The Water from Rock Podcast

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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