DOING LIFE: Daily Devotions For Finding Peace in Stressful Times
We live in a world that has been driven to the brink by natural disasters, political divisiveness, and a pandemic that threatened to crush the world's socioeconomic infrastructure, no less the health and welfare of every individual. Dr. Thurston draws on a lifetime of experience in medicine, his formal theological training in seminary, and his love of music, sailing, animals and children, to bring you these first 365 devotions. Through laughter and tears, each will reorient you to what's truly important in life, and provide you with new approaches to finding lasting peace and contentment! Anyone dealing with stress or grief, or simply feeling lost, will find solace in these podcasts!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 1305
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
August 19 Doing Life: Christian Violence or Violent Christians?
"I like your Jesus very much, its just your Christians I don't care for." Mahatma Gandhi
August 18 Doing Life: Fake It Till You Make It
Do not waste a moment worrying if you can love your neighbor; start by ACTING as if you do! CS Lewis
August 17 Doing Life: Mercy
Mercy is one of only three things required of you in this life!!
August 16 Doing Life: Restoration
No calamity that befalls us is beyond reach of the Almighty
August 15 Doing Life: Pet Peeve
"A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult." (Proverbs 12:16)
August 14 Doing Life: I hear you knockin', but.........
You need to invited Jesus into your life; not just crack the door a little and ask His advice now and then. God already knows the things you don't want Him to see in your house.
August 13 Doing Life: Rerouting
Just like getting lost when you HAVE a GPS, we have a tendency to blame God when things go wrong in life.
August 12 Doing Life: Open Window
"Sin is crouching at your door, ready to pounce on you!" (Genesis 4:6-7 The Voice)
August 11 Doing Life: Pot of Gold
"Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around......the Glory of the Lord!" (Ezekial 1:28 NKJV)
August 10 Doing Life: Panhandlers
He who gives sparingly, reaps sparingly. (2 Corinthians 9:6 NKJV)
August 9 Doing Life:Love God
God expects love to be an act of will, not a feeling. He doesn't just expect it; He commands it.
August 8 Doing Life: Infidelity (Not What You Think)
"An Anxious Christian is a confusion in terms," (My Grandfather)
August 7 Doing Life: There's Been a Gate Change
Believers KNOW what the End Game is! They never have to worry about a "gate change!"
August 6 Doing Life: Two Step Identification
He knows our voices. He knows our names. That's the definition of comfort.
August 5 Doing Life: Whistle
Our home is wherever Christ is, and He is indwelling!!! How cool is that?
August 4 Doing Life: Shock Collar
God is not controlling the remote to a shock collar we all wear!!
August 3 Doing Life: Roller Coaster
"Life may present us with all kinds of curves, but we need never question our worth.."
August 2 Doing Life: Imposter Syndrome
Self doubt is a slap in the face of the Creator!
August 1 Doing Life: Texting
Prayer is just thinking whatever you want the Lord to know, at any time!
July 31 Doing Life: 100 Pounds of Clay
Your spouse is the most precious gift you will ever receive!