Living Water Radio: For Today's Christian Life
Living Water Radio is designed to bring encouragement, reflection and a sense of relationship to Christians and others looking for Christian community in the Los Angeles area during the pandemic and in the "new normal" that follows. It is co-produced by Pastor David Berkedal and Reverend Sally Welch.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 378
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
117 Organic Food
Summary: Holy Communion is the organic presence of Jesus Christ in the forms of bread and wine. This food is free, but it’s not cheap. It is Christ himself, given for us for the re…
116 Tending Roses
Summary: God tends us like roses. We are fed by the Sacraments and the Word of God, receive the radiance of the Son, the light of the world, are pruned by God’s grace in our repent…
115 Growing Figs
Summary: The fig tree represents both blessing and judgement in the Bible. God’s people are both tree and seed, nourished and sent by the Holy Spirit, as we emerge into the New Nor…
114 Listening To Birds
Summary: The Holy Spirit is sometimes represented as a dove in the Bible. The most important thing you will ever hear might just come from a "bird".
Referenced Bible verses: Ge…
113 Salt
Summary: Christians are like salt. It doesn't take a lot of us to preserve what is good or to transform the culture around us. We just have to be what we are.
Referenced Bible v…
112 Light
Summary: Our culture needs less heat and more light. Jesus is the light of the world. That light has overcome the darkness. We are not the light. We are reflectors of that light. W…
111 Leaven
Summary: It doesn’t take a lot of Christians to change the world. It only takes people who open their hearts to receive God’s gift of new life and act in the transformational power…
110 Holiness & Hardware
Summary: What can local churches learn from a local hardware store? Provide what we say we provide, offer opportunities to encounter credible people who really care about what they…
109 What Is Justice?
Summary: Justice is doing God’s will. We know God’s will is being done when are responding to the leadership and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Justice can only be done with autho…
108 Streams
Summary: Streaming video is the means we have become accustomed to for receiving information. Streams bring the water that is necessary for life. The Holy Spirit is described in bo…
107 Of
Summary: “Of” is a small word, but it is cosmic in meaning. We are children of God and heirs of God’s promise. Jesus, the Lamb of God, fully God and fully human being, died to take…
106 Living
Summary: Birth and death and resurrection are all the same because we have received the gifts of a living relationship with the one true living God and our adoption in our baptism.…
105 Water
Summary Water is necessary for life. Baptism is the water and the Word of God that brings new life. This new life is increasingly distinguishable from our increasingly secular cult…
104 Go S.L.O.W.
Summary SOLW is an acronym for Streams of Living Water. SLOW is an acronym with the same words but in a different order, reminding us that sometimes we must reexamine the order of …
103 Construction Lessons
Summary We do not make ourselves. We are constructed as Christians and as the Church by the Holy Spirit. Maundy Thursday points to the death of Jesus, fully God and fully human bei…
102 Witness
Summary A witness is someone who tells about something they have seen. A Christian is a witness who tells their story or the stories of other Christians about what God has done …
101 Deep Fake/Deep Love
Summary We don’t live by the things we see or by the desires of our heart. We don’t live by the appearances of the deep fakes and lies of this world. We live and are formed by the …
100 Small Worship
Summary Worship in the new Small Normal post-pandemic world will reflect people’s hunger for community. It will be built around the needs of clusters of small groups. It will be ni…
99 It's A Small World
Summary The Christian world is both large and small. We are both the Body of Christ and individually members of it. The Body of Christ, the Church, is huge and encompasses the full…
98 The Small Normal
Summary A big part of The New Normal will be small groups. They will provide fellowship, help with the discipleship of new or lapsed Christians, will be structured for growth an…