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
July 9 Doing Life: Silence
"and they sat with him on the ground, seven days and seven nights, and nobody spoke a word..."
(Job 2:13 ESV)
July 8 Doing Life: Hidden Blessings
What if Your Blessings come through rain drops? What if Your Blessings come through tears?
July 7 Doing Life : Essentials
" In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love. (St. Augustine)
July 6 Doing Life: Chick Fil-A
"You are to labor six days, but you must rest on the seventh..." (Exodus 34:21)
July 5 Doing Life: Greener
"The grass may be greener on the other side of the hill.....but that means you have to mow more."
July 4 Doing Life: Independence Day
"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1 NIV)
July 3 Doing Life: Charging
Your Spiritual self needs recharging just like your physical self!
July 2 Doing Life: Horse Play
"it is a happy talent to know how to play!" (Emerson)
July 1 Doing Life: Killing of Innocents
Always look at stories in scripture that may be confusing at first, in the light of what we know about the character of God!
June 29 Doing Life: Quiet
How un-surprised we should be that we might hear You best in the quiet of nature!
June 28 Doing Life: Skeet
We may be shaped by You just as our children are shaped by us!
June 27 Doing Life: Back Pain
The Lord knows what it means to suffer; and through it He showed us what obedience looks like!
June 25 Doing Life: Original Names
Adopted as Sons and Daughters, the Creator of the Universe Knows Your Name
June 24 Doing Life: Lighthouses
WE don't need the warnings of a distant lighthouse to avoid being crushed on the rocks: we only need the Light of Christ within us!
June 23 Doing Life: Origins
The Origin of Life completely eludes the scientific community: unless they honestly follow the findings to the obvious conclusion: only GOD could do this!!
June 22 Doing Life: Washed in the Blood
You would do ANYTHING for your child! That's the unconditional love that God has for US!
June 21 Doing Life: Get Help!
Why do we always turn to our own understanding when we get in trouble?