Welcome To The Almost Daily Devotional Podcast!
The Almost Daily Devotional is a podcast that I, Cliff Ravenscraft, started back in March of 2008. I had just recently left my career in insurance to pursue podcasting full-time.
Launching my own business was not an easy task and I was often overcome with stress, anxiety, and depression on a monthly basis, wondering if I was going to be able to make this all work out.
There is no doubt that God was there for me every step of the way. Looking back, I wonder how I could have had such little faith.
As of December of 2011, I had produced 165 episodes of the Almost Daily Devotional podcast and 124 episodes of the About The Church Podcast. Because there was no reason that the content of these two shows should be split up into two separate podcasts, I decided to end the Almost Daily Devotional show and rebrand the About The Church podcast as the new “Encouraging Others Through Christ.” For our ongoing devotional thoughts and faith based discussions, please click here.
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Writing these show notes and posting this final episode of the Almost Daily Devotional to the website is somewhat bittersweet. I’ve made the decision that it is time to finally retire this podcast.
In the episode, I share the full story of why I am ending the Almost Daily Devotional podcast. The good news is that content that would have been the future episodes of this show will still be produced. It’s just that I’ve decided that instead of producing these as Almost Daily Devotional podcast episodes, I will include them in the newly branded Encouraging Others Through Christ podcast.
I hope that everyone who was subscribed to the Almost Daily Devotional will click here to subscribe to the EOTC Podcast!
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It’s been just over a month since our family made the decision to “stop going to church.” I’m sure that many people wondered just how far off the path I might get when it comes to my priorities and my spiritual life. Heck, I’ll be honest and tell you that I had wondered the same thing!
In this episode, I admit that I seem to simply share a random stream of consciousness as I share just the slightest overview of how wonderful this past month or so has been.
What’s funny, is that I’m not all the concerned about impressing ANYONE with how the past month has been since I decided to “Live Life Without Following The Rules!”
With that said, I believe God does want me to share just a bit of the journey I’ve been on and how LIVING LOVED BY HIM has been changing me from the inside out and helping me to have a great capacity to love those who surround me.
I do hope that this episode will be a blessing to you. Below I will place a link to the things mentioned in this episode.
1) You can listen to Podcast Answer Man Episode 230, titled Why I Do What I Do, by going to http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/why.
2) You can view the photo of my new written journal by clicking here.
3) You can see the pen that I received as a gift by clicking here.
4) The scripture I read in this episode was from the Message Translation of Galatians chapter 2 starting with verse 15. You can read this, online, by clicking here.
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I have recently come to a place in my journey of faith where I have learned how important it is that my relationship with Jesus is the foundation for my relationship with God, our Father.
For too long, I’ve focused too much on what other people think or teach. I do believe that sound doctrin is important and that church leaders should be respected, but we should never place them on pedestals that create barriers between people or set them up as a substitute for Christ.
In this episode, I share why I have a struggle with accepting phrases like “I am a Cavlvanist,”"I am a Lutheran,” or “I am a Wesleyan.” The Apostle Paul addressed a similar concern in 1 Corinithians Chapter 3 when he said.. “Aren’t you living like people of the world? When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?” And in verse 21 Paul wrote “So don’t boast about following a particular human leader.”
Why is it so imporatnt that we call ourselves Calvanists, Wesleyans, Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Nazaranes, etc? Can we not simply respect the fact that these earlier church leaders were mere men, saved by the same Grace that saved us, through Jesus Christ?
I am at a place where I am very interested in learning more about what these influential leaders within the church taught. However, I was not called to follow any of them. I have been saved so that I may follow Jesus alone!
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