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
77 Christmas Apocalypse
Summary: Christmas reminds us that God keeps His promises. Christ was born when the time was right 1,000 years after the promise of His first coming. As we await Christ’s second comin…
76 Christmas Con Carne
Summary: We share the good Christmas news of the Word made flesh with commonality and confrontation. “What did you do for Christmas?” “I heard a Christmas story that was disturbing bu…
75 A Disrupted Christmas
Summary: Christmas is going to be celebrated a little differently this year as the result of the pandemic but also because of the increasing secularization of our culture. Let’s disru…
74 Ad - Venting
Summary: Advent is its own season, preparing us for the 12 Days of Christmas. It is also a season to reflect on the second advent, or “coming” of Jesus. We live in the already, but no…
73 How to Hear a Sermon
Summary: We best hear a sermon when we are open to the Holy Spirit, who also inspires the sermon preacher, and act on the Holy Spirit’s transformational presence to share the good new…
72 How to Preach a Sermon
Summary: Some people preach from a pulpit, but we all preach in our homes, our workplaces, our teams, and on the streets where we meet people. We preach the good news of Jesus Christ …
71 Preacher
Summary: When we proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, our goal is not for people to hear what we have to say, but to hear what God is saying through us, the very words of God, that…
70 How Did I Do?
Summary: Worship, whether in person or on Zoom, is directed to God. The question to ask ourselves after a liturgical worship service, said philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard…
69 Life and Death
Summary: Sally’s sister Susan died peacefully last Sunday morning after a valiant struggle with pancreatic cancer, on the First Sunday in Advent, a season of hope and expectation. Eve…
68 Paul Hornung, A Colander, and This Thanksgiving
Summary: There are things to be thankful for even during a global pandemic. The liturgical calendar infuses time with meaning and reminds us that time is a creation of God, that time …
67 Surge
Summary: The rising number of new coronavirus cases in the United States are no longer described as a spike, but as a surge. Much of this surge could have been prevented, lives could …
66 The New Normal Church, Part 3: Post-pandemic Development
Summary: Church development in the post-pandemic New Normal Church will take place through a flattened church hierarchy, a renewed emphasis on the Christian nature of the Church’s ins…
65 The New Normal Church, Part 2: The Changing Means
Summary: The Good News of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for our redemption remains the same from generation to generation. The means we use to proclaim Christ are always …
64 The New Normal Church, Part 1: Near Term
Summary: The Good News of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for our redemption remains the same from generation to generation. The means we use to proclaim Christ are always …
63 Signs and Wonders
Summary: Each of has a spiritual gift (or serial gifts), given at baptism for the sake of accomplishing the work God has given the Church to accomplish. The extraordinary “signs and w…
62 Two Authorities
Summary: The Two Kingdoms doctrine is an often misunderstood understanding of how God works in the world. It reminds us of God’s sovereignty over all things while calling Christians t…
61 Election
Summary: Election, or predestination, doesn’t mean that how we live our lives doesn’t matter, it means that why we live our lives does matter. Whatever the outcome the coming election…
60 Three Celebrations
Summary: How we celebrate is as important as what we celebrate. All our celebrations are flawed in some ways, except when we celebrate the gifts, like faith, salvation and baptism, t…
59 This Is Not My Life
Summary: Many feel like they are in a fog right now in the pandemic, they look around and say, “This Is Not My Life”, and they are right. Whatever our external circumstance, our live…
58 What Would Jesus Wear?
Summary: Many of us have become accustomed to wearing a bit more “informal” type of clothing at home during the pandemic. Jesus’ clothing was deemed by some to be embarrassing. That …