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
97 Five Flowers
Summary We are the lilies of the field. How do they grow? They don’t do anything. They receive the gifts of God, and there is no growth more spectacular.
Referenced Bible ver…
96 The Glue That Holds Us Together
Summary The glue that holds us together in the Christian Church when we seem to be falling apart is the Holy Spirit. It binds us even when we don’t acknowledge its power.
Refere…
95 Family Values?
Summary We live as one (a family) by living as one (in an all-defining living relationship with the one true living God).
Referenced Bible verses: Mark 3:31-35 (also, Matthew 12…
94 The One Question Church Leaders Should Never Ask Congregations They Serve
Summary Christian communities are the product of the Holy Spirit. They are led and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The one question that church leaders should never ask the congregat…
93 Toleration!
Summary Toleration is not enough for Christians, and it has its limits. We are called and formed to love selflessly, as God loves, seen most clearly on the cross.
Referenced Bib…
92 The Temptations
Summary Temptation comes to all people. We cannot prevent it. We can resist it, but we can’t overcome it. The good news, the Gospel, is that Jesus has overcome it for our sake on the c…
91 Be Purple
Summary We are now in the season of Lent. The color of Lent is purple, in part because that was the color of the robe that the Roman soldiers threw around Jesus to mock him as a “king…
90 Something Pure
Summary: Soap and water make us pure. The cross where Jesus, like soap, uses himself up to make all who receive the gift of faith pure before God, and baptism where water and the Wo…
89 Less is More
Summary: The Christian life is hidden in Christ. It is filled with paradox, including that less is more. The things that the world views and pursues as ends in themselves lead nowhe…
88 Believing and Seeing
Summary: We discern the leading of God, the Holy Spirit. Yes, that is very subjective but that’s how God works, with people. We consider the whole testimony of the Bible, the witnes…
87 No "I"
Summary: It may feel sometimes, in this pandemic, that we are alone, but we are not.
We are the Body of Christ and individually members of it. Our individual gifts, however, are …
86 Amen.
Summary: When we use “Amen.” in worship, it is an affirmation of what has been said or read. It is a response to the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit through our focused, active enga…
85 Transparency
Summary: Transparency is a value in the Christian life. We seek to have nothing to hide. In any case, there is nothing we can hide before God. God loves us and God transforms us to be…
84 Going Viral
Summary: The Gospel has gone viral for 2,000 years. You are a Christian, or will be come one, because someone shared the transformational story of salvation with you and you opened yo…
83 A New Administration
Summary: The proclamation of Jesus at the beginning of his 3-year public ministry, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”…
82 Homogeneous
Summary: Being a homogeneous Church is not the opposite of being a polarized Church. They are the same when we seek only those like us and that polarizes. The Body of Christ as a meta…
81 Critical Thinking
Summary: The lack of critical thinking got us into the pandemic surge and our current national crisis. Critical thinking has a great deal in common with the Christian life and, as we …
80 Living in Crisis
Summary: In a global pandemic that is getting worse, at a time of national crisis, faith is everything.
Referenced Bible verses: Hebrews 11:1-3
Our Email Address: TheRevsDavidan…
79 Epiphany!
Summary: The Epiphany season sheds light on both the reason people ignore the simple things they can do to slow the spread of the coronavirus and on the actions of the invading mob in…
78 A Counter-Cultural Christmas
Summary: The celebration of Christmas as a 12-day Christian season goes counter to our culture’s observation of Christmas as a secular holiday. Sometimes, it also goes counter to our …