Faith, Doubt and God's Mysterious Timing: 10 Minute Insights with Laurie Polich Short

Could you be involved in a bigger story than you think? And if so, how do you know how to play your part? This question is the focus of today’s ten minute podcast… and we’ll look at a verse in 1 Chronicles 17, which is a book in the bible I’m sure you’ve spent LOTS […]

Is there any such thing as a school of faith? If so, how do we enroll? The Bible seems to point to such a school, but you don’t go to a building or website to attend it. It begins when you say yes to God. Your classes are your circumstances, and your curriculum is learning […]

Falling into temptation does not happen with a single decision. It happens because of all the decisions before that decision that weaken our resolve. How much thought do you put into the little decisions that can derail you in your faith? In this week’s ten minute podcast, I talk about a verse that shows us […]

When it happens, you may not know what to make of it. The volume goes up, and the words you hear (or read) seem as if they were meant just for you. Sometimes it’s not even audible. It may be a pressing in on your heart– but it’s a sense that God is speaking to […]

On Easter we celebrate God doing the impossible– then we turn to face the overwhelming circumstances of life. Even before we got to church on Easter morning, we were confronted us with news from Sri Lanka that made many of our drives heavy on the way to church. How do we grow a faith that […]

There are times in our faith journey when we have to keep our eyes on what’s ahead. Easter week is one of those times. Today’s podcast is on a verse that gives us the tools we need to keep our eyes forward, no matter how bad our circumstances may look. I had the opportunity to […]

Is freedom actually found through boundaries? That’s the wisdom the 10 commandments beckon us to see. When Moses tells the Israelites in Deuteronomy 10:13 that God’s commands were for their own good, they didn’t realize how true it was until they broke them. Life apart from the commandments revealed their value. And it’s the same […]

What happens when you feel that God is calling you to do something, but your fear is as big as your faith?  In Numbers 13, twelve spies have been commissioned to go into the promised land to scout it out- not to see if they should go in, but how they should go in. But […]

When God is not doing what we want him to do, we may feel like we want to abandon him. But first we need to examine what having another god will do to our souls. The verse I talk about on today’s podcast reveals that when we replace our allegiance to God with a lesser […]

It’s not a verse you would usually notice- mainly because of the hugeness of the event that proceeds it. But this little verse, when practiced, pushes us to cling to our faith. And sometimes that push is just what our faith needs. (That and the nightmare of coming anywhere near the picture above). The verse […]