What is Jesus doing in your life? Often in our darkest moments, it can feel like God is distant from us. We need answers and we keep uncovering questions. If you need answers from God, this podcast is for you. Join Pastor Jonny Lehmann as he brings you a weekly 15-20 minute devotion designed to bring the always-relevant truths of the Bible to life as you experience the world around you. Pastor Jonny serves at Divine Savior Church in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! This week we focus on heartache. We’ve all been there at some point in our lives. Loss of a job, friend, family member, savings, health, leisure, or ability creates a void capable of destroying the human spirit. Left unchecked a person can experience p…
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Are You Sure That's What It Means? | Don't Judge (Matthew 7:1)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! "Don't judge me!" is not just a common saying, it is a philosophy of life for those controlled by the sinful nature. "Let me do whatever makes me feel good as long as it doesn't hurt other people, and don't criticize me for it." Even unbelievers pull o…
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Are You Sure That's What It Means? | You Can Have Life Without Limits (Philippians 4:13)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Philippians 4:13 might easily be called the Christian version of, "Just do it." There's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it...and trust in Jesus. Jesus will make it possible to achieve what you thought was impossible: beat cancer, found a F…
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When Surrounded by Hopelessness...See Jesus! (1 Kings 6:8-17)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! In this episode, we dive into the story of Elisha’s servant, who felt hopeless when surrounded by an enemy army. Just as the servant’s eyes were opened to see God’s powerful protection, we found solace in God’s Word, transforming our fear and pain into…
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Are You Sure That's What It Means? | Death is Just a Part of Life (John 11)
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Are You Sure That's What It Means? | God Loves You the Way You Are (1 John 4:8)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! This past week at VBS, we focused on how God alone gives us truth, and there is nothing more important than the truth of his love. "God is love" is one of the most beautiful and comforting truths of the Bible, but it is also one of the most abused. Som…
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Special Father's Day Episode | Your Father Sees Everything
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Are You Sure That's What It Means? | The Secret to Foolproof Parenting (Proverbs 22:6)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! It's almost like a mathematical formula: Teach your children the Word of God when they are young and without question you will see them in heaven. If your children lose their faith at some point, they will come back without a doubt. Unfortunately, that…
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The Living Hope of Jesus | Follow Your Shepherds and Stand Firm (1 Peter 5:1-14)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! As sheep, we are prone to wander. We need a Shepherd over us and we need to shepherd one another. Let’s follow our shepherds, pray for them, and encourage them. We are all serving The Shepherd who gave his life for us. So we humble ourselves, but God w…
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Where is God? This is one of human beings' most frequently-asked and incorrectly-answered questions. We are tempted to believe that evidence of God's presence is found in outward circumstances. We equate good fortune with God's favor and bad fortune wi…
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The Living Hope of Easter | Living For God (1 Peter 4:1-11)
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The Living Hope of Easter | Don't be Surprised Life Isn't Easy! (1 Peter 4:12-19)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! It’s not easy being a Christian today. It never has been. Jesus said that would be the case. We need a deeper joy, a deeper hope to live for to make it through. Easter gives us that living hope. But don’t be surprised by the suffering. Jesus experience…
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The Living Hope of Easter | Joint Heirs in Life (1 Peter 3:1-7)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Christian husbands and wives are an object lesson to the world of Jesus’ love for us. They submit to one another and love each other the way Jesus loves the church. This isn’t always easy. And we don’t like to deal with words like “submit.” But there i…
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The Living Hope of Easter | Follow in His Steps (1 Peter 2:13-25)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! We live in two different kingdoms – the kingdom of the world, and God’s kingdom. As citizens of this kingdom, we are called to submit to the governing authorities. It is part of how we honor God. But we do this remembering there is one true King, and H…
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The Living Hope of Easter | The Greatest Building, The Greatest Story (1 Peter 2:1-12)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Jesus purified us and made us new! So it doesn’t make sense to keep living the way we used to. Let’s live new lives, imitating Him. Loving the hard-to-love. Let’s grow in our faith by continuing to be fed with his Word. Devour it! He is building us int…
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The Living Hope of Easter | How Then Shall We Live? (1 Peter 1:13-25)
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The Living Hope of Easter | Joy in Suffering (1 Peter 1:1-12)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Jesus finished his race as he gave his final breath on the cross. We have run together with him as Mark announced each step of this race. Now Mark is elated to give us this final account. The account of victory - Christ is risen up from the grave. He w…
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Good Friday | The Seven Words of the Cross
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Holy Thursday | For Many, For You (Mark 14:12-26)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Jesus wanted his disciples to never forget his race to the cross. He wanted them to remember his race because of what he would do - for many, and for you. Jesus gave up his body and his blood to the cross for each one of us. As he institutes Holy Commu…
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Race to the Cross | The Final Stretch (Mark 11-14)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! They come around the final turn and now it is a sprint to the finish, but just because it is near the end of the race doesn’t mean the steps become less important - they become more important. Every stride takes the runner closer to the finish, closer …
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Race to the Cross | First is Last (Mark 10:17-31)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! How many of us easily buy into the thinking, “If you’re not first, you’re last.” The Kingdom of God flips this thinking around. Jesus turns the ways of the world upside down. Which is so good for us. We need Jesus’ revelation and teaching to help us wi…
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Race to the Cross | Make Sure You Have Salt (Mark 10:1-16)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Family support is often a massive part in the story of an athlete’s success. In addition to physical talent, determination, and practice, a support system is necessary for success in competition and life. Jesus knows this better than anyone - he was pa…
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Race to the Cross | Losing to Win (Mark 8:27-35)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! No one likes to lose. No matter how much our competitive nature drives us, we still prefer to win. But sometimes you win by losing. If you want to follow Jesus you have to lose to win. You have to give up your life for Jesus in order that he can save t…
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Race to the Cross | A Compassionate Teammate (Mark 7:31-37)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! When teammates train together, compete together, travel together, eat together, have fun together, they develop a deep bond. They may known each other better than anyone else, and because they know each other so well, they often are able to offer the e…
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Race to the Cross | Practicing Proper Form (Mark 7)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Proper form makes all the difference in the race. How your feet hit the ground, the way your toes push off, the rotation of your legs, the pumping of your arms, the position of your chest, the focus of your eyes - it all matters. Runners practice prope…
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Race to the Cross | The Point of No Return (Mark 9:2-13)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Glory and celebration await the victorious runners of the race, but that glory never comes easy. It only comes through the intense agony of the pain, even suffering, as every step becomes harder and harder; every breath becomes more strenuous. Only thr…
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Race to the Cross | Listen to the Coach (Mark 4:1-20)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! The coach observes his athletes, jots down his notes, compares the times, and then he speaks. He teaches. He gives important directions. Those with the humility to accept his instructions and encouragements will grow in their abilities. Those who think…
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Race to the Cross | No Distractions (Mark 3:20-35)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! All along the course the runners find distractions. Some in the crowd cheer you on, some in the crowd cheer on your opponents. Some praise your form and skill. Some accuse you of cheating. But you can’t get distracted. You need to stay focused on what …
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Race to the Cross | Running on Forgiveness (Mark 2:1-12)
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Race to the Cross | The Amazing Race (Mark 1:35-45)
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Race to the Cross | The Starting Line (Mark 1:1-20)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Every race has a start. As they prepare, and step up to the line, the competitors already have their minds and hearts on the finish line. They take their mark. There’s silence. The gun cracks and muscles instantly respond with action. The race is on! T…
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Christmas Day/New Year's Eve | A Letter from Home (Micah 5:2-5)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Merry Christmas to you all! This week's podcast is written from the perspective of your Heavenly Father as we approach the new year. Support the Show.By pastorjonnylehmann
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Christmas Eve | The Story of Home (Luke 2:1-20)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Once upon a time, on the very first Christmas, Jesus left his heavenly home to live here on earth with us. He did that because he knows our homes aren’t always filled with happiness, laughter, joy, and love — even on Christmas. This Christmas, hear the…
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Thy Kingdom Come | God With Us (Isaiah 7:10-14)
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Thy Kingdom Come | Peace Out of Chaos (Isaiah 35:1-10)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! A barren landscape bursts into vibrant blossoms. What an amazing sight to witness, but Isaiah speaks of the miraculous and instantaneous power of God. God's kingdom truly does bring joy; everlasting joy. He miraculously works it out of the chaos we see…
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Thanksgiving | Remember You're Different!
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I pray the LORD guide you as you reflect on the many blessings he's given! Support the Show.By pastorjonnylehmann
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Proverbs | Restoring Relationships (Assorted Proverbs)
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Proverbs | Healing Heartache (Assorted Proverbs)
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Proverbs | Learning Self-Control (Assorted Proverbs)
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Proverbs | Putting Away Pride (Assorted Proverbs)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! This week we focus on pride. Pride is the conclusion in one’s thinking that a person, idea, or thing is better than another. This conclusion justifies any praise or humiliation in attitude or treatment that results from that thinking. It can be as quie…
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Proverbs | Eliminating Envy (Proverbs 23 and Psalm 73)
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Proverbs | Mastering Money (Various Proverbs)
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Proverbs | Overcoming Anger (Various Proverbs)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! After 4 weeks of looking at the source of wisdom and the principles of its design for our lives, this series now applies wisdom from the book of Proverbs to the everyday “complexities of life”. This week we focus on anger. Is anger a good thing or a ba…
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Proverbs | The Difference is Grace (Proverbs 3, 9, 16, 19, 20, 23, 28)
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Proverbs | The Reality We Live In (Proverbs 2:12-22)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Everyone knows to get to the right destination you must start in the right place and head in the right direction. The same is true for wisdom. But whose way is right? Experts offer wisdom through short cuts, techniques, and formulas. Friends give advic…
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Proverbs | The Wellspring of Life (Proverbs 4:11-27)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Everything in your life flows out of what happens in your heart. The heart is your “wellspring” of life. What your heart decides it loves… determines the choices you make in life. If anything but God is the main love of your heart, you will be a fool. …
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Proverbs | The Path of Wisdom (Proverbs 3 and 8)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do at the right time for any given circumstance-especially when there’s no “right” answer. But how do you get wisdom? Like walking a path, pursuing wisdom begins with knowing where to start, where to go, and what to…
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Disciples: Peter: Solid as a Rock (Matthew 16:13-19)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Made solid by the undergirding promises of Jesus, the apostle Peter acted boldly and courageously. Sometimes this acting-before-thinking disciple pushed the envelope of courage to its border with foolishness, but Jesus was always there to pull him back…
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Disciples: John: The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved (1 John 4:7-12)
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Thanks for listening to Pastor Jonny's podcast! He'd love to hear your thoughts via text message! Loved by his Lord, John expressed the same kind of love to his Lord and others. His writings in the Scriptures encourage followers of Jesus in that same love. Support the Show.By pastorjonnylehmann
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