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Digging In
Hosted by Unlimited Potential · EN
Weekly teachings—and the occasional conversation—designed to help our community of professional baseball learn a new way of life and a new way of seeing the world through the life and teachings of Jesus.
Unlimited Potential is a small ministry team made up of four former professional baseball players and one former big league umpire. Together, we cultivate relationships with players, coaches, umpires, and front office personnel across professional baseball and around the world, helping them learn to live as followers of Jesus in every area of life.
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Everyone Did What Was Right In Their Own Eyes
5d ago00:09:24Tap to summarizeIn this week's episode, Teddy reminds us that the book of Judges doesn't sanitize the human condition, but rather, it exposes what happens when people abandon God and forget their identity in Him.Looking at the life of Samson and others, Teddy highlights the compromises and choices that led to their downfall, challenging us to examine our own lives in light of the identity God has given us.Finally, he points to the twice repeated refrain that everyone "did what was right in their own eyes" as both a warning and a hope: no matter how far we've drifted, God is ready to forgive and restore those who turn back to Him.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Where in my life am I tempted to do "what is right in my own eyes" instead of submitting to God's authority?2. Like Samson, have a series of small compromises slowly pulled me away from the identity God has given me?3. What would change in the second half if I lived from my identity as God's beloved child instead of trying to prove or protect myself?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper reflection questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Identity And The Danger Of Drift
2w ago00:07:47Tap to summarizeIn this week's episode, Simon takes us through Judges 3–12, focusing on the story of Gideon and what it reveals about identity, fear, and faith.He explores how God called a man hiding in a winepress a "mighty man of valor" challenging us to see ourselves through God's eyes rather than our own.Finally, Simon follows Gideon's journey from fear to victory—and the surprising dangers of drift that can follow success.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. What labels have I accepted about myself that God is asking me to let go of?2. Where is God calling me to trust His voice more than my circumstances?3. What helps me remain dependent on God after seasons of victory?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper reflection questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Drive Them Out
3w ago00:07:06Tap to summarizeIn this week's episode, Tony explores the transition from Joshua to Judges and God's purpose for Israel as His covenant people.He then examines Israel's failure to fully drive out the inhabitants of the land and how compromise eventually led them away from the Lord.Finally, Tony challenges listeners to consider their own lives. What areas of sin, compromise, or brokenness are being tolerated instead of surrendered to God? Through confession, healing, and obedience, God invites us into the freedom and transformation found in Christ.Reflection Questions:1. What areas of compromise or "unclaimed territory" still remain in your heart?2. If the Holy Spirit is at work within you, empowering you to walk in obedience, why do certain strongholds remain?3. What would it look like for you to walk through a process of healing, cleansing, and freedom in those areas?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Don't Be Deceived
4w ago00:08:00Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Brian explores Joshua 9–18 and highlights how easy it is to be deceived and make poor decisions when we fail to inquire of the Lord.Looking at Israel's encounter with the Gibeonites, Brian examines Joshua's failure to seek God's counsel and how decisions based solely on what we see, think, or feel can lead us astray.Brian also shares some of his personal prayer practices—how he intentionally quiets his own thoughts, removes distractions and obstacles, seeks God's direction, listens for His leading, and then responds in obedience to what God reveals.Reflection Questions:1. When faced with an important decision, do you first inquire of the Lord, or do you make your plans and then ask Him to bless them?2. Are you intentionally spending time with Jesus so that you can recognize His voice and discern His leading?3. When you believe God has spoken, do you respond with obedience, even when it's difficult?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →God's Ways Are Always Best
Jun 1500:09:46Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Mickey highlights how God always has a plan, that His plans are always good, and that when we trust and follow Him, He faithfully directs our steps.Mickey then explores God's encouragement to Joshua as he steps into leadership, showing how God gives him exactly what he needs and calls him to be strong and courageous. Ultimately, it is God who establishes and exalts Joshua before the people.Finally, Mickey examines the contrasting stories of Rahab and Achan, demonstrating how faith and obedience can impact generations for good, while sin and disobedience can bring devastating consequences not only to ourselves but also to those around us.Reflection Questions:1. Where is God calling you to be strong and courageous, trusting that He is with you and for you?2. Is there an area of your life where God is asking you to step out in faith, like the priests carrying the ark into the Jordan?3. Are you seeking God's plans for your life, or are you pursuing your own plans and asking Him to bless them?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Remember And Choose Life
Jun 800:06:39Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Teddy highlights how God is not looking for perfect people, but trusting people who remember who they are and whose they are.Teddy explores how the greatest battles we face are often not "out there," but within our own hearts and minds, where trust and fear compete for control.He then examines how God, the Author of life, sets before Israel two paths: one leading to life and blessing, the other to destruction. God's desire and plea is that His people would choose life.Finally, Teddy looks at Joshua and his calling to trust not in his own strength or ability, but to be strong and courageous because God is with him.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. What fear is trying to control me right now?2. What would change if I truly believed God was with me?3. Am I living like an orphan fighting for survival, or a child resting in the care of my Father?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →A Different Kind Of People
Jun 100:06:29Tap to summarizeIn this week's episode, Simon highlights how God was forming Israel into a different kind of nation—a people who would reflect His heart, character, and nature to the world around them.Simon explores how seriously God takes sin, knowing that it never remains small. Once it takes root, it grows and slowly destroys people, families, communities, and cultures.He also examines God’s concern for the vulnerable and how His laws provided protection and care for those who would otherwise be overlooked or forgotten.Finally, Simon shows how Jesus is both the fulfillment of these laws and warnings, and the One who takes the punishment for mankind's inability to keep it, perfectly revealing the heart and character of God.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. What kind of person am I becoming because of Him? Am I becoming more compassionate, honest, and generous?2. Am I reflecting God well in the way I treat others?3. Do I use power the way the world uses power, or the way Jesus does?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Take Care Lest You Forget
May 2500:06:13Tap to summarizeIn this week’s episode, Tony explores how Moses reminds the generation about to enter the Promised Land of what God has already done for them, and what He is about to do through them, as they carry the Kingdom of Heaven across the Jordan.Tony examines how sin and doubt can grow out of “temporary amnesia” — forgetting who God is, what He has done, and how deeply loved we are by Him — and how the remedy is to remember.Finally, he challenges us to examine our hearts and consider how easily we can desire God’s blessings and protection more than His presence, even though His presence is what should be most precious to us.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. What would it look like for you to intentionally remember God, what He has done, and who you are to Him?2. What good things has God prepared for you that He is asking you to walk into with Him?3. If you’re honest, which do you desire most — God’s provision, His protection, or His presence? Why?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →Our God Is Like No Other
May 1800:07:42Tap to summarizeIn this week’s episode, Brian closes out our time in the book of Numbers and begins the book of Deuteronomy by reminding us that the Kingdom of Heaven was never meant to remain stationary.Brian explores our tendency to crave comfort and predictability, while showing how a life of faith requires trust, movement, and dependence on God. He contrasts the many “gods” in the land with the one true God — the God who went to incredible lengths to make Himself known to His people.Through it all, Brian challenges us to go where God leads, even in fear and uncertainty, remembering that just as God was with Israel, Jesus is with us always.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Are you more focused on building a safe place for yourself than taking the Kingdom of Heaven into the darkness?2. What idols are you wrestling with this week?3. Can you remember a few specific moments this week where Jesus did something beautiful for you and your soul?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
Transcribe →God's Plan Is Best
May 1100:06:36Tap to summarizeIn this week’s episode, Mickey highlights God’s nature as He sovereignly leads, protects, and provides for His people while preparing them for the Promised Land.Mickey takes a deep dive into the story of Balaam, whom Balak hired to curse Israel. Yet instead of cursing them, God commanded Balaam to bless Israel and pronounce judgment on the Moabites.He also explores how God’s plans are always best, how He is not limited in the ways He speaks to us, and how His voice calls for obedience when He speaks.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Have you ever known God was leading you away from something you still wanted to pursue? How did you respond?2. In what unique ways has God spoken to you throughout your life?3. Do you ever struggle with God’s judgment when reading the Bible? Why do you think that is?4. How do you think Moses felt as he consecrated Joshua to become Israel’s next leader?We pray this week’s readings, episode, and Digging Deeper questions both challenge and encourage you as you continue to grow in your faith.
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