Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
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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Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
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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Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
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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Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
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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Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
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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Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
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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Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
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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Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
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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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
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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Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
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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