Honey From the Rock

We've all memorized or had quoted to us the verses from Proverbs 3: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will set your paths straight. 

But what was Solomon saying to us? And what role does faith play in trusting the Lord?

On today's episode I want to encourage us to examine the relationship between faith and trust, what it means to believe th...

*Please note this episode deals with some serious subject matter like abuse and anxiety. While these topics are not discussed explicitly, I encourage you to listen with discernment.*

What if deconstruction actually has a part to play in our faith?

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 1 of Honey From the Rock! I'm thrilled to have my good friend, Roy Baldwin on the show today. He's a father, writer, and faithful follower of Jesus, who is not a...

Honey from the Rock has made it to FORTY episodes! Today, I'll be sharing from a heart full of thanksgiving. The Lord has blessed me immensely with His goodness, both through His person and Word, and through His body. It's easy to hop from thing to thing and stay busy and hustle and grind, but today I want to pause and give thanks to the Lord for His many, many gifts and blessings. 

Scriptures Referenced:

• Psalm 100
• Colossians...

There are so many lessons to be learned from the Exodus journey of the Israelites. Pictures of our own freedom and joy, as well as our doubts and complaints are all there in Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. 

In today's episode, I'm examining the disposition of the Israelites as they listen to the reports of the spies. 10 saw the goodness and fruitfulness of the land God promised to give them. But they were overwhelmed and thro...

Waiting is one of the spiritual disciplines of the Christian walk, and yet most of us don't wait on the Lord well. But what if Jesus wants to shift our perspective on waiting? What if waiting becomes a gift, a place where we can learn to worship Him more freely? 

While we are children of the Lord and have the privilege of asking our Father for things, we are also His servants. And it is the pleasure of the servant to wait on th...

There are many voices out there - telling us what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and how "it" should look. But what if we took a step back, and cut away the voices of this world, and even well-meaning voices, and asked Jesus to make His voice the clearest and the loudest to us. 

What would happen if we took away all the strategies, bells, whistles, and ideas and simply said, "Jesus, today, I"m going to show up. And I know ...

John 20:31 tells us that, "...These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name."

When we contemplate the Word, the vastness of the revelation of God... do we realize that every single part of it has been curated and picked by the Lord for the purpose of bringing us to belief and that belief would bring us to life in Jesus? This Word is designe...

Are you in a season where you are in winter, in a cave, it's dark and difficult and every day feels like a wrestle? 

Or are you in a season where you see the tender tendrils of hope starting to bud in your life once again? 

No matter where you are - I pray today's episode encourages you: Jesus is on the move in the lives of His people. He is bringing forth fruit in freedom, and starting to show us the fruition of the hard s...

Psalm 23 is a super familiar chapter. Not only for the church, but even in culture. However, when we stop to take a look at it, the deeper meaning, and the revelation it holds is worth the digging.

Take for instance, verse 5: "You prepare a table for me in the middle of my enemies, You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows." There is much in this passage that's easy to explain - or read past. But what if the Lord wants to remind...

There are times that Jesus does things that make us uncomfortable. He works in ways that challenge our preconceived notions about how we think He should show up, work, or move. However, when we read Mark 8:22-26, the Lord often is working more deeply, He is refining us, testing us, and asking us to trust Him. 

As Jesus took the blind man out of the village and healed him, so He often calls us apart, does deep work, and uses unc...

A short episode to encourage you: joy truly does come in the morning. And even though that sometimes feels impossible in the darkness or in the wilderness, the seeds of future joy are being planted. Why? Because Jesus is always at work. He is moving in ways we cannot see. He can handle our grief and our depression and our questions. And He delights in filling us with His joy, love, hope, and peace. 

I pray this episode encourag...

Who is like the Lord? Sometimes, in the familiarity of our culture, where Jesus seems almost ubiquitous, we forget who He really is. We can grow desensitized to His holiness, grace, mercy, and power. 

In today's episode, as we consider the things the Lord is requiring us to surrender or devote to destruction, let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Contemplate the character and goodness of the Father. Think about the faithfulness and lead...

What the freedom we desire is on the other side of obedience? 

In 1 Samuel 15, the Lord commands Saul to devote things of offense to destruction. But Saul, in his disobedience, decides to offer some things he kept back as a sacrifice. The Lord makes it clear: He desires our complete obedience in what He has commanded. Not the sacrifice of the defiled things He requires to be destroyed. 

The Lord wants to free us. He wants u...

Identity is a big deal. We all want to know who we are, where we fit in this world, and what we were made for. There are a million voices trying to define identity for us. 

"We fight from love, not for it." - Jennie Allen, The Lie You Don't Know You Believe (this is not an affiliate link, I just love the book!)

But what if we tossed social media out the window, shut off the 24-hour news cycle, and started taking Jesus at His wor...

What comes to your mind when you think about the Lord's pruning? Pain? Anguish? Suffering? All of those things may be true. But what happens if we take a moment and start to adjust our minds and hearts and consider the One who is doing the pruning. The One whom the Scriptures call Love, Faithful, True, Just, Righteous, Kind, Slow to Anger, Gracious, Compassionate and so many other attributes. 

In today's episode I talk about pr...

What does it really mean to abide in Jesus? Does He really mean it when He says, "Without Me you can do nothing?" And what does abiding have to do with maturity in Him?

In today's episode, I'm taking you on my own journey of wrestling with the Lord. What does it mean to be mature in Him? Why is dependence so important to the Lord? And how do we grow in endurance, grace, and union with Him so when the storms of life come, we don't de...

Is there someone the Lord has put on your heart to pray for? What does it mean to pray for each other, friends, family, even our enemies?

On today's episode, I talk through the importance of prayer, the posture of prayer, and the Holy Spirit's role in helping us pray. I also mention a few things that have helped me follow through when I tell someone I'll pray for them. I hope this episode encourages you as the Lord leads you in pray...

As we observe Holy Week, and contemplate the cross and all that Jesus has done for us, I want to challenge us to shift our focus off of what Jesus has done to Jesus Himself. What He has purchased for us comes out of who He is. And this is shown through both the Gospels and the story of the Exodus out of Egypt. When we start to read the Word by first examining what Jesus is trying to reveal to us about the Father and His character, ...

Today I'm celebrating the podcast hitting 1,000 downloads. A huge milestone made possible by the Lord's grace and your friendship. Thank you for joining me on this journey. 

I also get a bit vulnerable, and share some of the wrestle that I've been walking through in the last year. In the darkest times, in the depths of my despair, Hope has still poked through. And that is the faithfulness of Jesus. Reading Psalm 130, seeking th...