and when they came knocking at my door, I spoke to them, those five infamous words, no room in the inn. And I was very young at a time, but I felt the sadness of those words, no room in the end, words that were based on the Christmas story that Luke tells us in his gospel, chapter two. "And Mary brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him and swapping clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn."
I wonder. How do those words sound to you today? How do they affect you? No room in the inn. Strangely, those words from the gospel have they've haunted me through the years, no room in the inn because I sometimes have difficulty making room for Jesus in my life, I mean filled up as it is, well, with a lot of good stuff. My plans, my agenda, my ambition, such that it is sometimes difficult to find room for Jesus. But I have discovered that when we do not have room for Jesus in our lives, it's not Jesus who's a loser. It's us. We're the ones losing out. But thankfully, Jesus is patient, and Jesus waits for us.
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Last Christmas, I was able to get together with some cousins to celebrate, and when a cousin who lives in a different state, when she told me that she was sorry that she had not gotten to know my father... You know, I was sad. I was sad because I really love my father, my father was a wonderful man. I was proud to be his son, I was always proud to tell people about my father, and so that night as I'm driving home, I had this new understanding of Christmas.
I saw that Christmas is about Jesus longing for you and me to know his father. And so Jesus comes at that Christmas because Jesus wants us to know his father. Jesus loves his father. And you notice how Jesus was always telling people about his father as he wants us to know his father. And I think that is really the essence of Christmas, that Jesus wants us to know his father, and he wants to take us to be with his father.
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Question. What do you sense God might be saying to you?
The reason I asked that is that God is, after all, a God who speaks, a God who reveals Himself to us. Scripture calls Jesus the word of God because it is God's very nature to speak... To reveal Himself to us. And so I ask, What do you sense God might be saying to you?
Perhaps saying to you through scripture you've been reading, saying to you the world events, same to you through a sermon that you've heard, the wise words of a friend. What do you sense God's saying to you? Because after all, God is speaking to you and me, and that's why Jesus repeatedly says, Whoever has ears to hear... Listen.
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I just love Advent and Christmas. I mean, I feel like a little boy this time to hear, it's such a wonderful season as we look back and as we look ahead, we look back to Christ's first advent as a tiny, vulnerable, helpless newborn lying in a feeding trough for cattle. And we also are looking ahead, eagerly looking ahead to Christ, second Advent, when he will put right this weary broken world. Many times in our Christmas carols, we squeeze Jesus' two Advents into one song, you might have in just one Verse. We're singing of Jesus as a little baby in a manger. In Jesus as King of Kings, Lord of the Lords. Who was ruler overall. So that you and I today, we are living in that time between... That time between Christ to advents. So that we are right now, we are in a time of disease, of war, of injustice, of suffering, and for this time, God has given to us a very special gift as we eagerly wait for the day when Christ makes everything right.
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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... I mean, in the other store, Santa look kind of obese, and in this store, it looks like you could use a few pounds, so I'm wondering... And that's the day that I just knew that something was not adding up for me in Santa Claus. That was a day I began to wonder about this transcendent being who lives way up at the North Pole, and he's supposed to be able to see you when you're sleeping. And he knows when we've been good or bad, and what's more, he's keeping this list on every one of us, and he's checking it twice, and if you and I have not been good, we're getting coal and our stocking this Christmas... Well, it just wasn't making sense for me anymore.
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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 a rather ragged itinerant evangelist, and just before a preacher Morgan is to get up on the backside of his car and preach, his little daughter, Annie starts to sing these words, "I wonder as I wander out under the sky, how Jesus the Savior did come forward to die for poor, awnry people like you, and like I." And from that little Annie Morgan through John Niles, one of the great songs of Christmas has passed down from Appalachia to us.
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Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Or maybe a favorite Christmas Story. I can't help but think of how many of the Christmas movies we love and the Christmas stories that they're about dark times and... About light breaking through the darkness. For instance, there's the beloved movie, It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart playing poor old George Bailey who... Well, he's at the end of his rope, thinking about ending his life. There's Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol about the underpaid under-appreciated clerk, Bob Cratchet, and his dying son, Tiny Tim. And there the citizens of Whoville waking about Christmas morning to discover that the Grinch has stolen all of their presents. Even a secular culture likes the story of a poor peasant baby born in a manger with a star and angels looking down. We love stories of redemption, stories of the light breaking through, and this past year has had plenty of darkness, hasn't it. The darkness of pandemic, the darkness of all the uncertainty about variants Delta and Omicron, and there's been a darkness of isolation, of violence, of unrest, of higher prices. Today, I wanna light a candle sort, a candle for us with a passage of scripture that... Well, it's not just about darkness, it's about the darkest of times, and about God's presence with us.
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Now, when it comes to measuring love, and I love that never ends. I wanna talk with you today about God's love for you and His love for you that goes on and on and on forever. God's love is something that I'm thinking a lot about these days of Advent, these days leading up to Christmas, that God so loved the world that He gave His Son, that the Son of God became the son of man to make us sons and daughters of God. Today, I'm looking at the little New Testament Book of Philippians, chapter 2, verses 6 through 8...
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Well, I don't know about you, but I'm in the Christmas spirit. I mean, after such a strange and difficult year, I am more than ready to celebrate Christmas, and so the other night, I sat down to listen to Christmas carols, I stopped everything else I was doing just to take in the joy and beauty of Christmas music. And you know, there was one song that just reached out and grabbed me, one song that really moved me, and it was a phrase in the song O Holy Night, it is a phrase that says, long lay the world in sin and ere repining till he appeared. And the soul felt its worth. And that night as I thought about Christmas, as I thought about all the Christmas means, I was gripped by that phrase, till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. There was in this song and understanding of Christmas, an understanding of Christ coming that I don't think I find in any other carols. Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. And I wonder, are you feeling your worth to God this Christmas. With God so loving the world that he gave his son for you and me, we feel, we know, we acknowledge, we accept, we validate our worth to God.
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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, the undeniable unmistakable message of the Bible, that through Jesus Christ, you and I can know, we can enter into a personal, intimate relationship with God. I'm gonna read to the opening words of the Gospel of John...
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Happy Thanksgiving! A blessed Thanksgiving to you. One of the things that I'm especially thankful for today is you. Thank you for listening to the Selah podcast. I always look forward to getting to share these few moments with you.
I think it's significant that the word thank, which we're doing today, the word thank... It comes from the same root word as the word think. And people who study these things, tell us that as far back as they can go into the early Indo-European languages, they see that our words thank and think they are connected.
And so, the wisdom of the ages are telling us that there was something about giving thanks that helps us think, to think more clearly about life, about the world, about God, and when we really stop and think about things, we can't help but give thanks to God. Good thinking and good thanking go together...
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Now, I've heard that feeling thankful can present a real problem to an atheist or an agnostic, they don't know who or what to thank. Well, a Christian never has that problem, we know who to thank for our many blessings, we thank our Father in Heaven, but sometimes we might wonder how best to thank our Father for all that he does for us. Well today, I'm looking at a psalm where the psalmist is wondering how, how to thank God...
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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.
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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. It is Jesus who was leading us in this is. As in Matthew chapter 14, Jesus is experiencing what... I think I can say, that Jesus is experiencing overload. He has just received horrible news, and then on top of that is the constant demand of people on his time and energies.
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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. Carl Minnegar, the famous psychiatrist, founder of the Minnegar Clinic, said that if he could convince patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, he said that 75% of the patients could walk out the door the next day. So you see, forgiveness is huge. And I wanna talk with you for the next few moments about forgiveness and knowing that you are free, fully forgiven by God.
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You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think he 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... Well, of how you fall short, growing in your understanding of where God is noting you to grow growing and your understanding of sin in your life... Am I right? I mean, it might seem that the more you were growing in your faith, the more you were sensing how far you have to go... What's going on here?
I would like to explore this for a few moments by looking at the life of the Apostle Paul and to look at Paul's growth, his progress in faith and how sometimes it might look like in going forward, Paul is going backward.
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Philosopher Theologian Dallas Willard said that the ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we allow our minds to dwell on. The important word here is, dwell. What do we allow our minds to dwell on these days, what do we allow our minds to focus on to meditate on?
Now, I want to share with you a scripture verse that's helping me in these difficult crazy days. It's from The Little Book of Philippians...
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The children's book, The Little Engine That Could was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each time a little faster than before and up over the mountain, the little engine goes... I think I can, I think I can. I think, again, I think again... Well, I love the story, but... Well, it's not entirely biblical. There are two important differences between the Little Engine story and the Bible.
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She loves me, she loves me not. Did you ever play that game? Do you ever play that game with God? I know a lot of people who do, I mean they do something wrong and they're just sure that God loves me not... Or something bad happens to them, and they think, well, God must not love me. Let's see if today we can't get all this settled once and for all, and put our minds at rest about God's love for you and me...
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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 turvy 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 for you. We see this beautiful reality about God in Psalm 103, which is a Psalm of David.
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Do you remember falling in love? Of course, you do, I mean, who can forget falling in love. Everyone around you knew you would know that you've fallen in and love, they could see it on your face, it within your eyes. There's a new spring in your step. You can't stop thinking about the person, you want nothing more than to be with that person. My time flies when you're with her, with him. Being in love means that you have seen yourself through the eyes of your lover, and that is very different from seeing yourself through anyone else's eyes.
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.
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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...
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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.
As I am looking, yet again, at another Psalm of David, a man after God's own heart. A man also so often between a rock and a hard place, whether David is facing giants, or facing whole armies against him, David has words that have helped and encouraged me again and again, and I think they can help and encourage you today.
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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?
My go-to verse when I'm needing special power, special wisdom, is the magnificent eighth chapter of Romans...
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Did you know that God not only loves you, that God not only likes you, but that God takes pleasure in you? That God delights in you?
That having you as his child makes God smile? I'm gonna talk for a few moments about this, that it makes God happy to love you, that God takes pleasure in you being His child. I'm looking at Psalm 149, which is a crescendo of praise that is working to bring to completion the 150 psalms that make up the book of Psalms. As Psalm 149 is, well, it's pulling out all the stops and joyful praise of God for all of his goodness and grace to us.
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Could you use some hope today? How about a heaping dose of hope for the future? Hope for whatever it is that you're going through. Hope is so important for you and me. It's been said that we can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but for hardly a second without hope, and that's why I am so glad to be able to pass on some hope to you today...
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I do have more good news today. It's good news for anyone whose life might be falling apart, for anyone feeling at their wit's 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 to an end. I'm looking at Psalm 3...
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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
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Do you know what kind of person you want to be? That is a good question to think about. And counselors say that would be good to every day to visualize... Think about the kind of person you want to be.
Well, as always, I like for scripture to be our guide, especially in thinking about such a big question as who we want to be, and so I'm looking today at Galatians Chapter 4:19, where Paul... I think he speaks to this question. Paul writes, "My little children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you."
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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 we look at others. There is a soul secret that we tend to move in the direction of the way we picture God, and so I wanna see if we can't use some scripture today to see if we can't bring into focus the way we picture God...
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As you look at the news today, as you browse the internet, what's stirring in you? How are you thinking about life in the age of COVID-19? How are you thinking about your future in several? In single conversations we have been looking at life with David, there's so much that we can learn from David. As scripture tells us that he was a man after God's own heart scripture tells us that David fulfilled the purpose of God in his generation. And so today, I wanna pull up a chair and sit for a few moments alongside David, and ask him how he looks at life, how he looks at the future...
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I remember as a boy watching a parade and seeing horses wearing with what looked to me like blindfolds, and I asked my dad why they were wearing pieces of cloth around their eye. And my dad who had been raised on a farm, who had worked with horses my dad explained that sometimes horses needed to wear what was called blinders to keep their eyes focused on what was straight ahead rather than being distracted by what was going on around them or behind them.
My dad said that without the blinders, horses that were working or racing could easily startle in fear and runoff, and so you know, with all that's going on in our country today, the pandemic, the political division, the anger that discord, the ugliness... I am thinking that Christians need blinders of sorts to stay focused rather than being distracted by everything that's going on around us. Philosopher Theologian Dallas Willard said that the ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we allow our minds to dwell on. The important word here is, dwell.
What do we allow our minds to dwell on these days, what do we allow our minds to focus on to meditate on?
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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 of Exodus, in the Hebrew Bible, the name for this book that we call Exodus in a Hebrew Bible, it is called names. That's right, names...
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Have you ever considered that the words you speak every day and the thoughts that you have, have you ever considered that your words and thoughts can actually be a daily sacrifice that you can offer to God, and then you can make God smile? Like priests in ancient Israel offered a daily sacrifice to God, so scripture tells us that you and I can offer a daily sacrifice to God in the words that we speak and the thoughts that we entertain, that they can be pleasing to God.
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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 hearts.
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 how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own. I needed that to be more than just a song I needed to know that it was real for my life. It was through a Bible verse that David taught me something about the daily practice of the presence of God who was always present to us and I wonder if David learned to practice God's presence when he was alone tending sheep or alone in some wilderness cave.
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Do you ever feel like, well, maybe like you're a disappointment to God?
I mean, try as you may you... You feel 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. I mean, did you ever think that maybe that just maybe you would arrive spiritually and you haven't? Well, if you've ever felt any of this I have good news for you. Good news is straight from Jesus as it comes from Jesus' first words in his first recorded sermon in the Gospel of Matthew. It's what we call the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus is setting forth the principles of kingdom life.
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Are you getting enough sleep? I asked that because the Center for Disease Control warns that many Americans are not getting enough sleep. In fact, the CDC calls a sleep problem, they call it a public health epidemic.
When I was in seminary, a fellow student went to a much-beloved professor to talk with him about the student’s spiritual problem. They talked for a while, and then the professor said to the student, he said, what you need is to go home and get a good night of sleep. I think the professor was wise in knowing that not getting enough sleep, not only hurts us physically, mentally, emotionally but not getting enough sleep can become a spiritual problem.
Now, I speak to you as one who once bragged about burning the candle at both ends, but no more, as I have learned the importance, the spiritual importance of sleep. I wanna share with you a brief scripture that helps me get good sleep, and I pray that it might help you to... I'm looking at Psalm 127, which is a psalm by King Solomon. He's a wise man who got quite a lot done and a lot of good sleep along the way.
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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. David is a man who can rise to great heights and he can sink to great lows. I like to study David because Scripture twice says of David that he is a man after God's own heart. Now, we've looked at David before in trouble, but it's gonna take a man David size to get himself into the mess we find Him in today.
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Just about everybody I know, and that's me included, we want to make a difference in the world. We wanna do something with our lives that is worthwhile, something that will endure, that will remain, that well, might even go on beyond us. And we don't wanna waste our time here. We want it to count. Now, the Bible teaches us a prayer that can help us with that, a prayer to do something with our lives that is meaningful, is worthwhile, that will endure...
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I think probably one of the most basic fears is the fear of will I have enough for the future. And the pandemic and lockdown, and unemployment and economic upheaval have probably only added to our fears, Fear is like, well, I'm getting buy now, but what about tomorrow? Or, what if I get sick? But what if I lose my job? How will we make it? I wanna share with you today a prayer that helps me... Helps me take away any fears like fears those about the future, it's a prayer that as I pray daily.
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Hey, I have a question for you. What are your thoughts about one day standing before God? Is it a thought that frightens you or does it thrill you, excite you to think about seeing your savior?
Now, people who don't believe in God, people who are not believers, are excused from this question because I know they don't give any thought to when they stand before God. We will let them take up this question with God later. But all of you who do love God, who are followers of Jesus, I have the most wonderful news for you about one day standing before God...
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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 the Psalms for the rest of my life. I turn to the Psalms when I'm happy and want to give things, I turn to the Psalms when I've sinned as they help me pour out my heart in confession. I turned to the Psalms when I'm confused, feeling overwhelmed, and I don't know what to do, I turn to the Psalms.
Today, I'm in the Book of Psalms again, praying over a Psalm of David written when David is feeling far away from God, written at a time David is feeling overwhelmed by the problems he's facing. And so, David does what David knows to do. David cries out to God...
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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 because it is so repetitive that is... It just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. It keeps on saying, The steadfast love of the Lord endures forever.
No matter what you've done, no matter what you have gotten yourself into, the steadfast love of the Lord for you endures forever.
Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read just the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about...
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Imagine sitting with a close friend for an hour or so and looking back at your life, talking about some of the highest, the lows, some good days, some perhaps not so good, but looking back on your life, I just bet that you would have some lessons learned, some real distilled wisdom. I count it one of my greatest privileges and pleasures in ministry to have served some time as a hospice chaplain, where I spent literally hours with people young and old looking back at life, telling their stories, lessons learned.
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As you look at the news today, as you browse the internet, what's stirring in you? How are you thinking about life in the age of COVID-19? How are you thinking about your future in several? In single conversations we have been looking at life with David, there's so much that we can learn from David. As scripture tells us that he was a man after God's own heart scripture tells us that David fulfilled the purpose of God in his generation.
And so today, I wanna pull up a chair and sit for a few moments alongside David, and ask him how he looks at life, how he looks at the future and I'm sitting with David in that much-beloved 23rd Psalm...
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There is something about being human that we want to know the purpose. We want to know what something is for, and as a pastor and chaplain, I have talked with many people over the years who were wanting to know their purpose, they were wanting to know what they were here for.
Well, as I look at the Psalms, I see that David was a man keenly focus on purpose and on his reason for being here. And I'm thinking that you too also might be wanting to know about your purpose and what you're here for. And I find that David has a lot to say about life's purpose, which is helpful in the ups and downs of our lives.
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You must be a person hungry for God. I mean, I don't think he 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... Well, of how you fall short, growing in your understanding of where God is noting you to grow growing and your understanding of sin in your life... Am I right? I mean, it might seem that the more you were growing in your faith, the more you were sensing how far you have to go... What's going on here?
I would like to explore this for a few moments by looking at the life of the Apostle Paul and to look at Paul's growth, his progress in faith and how sometimes it might look like in going forward, Paul is going backward. As Paul seems to become more and more aware of sin in his life.
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For a prank, one day English playwright, Noel Coward sent an identical anonymous letter to 10 well-known men in London, and his note says simply, we know what you have done, if you don't wanna be exposed, leave town. Well, it's reported that soon all 10 men, they got out of town. Not so nice a prank, but I think it does prove a point, and that is the pervasive power of guilt in the lives of many people. Or as Hemmingway told a story about guilt as there was a father and son who were alienated, I mean, the Son had done and something that really hurt his dad and feeling the shame, the boy runs away, and The Father searches all over Spain for his son and he can't find him, and finally, in desperation, the father places an ad in Madrid's daily newspaper and the ad reads Paco, meet me at Hotel Montana noon, Tuesday, all is forgiven, Papa. Hemingway says that there was a whole squadron of Madrid police that had to be called out to keep the peace as some 800 young men named Paco show up wanting forgiveness. Most of us, even as Christians, who do believe God's good news, we know what it is sometimes a struggle with the guilt to feel that we are forgiven.
I wanna share a verse with you that really helps me a lot in all of this, and it's Romans 8:1...
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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 downscale? Where does God want me to serve Him?
Well, one might wish for the wisdom of Solomon... And, it is Solomon's wisdom, which we're going to draw on today. The wisdom of Solomon that fills a Book of Proverbs. As we want to see what Solomon would advise us about making decisions.
Download a transcript for the August 28, 2021, Selah episode
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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 often feel like a little boy in a candy store when I open up God's word is there is so much here. And that means for me that the Christian life is becoming new almost every day. There was so much more than I imagined. And today, I wanna share with you a brief passage from the Word of God that is so rich and wonderful that I just keep coming back to these verses again and again...
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Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone, I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It would go like this one person would say The Lord be with you, and the other would respond the Lord bless you...
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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 with what the pandemic seems to be doing to churches, there are parents of school-aged children feeling that today, caregivers of loved ones feeling that... I feel like that from time to time, facing an impossible task, but I've got a bible verse that I come back to again and again as this first helps me get my bearings and gives me confidence for the way ahead... I'm going to read the verse and then I'm gonna talk about it a bit. I'm looking at the Old Testament prophecy of Zachariah, the Book of Zachariah, Chapter 4:6 as this is a word from God, a word that the prophet is to deliver to Zerubbabel. And we can take it as a word from God for us today.
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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 wasn't a real Godsend for me this morning, because while the last week has a ban especially difficult, I woke this morning thinking about Jesus's words in John 15-1. I am the true vine and my Father. My Father is the vinedresser. And then Jesus says, Abide in me as I abide in you. I am the vine, you are the branches. And so I woke with this incredible truth that Jesus Father, who is now Our Father, is the vinedresser...
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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. Carl Minnegar, the fame psychiatrist, founder of the Minnegar Clinic, said that if he could convince patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, he said that 75% of the patients could walk out the door the next day. So you see, forgiveness is huge. And I wanna talk with you for the next few moments about forgiveness and knowing that you are freely, fully forgiven by God.
Download a transcript for the August 17, 2021, Selah episode
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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 the good in it. Hey, well join the club. I've got a Bible verse for you today that I think might help. It's a verse, that has helped me a lot of mid-the-slings and arrows of life...
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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?
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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.
For a few moments, I want to see how David looks at life. How we looked at where he's been, where he's going, where he sees it all leading him. I'm in Psalm 23 again, that beautiful shepherd psalm where we catch David looking at life.
Download a transcript for the August 10, 2021, Selah episode
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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 main thing, the main thing.
I'm looking at a Psalm of David, Psalm 27, verse 4, as here we see David laser-focused on the main thing...
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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 turvy 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 for you.
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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 often feel like a little boy in a candy store when I open up God's word is there is so much here. And that means for me that the Christian life is becoming new almost every day. There was so much more than I imagined.
And today, I wanna share with you a brief passage from the Word of God that is so rich and wonderful that I just keep coming back to these verses again and again...
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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 Ephesians Chapter 1, beginning at verse 17, I'm not just going to read this, I'm going to pray this for you, and for me...
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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 Jesus and the life and Jesus to know, the wonder of going after the more... It's what the old Romans called excelsior ever hirer. That there's more than having made a decision, more than having joined a church... Let's look at the Apostle Paul in Philippians Chapter 3, as we see Paul wanting for the more...
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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 hearts.
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 how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own. I needed that to be more than just a song I needed to know that it was real for my life. It was through a Bible verse that David taught me something about the daily practice of the presence of God who was always present to us and I wonder if David learned to practice God's presence when he was alone tending sheep or alone in some wilderness cave.
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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 we look at others. There is a soul secret that we tend to move in the direction of the way we picture God, and so I wanna see if we can't use some scripture today to see if we can't bring into focus the way we picture God.
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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... Psalm 55. And I will admit straight up that I wasn't facing anything like what David is facing in Psalm 55, but you know, it helped me to see how David deals with burdens. And I think it can help you too, when you're burdened, bothered, just can't get it together.
Download a transcript for the July 22, 2021, Selah episode
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The Psalms have helped me so much through the years. And that's why I've come today to my old friend, the Book of Psalms. I don't have one particular psalm to share with you today so much as I have a life lesson learned from the book of Psalms, and that lesson comes with learning the three major types of Psalms there are. And learning how these three types speak to our different life situations. Now, there are different names that Bible students give to these three types of psalms, but I like the names that Walter Brookerman, an Old Testament scholar gives them. He calls them Psalms of orientation, Psalms of disorientation, and Psalms of new orientation. And knowing these three types of Psalms can help us in reading the Psalms and help us in reading our own lives, so let's look at these three types...
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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 counts. That makes a difference. Well, even if we're retired, we want to be doing something in this world for God, and his kingdom. We want to do good works. I'm going to share with you a couple of verses that really encouraged me is, as I think about serving God, about trying to make a difference in our world.
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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. It is Jesus who was leading us in this is.
As in Matthew chapter 14, Jesus is experiencing what, I think I can say this, that Jesus is experiencing overload...
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I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to, well, to leave with God as I've come to realize that God is working on a much higher level than I am and there are questions that I would actually need the mind of God to understand the answer.
I learned about having an I don't understand file from the psalmist, David, in Psalm 131, it has been said of the Psalm that it is one of the shortest psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn and it is a short Psalm, it is a mere 33 words in the original Hebrew, but it is so big in its impact.
It is a psalm about quieting ourselves, about coming to rest, about leaving with God those things that don't go our way, about leaving with God when his plans, well, they don't mesh with my plans.
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No matter what you've done, no matter what you have gotten yourself into, the steadfast love of the Lord for you endures forever.
Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about. Beginning in verse one. Oh, give thanks. You can feel the intensity, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the lord of lords, for His steadfast love endures forever. Who alone does great wonders for His steadfast love endures forever. How... You probably know what the next line is going to be, don't you? For His steadfast love endures, to reiterate, and it goes on like that for 26 verses, repeating, again and again, his steadfast love endures forever.
Download a transcript for the July 10, 2021, Selah episode
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It's been said that there was a little difference in people, but that little difference can make a very big difference. I'm going to talk for a few moments about a man who was a little different than those around him, but that little difference made a big difference for him for his people, and it can for you and me too.
I'm looking at the Old Testament book of 1st Chronicles. The name Chronicles tells us that is a book of history, it is a history of key people who stand out in the long story of the nation of Israel, and the first nine chapters of 1st Chronicles, well, we usually just skip over them because they are genealogies so and so begot so and so. And while reading genealogies might put us to sleep, I like the genealogies because they tell us that people are important to God, and then what people do is important to God and is long remembered by God. So, I'm looking at 1st Chronicles Chapter 5, which is the genealogy of the tribe of Judah. It's another long list of names that might make my eyes glaze over, except for the fact that the Holy Spirit pauses at a name in Verses 9 and 10, the Holy Spirit pauses to take note of a man who stands out in his generation for making a difference.
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When you come to the fork in the road, take it. That's a yogi-ism, it was spoken by famed New York Yankee catcher, Yogi Berra. That's what Yogi told teammate Joe Gratia about getting to his house. When you come to the fork in the road, take it... You know, there's some pretty good advice in that old yogi-ism is that when you come to a fork in the road of life, when you come to that place where you have to choose to go one way or the other, you can't just wait there, you can't turn back, you have to choose a way to take... And you know sometimes that your whole future depends on the way that you take, and you want God's help.
I have a verse today from the Psalms about coming to a fork in the road of life and seeking the Lord's help. I'm looking at Psalm 37, Verse 5. It's a Psalm of David who had come to many forks in the road of life, and it's the voice of experience when David says Psalm 37:5, Commit your way to the Lord. Trust in Him, and He will act. This is a verse, it was often quoted by missionary doctor and famed explorer David Livingston as he traveled what was unexplored Africa, and this verse often helped Dr. Livingston when he came to that fork in the road. Commit your way to the Lord. Trust in Him. And he will act. And I'm thinking that this might be just the verse for you today. As you're needing to make a decision, as you're needing to choose which way to go.
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It's been called the second law of spiritual thermodynamics, which says that the greater the heat, the greater the expansion, the greater the heat that Satan puts on the church, the greater the church expands in the world... We see it throughout history, and if you are a follower of Jesus, just know that Satan is going to give you heat. In fact, you wouldn't be a follower of Jesus if you didn't get heat if you didn't have enemies, people who oppose you... It's like Jesus said, Whoa, to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. So when you're following Jesus and not everybody's speaking well of you, then you've got enemies for Jesus's sake. There's a very special verse I wanna share with you today, and I think you'll be encouraged by it is Psalm 23, the Shepherd Psalm...
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Have you ever felt that God gave you more than you can bear? And then someone tells you, Oh, that God promises us that he'll never give us more than we can bear. Well, you look at the Bible and you will see that God never promises that he won't give us more than we can bear, but God does promise us something more wonderful, and it's that wonderful that I want to look at today. I am in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, where the great apostle Paul is telling us about a chapter in his life when God did give him more than he could bear, and how out of that, God gave him something very wonderful.
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We first began the Selah podcast on March 24 of last year. It's a time that we'd been hit by the pandemic, we were headed into lockdowns, trying to bend the curve, it was a time of social distancing, a time of... Well, at a time of fear, anxiety. A time that I knew that I needed and thought perhaps you might need it too... To stop, to be still, and to listen for the voice of God in the midst of the noise and confusion. And that's how these podcasts began that we call Selah.
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If the ability to speak more than one language is good, then might not the ability to listen... To listen in one language be even greater. Mark Twain said that If we were meant to talk more than listen, well, we'd have two mouths and one ear...
Well, I'm going to talk for a few moments, not too long, I hope, but to talk for a few moments about the importance of listening... Sounds almost like an oxymoron, doesn't it? To talk about the importance of listening, except that I want to talk about the importance of listening to God, about having a heart with ears. I'm looking today at 1 Kings chapter 3, at a young Solomon has been recently crowned king, probably no more than 20 years old. Solomon is remembered often for his legendary wisdom, but I'm not sure we often look at the circumstances in which God endowed Solomon with such great wisdom. Here in 1 Kings chapter 3, we see that it actually happens for Solomon in a dream.
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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.
For a few moments, I want to see how David looks at life. How we looked at where he's been, where he's going, where he sees it all leading him. I'm in Psalm 23 again, that beautiful shepherd psalm where we catch David looking at life. This psalm is the words of a man who has lived much and done much, the words of a man who has sinned greatly and been greatly forgiven, and as David looks at life his mind seems to go back when he was a boy, and when he cared for his father's sheep...
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I wish you could have known my friend Bob... I mean, 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 God. He turns to God and he finds a sponsor, a friend of some sort to help him to walk with Him. And one day, Bob's sponsor asked him to do something well, it just doesn't seem to make any sense, but Bob is ready to do just about anything, I mean, he's desperate, he knows that he needs help...
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Today, I'm looking at a Bible text that every time I read it, I just think of my mom's compost pit [listen for the story] because it's a verse that tells us that God has His compost pit, God's compost pit of redemption. Romans 8:28, and we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. And we know that in all things. Not some things, not most things, but we know that in all things, God works for the good.
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I want to read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus.
First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless, and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God.
Now, a story... My first experience of reconciliation happened when I was a young man and I opened my first checking account. Now, just keep in mind that this would have been long before online banking. When at the end of the month, I receive my bank statement in the mail, and I'm eagerly anxiously tearing open the envelope and there is my balance, there it is, how much money the bank says, I have... Now, I have to set about reconciling my checkbook to the bank's balance, so I add up all my outstanding checks that have not yet cleared the bank. I add in the fees and I come up with my balance, but there's a problem in that what I have is my balance... Well, it doesn't seem to agree with the bank balance. And this is the first time I'm doing it and I'm sure that the bank has to be wrong. Well, it's the bank that is obviously made the mistake, and so what I do is I go back, I again, add up the outstanding checks I add in the fees, I recheck my numbers, and what I am doing is I am reconciling my checkbook. That is, I am bringing my checkbook into an agreement, in harmony with what the bank says, my balance is... We call this reconciling.
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Good ole Yogi Beira said, that If you don't know where you're going. You might not get there. Well, I wonder today, or you're going... Where you're going in life. Do you know what kind of person you want to be? That is a good question to think about. And counselors say that would be good to every day to visualize... Think about the kind of person you want to be. Well, as always, I like for scripture to be our guide, especially in thinking about such a big question as who we want to be, and so I'm looking today at Galatians Chapter 4:19, where Paul... I think he speaks to this question.
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love how in Acts chapter 13 it says of David after David had served the purpose of God in His own generation, he died. Wouldn't we all like that to be said of us someday? That after serving the purpose of God in our generation, we died. I'm always wanting to know more about David, wanting to know what makes David tick, what makes them one of the great persons in all history, and I think that the secret to David's life, that it's really found in the God in whom David believed. The god whom David lived his life for. So, the secret is not really in David, but it's in David's God, and so this week, we're looking at Psalm 139 to learn more about the God and whom David believed, the God in whom David trusted his life, the God whom David praises in the psalm.
We've looked at Verses 1 through 6, where David praises God who knows everything about him and cares about every detail of his life. And there we were looking at God's omniscience, that God knows everything about us. Because God cares about us. Then we looked at Verses 7 through 12, where David is praising God for his omnipresence, that God is everywhere with us. Wherever we go, God is with us to care for us, to support us, to guide us. And in today's scripture, David is putting together God's omniscience and God's omnipresence, to praise God for knowing everything about us and being everywhere with us, even when we were in our mother's womb.
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Often in these Selah reflections, you'll hear me talking about David in the Bible, talking about David's boldness, his fearlessness, his courage, but I don't do that as a call for us to be like David, but rather as a call for us to believe in David's God. That is to put our trust in God whom David put his trust in. For you see, David did not look within himself or courage, nor do we. Rather we want to look to David's God, to look to the God that David believed in. And as we do that, we can be as courageous as David if we keep our eyes on David's God. So today we're looking again at a Psalm of David in order to see the God and whom David believes, the God on whom David literally stakes his life.
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As a pastor and a Chaplain, I've often been asked through the years to read two psalms to people. Two psalms that just really seem to speak to and encourage people, whether they're struggling with cancer or they're wanting to get ahead. You probably won't be surprised by the first psalm that I'm so often asked to read, it's Psalm 23, that great shepherd psalm about the Lord as our Shepherd. The next Psalm, I am often asked to read Psalm 139, it is a wonderful Psalm, a psalm that my wife and I read together almost every night before we go to sleep. I don't have time today to look at the entire psalm, but I do want to introduce it and talk more about it in the next Selah...
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Imagine sitting with a close friend for an hour or so and looking back at your life, talking about some of the highest, the lows, some good days, some perhaps not so good, but looking back on your life, I just bet that you would have some lessons learned, some real distilled wisdom.
I count it one of my greatest privileges and pleasures in ministry to have served some time as a hospice chaplain, where I spent literally hours with people young and old looking back at life, telling their stories, lessons learned. Lessons learned is what we have in today's scripture from Psalm 37, a Psalm of David, in which David is passing down with the help of the Holy Spirit, he's passing down some hard-earned life wisdom...
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Theologian Ray Anderson suggests that on the day after the father throws that big homecoming party for his prodigal son, that on the day after the prodigal son returns to the far country, but that he returns in order to tell everyone how He had lied about his father, to tell everyone in truth, how extravagantly loving his father is. To tell everyone how his father forgives, rejoices, and celebrates a prodigal come home.
I'm thinking about that today as I ponder some amazing words from the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah, now, I'm not sure that we usually think of celebration and joy when we think of the Old Testament prophets, but just listen to this passage from Zephaniah chapter 3, verses 14 to 18...
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The other night, we were at some friend's house where the woman is a very wonderful, accomplished painter, and we were looking at a painting that she had just started, it was just the bare outlines of a painting, I couldn't see what the painting was going to be, but knowing the artist and knowing her work well, I knew that the painting would be beautiful when she was finished. Now, my thoughts about that artist and her unfinished painting takes me to a wonderful scripture verse that I want to share with you. It's one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It's Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 11, where Solomon portrays God as an artist...
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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 like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.
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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. For a few moments, I want to see how David looks at life. How we looked at where he's been, where he's going, where he sees it all leading him.
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This morning as I was making coffee, I thought of the instant coffee theory of life that's put forward by Rabbi Harold Kushner. And with the instant coffee theory of life, you open a new jar of instant coffee and you dole out generous heaping spoon fulls because, well, you have a whole jar of it, but then by the time you start getting towards the bottom of the jar, you realize that that you don't have that much coffee left, and so you carefully go after every grain of coffee in the jar. And Rabbi Kushner says that that's a lot like we tend to treat the days of our lives that when we're young, we're usually not so mindful of our days, how much time we have left, but as we get older, we treat our days, at least we ought to treat our days a little more carefully. Making coffee this morning and the instant coffee theory of life takes me to a little prayer that I like to pray.
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I just resigned from being the fourth person of the Godhead... That's what I said to my wife one Sunday on our way from church. I just resigned from being a fourth person of the Godhead... You see, I was tired of thinking that I bore the weight of the church. Tired of thinking like I had to make things happen. That it was about me and how I was doing. Today, I wanna talk with you about the person who does carry the weight of the church on his shoulders, the person who carries the weight of your life and my life on his shoulders, the person who empowers us, and the person who does make things happen, and that is the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.
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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 ten, 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 again, and David has something good to teach us about difficult times.
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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 that waiting is bad for me, but the waiting is keeping me from getting what I want, that waiting is holding me back from the good life. And I, along with a lot of other people, don't want to wait. I want it now, but then I see in the Bible, I see God's people waiting...
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I have some good news for you. Good news for you, as you seek to be in the world but not of the world. Good news for you is you try to navigate the craziness of a post-Christian world without being harmed, without being corrupted by the world. Some Christians choose to withdraw, to drop out from the world. While other Christians choose to compromise with the world. Well, let's look at what Jesus prays for you and me. About being in the world, but not of the world...
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Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you sense God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can...
Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found helpful in moments like that. Philippians Chapter 2, verse 13, in which the apostle Paul writes, It is God who is at work in you, enabling you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Often people think of God as high up there in his heavens and well, in us down here trying hard to live for God, trying hard to serve Him, but that is not the Bible's teaching, God has not left us to ourselves...
Note what the Apostle Paul says here, it is God who is at work in you. So that puts a whole new light on things... It is God who is at work in you.
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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 listened quietly, and then she warned me, Tim, you're like a sponge soaking up everything around you... Well, I knew that my mom was pretty smart about things, and I try to take seriously her warning about not being a sponge, about taking everything in and taking the path of least resistance going along to get along. Now, all this takes me to a verse of scripture that I do pray will guide me that it might guide you.
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Albert Einstein said that he thought the most important question facing humanity was if the universe was friendly. Well, that is an interesting question, isn't it? Asked by a man, certainly a genius, but a man who didn't think much beyond atoms and electrons and physical existence... No, I have a better question. A more wonderful question. And that is the question asked by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 8, verse 31, What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? That's a better question. And then whether the universe is friendly or not. If God is for us, who is against us?
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Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Well, if you do, don't feel your the Lone Ranger, it seems the coronavirus pandemic has become a kronosomia pandemic, an epidemic of people having trouble sleeping, trouble following asleep, trouble staying the sleep. As we worry about jobs, about the economy, about our kids being gone from school, we worry about getting sick. Well, I know quite a bit about sleepless nights which takes me to the word of God where we see many of God's spiritual giants also having a hard time sleeping. Well there is Job in Job 7:4. The night is long, and I am full of tossing until dawn. There's David in Psalm 6, verse 6, I am weary with my mourning every night, I flood my bed with tears, and there's a Psalmist Esoph in Psalm 77 verse 2, in the night, my hand is stretched out without wearing. So please don't feel guilty if you're having trouble sleeping, you're in pretty good company, but it's what we do with those sleepless nights, that makes a difference. And I wanna suggest to you three things that help me, three things that I've learned from scripture about what to do in those nights I'm having trouble sleeping, so that I try not to fight it, but to go with it.
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Do you remember as a child, the wonder you felt the amazement as you begin to become aware of 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...
I remember when I was a boy catching in a jar, this little thing that was swimming around in our irrigation ditch and showing it to my mom, and my mom told me something that I found hard to believe, she told me that that was a tadpole that would become a frog. It is all pretty amazing. They were pretty wonderful, but not nearly as wonderful or amazing as what God is doing in your life and my life as God is morphing us, transforming us. Making us more and more like Jesus.
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I think of it as one of the perks of the profession of the minister, that I actually get to be with people in the ups and downs of life, to be with people on the mountain tops, and to be with them in the valleys. I think of it as holy ground, to be with the people and the extremities of life, and to experience God's presence, and to learn a little bit more about God, and to learn a little bit more about the mystery of suffering. 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...
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Wow! Did you see that supermoon the other night? It was so beautiful. A supermoon is when the moon comes closest to the earth and it is so big and bright. Well, I looked up at that supermoon and I thought, I thought how the Psalmist is right, that the heavens do declare the glory of God. But sometimes when I look up at the sky, I think the Hubble Telescope reveals that there are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on all of the earth's deserts and beaches. I look up at the sky and I can feel so small, so insignificant, and I wonder, what does it mean for us to be human beings... What are human being? That is the question posed by David, and a Psalm that I wanna look at today, a Psalm in which David... Well, he is in awe of the magnificence of the night sky, and David asks, What are human beings? And you know that that is what are the most important questions facing our culture today, a question that in many ways is dividing our culture. It is a burning question, What are human beings?
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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 years that live through life, not knowing why they're here because of a lot of hurts, a lot of wrong turns, a lot of emptiness. Well, let's see if we can't figure out why. You and I are here. And let's go straight to the top. Let's go to God's word to find out God's purpose for you and me.
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It has been said that people can live 40 days without food, about three days without water. And about eight minutes without air but can only live for a second without hope. We desperately need hope. We live in some difficult times. And we need hope. But what do people do who have no hope... No hope for the future. Where does one go to get hope? Well, has a passage of scripture that could help us with that. A scripture guaranteed to give hope for today. Hope for the future. Hope for eternity.
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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 peace. Or imagine Jesus on that first Easter greeting scared out of the wits, disciples with the word peace. Your heart, my heart longs for peace. Most of all peace with God.
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Have you ever been going through a difficult time and someone says to you, I know what you're going through?
As well-intention as those words might be, I know what you're going through can sound hollow when you just buried your husband. Or when you're caring for a special needs child. Or when you've lost your job. Oh, someone might know bits and pieces of what you're going through, but no one really knows what you're going through, nobody knows but Jesus. And Jesus doesn't just know the facts of what you're going through. Jesus knows the feeling. Jesus feels with you the feelings of all that you're going through, Jesus hurts. He cries that's why I love to sing the old spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. Nobody knows but Jesus. And once more Jesus doesn't just know what you're going through, Jesus wants to help you.
We see this in a passage of Scripture that I have well, underlined in my Bible, it's Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14 through 16.
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The children's book, The Little Engine That Could was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each time a little faster than before and up over the mountain, the little engine goes... I think I can, I think I can. I think, again, I think again... Well, I love the story, but... Well, it's not entirely biblical.
There are two important differences between the Little Engine story and the Bible. First, the Little Engine says, I think I can, but the Bible says, I know I can. And the second important difference is that the little engine relies on its own power to get over the mountain, but you and I as believers in Jesus Christ, we have the power to get over any mountain before us. As followers of Jesus, we know that Jesus will give us all the strength and we need to do whatever He calls us to do, Jesus will give us whatever we need to face, whatever he calls us to face. I know, I can.
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It's two o'clock at night. You can't sleep, you toss and turn the night seems so dark and you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be at two o'clock on a dark night? Are you wait nervously in the doctor's office, wringing your hands fearful about what the test results are going to show? And you're calling out to Jesus. Where do you imagine Jesus to be? When you think of Jesus, do you think of Jesus primarily as high up there in the heavens for away from you and your troubles and fears? Well, you ask most any child in Sunday school and they're gonna get it right. You ask them where Jesus lives. And they will tell you. They will tell you that Jesus lives in our hearts...
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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.
It is the verse I clung to years ago when my young wife died from cancer. It is a verse that helped me to make some sense of suddenly being a single dad with two little boys trying to pastor a church. And well, it helped me then and it helps me now to live life with joy. This verse in the Book of Ecclesiastes which has turned out to be one of my favorite books in the Bible. And you should see the looks on peoples faces when I tell them that Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books, but I love Ecclesiastes because in it Solomon is taking on the hard painful issues of life and answering them.
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Question, what do you like to call Jesus? How do you like to address Jesus when you pray? You call Jesus Lord. Savior, master, mighty God?
Well, I'm gonna talk today about calling Jesus and knowing Jesus as a brother. As our brother. And this all has to do with what happened on Good Friday and Easter, that Jesus, through His death and resurrection, he becomes our brother. Listen to Jesus' words on that Easter morning, as Jesus sends Mary Magdalene to His disciples. I'm looking at John chapter 20:17, Jesus says to Mary Magdalene, go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Now, notice that this is the first time that Jesus calls his disciples, my brothers. You see, the cross and resurrection change everything.
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On that dark Good Friday afternoon, Jesus was literally dead, he was limp lifeless from bearing the penalty for our sins. Then on the third day, the Holy Spirit raised Jesus to life. He did not resuscitate Jesus, He raised Jesus to new life. To a glorified eternal life. So following Paul is saying here, He's saying to the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, that that same Holy Spirit is living in you, to give you new life, to give you new power.
Now, if we miss this here in Romans 8:11, we would see the same spirit powered life in Ephesians 1:18 through 20, where Paul writes, "The immeasurable greatness of His power for us who believe is according to the working of His great power when He raised Christ from the dead and seated him at God's right hand in the heavenly places." So we see the Holy Spirit that lives in you is your power source. The Christian life is not a do-it-yourself project.
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The well-known American preacher, Reverend RG Lee was visiting the holy land many years ago. And the first place he wanted to go was to Gordon's Calvary. It's that place where some believe that our Lord Jesus was crucified, perhaps you've seen pictures of it, it looks... It looks like a skull. Well, when Reverend Lee got to Gordon's Calvary, he wanted to climb to the top of the mountain, but his guide said that they could not do that, but Lee insisted and so they climbed than when they got to the top of Mount Calvary. Reverend Lee takes off his hat, and it becomes strangely silent, and after a few moments, the guide asks Reverend Lee, he says, Excuse me, sir, have you been here before? And Reverend Lee said, Oh yes, yes. I was here 2000 years ago. Well, you know that in saying that Reverend Lee was talking about, the gospel good news, that when Jesus was crucified, we were crucified with Him, and all of our sin, all of our guilt or shame our judgment nailed to the cross with Jesus. I love the old spiritual that we sing on Good Fridays. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? And of course, the answer is yes. Yeah, yes, we were there with Jesus, which means that we were there with Jesus when God raised Him up from the grave.
Today, I wanted to reflect on scripture with you that wonderfully expresses what we were remembering on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The scripture is Galatians Chapter 2, Verses 19 and 20, where the Apostle Paul writes, I have been crucified with Christ.
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Today is Holy Saturday.
I know that Hallmark does not make greeting cards for Holy Saturday and that Holy Saturday is not on most people's calendars, but it is the wisdom of Christians through the centuries to mark this day and to call this day holy as a day to pause, to pay attention, and to wait for what God is going to do.
Why just imagine yourself on that first Holy Saturday...
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Every preacher that I've ever known, put in some long hours during Holy Week, burns some midnight oil, as we're wanting to communicate to make clear the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. And then on top of that, how do you go about explaining the meaning of these days to children who well, they might be thinking about Easter eggs and Cadbury chocolate bunnies. How do we explain the wonder, the glory of what God has done for us in Christ Jesus? Well, I'm encouraged in this task by a great preacher, a great theologian who lived some 500 years ago, who had a passion to communicate what these days mean.
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Have you seen that beautiful Passover moon looking down on us the past few nights?
What that Passover Moon is telling us is that this is Holy Week. We are in those wondrous and holy days in which we follow our Lord Jesus from His triumphal entry, through the agony of the cross, to the glory of His resurrection. And I don't want to let these days just slip by us without stopping to think about the meaning of our Lord's passion, his suffering and death, and his resurrection. So for today, I want to look at the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans in Chapter Four, as Paul is pointing us to Abraham to show how we are put right with God.
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I wonder if you ever have days, ever have nights when you feel like Atlas like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. If you're feeling that weight today as you're doing ministry, and if you're feeling that weight as a parent trying to provide and hold your family together in a time of the pandemic. Maybe you're feeling that weight as a worker, just trying to keep your head above water. Well, I think I have something good for you today, something for anyone feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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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. I read Psalm 11. and it feels like things are going to hell in a handbasket. That's a scene in Psalm 11 is David's friends, are packing up their bags, and they're telling David that he better head for the hills.
Now as we read Psalm 11, it's important to keep in mind that we are reading dialogue. We are reading back and forth conversations going on between David and his friends.
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Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sin where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are. We remember Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who says, There's no place like home. And with those words and three clicks of her heels, Dorothy is back home from the land of Oz, back home with Auntie Em, the cowardly lion, and the tin man and all that really matters. It's at home. Most of us know about Dorothy is feeling that there is no place like home. Sure, we love to travel and to explore the wondrous big world, but it is good to come home, home is where the heart is, we say. Bartlett Geomati, former commissioner of baseball, and before that president of Yale University, when asked to explain the popularity of baseball in America, Geomati said, Well, baseball is all about going home, and we all want to get home. It's our longing to get home. That is at the heart of a passage from the Psalms that I wanna share with you today in Psalm 84.
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Recently, a wise friend reminded me, Tim, what we're facing in our country right now and in our lives, it's really a spiritual battle, because we are at a struggle against unseen forces of spiritual darkness. Now, as soon as my friend said that, I knew she was right. What we're facing today is what the Apostle Paul calls a struggle, not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against spiritual forces of evil. And as I prayed about what my friend told me, I thought of the powerful scene from the Bible that encourages me in the struggle and I'm gonna share it with you today, and I hope that it encourages you as well.
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How do you and I as believers, as God's people, how do we not just survive, but how do we actually thrive and what are admittedly some very difficult days? What does God's word have to say to us about actually being blessed, about leading fruitful lives at a time of pandemic of uncertainty and fear? Well, I wanna read a brief scripture passage and then take a few moments to think about being blessed and being fruitful in a difficult time...
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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... Then the biography section. I do not have figures for the year 2020, but for the year 2019, I see that there were 18.6 million self-help books sold. Self-Help is a booming business, there are self-help gurus everywhere. We are people wanting some help with self because the self is big these days... Self has been big, well, since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Now I'm for self-help, whether it's helping people lose weight, stop smoking, be more positive. Self-Help is okay as far as self-help can go, but self-help is really just superficial because Self-Help cannot go deep to the core of our problem, which is, after all, self.
Now I know that sounds strange to a culture that talks so much about self-esteem, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-expression, and love to send selfie pictures. But the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not about self. Is not about self-help, rather Jesus talked about denying the self... About losing the self. In fact, Jesus says that losing the self is the way to life.
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Your broken places are where my light shines through. It was like... It was like the spirit of God whispered that to me once as I was feeling very broken, it was a time of darkness for me. The feeling that things were out of control, and I sense the calm voice of God's Spirit saying, Your broken places are where my light shines through. And I thought about that for a bit...
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Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. That was a gift that Scottish poet Robert Burns wanted. But I'm gonna talk to you about a far better gift in that, and that is to see ourselves as God sees us. That really is what is most important, because the truest thing about you is not how others see you, it's not how you see you but how God sees you. As a pastor and a chaplain for many years, I've listened to a lot of people, and I've come to the conclusion that the major cause of most spiritual problems, the major cause of most emotional problems as Christians comes from our failure to see ourselves as God see us. So I'm want to read just a brief passage of Scripture that I find to be so freeing, so life-giving as it helps me to see myself as God sees me, and I pray that it will help you too.
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Have you ever thought of your Christian life as a masterpiece? Have you ever heard God saying to you, you are my handiwork, you were special to me? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. Well, I hope that today you will hear God speaking this to you as I am in the New Testament book of Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10, and what I think has got to be one of the most amazing, most wonderful verses in all of the Bible.
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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... Psalm 55. And I will admit straight up that I wasn't facing anything like what David is facing in Psalm 55, but you know, it helped me to see how David deals with burdens. And I think it can help you too, when you're burdened, bothered, just can't get it together.
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I'm gonna get right to it. I wanna read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus. First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God.
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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 about something that is so important, and that is how the power of Jesus can be released through you and me into a world that frankly is very much needing to see the power of Jesus.
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You know, there was something about being human that we want to know our purpose. We want to know what something is for, and as a pastor and chaplain, I have talked with many people over the years who were wanting to know their purpose, they were wanting to know what they were here for. Well, as I look at the Psalms, I see that David was a man keenly focus on purpose and on his reason for being here. And I'm thinking that you too also might be wanting to know about your purpose and what you're here for. And I find that David has a lot to say about life purpose, which is helpful in the ups and downs of our lives.
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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 because it is so repetitive that is... It just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. It keeps on saying, "the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever." No matter what you've done, no matter what you have gotten yourself into, the steadfast love of the Lord for you endures forever.
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Do you ever feel like you're running on empty?
I don't mean your car, but in your life where you feel like you're running on fumes perhaps not quite sure where you're going to get the power to keep going. That's how some people I know are feeling after months of a pandemic, and then piled on top of that or the tragic headlines in the news recently. And then there's my friend, who's fighting a battle against cancer and he's feeling exhausted.
Where do we go to get the strength to keep going?
That's a question I've often had to deal with in my own life and ministry. Today, I've turned to a scripture that helps me when I'm looking for strength to keep going.
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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?
My go-to verse when I'm needing special power, special wisdom, is the magnificent Eighth Chapter of Romans that some have called Romans 8 the Himalayas of the Bible...
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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 how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own...
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Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you?
Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone, I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It would go like this one person would say The Lord be with you, and the other would respond the Lord bless you. Check it out in the Book of Ruth 2:4 where Boaz greets Ruth with the words the Lord be with you and Ruth answers back, the Lord bless you. And those words, those blessings set in motion the little Ruth becoming...
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People say that you got to have self-confidence... That it's all about self-confidence. That if you don't have self-confidence that you're going to be insecure, that you're going to stumble through life and fail. And so when I was a teenager, I wanted self-confidence, and so I read books and magazines on how to build my self-confidence... Well, it took some time, but over the years, I found something much more wonderful than self-confidence. I began to discover God-confidence. And let me tell you that God-confidence works so much better than self-confidence. God-confidence makes life an adventure.
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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 with what the pandemic seems to be doing to churches, there are parents of school-aged children feeling that today, caregivers of loved ones feeling that... I feel like that from time to time, facing an impossible task, but I've got a bible verse that I come back to again and again as this first helps me get my bearings and gives me confidence for the way ahead.
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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 right with God by what we do, legalism says, do but the gospel says, Done. I wanna share with you a Scripture passage that I can remember the first time I read it. It was like God threw up and the windows got through, open the door, and God let grace rush into my life.
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I wanna think with you for a few moments about six things that we need to say before we die, as I've actually come to think of them as six things we need to say before we live. Before we live full passionate meaning-filled lives. Now unlike the way I usually do a Selah podcast, I do not have one particular scripture passage today because well, these six things we need to say run throughout the Bible, they are practical every day Christian living, where the rubber meets the road.
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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 passage that helps me a lot to get a glimpse of what God is up to in our affliction and pain.
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Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again, waiting for God.
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Philosopher Theologian Dallas Willard said that the ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we allow our minds to dwell on. The important word here is "dwell." What do we allow our minds to dwell on these days, what do we allow our minds to focus on to meditate on?
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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.....
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GRACE AND PEACE IN ABUNDANCE! May This Be Yours – 2 Peter 1:2 Download a transcript for the January 26, 2021 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.
BOLD FAITH: TAKING THE FIRST STEP – Hebrews 11:8
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A PRAYER WHEN GOD SEEMS FARAWAY – Psalm 61:1–3
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AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS! WHICH WAY? Jeremiah 6:14, 16
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FEELING NO WAY OUT: FACING DEPRESSION – 2 Corinthians 1:8–9
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GOD’S TWO BOOKS FOR YOU – CREATION AND REVELATION: Psalm 19
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THE JOY OF FORGIVENESS! Psalm 130:3–4
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PRAYER FOR A TROUBLED NATION. 1 TIMOTHY 2:1–4
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DEALING WITH SELF-CONDEMNATION - 1 John 3:20
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Time for God in the Coming Year Matthew 14:22–23
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NEW YEAR’S: Experiencing God’s Rest in 2021, Matthew 11:28–3
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NEW YEAR’S: Looking at the New Year with Confidence Psalm 23
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NEW YEAR’S: “God’s Compost Pit of Redemption” Romans 8:28–29
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CHRISTMAS: Welcome at the Manger – Luke 2:8–19
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CHRISTMAS: A Favorite Christmas Story!
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CHRISTMAS: Getting to Really Know God! John 1
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I WONDER AS I WANDER! Why Did Jesus Come? 1 John 4:9–10
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CHRISTMAS IS THE SEASON FOR RECEIVING! A Look at God’s Indescribable Gift – 2 Corinthians 9:15
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WHEN GOODNESS AND LOVINGKINDNESS APPEARED: The Christmas Story – Titus 3:4–7
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CERTAINTY IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY! God’s Investment in Your Life – Ephesians 1:13–14
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DAILY GOD HUNT: Knowing Jesus As Emmanuel – Matthew 1:23
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FEELING YOUR WORTH! Unworthy But Loved–John 3:16–17
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FEAR NO EVIL! Thinking about My Shepherd – Psalm 23
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WHY CHRISTMAS? It’s All About Father! Matthew 11:27
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ENCOURAGEMENT TO ENCOURAGE! The Healing Power of Your Words – 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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LET IT BE! Saying Yes to God’s Word to You – Luke 1:38
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RIGHT THINKING, RIGHT THANKING – 1 Thessalonians 5:18
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TIME FOR JOY! Throw A Feast! Deuteronomy 14:22–26
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I AM BROKEN! What to Do? Psalm 34:18
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LOVED LIKE JESUS! Come Alive in God’s Love – John 17:23
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CLOSER AND CLOSER TO GOD - Paul’s Testimony of Grace!
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FREE FROM GUILT! Yahoo! Romans 8:1
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JESUS OUR BRINGER! Bold before the Father – Ephesians 4:12
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A LIFE PURPOSE – Why Are You Here? Acts 13:36
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WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO YOU WANT TO BE? What Does Paul Say? Galatians 4:19 Download a transcript of the November 7, 2020 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.
A NEW SONG! When Life Is the Pits – Psalm 40
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WHAT KIND OF LOVE! Reveling in God’s Inconceivable Love for You – 1 John 3:1–2
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ASK GOD BIG! Paul Prays in Ephesians 3:20–21
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WHEN TROUBLE HITS – How to Think about Trials in James 1:1–4
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DON’T LOSE HEART! God Is Up to Something! 2 Corinthians 4:16
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A FRUITFUL LIFE! Sharing Life with Jesus – John 15:4–5.
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CELEBRATE TODAY! God’s Will for You – Ecclesiastes 9:7–9
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NEEDS NOT GREEDS – Talking with the Father about Your Needs - Matt. 6:11 Download a transcript for the October 20, 2020 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.
THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY COUNTS! Paul Tells Us in Galatians 5:6
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GOD’S PERFECT WAY! When Things Don’t Go As Planned – Acts 16:7–9
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JOYFUL JOYFUL! Every Reason for Joy –. Philippians 4:4
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EXPLORERS OF THE FATHOMLESS OCEAN OF GOD’S LOVE! A Prayer in Ephesians 3:16–19
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EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVING CARE! Watch David in Psalm 55
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ARE YOU FACING TROUBLE? Experience the Power of Praise! Acts 16
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MOONLIGHT REVERIE! The Wonder of You and Me – Psalm 19, Psalm 8, Job 26
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PRESSING ON TOWARD THE GOAL! The Joy of the Quest in Philippians 3:12–14
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GETTING AHOLD OF YOUR CALLING IN LIFE! Making A Difference in the World – 1 Corinthians 1:1–2
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A PRAYER TO KNOW THE IMMEASURABLY GREAT POWER OF GOD – Ephesians 1:17–23
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GOD’S MASTERPIECE! Created in Christ for Something Very Special – Ephesians 2:10
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WHEN GOD DOES NOT GIVE WHAT WE WANT! Discipline and Discipleship in Hebrews 12
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HOW TO FIND YOUR TRUE SELF! What Does It Mean to Take Up Your Cross? Mark 8:34–36
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IT ALL ADDS UP! The Surpassing Value of Knowing Jesus – Philippians 3
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WHAT IS GOD UP TO IN THE WORLD? God Shares His Plan – Ephesians 1:9–10
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OUR CONFIDENCE FOR THE FUTURE: God Completes What He Begins – Philippians 1:6
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GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T GET IT TOGETHER! Where the Blessed Life Begins – Matthew 5:1–3
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WHEN IT FEELS GOD GIVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN BEAR! Learn from the Apostle Paul What to Do – 2 Corinthians 1:8–9
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DOWN FOR THE COUNT? The Lord Will Get You Going! Psalm 23:3D
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GOD’S TREASURED POSSESSIONS! Talking with Others about the Lord – Malachi 3:16
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BEAUTY THAT STUNS AND INSPIRES – When Things Get Ugly in Psalm 27
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CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE! Exciting Possibilities in Colossians 3
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ON BEING A FILTER AND NOT A SPONGE! Taking Thoughts Captive to Jesus – 2 Corinthians 10:3–5
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THE STORY BEHIND THE NEWS TODAY– What Is A Person to Do? Ephesians 6:12.
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SEEING YOURSELF AS GOD SEES YOU! Reconciled to God by Jesus in Colossians 1:22
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YOU ARE BLESSED! Enjoying Your Spiritual Riches in Ephesians 1:3 Download a transcript of the August 20, 2020 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and make not be 100% accurate
TAKE A BREAK! Refresh and Refuel with the Father – Matthew 14:22–23
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GOD INTENDS IT FOR YOUR GOOD! Blessings in Adversity in Genesis 50:20
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GOD’S FATHERLY COMPASSIONATE CARE FOR YOU! There Is Help in Our Weakness in Psalm 103 Download a transcript of the August 13, 2020 Selah episode
A PEP TALK FOR DIFFICULT TIMES! An Encouraging Word from 1 Corinthians 15:58
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GOD’S HELP IN MAKING DECISIONS! Wise Counsel from Proverbs 3:5–6
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FALLING IN LOVE WITH GOD! Seeing Yourself through Abba Father’s Eyes – John 17:24–26 Download a transcript for the August 6, 2020 Selah episode
GOING BOLDLY TO GOD FOR HELP! Jesus Knows, Jesus Cares, and Jesus Can Help; Hebrews 4
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GOD’S COMPOST PIT OF REDEMPTION! God Takes All the Trash of Our Lives – Romans 8:28–29
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CARED FOR BY OUR FATHER! Sharing Life with Jesus in John 15
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GOD’S EXTRAORDINARY POWER IN YOU! How God’s Power Is Released through You to the World–2 Corinthians 4: 7–10
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BOLDNESS FOR THE WAY AHEAD! Going with God Where You Have Never Been Before! Joshua 3:1–4
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SATISFIED! Finding Joy in the Wilderness – Psalm 63
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GOD’S PERFECT LOVE FOR YOU! Living Boldly in 1 John 4:16–18
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FINDING REAL REST! In the Yoke with Jesus: Matthew 11:28–30
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YOU CAN’T MAKE GOD STOP LOVING YOU! God’s Forever Love in Psalm 136
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KEEPING THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING! Laser–Focused on the Lord in Psalm 27:4–5
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HOW TO BEST THANK THE LORD. The Psalmist shows us how in Psalm 116:12–14.
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A PRAYER FOR SKILLFUL AND BEAUTIFUL LIVING! Psalm 90:12 teaches us
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GETTING A SPIRITUAL CT SCAN! A Prayer for Spiritual Healing in Psalm 139:23–24
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GOD IS HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE WITH YOU! Rejoice and Dance - Zephaniah 3:14–17
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GOD’S STRONG GRIP! A Life Lesson from David in Psalm 37:23–24
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BEHOLD AND BE LIKE! The Secret to Becoming Like Jesus - 2 Corinthians 3:18
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NAMES IMPORTANT TO GOD! Taking Bold Action in Exodus 1:15–21
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FOLLOWING CHRIST IN HIS VICTORY PARADE! In 2 Corinthians 2:14, the apostle Paul encourages believers!
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FEELING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD? Relax with Psalm 127
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SPIRIT POWERED LIVING! Yours Today! Romans 8:11
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FULLY SUFFICIENT AND ABLE FOR THE DAYS AHEAD! God’s Secret in Hebrews 13:5–6
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TO KNOW GOD’S INEXHAUSTIBLE LOVE! A prayer from Ephesians 3:16–19
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