Living Spring Podcast

Life is full of distractions, and it can be hard to give our full attention to the people we care about most. This week, we’re talking about the importance of being truly present with those we’re in relationship with - whether it’s a spouse, a child, or a friend. Being present doesn’t require perfect words or big actions - just our time, our attention, and our care.

Who determines if you are enough? Someone from your childhood? A spouse? An ex? More often than not we each have an arbitrary value system that differs from everyone else. Further, we can have a different person or thing for each area of our lives. It’s exhausting. Fortunately there is an alternative. Someone that will guide and direct you in the way you were created. And the good news is that it’s based on truth.

In 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5, Paul encourages his student Timothy to hold on the truth of the faith that he has been taught. But there seem to be a lot of people who say that the traditional Christian faith has deeply misunderstood God, Jesus, and the Bible. How can we be sure that we are following Jesus correctly? In this sermon, Pastor Reed talks about how the Christian faith of the early church was preserved in both the Bible and the Christian Creeds.

We were given the 10 commandments as a template of how we should live our life. Jesus takes it a step further by speaking to boundaries for those commandments to give us a foundation how we are to relate to others.

No matter what you are going through there is a good chance that your highest highs and lowest lows have one thing in common. Relationships. A good relationship can be life giving while one bad relationship can ruin your day, year or decade. In this series we explore some skills that help any relationship not only grow, but thrive.

In order for us to have healthy, life giving relationships we need to make sure one relationship stays at the forefront. Our relationship with Jesus. This week we talk about why that relationship matters the most and how a healthy relationship with Jesus impacts all the others.

Please join us this week as Pastor Michelle walks us through the events of Holy Week beginning with Palm Sunday.

This week as we wrap up our series of Wholehearted, we reflect on the lessons that have been disseminated over the last several weeks about how emotional maturity is important to our spiritual maturity.

One of the sayings we have heard often in our life is that rules were meant to be broken. What does that look like for our spiritual lives? If we have steadfast rules that we live by in step with our Heavenly Father, we stand to live a much more fulfilled life as our Father in heaven would have us live. Today, Pastor John talks about what that looks like according to the book of Daniel.

Join us as we discover more about God’s mercy through the story of God’s reluctant and stubborn prophet Jonah. We also deepen our understanding of I-It and I-thou relationships from Emotionally Healthy Spirituality through the lens of the book of Jonah.

We are encouraged by our Heavenly Father to rest. So often, we find ourselves feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and burdened by anxious thoughts. This week, as we continue our Wholehearted series, Pastor John discusses how Jesus took time to rest and rejuvenate with His Heavenly Father, and how we should follow His example.