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Join The Journey

Episode 232: John 15

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

5827 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to abide in the Lord? Emma Dotter is joined by devo writer, Sherry Clemens, to discuss John 15 and what it looks like for us, as believers, to truly depend on God. 


Challenge from today's episode: Text or email a family member and encourage them in the fruit that you see in their life. 


For more on what it means to abide:

https://www.watermark.org/message/8886-if-we-fail-to-abide-we-fail-to-flourish

Transcript

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0:00.0

Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

0:06.3

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith.

0:12.7

This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

0:19.7

Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with today's Debo writer Sherry Clemens.

0:25.5

Hi, thanks for having me.

0:27.3

Sherry, I'm so glad you're here. It is a joy to meet you today.

0:31.6

We really just met maybe 10 minutes ago.

0:35.5

Right.

0:36.1

So I would love to just dive in and hear your story. How did you come to

0:40.0

know the Lord and where are you today? Great. Yeah. So I was raised in a Christian home. I have the

0:44.7

sweetest parents. They're celebrating 50 years of marriage this next year. Yeah. And two sweet sisters

0:50.9

and we just grew up in the church and we were there Sunday, Sunday night,

0:55.6

Wednesday night, you know. Oh yeah. Like looking back, I think there were just a few key people

1:01.0

that just really poured out just through service at the church that deepened my faith. And there was

1:07.2

a leader that I had when I was eight, nine, ten years old that just was big on scripture memories.

1:12.9

So I remember I'd so many scriptures as a young child.

1:15.9

And then in high school I had a youth minister and his wife just poured into me, my friends.

1:21.5

And thankfully, because of those people and just the Lord's kind of grip on me, I just, you know, always followed him. And

1:28.6

then my relationship with Christ really deepened in college. I just couldn't get enough

1:34.6

with the word, did so many Bible studies, had a lot of women pouring into me there, too. And that's

1:39.8

just, so I feel like I've always known him. I mean, I know there was a time when I was little when I didn't, but I mean, I remember praying just the prayer of salvation when I was seven and really not really knowing for sure what that meant, knowing I believed, right?

1:55.8

Yeah. But and then and then through the last, you know, 30 plus years of my life, just growing in my, you know,

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