Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Saturday May 22, 2021
Saturday May 22, 2021
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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Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
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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Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
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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Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
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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Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
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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Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
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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Saturday May 08, 2021
Saturday May 08, 2021
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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Thursday May 06, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
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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Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
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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Saturday May 01, 2021
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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