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
57 Restless Hearts
Summary: We become a church that is able to make disciples, to invite, nurture and parent people with no, or very limited, Christian experience when we are humble, transparent, real,…
56 Transformers
Summary: There is nowhere in the Bible that Christians are shown how to be the government or even the majority culture. Our role is instead to be like salt and light and leaven, tran…
55 Disappointed Eyes
Summary: The world may look at us with eyes of disappointment based on its standards, but God looks at us with eyes of love, based on God’s nature.
Referenced Bible texts: Proverb…
54 Impending Doom
Summary: So much in our world points to impending doom. Christians look to the hope of impending fulfillment, the perfection of what has been already begun in Jesus Christ, as their …
53 Average Potatoes
Summary: We are commentators upon and witnesses to the presence and power of God in the world through this pandemic and always. The world is changed for good when we pray, “Thy will b…
52 Honor and Shame
Summary: God is present for us, whatever our circumstances. Our lives are genuine when they are lived as they were intended to be lived, in a living relationship with the one true li…
51 Pop religion
Summary: Moralistic, Therapeutic Deism is a common belief system that many accept as a form of Christianity. It is not. It is a counterfeit. It is a product of our self-centered cul…
50 When Time Flies
Summary: How can we live faithfully as time passes quickly and slowly at the same time? Bible reading, the primary way God speaks to us, and prayer, the primary way we speak with Go…
49 Therefore I Am
Summary: Here is how I know that that I exist, and who I am. The answer is not centered on me, it is outside of myself. God created me, therefore I am.
We were created for a liv…
48 Making A Civilization
Summary: Civilization begins and sustained by caring for others at some sacrifice for oneself. This is at the heart of what it means to be a Christian. The greatest contribution Christ…
47 Pillars and Caterpillars
Summary: The reason for churches to hope in this pandemic season is that the head of the Church is Jesus Christ. We are the body of Christ. The diversity of gifts given through our mem…
46 A More Radical Church
Summary: The word “radical” comes from the Latin word radicalis, and in an earlier Latin word, radix, both meaning “root”, as in the root of a tree. The problem with being a political …
45 Conspiracy Theory
Summary: Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Truth is a person.
Referenced Bible texts: 2 Timothy 4:1-5; John18:37-38a; John 14:6
Our Email Address: TheRevsDavidandSally@gm…
44 Rolling Whiteout
Summary: We dry out when we expend more spiritual power than we can produce by trying to do what is only possible for God. The cure for spiritual dryness is streams of living water, a …
43 One Beggar
Summary: The world will be hungry for human contact and community when post-pandemic churches fully reopen. Some will only want spiritual junk food, but others will want what God has f…
42 When The Going Gets Weird
Summary: There is a lot of weirdness in the pandemic right now, but that’s a natural state for Christians. We gain our weirdness and our character from the wisdom and strength of God.
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41 Is God Causing The Pandemic?
Summary: There is a connection between sin and illness, but only God knows how in individual cases. All evil comes from human rebellion against God but God draws good from the evil we …
40 Doing What Is Right
Summary: We find strength to continue caring for others during the pandemic, even when discouraged, by looking to God, who never gives up on us. God’s steadfast love endures forever.
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39 Systemic vs Personal
Summary: Should Christians emphasize systemic change or personal transformation? Both. But, they must be done at the same time.
Referenced Bible texts: 1 Corinthians 10:13; Amos 5:21…
38 Vocation vs Vacation
Summary: Should Christians emphasize systemic change or personal transformation? Both. But, they must be done at the same time.
Referenced Bible texts: 1 Corinthians 10:13; Amos 5:21…