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Digging In
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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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Don't Be Deceived
4d 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
2w ago00:09:46Tap 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
3w ago00:06:39Tap 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
4w ago00:06:29Tap 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.
Transcribe →Fear Is Not The Root
May 400:06:59Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Teddy unpacks how fear influences our actions, but how it also reveals what is going on deeper in our hearts.Walking through these chapters, Teddy highlights how Israel’s rebellions and grumblings were rooted in fear of not having enough or being enough, exposing a lack of belief and trust in God and that He is enough.Teddy then points us to the way forward: fear isn’t defeated by trying harder, but by believing what is true—that God is with us, that He has provided and will continue to provide, and that He is enough.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Where in your life are you believing you don’t have enough, even as God is providing?2. In what areas are you seeing yourself as small or inadequate?3. Where might you be believing that God is not good, or that He is not for you?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 And The In-Between
Apr 2700:06:55Tap to summarizeIn this week’s episode, Simon kicks off our time in Numbers 1–10, highlighting how Israel’s wilderness journey parallels our own, saved, but not yet in the Promised Land.He explores how their time in the wilderness wasn’t pointless, but purposeful, a season of learning to live with God at the center, trusting Him, and following His lead as He shapes them into who He saved them to be.Finally, Simon looks at the Nazarite vow in Numbers 6, drawing connections to Jesus as its ultimate fulfillment, fully set apart, completely surrendered, giving Himself to bring life.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Will we God in our wilderness, when we can’t see whats ahead, and must listen to His Word and the Holy Spirit?2. Will we follow Him when He leads?3. Are we willing to be transformed into this new creation, or are we still holding on to what once enslaved us?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 →Community Of Faith
Apr 2000:05:54Tap to summarizeIn this week’s episode, Tony wraps up Hebrews and takes us through James, highlighting faith—not just as belief, but as something meant to be lived out in community, stirring one another on toward love and good works.He then looks at Hebrews 11—the Hall of Faith—pointing out that these were ordinary people with deep trust in God and His promises, and challenges us to lay aside anything that hinders our walk with Jesus.Finally, Tony examines the authentic and loving community described at the end of James—one that rejoices together, confesses sin, prays for one another, and pursues and restores those who have wandered.He challenges us to honestly examine our lives and consider whether we are truly living out this kind of faith-filled community.Digging Deeper Reflection Questions:1. Are you part of a healthy community of Jesus followers…Or are you going it alone? And if so, Why?2. What are the weights that hold you back…Or the sin that so easily entangles you? Can you take those to Jesus? 3. And in your community…Are you practicing confession…forgiveness…and restoration?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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