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
37 New Normal vs. New Reality
Summary: The “new normal” that has become a way to describe the conditions under which we live to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus has, for some, become a “new reality”. Norm…
36 The Crown
Summary: The “coronavirus” disease is named after the appearance of its virion (a single virus) under an electron microscope. The round ball has arms extending from it with a “crown” (…
35 Fake ID
Summary: What is our identity in the pandemic? The world defines our identity by our ability to consume, to earn, to be popular, to be strong, healthy, powerful and influential. These …
34 Bucket List
Summary: God has prepared a place for those who love God that is greater than anything on anyone’s bucket list (things to do before we kick the bucket). Our “bucket list” is living in …
33 Change Shortage
Summary: Our businesses do not have enough coins to make change, yet change is all around us. Change is fundamental to the Christian life. Our biggest change shortage is the shortage o…
32 Social Media
Summary: Social media provides a means by which everyone can find a group that agrees, supports, and defends one another, while making demands that all conform. Lately, however, it see…
31 Save The Dinosaurs
Summary: Some people seem to want everything to return to normal without taking any of the precautions necessary to flatten the curve and help make our medical treatment facilities man…
30 The Cure
Summary: Despair has often been said to be the worst sin, or at least the most dangerous, because it says “Nothing can be done”. It gives up on God. The cure for despair is not a woode…
29 Living Reality
Summary: Blowing off illegal fireworks is an expression of liscense, not freedom. Not wearing masks in the face of the evidence that they save lives and jobs only makes the coronavi…
28 For Freedom
Summary: We are free to live our lives as we want, as long as the exercise of our freedom does not diminish the same right held by other people. We are to act responsibly for the commo…
27 Learning to Learn
Summary: Science and religion are two different ways of gaining different kinds of knowledge. We must sift through differing claims in each, but especially in religion, to get closer t…
26 A Better Country
Summary: The world is the way it is because human beings opposed, and continue to oppose, God. Our actions bring evil into the world. God responds with steadfast love and sacrifice, and…
25 Coronavirus Mizpah
Summary: The Mizpah was a statement of accountability (Genesis 31:49b), but it has come to take its meaning from a broader Biblical context. That is, that we both pray for God’s prese…
24 The Armillary
Summary: The Bible is like an armillary. It must be taken from its decorative position and into the light, put in the right position in a person’s life, and read with a mind and heart …
23 Readjust
Summary: Not much has changed in the past 3 and 1/2 months for some of us. But for most of us, everything has changed.
We have adjusted to voluntary isolation. With businesses and in…
22 The Rise
Summary: How does the Church rise to reach people with the good news of reconciliation with God at the cross?
One way is to consider how the faithful followers of Jesus Christ, the …
21 Reopening The Church
Summary: As churches re-open, at what we hope is the waning of the Coronavirus pandemic, we are being given an opportunity to re-open the life of the Church to in some ways resemble th…
20 The Third Pandemic
Summary: The first 2020 pandemic is the COVID-19 pandemic, and the second is the widely seen and growing demonstraitions that are following the murder of George Floyd by 4 Minneapolis …
19 George Floyd
Summary: The murder of George Floyd, and its capturing on videotape, has brought the need for difficult confersations on race to the fore, again. George Floyd was a brother in Christ, …
18 What Is Essential
Summary: The conditions for opening churches during the pandemic raises questions about the Church’s core beliefs. A living relationship with the one true living God is at the center o…