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
- 1306
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
April 2 Doing Life: Ingenuity
God has given us a mind for Creation and for Love
April 1 Doing Life: Masks
Created in God's image, we have no reason to hide who we really are
March 30 Doing Life: Family
What does it mean to be adopted into the family of Christ and have brothers and sisters?
March 29 Doing Life: Pray
If you worry, why pray? If you pray, why worry?
March 28 Doing Life: Practice, Practice
The music of a loving Creator should shine out of us.....
March 27 Doing Life: What, No Dance Lessons?
Slow down and step away from your stress.....
March 26 Doing Life: Bravery
Courage has nothing to do with the absence of fear.......
March 25 Doing Life: Make Em Laugh
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up bones! (Proverbs 17:22)
March 24 Doing Life: Fight Like a Man
Get down on your knees and fight like a REAL man! Walk humbly with your God and learn that real love is found in submission and sacrifice.
March 23 Doing Life: Awesome God
Keep the Main thing the Main thing and we avoid being judgmental
March 22 Doing Life: A Miracle
Forgive the one who has wronged you and free yourself from bitterness
March 21 Doing Life: get Out of the Boat
All fear is really fear of the unknown; but if we know Christ and trust Him, and He knows the future, we conquer our fear with faith!
March 20 Doing Life: Abundant Life
Focus on a good Life; Not a Good Living!!
March 19 Doing Life: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Look at the character of god before you go blaming Him for bad things and realize that blaming Satan for bad circumstances might just give him too much credit!
March 18 Doing Life: What Comes Out
What comes out in unguarded moments reveals an individual's actual moral standing
March 17 Doing Life: Freedom
Christians are free from condemnation, free from guilt and shame! (Romans 8:1)
March 16 Doing Life: Big Breath
Response to crisis is either hide your head in the sand, panic, or ascertain the facts first!
March 15 Doing Life: The Violin
Never forget that you are a miraculous priceless creation, made in the very image of God.
March 14 Doing Life: Just keep Swimming
When times get tough, just one foot in front of the other, just keep swimming, and trusting that God will come through!