by Laurie Short | May 1, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Podcasting
When it happens, you may not know what to make of it. The volume goes up, and the words you hear (or read) seem as if they were meant just for you. Sometimes it’s not even audible. It may be a pressing in on your heart– but it’s a sense that God is...
by Laurie Short | Apr 24, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Gideon, Podcasting
On Easter we celebrate God doing the impossible– then we turn to face the overwhelming circumstances of life. Even before we got to church on Easter morning, we were confronted us with news from Sri Lanka that made many of our drives heavy on the way to church....
by Laurie Short | Apr 16, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Holy Week, Podcasting
There are times in our faith journey when we have to keep our eyes on what’s ahead. Easter week is one of those times. Today’s podcast is on a verse that gives us the tools we need to keep our eyes forward, no matter how bad our circumstances may look. I had the...
by Laurie Short | Apr 10, 2019 | 10 commandments, 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith
Is freedom actually found through boundaries? That’s the wisdom the 10 commandments beckon us to see. When Moses tells the Israelites in Deuteronomy 10:13 that God’s commands were for their own good, they didn’t realize how true it was until they broke them. Life...
by Laurie Short | Mar 27, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Laurie Short Podcast
What happens when you feel that God is calling you to do something, but your fear is as big as your faith? In Numbers 13, twelve spies have been commissioned to go into the promised land to scout it out- not to see if they should go in, but how they should go in. But...
by Laurie Short | Mar 20, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Podcasting, Something Short
When God is not doing what we want him to do, we may feel like we want to abandon him. But first we need to examine what having another god will do to our souls. The verse I talk about on today’s podcast reveals that when we replace our allegiance to God with a lesser...
by Laurie Short | Mar 13, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Podcasting, Something Short
It’s not a verse you would usually notice- mainly because of the hugeness of the event that proceeds it. But this little verse, when practiced, pushes us to cling to our faith. And sometimes that push is just what our faith needs. (That and the nightmare of coming...
by Laurie Short | Mar 6, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Podcasting
“If only I had a sign.” We’ve all been there in our relationship with God, and Ash Wednesday is a great time to reflect on what we think we need to take bigger steps of faith. We often feel we need some kind of assurance for whether or not to move ahead....