The Water from Rock Podcast

GETTING READY FOR EASTER: Part 4 – Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

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? 

Download a transcript for the April 14, 2022, Selah episode

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PREPARING FOR EASTER: Part 3 - The Gospel According to Barabbas

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.

Download a transcript for the April 12, 2022 Selah episode

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GETTING READY FOR EASTER: Part 2 - What Does the Cross Mean?

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.

Download a transcript for the April 9, 2022 Selah episode

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GETTING READY FOR EASTER | Part One – The Torn Curtain

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.

Download a transcript for the April 7, 2022, Selah episode

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WAITING FOR GOD | Psalm 40:-13

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...

Download a transcript for the April 5, 2022, Selah episode

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BELIEVING IS SEEING | 2 Kings 6:17

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.

Download a transcript for the April 2, 2022, Selah episode

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GOD REJOICES IN YOU | Zephaniah 3:14-18

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.

Download a transcript for the March 31, 2022, Selah episode

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THRIVING IN DIFFICULT DAYS | Jeremiah 17:7

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...

Download a transcript for the March 29, 2022, Selah episode

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TAKE THE STEP OF FAITH | Hebrews 11:8

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.

Download a transcript for the March 26, 2022, Selah episode

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GOD’S GRACE AND PEACE FOR YOU | 2 Peter 1:2

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...

Download a transcript for the March 24, 2022, Selah episode

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