Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
The well-known American preacher, Reverend RG Lee was visiting the holy land many years ago. And the first place he wanted to go was to Gordon's Calvary. It's that place where some believe that our Lord Jesus was crucified, perhaps you've seen pictures of it, it looks... It looks like a skull. Well, when Reverend Lee got to Gordon's Calvary, he wanted to climb to the top of the mountain, but his guide said that they could not do that, but Lee insisted and so they climbed than when they got to the top of Mount Calvary. Reverend Lee takes off his hat, and it becomes strangely silent, and after a few moments, the guide asks Reverend Lee, he says, Excuse me, sir, have you been here before? And Reverend Lee said, Oh yes, yes. I was here 2000 years ago. Well, you know that in saying that Reverend Lee was talking about, the gospel good news, that when Jesus was crucified, we were crucified with Him, and all of our sin, all of our guilt or shame our judgment nailed to the cross with Jesus. I love the old spiritual that we sing on Good Fridays. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? And of course, the answer is yes. Yeah, yes, we were there with Jesus, which means that we were there with Jesus when God raised Him up from the grave.
Today, I wanted to reflect on scripture with you that wonderfully expresses what we were remembering on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The scripture is Galatians Chapter 2, Verses 19 and 20, where the Apostle Paul writes, I have been crucified with Christ.
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Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Today is Holy Saturday.
I know that Hallmark does not make greeting cards for Holy Saturday and that Holy Saturday is not on most people's calendars, but it is the wisdom of Christians through the centuries to mark this day and to call this day holy as a day to pause, to pay attention, and to wait for what God is going to do.
Why just imagine yourself on that first Holy Saturday...
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Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Every preacher that I've ever known, put in some long hours during Holy Week, burns some midnight oil, as we're wanting to communicate to make clear the meaning of Good Friday and Easter. And then on top of that, how do you go about explaining the meaning of these days to children who well, they might be thinking about Easter eggs and Cadbury chocolate bunnies. How do we explain the wonder, the glory of what God has done for us in Christ Jesus? Well, I'm encouraged in this task by a great preacher, a great theologian who lived some 500 years ago, who had a passion to communicate what these days mean.
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Have you seen that beautiful Passover moon looking down on us the past few nights?
What that Passover Moon is telling us is that this is Holy Week. We are in those wondrous and holy days in which we follow our Lord Jesus from His triumphal entry, through the agony of the cross, to the glory of His resurrection. And I don't want to let these days just slip by us without stopping to think about the meaning of our Lord's passion, his suffering and death, and his resurrection. So for today, I want to look at the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans in Chapter Four, as Paul is pointing us to Abraham to show how we are put right with God.
Read the rest of this entry »Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
I wonder if you ever have days, ever have nights when you feel like Atlas like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. If you're feeling that weight today as you're doing ministry, and if you're feeling that weight as a parent trying to provide and hold your family together in a time of the pandemic. Maybe you're feeling that weight as a worker, just trying to keep your head above water. Well, I think I have something good for you today, something for anyone feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Do you ever read the Bible and you feel like you're reading today's headlines?
Well, that's what I'm feeling today, as I read Psalm 11 where I see frightening things going on in the country as it says the good people are being targeted and the foundations are being destroyed. I read Psalm 11. and it feels like things are going to hell in a handbasket. That's a scene in Psalm 11 is David's friends, are packing up their bags, and they're telling David that he better head for the hills.
Now as we read Psalm 11, it's important to keep in mind that we are reading dialogue. We are reading back and forth conversations going on between David and his friends.
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sin where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are. We remember Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who says, There's no place like home. And with those words and three clicks of her heels, Dorothy is back home from the land of Oz, back home with Auntie Em, the cowardly lion, and the tin man and all that really matters. It's at home. Most of us know about Dorothy is feeling that there is no place like home. Sure, we love to travel and to explore the wondrous big world, but it is good to come home, home is where the heart is, we say. Bartlett Geomati, former commissioner of baseball, and before that president of Yale University, when asked to explain the popularity of baseball in America, Geomati said, Well, baseball is all about going home, and we all want to get home. It's our longing to get home. That is at the heart of a passage from the Psalms that I wanna share with you today in Psalm 84.
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Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
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.
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
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...
Read the rest of this entry »Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
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... Then the biography section. I do not have figures for the year 2020, but for the year 2019, I see that there were 18.6 million self-help books sold. Self-Help is a booming business, there are self-help gurus everywhere. We are people wanting some help with self because the self is big these days... Self has been big, well, since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Now I'm for self-help, whether it's helping people lose weight, stop smoking, be more positive. Self-Help is okay as far as self-help can go, but self-help is really just superficial because Self-Help cannot go deep to the core of our problem, which is, after all, self.
Now I know that sounds strange to a culture that talks so much about self-esteem, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-expression, and love to send selfie pictures. But the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not about self. Is not about self-help, rather Jesus talked about denying the self... About losing the self. In fact, Jesus says that losing the self is the way to life.
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