Followed By Mercy
The Followed By Mercy Podcast
Real Grace, Honest Hope
You might notice a new name and a fresh look, but the heart behind this podcast is the same. After years as the World Evangelism Podcast, I sensed God leading me to a deeper, more personal path centered on His relentless mercy and the kind of honest hope that can reach into every hurting place. That’s why this show is now called Followed By Mercy Podcast. The format may shift, and the tone may be a bit more personal, but my mission hasn’t changed: I still believe the world desperately needs to hear the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. You are welcome here if you’ve been with me from the beginning or just found us now.
What if God’s love is more personal, stubborn, and relentless than you ever imagined?
Welcome to The Followed By Mercy Podcast, where we get honest about pain, hope, and the kind of grace that finds you right where you are, five days a week. This isn’t about religious performance or church routines. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt worn out, unseen, or unsure if they belong in the story of God’s love. Every conversation is rooted in this reality: God loves you right now, just as you are, and He isn’t giving up on you.
Here’s what you’ll find in every episode:
Experience God’s Relentless Love
Every show starts by reminding you that the Shepherd knows your name, cares about your story, and isn’t offended by your failures or questions. This is personal—it’s about God’s unwavering affection for you.
Find Your Place in His Heart
Once you grasp how fiercely you’re loved, sharing that love with others doesn’t feel forced. It becomes the most natural thing in the world. Real grace overflows.
Prayer That Changes You
We pray together—not just for the world “out there,” but for the battles and hopes you’re carrying right now. These prayers are honest, rooted in Scripture, and meant for hearts that need a gentle touch from the Shepherd.
Discover Your Unique Role
Whether you’re called to go, give, serve, or show kindness in your corner of the world, God’s mercy meets you where you are. You’re not just a bystander. You are His beloved, invited into the story He’s writing.
When life knocks the wind out of you, this is a place to catch your breath. You’ll hear the encouragement that meets you on your hardest days, and your honest questions will be welcomed. No pretending, no heavy-handed advice—just the reminder that your Shepherd is right there with you, walking every step with you, even when you feel like giving up.
Why does this matter? Because some days, it feels like nobody sees you or cares what you’re going through. But the truth is, you have a Shepherd who never takes His eyes off you, lets you slip through the cracks, and never gives up on you. That kind of love can put you back on your feet, and it might be the hope someone else is waiting to see in you, too.
If you’re longing for more than just religious talk—if you want to know you’re not alone and that God’s mercy is following you all the way home, you’re in the right place. Whether you listen in the car, on a walk, or in a quiet moment, let every episode remind you: God’s mercy is after you right now, ready to bring real grace and honest hope.
Subscribe today and join a community to discover what happens when loved people become loving people. The journey’s just beginning, and there’s a place for you here.
Followed By Mercy
Christmas Means Rescue
Let's think about the true meaning of Christmas. Jesus' coming to save humanity from sin and to reveal the nature of God the Father. He discusses the importance of understanding Jesus' mission to seek and save the lost, to show compassion, and to confront the devil's works. The conversation highlights the love of God and the transformative power of Jesus' sacrifice.
takeaways
- Jesus came to seek and save the lost.
- Humanity has always belonged to God as our creator.
- The relationship with God was broken by sin.
- God promised to come for us and rescue us.
- Jesus came to save us from our sin and willfulness.
- He came to show us the true nature of the Father.
- Jesus demonstrated compassion and mercy in his actions.
- He came to save sinners, not the self-righteous.
- Jesus crossed barriers to reach those in need.
- The purpose of Jesus' coming was to destroy the work of the devil.
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As Christmas approaches, I just have been wanting to take time with you to go over Christmas messages because we don't really spend that much time doing Christmas messages. And so I have been meditating on why Jesus came. What's so important about Christian Christmas? What is so important about Christmas? What is so important about the fact that he was the incarnate God? And so I start with this verse, and I'm just going to talk off the top of my head here for a few minutes with you. But I start with this Jesus came to the world to seek and save that which was lost. And so you understand that we've always, all humans, everywhere, have always belonged to God. We're his. Each of us think, well, what I'm doing is the right way. I'm right. And that's where we kind of make ourselves God. That's the big sin. The big sin is a rejection of God as our God. It's the big sin is a rejection of the relationship that the Father has with us. But God, Jehovah, Yahweh, took all of our sin and he placed that on Jesus because he loves us and he wants us all to be saved. It was the creation rejecting the Creator. 1 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 15. The Apostle Paul wrote that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And he said he was the first. I love that. He didn't come to save the strong. He didn't come to save the got-it-together crowd. He didn't come to save the religious. He didn't come to save the moral. He came to save the willful. He came to save those that were saying to themselves, I do what I want to do. And sin, that's how sin ruined us. And he came to save us from that. And that's what he did. He saves sinners. He saves bad people. So I don't care how bad you are. I don't care where you are. He came to save sinners. He didn't come to say to you, try a little harder. He didn't come to you say, change, fix things, get things right. He didn't come hollering at you from a long ways off. I want you to imagine you're drowning in the deep end of the pool or in the river or in the lake, and the lifeguard starts yelling from the sideline, saying, swim harder, move your right arm, now your left arm, kick. That's not what he did. He became one of us. He came into life with us to rescue us from life. He didn't come to give advice. He came to save. That is one of the main reasons Jesus came. He came to save sinners. Let me give you another one. He came to show us the Father. That's probably what has most radically affected my life and changed my life in recent times. He came to show us the Father. In John 1.18, he said that he was the only begotten Son of God. No one had ever seen the Father except the Son, and He came to make Him known. Jesus came so we could know the Father. He said in John 14, 9, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. He said, if you see me, you see the Father. We have a lot of misconceptions about who the Father is. We don't understand Jesus. We don't understand God. But if you look at Jesus, you'll see God. And most of us kind of have this attitude that Jesus is a really nice guy. It's God that's not so nice. I love it when the leper says to Jesus, Hey, if you wanted to, if you want to, you can heal me. You can cleanse me. And Jesus felt mercy. Luke 1.41. He felt mercy and he touched him and he said, I do want. I do want. Be clean. And he's and he became clean. Jesus raised the dead. He walks in on the funeral procession in Luke 7. And there's a somebody's died, and the mom is a widow. And you realize that being a widow in those days meant she was left helpless. No children to take care of her, no husband to take care of her. But Jesus felt for her. Jesus has compassion. God has compassion. Our father has compassion. Jesus said, You want to know how I am? I'm a friend that gives my life for my friends. He said, I give my life. I put my life. I lay my life on the line. That's the kind of God that He is. He's the kind that goes and looks for the people no one else would look for. I don't care how messed up you are, or how bad off you are, how far away you are, he comes looking for you. You remember the demoniac of Gadera, and he was in the graveyard and they couldn't tie him up with chains and he was hollering and screaming and yelling, and he'd break anything that they used to try to dominate him. They couldn't do it, and he cut himself with rocks. He was in a really bad shape. Nobody in town would get close to him, but Jesus crossed the desert, the wild place, the dangerous place, to reach him, and he gave him his dignity back. That's what Jesus wants to do. He wants you to feel the love of the Father. He wants you to know our Father. And I'll give you the last one for today. He came to destroy the work of the devil. You realize that the devil wanted to destroy you. The devil wanted to ruin your life. And so he came into the world to turn us away from God, to break that relationship. And he did. But Jesus came to establish that relationship. John 10, 10. Jesus has come into the world that we might have life and have it more abundantly. But the thief, the devil, the liar, the separator, the slanderer, he has come to steal and kill and destroy. But Jesus comes to fix that. So I just want you to know as you think about Christmas this year. What a wonderful time that our Father loves us. Jesus loves us, and we are celebrating all that He did for us. What a wonderful God we serve.
