Podcasts by "the DKP Word"
“the DKP Word” will inspire and motivate you to push beyond the obstacles of the past, past the opinions of others and stand up and live despite anything. The center of my message is “Just Be!” Your life is unique, you are not deficient, and you possess the ability to live and love in a way that produces personal fulfillment and provides inspiration and motivation to others.
Further podcasts by David K Payne
Podcast on the topic Spiritualität
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I and My Father are One! from 2023-07-28T15:34:23
...Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.” Once again, they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them. – John 10:37-38 NLT...
ListenYou Wanted Their Approval and They Rejected You! What Next? from 2023-06-27T22:56:32
Over the years, I have talked and written about the tendency to cling to what is comfortable instead of embracing new ideas or directions...
ListenIs Their More to God than I Know? from 2023-06-21T23:12:33
I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd. – John 10:18 NLT Listen
The Problem of Humanity’s Perception and Explanations of God from 2023-06-01T11:00:36
Isaiah 55:8–9 (NLT)
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are h...
ListenRemoving Religion From Our Relationship with God from 2023-05-22T20:55:28
Removing Religion from Our Relationships with God
Despite my uncertainty about my future and my place in the world, I persist in seeking kn...
ListenThe Greatest Commandment from 2020-06-15T02:10:02
Mark 12:30-31 NLT And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’The second is equally important: ‘Love your...
ListenRemember God is our Strength from 2020-06-06T18:09:05
“So—who is like me?
Who holds a candle to me?” says The Holy.
Look at the night skies:
Who do you think made all this?
Who ma...
the DKP Word - A Special Edition for The Gathering from 2020-03-15T01:48:33
A special edition DKP Word Podcast for the Gathering.
ListenAdvent - Bringing Light into the Darkness! from 2019-12-24T04:24:45
Christ is the light that shines in darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it!
– John
Jesus, the Revealer of God from 2019-12-23T05:41:02
Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with...
ListenRecieving the Life of Christ from 2019-12-20T18:49:36
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates
Hebrews 6:17-20 The Message
When God wanted to gu...
ListenConsider What the Man Christ Jesus Endured for You and I from 2019-12-20T16:49:51
December 19, 2019
ListenThe Joy of the Lord is Our Strenght from 2019-12-19T14:17:16
“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting ...
ListenA Life Given for Others from 2019-12-14T18:43:25
John 15:13 NLT “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with t...
Advent's Effect on Relgion from 2019-12-13T04:59:15
The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.
– Matthew
Matthew 21:12-13 New Living Translation (NLT) Jesus entered the Temple ...
ListenComing Soon - Don't Be Afraid to Live Your Life from 2019-12-02T03:44:22
Listenthe DKP word - Personal Introduction from 2019-09-10T11:44:10
For this first Podcast I want to introduce myself to my listeners.
ListenDon’t Be Too Afraid to Live from 2019-09-06T03:00:09
Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways, that you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid...
ListenBeing is More Essential than Belonging from 2019-08-26T02:01:37
“Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?”
― Steve Maraboli
T...
ListenReturn to Being – David’s Fourth Step in Living Beyond a Shattered Life (2 Samuel 12:29) from 2019-08-21T02:49:16
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I...
ListenThe Comfort of Family – David’s Third Step in Living Beyond a Shattered Life (2 Samuel 12:24-25) from 2019-08-03T22:03:15
“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder
The third noticea...
ListenWorshiping God – David’s Second Step in Living Beyond a Shattered Life (2 Samuel 12:20) from 2019-08-01T11:00
“You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let...
ListenCaring for Self - David's First Step in Living Beyond a Shattered Life (2 Samuel 12:20) from 2019-07-28T00:09:16
"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. " ...
ListenLiving Beyond a Shattered Life from 2019-06-23T23:22:19
“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”
― Edward Young
One of, if not the most significant challenge in our lives is continuing to live...
ListenBe Still and Know from 2019-06-17T17:37:42
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
– Alan Cohen
The scripture verse associated with the thought ...
ListenNavigating Hindrances to an Authentic Life from 2019-05-10T19:25:09
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
― Parker J. Palmer
In our efforts to ...
ListenDon’t Fear Maturity from 2019-05-05T13:48
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski,
For the religious, the thought...
ListenContinuing Down the Road Less Traveled from 2019-05-02T19:59:01
“Balanced thinking will take you beyond confusion.”
― Daphne Michaels
My heart is committe...
ListenAn Easter Blog – Part 3 from 2019-04-25T12:00
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
― Jim Elliot
For my Easter message this year (accessible...
ListenAn Easter Blog – Part 2 from 2019-04-23T11:00
“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and with...
ListenAn Easter Blog - Part 1 from 2019-04-21T23:20:08
“You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.”
― Shannon Alder
We...
ListenHis Joy... My Strength from 2019-04-16T02:02:52
“Joy is Strength” - Mother Teresa
As I consider the story of Jesus and the cross, my mind is filled with many messages and songs that celebrate what the Christian message proclaims was do...
ListenTaking Up Your Cross - What is Your Cross from 2019-04-01T02:35:37
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
― John Stott
Love Is... from 2019-03-28T04:16:19
“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love”
- Erich Fromm
Paul in his letter to the Corinthians describes the beh...
ListenLove - The Bridge between Desire and Will from 2019-03-10T22:03:46
“I define love Thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose for nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” - M. Scott Peck
In hi...
ListenLoving Self from 2019-03-07T01:13:12
“When you love yourself, you will find it easy to love others, because you cannot give what you do not have.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
Jesus states that we ar...
ListenTo Thine Own Self Be True from 2019-03-05T01:51:23
We are all products of world systems that are based on power, control, comparison, blame and evading responsibility. We look for the shortest routes to success and comfort, and in the process, w...
ListenPeace with BEing from 2019-02-28T04:20:09
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at...
ListenCommitment to the Truth from 2019-02-26T03:13:19
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in ...
ListenSelf-Examination from 2019-02-20T00:00
“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently ...
ListenAvoiding Pain from 2019-02-17T12:00
“Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Momen...
Lie To Me! from 2019-02-14T13:44
“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I realize this title is odd title for a blog that is f...
ListenResponsibility Disorders from 2019-02-13T00:01:36
A couple of blogs back I wrote about the freedom that comes when we take responsibility for our thoughts and actions. I used this quote at the beginning of the blog and thought it worthy of look...
ListenDisciplined Discipline from 2019-02-06T17:12:01
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler,
The biblical writer in Proverb 29:18 says where there is no ...
ListenFreedom and Responsibility from 2019-02-03T19:45:10
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its ...
Change and Flexibility from 2019-01-31T15:05:45
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein
In keeping with the theme of the Road Less Traveled, Peck asserts that one must be...
ListenDifficulty - A Reality of Life from 2019-01-29T12:00
“Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.”
Job 46:1
Peck begins his book “The Road Less Travel...
ListenThe Road Less Traveled from 2019-01-27T13:00
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost
In his book entitled T...
ListenBe Confident Being You from 2019-01-24T12:00
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
Each person possesses unique characteristics that make them who they are. These characteristics...
ListenReplace Strain with Spirit – from 2019-01-22T13:00
He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spir...
ListenA Reliable Source of Perspective – from 2019-01-20T12:00
In our last post, we talked about how dangerous it is to compare yourselves to others. But we all seek some sort of perspective in our lives. For most that perspective comes from a comparison to...
ListenComparison is not Wise - from 2019-01-17T12:00
“Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.”
― Raheel Farooq
In the history of the Hebrew nation, there is an account where they were told...
ListenPerfectly Flawed - from 2019-01-15T12:00
One of the many things we struggle with when considering our individuality are the traits we believe to be flaws in our lives. Comparison to others highlights differences that we miss judge as b...
ListenConformity is Not Unity - from 2019-01-13T13:00
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
― John F. Kennedy
When I speak of individuality, I am not promoting a rebellious or isolation...
ListenIndividuality - from 2019-01-10T13:00
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
One of the most significant steps to...
ListenStop Pleasing Others - from 2019-01-08T13:00
The most crucial and difficult step towards an authentic life is deciding to stop pleasing others. As human’s, we long for the approval of those closest to us as well as those we meet we need or...
ListenAn Authentic Life from 2019-01-06T13:00
For a while on my blog page, I will be sharing my thoughts regarding the concept of living an authentic life. On the surface, most might argue that they are genuine in how they present themselve...
ListenMindfulness of Your Path from 2019-01-03T13:00
Matthew 2:12 (NLT) And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
“It is not we who seek the Way, bu...
ListenHappy New Year from 2019-01-01T13:00
Matthew 2:12(NLT) And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
Don't let the doubts of others ri...
ListenWise People Always Seek Him from 2018-12-27T13:00
Matthew 2:1–2 (NLT) Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking, 2 “Where is...
ListenThe Reality of Christmas from 2018-12-25T13:00
Luke 2:16–20 (NLT) They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. 17 After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had hap...
ListenMaking Room for Him from 2018-12-24T13:00
Luke 2:8–15 (NLT) That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. 9 Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radian...
ListenWelcoming the One Who Gives and Sustains All Life from 2018-12-23T13:00
Luke 2:6–7 (NKJV) So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cl...
ListenThe Love of God from 2018-12-20T13:00
Romans 5:6–11 (NLT) When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7 Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person,...
ListenWe Understand Love Because of Christ from 2018-12-18T13:00
1 John 3:16 (NLT) We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us...
“It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and rou...
ListenThese Three, but the Greatest is Love from 2018-12-16T13:00
John 3:16–21 (NLT) “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his S...
ListenHope to Begin Again from 2018-12-13T13:00
Tuesday - December 8, 2015
1 Peter 1:3–5 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a livi...
ListenHope In Christ from 2018-12-11T13:00
1 Peter 1:3–5 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Chri...
ListenThe Joy of Overcoming a Challenge from 2018-12-06T13:00
James 1:2–4 (NLT) Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance ha...
ListenThe Joy of Living from 2018-12-04T13:00
Nehemiah 8:10 (NLT) And Nehemiah continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day...
ListenThe Joy of Gods Presence from 2018-12-02T13:00
Psalm 84:1–5 (NLT) How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 2 I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord. With my whole b...
ListenPreparing Room from 2018-11-27T13:00
Matthew 3:1–3 (NLT) In those days John the Baptist came to the Judean wilderness and began preaching. His message was, 2 “Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of He...
ListenGrace in Everyday Life from 2018-11-25T13:00
Psalm 107:23-32 (NLT) Some went off to sea in ships, plying the trade routes of the world. 24 They, too, observed the Lord’s power in action, his impressive works on the deepe...
ListenGod's Word from 2018-11-20T13:00
Psalm 107:17-22 (NLT) Some were fools; they rebelled and suffered for their sins. 18 They couldn’t stand the thought of food, and they were knocking on death’s door. 19 “...
ListenRebellion and Rescue from 2018-11-18T13:00
Psalm 107:10-16 (NLT)Some sat in darkness and deepest gloom, imprisoned in iron chains of misery. 11 They rebelled against the words of God, scorning the counsel of the Most High.&...
ListenLost and Found from 2018-11-15T13:00
Psalm 107:4-9 (NLT) Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless. 5 Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died. 6 “Lord, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he ...
ListenGod's Goodness and Faithfulness from 2018-11-13T13:00
Psalm 107:1-3 (NLT) Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. 2 Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out! Tell others he has redee...
ListenDeveloping Thankfulness from 2018-11-10T23:00
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NLT) Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
"When we learn to read the story of Jesus and ...
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