The Water from Rock Podcast

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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