by Laurie Polich 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 Polich 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 Polich 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 Polich 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 Polich 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....
by Laurie Polich Short | Feb 27, 2019 | 10 minute podcast, 40 verses to ignite your faith, Faith, Laurie Short Podcast, Waiting
Sometimes when we read the Bible, we pass over phrases that can actually be life changing for our faith. Here’s one: “When two full years had passed, Pharoah had a dream.” (Gen.41:1) I know what you are thinking. Wow Laurie, that’s profound. But the context of this...