The Word for Everyday Disciples with Dave DeSelm is a weekly podcast bringing biblical teaching to everyday people in ways they can understand and put into practice.
After five years of weekly episodes, this is a different kind of conversation.
In June 2025, Dave was diagnosed with stage IV esophageal cancer. This episode marks the final new episode of The Word for Everyday Disciples.
Instead of a sermon, Dave sits down with longtime friend and former colleague Clinton Faupel, co-founder of Remedy Live, to talk honestly about faith, suffering, and hope.
As we ended the last episode, after admitting that he is the cause of the ferocious storm battering their ship, our hero, Jonah, has been thrown overboard. As he sinks down into the sea, Jonah no doubt believes he is going to die. But God has other plans.
Read MoreWhen Jonah heard God’s call to go the Nineveh, the capital of Israel’s enemy, Assyria, instead of obeying, the prophet ran in the opposite direction. The biblical narrator paints the picture with words packed with meaning.
Read MoreThe story of Jonah ranks among the best-known of any in the O.T. It’s right up there with Noah and the ark, David and Goliath, and Daniel in the lion’s den.
Read More“Sweet spot.” Golfers understand the term. So do baseball players and tennis players. Connect with that prime inch of real estate and kapow! Your arm doesn’t tingle and the ball doesn’t ricochet. You think, “Yes!!!” What engineers have given to sports equipment, God has given to you.
Read MoreNot only are you a unique person, but you were also made for a unique purpose. One of the factors in discovering that purpose, or “calling,” is understanding your PASSIONS. Another is unwrapping your GIFTS. Today we come to the third element - your STORY.
Read MoreAs you seek to discover your unique purpose, one way to go about it might be to think of three circles. Label them your PASSIONS, your GIFTS, and your STORY. Where those circles overlap often point to a person’s calling.
Read MoreGod made you unique. Your very fingerprint shows that there is no one else like you. You are one of a kind! As a unique person, you were brought into this world for a unique purpose. So how does one discover what that purpose is?
Read MoreWhen you look at a tombstone, you often see two dates – the date of the person’s birth and their date of death. In between is this little line. A dash.
Read More“There has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11 (NASB) An angel spoke those words and shepherds were the first to hear them. But what was proclaimed back then to them is being proclaimed right now to you.
Read MoreThe reality of Immanuel is that this “with us” God can actually live “in” us. And when He does, He can then do something through us.
Read MoreCan you imagine what it must have been like to be Mary - to have the Son of God growing inside you? Can you imagine Him becoming bigger and bigger until He just had to come out? What would that have been like?
Read MoreWe’re all familiar with the Christmas story. How a baby was born in a stable to a carpenter and his young wife. How angels announced his birth to some ragtag shepherds who show up to see the Savior they’ve been told about.
Read MoreIn the last episode, we looked at the first three pieces of armor. Today we look at the last three.
Read MoreWe are in a very real battle. But that fight is not with a flesh and blood enemy, but with spiritual powers and principalities. In light of that unique conflict, Paul counsels us to put on the full armor of God that we might engage in battle effectively.
Read MoreWhy is life so hard? Why does it feel like we are in a battle - whether in our marriages, with our kids, on the job, and even in the church? The answer is simple: We live in a universe at war.
Read MoreFor many, this is a tough passage because Paul is discussing a topic that, understandably, hits a raw nerve: slavery. Some might even go so far as to dismiss these verses as being short-sighted if not bigoted. But to draw that conclusion would be to make a mistake and to miss the apostle’s point.
Read MoreThere’s not one of us who has not and who will not face many decisions. That’s not the issue. The issue is, “How do we make good decisions?”
Read MoreToday we’re going to be considering what it means to live as children of light. In particular, in the area of sexual purity.
Read MoreA great rallying cry for this section of Scriptures would be, “Off with the old! On with the new!” Off with the old clothes of godless living and on with the new wardrobe befitting our new identity in Christ.
Read MoreThose who are in Christ have been given a new identity and we are called to live in light of that identity. Like a change of wardrobe, we are to “put off our old self,” stripping off certain behaviors and attitudes as a set of filthy, smelly clothes.
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