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Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover
Christian Meditation can help refocus your mind and recalibrate your body to get the stress, anxiety and anger out of your heart and out of your body. Spend about 23 minutes to "be still" with God as each episode uses a different biblical image to experience God's presence and promises in a way that brings relaxation and renewal. Look for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Episodes
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with John 7:37-39
Too often our minds get trapped living merely in the horizontal realities of life where we’re focused on our circumstances, jobs, people’s approval, chronic…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Psalm 36:8-9
Christian meditation can help refocus your mind on God's presence using biblical imagery to get the stress, anxiety, and anger out of your heart and out of…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Psalm 63:1
In biblical meditation, you’re intentionally focusing your inner voice and thoughts on God’s presence and promises in your life. When you try to meditate…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Psalm 46
People today are discovering all kinds of benefits of meditation. That’s a good thing. And the Bible’s been here all along. But biblical meditation is more…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Deuteronomy 31:8
Psalm 119:148 says, “My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise” (ESV). Biblical meditation is finding time to be…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Job 33:4
When the Bible uses the word meditate, it’s talking about focusing your thoughts and your imagination on experiencing God’s presence and promises in a deeper…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Psalm 63:6-8
David meditates in Psalms 63:6-8 “I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Exodus 33:14
Genesis 24:63 says, “And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening.” When the Bible uses the word meditate, it’s talking about focusing our mind…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Acts 17:28
Psalms 119:27 says, “…I will meditate on your wondrous works.” Let’s take the time to do that now. If your podcast app is set to skip silent sections of the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with John 14:27
This is a biblically guided meditation and relaxation to use any time you need to relieve stress and tension in your body and refocus and rest into God’s…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Matthew 10:29-31
This is a biblically guided meditation and relaxation to use any time you need to relieve stress and tension in your body and refocus and rest into God’s…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Ezekiel 37:5-6
This is a biblically guided meditation and relaxation to use any time you need to relieve stress and tension in your body and refocus and rest into God’s…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Genesis 1:1-3
This is a biblically guided meditation and relaxation to use any time you need to relieve stress and tension in your body and refocus and rest into God’s…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Christian Meditation with Genesis 2:7
This is a biblically guided meditation and relaxation to use any time you need to relieve stress and tension in your body and refocus and rest into God’s…
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Biblical Meditation
Meditation is a very broad word. Biblically speaking, it’s a time of focused, intentional thought. Using your imagination to better see reality. Meditation…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover“Forever” | Psalm 119
We’ve been looking through the imaginative paintings of God’s life-creating power in Genesis 1-3 as we read Psalm 119. (To understand more what makes Psalm 119…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverHelp Me Treasure Your Word! | Psalm 119
We’ve been looking through the imaginative paintings of God’s life-creating power in Genesis 1-3 as we read Psalm 119. (To understand more what makes Psalm 119…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverEnlarge My Heart! | Psalm 119
We’ve been looking through the imaginative, word-brushed paintings of God’s life-creating power in Genesis 1-3 as we read Psalm 119. (To understand more what…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverGive Me a More Powerful Imagination! | Psalm 119
We’ve been looking through the frames of the word-brushed paintings of God’s life-creating power in Genesis 1-3 as we read Psalm 119. Psalm 119 is the longest…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverGive Me Life! | Psalm 119
We’ve been looking through the frames of the word-brushed paintings of God’s life-creating power in Genesis 1-3 as we read Psalm 119. One of the most repeated…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy a 176 Verses on God’s Word? | Psalm 119
Psalm 119 is the longest of the biblical psalms and the longest chapter in the entire Bible. And it is about one thing: God’s word. It’s artistic construction…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy Your Most Important Relationships Are the Most Painful | Genesis 3
The first pages of Genesis are filled with powerful word imagery. Written more than 3,000 years ago, Genesis remains ahead of our time in its picture of the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy Your Life is Like Living in Exile | Genesis 3
The first pages of Genesis are filled with powerful word imagery. Written more than 3,000 years ago, Genesis remains ahead of our time in its picture of the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy You’re Constantly Hiding Yourself | Genesis 3
The first pages of Genesis are filled with powerful word imagery. Written more than 3,000 years ago, Genesis remains ahead of our time in its picture of the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverPower Imagery God Gives to Imagine Him | Genesis 2
Too often western culture is reductionistic in our “truth” about reality. And Christians are too influenced by this materialistic reductionism so that it…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Power of Knowing the Right Script | Genesis 1:26-28
Genesis 1:26-28 is a kind of thesis statement for the entire rest of the Bible’s story. You can’t fully understand the gospel’s bigger story if you miss what…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverBecoming a Glorious Image of God Now | Genesis 1:26-27
Genesis 1:26-27 is the intellectually consistent basis to why human dignity and human rights are real. Genesis 1:26-27 explains Jesus’s radical value of women…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy Seven is the Bible’s Magic Number | Genesis 1:1-3
Genesis 1:1-2:3 is a complex, highly sophisticated, poetic prelude to the rest of the Bible. It’s a kind of microcosm of the Bible’s bigger story; a window…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Life-Giving Breath of God | Genesis 1:1-3
Genesis One is an amazing, highly sophisticated “painting” that in many ways is truer than a “photograph” would be. In just the first three verses, we see an…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverPowerful Liturgies From Psalm 118 | Psalm 118
This episode is a continuation of the previous episode and specifically cites some helpful phrases from Psalm 118 you can easily memorize and say at crucial…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy You Should Say Biblical Liturgies | Psalm 118
Language is one of the most powerful ways that our brain perceives and interprets what’s happening in our life circumstances. And so liturgies are memorable…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverKnowing God Is FOR You | Psalm 118
The New Testament quotes Psalm 118:6-7 in a way that hits all of us where we feel it most. Fear and insecurity in uncertain circumstances. The key takeaway…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverRe-narrate Your Life Today | Psalm 118
Psalm 118 was a liturgy in Jesus’s Day as part of the celebration of Passover. Written centuries beforehand, it foretells the story of that final Passover…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhere YOU Enter Into Psalm 118’s Story | Psalm 118
Psalm 118 was a liturgy in Jesus’s Day as part of the celebration of Passover. Written centuries beforehand, it foretells the story of that final Passover…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Day Jesus Entered Psalm 118 | Psalm 118
Psalm 118 was a liturgy in Jesus’s Day as part of the celebration of Passover. And because of that, the words on the lips of those praising Jesus as he entered…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Two Key Verses in the Middle of the Bible | Psalm 118
There are 31,174 total verses in the Bible. Psalm 118:8-9 are the 15,587th and 15,588th verses. The very middle of the Bible. It’s probably just random chance…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA “Quiet Time” To See God’s Goodness and Love | Psalm 118
The New Testament tells us that “https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204%3A4-6&version=NIV (the god of this age)” casts a kind of…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverA Big Reason Why I Believe the Gospel is True | Psalm 117
There are some good arguments non-Christians make as to why Christianity isn’t true. But Psalm 117 provides one of the many good reasons why I believe it is…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverTo Call Upon the Name of the LORD, C.A.L.L. | Psalm 116
In the Bible, repetition is always used for emphasis. And the most repeated phrase in Psalm 116 is “call upon the name of the LORD.” God’s people learn to call…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverPraying You-Are Prayers | Psalm 116
What does Psalm 116 mean by “call upon the name of the LORD”? When we remember that God’s “name” is the ancient Hebrew verb for HE IS, then calling upon his…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Simplest Thing That We Forget To Do | Psalm 116
The apostle Paul warns the ancient Corinthians that Satan is cunning and is always subtly working to lead our minds astray from our sincere devotion to Christ…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverGod Wants To Bless You, Really? | Psalm 115
God wants you to thrive. To flourish. To “increase,” as Psalm 115:14 puts it. What would your life be if the I AM “who made heaven and earth,” and is the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverSecurity, Meaning, Worth, and Identity? | Psalm 115
You want to follow Jesus, so that means you want to pray more. But it’s hard to think of the right words to pray. Psalm 115 is one of the last Psalms on…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverFrom Whom Do You Derive Your Glory? | Psalm 115
You want to follow Jesus, so that means you want to pray more. But it’s hard to think of the right words to pray. Psalm 115 is one of the last Psalms on…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Last Psalm Jesus Prayed | Psalm 113
For thousands of years, Jews have sung Psalms 113-118 at Passover. When Matthew tells us that Jesus sang a hymn with his disciples after the Passover meal the…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverBeing Transformed By God’s Character | Psalm 112
Psalm 112 is a kind of part 2 of Psalm 111. In our last couple of episodes we saw how the works of God’s (Yahweh’s) creation and redemption/salvation are…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWords That Breathe God’s Life Into Us | Psalm 111
In our last episode we looked at Psalm 111. But when I worship using the Psalms, I very often will spend several days in the same Psalm. Many Psalms have so…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy You Can Have Comfort, Confidence and Security Now | Psalm 111
When I turn to Psalm 111 in my Bible, every verse is underlined. That’s because this psalm has often given me comfort, confidence, and security in my…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy Is Psalm 110:4 So Amazing? | Psalm 110
Why is Psalm 110 the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament, and yet perhaps one of the most unknown Psalms to Christians today? What have we missed? In our…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhy Is This the Most Quoted Psalm in the New Testament? | Psalm 110
Why is Psalm 110 the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament, and yet perhaps one of the most unknown Psalms to Christians today? What are we missing? We talk…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhen People Accuse You Falsely | Psalm 109
There will be times in your life when others are speaking bad about you. Sometimes it’s not that big of a deal and you can move on. But other times it can be…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhat About Psalms That Pray for Retribution? | Psalm 109
You’re reading or praying through the Psalms and you come across one where David prays for terrible things to happen to his enemies. For God to bring disaster…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverHow You Can Choose Hope In Your Life | Psalm 108:1
In https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013%3A13&version=NIV (1 Corinthians 13:13), the apostle Paul tells us that a life filled with…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverWhat Are You Hoping For? | Psalm 108:1
Your faith is not just a set of beliefs. Your faith always has an emotional element to it. An emotional view of God’s promises that affects you in some way…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverGetting a Heart of Courage | Psalm 108
God has put your life in a place and time that requires courage to survive. That’s why all throughout the Bible God calls his people to have hearts of courage…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverDo You Have a Wandering Life? Part 2 | Psalm 107:17-43
Your life is a constant conversion with God, even if you don’t know it. This is why even atheists refer to God when cursing or complaining. The reason for this…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverDo You Have a Wandering Life? | Psalm 107:1-16
Your life is a constant conversion with God, even if you don’t know it. This is why even atheists refer to God when cursing or complaining. The reason for this…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverFinding Security in Jesus as Your Perfect Mediator | Psalm 106
The weird thing about the Christian life is that the more you are walking in the light and the truth of God’s word, the more you are aware of your sin. You’re…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverThe Importance of Discerning Accusation vs Conviction | Psalm 106
Too often we confuse the accusations in our head with the conviction of the Holy Spirit. That’s a big mistake. And that’s the subject of this episode. We are…
Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave CoverDo You See You Vertically? | Psalm 106
Most dysfunctions and problems in life stem from only seeing yourself from an horizontal point of view. What others think of you and say to you has way too…