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
What God Delights In: Lovingkindness, Justice, And Righteousness
We explore Jeremiah 9:24 and the joy of knowing God who delights in lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness. We move from performance to relationship and show how mercy and justice meet in Jesus and reshape daily life.
• glorying in knowing God over boasting in works
• lovingkindness as loyal, active covenant love
• judgment as setting things right for the vulnerable
• righteousness as restored relationship and wholeness
• the cross as justice satisfied and mercy poured out
• Micah 6:8 as a lived response: do justly, love mercy, walk humbly
• practical encouragement to meditate on God’s delight and act from it
Glory in knowing God. Glory in knowing God. And when you know God, know that He is a God of love, loving kindness, mercy.
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I'm excited to have a chance to talk to you again. I was just going through my Bible and I just want to share with you. If you read the articles that I write, you will run across this. But in Jeremiah chapter 9 and verse 24, the Lord has just really spoken to my heart and has really touched me and strengthened me. The Bible says, but let him that glorieth glory in this. If you're going to brag, if you're going to boast, make sure this is what you're bragging about, that you understand and know me. He that understandeth and knoweth me. In other words, God said, if you're going to brag about anything, don't brag about what you can do and what you are and who you are, brag about knowing and understanding me. And then he makes this bold, audacious statement that is so fantastic. And it's something you have to read. He says, That I am the Lord. I am the Lord. I am Jehovah, Yahweh. I am the Lord. And let me tell you who I am. I exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Yeah, I love that. He said, I am God. I told you before, and we've looked at it in other places, that he is the God who loves us. He is the God who does all these things, and he exercises, he practices. I'll go over that just a little bit more with you in a minute. Judgment and righteousness, but loving kindness. I think the thing that most struck me, most got a hold of my heart, was this. He said, For in these things I delight, says the Lord. For in these things I delight. That's what I like. That's what he said. That's what I like. Now, I'll just tell you that I want to share some things that I've I have seen. He delights in loving kindness. He delights in it. It stands out to me. He says, I am the Lord. This is who I am, and this is what I love to do, and I love to delight. And so I looked that word up in the Hebrew and great pleasure, deep satisfaction. That's what it means. It means he takes great joy in loving kindness and judgment and righteousness. Those aren't chores. They're not obligations. That's who he is. That's what makes him happy. That's what the word means. And the question that comes to my mind for all of us is do we see God that way? Do you look at God and see him as a God who loves, who exercises, who practices loving kindness? It comes from a word in the Hebrew that means loyal, faithful love expressed in real action. God is good. It is mercy that moves. It is God bending down to meet the needs of his people, redeeming us, forgiving, renewing, and preserving life. Again and again, God tells us his loving kindness is great, abundant, and everlasting. You realize what that means. That means that we serve a God who really does love us. It's a God who exercises, who performs, who does, who acts intentionally and acts continually. That's who our God is. That's what he's doing. And that's exciting to me as I read that, as I look at it, I'm excited to think about how God feels about you. Let me read the verse to you again because I'm going to go to some other things to look at. But let him that glory. If you're going to brag, this is just also Gardner Hillbilly English, but if you're going to brag, brag about this. I understand and know God. And when when you understand and know God, you know that he loves to exercise. He delights to exercise loving kindness, mercy, judgment, and righteousness. That's what he loves. And those are the things that he delights in. That's what he says. Yeah, what's exciting about that is that he says, brag about knowing me and know that I love those things. You see, God's not calling on us to perform some religious duty. God is calling on us to know him, to have a personal, close, intimate relationship with him. That's what is important. That's what matters. That's what God is calling us to do. You see, loving kindness is God's loyal covenant love that he has towards us. And it's not based on what we do or our behavior, but on who God is. You know what he said? I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you, Hebrews 13, 5. In Exodus 34, 6 and 7, he said, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. That's who he is. That's who he is. But in the verse it was interesting to me, so I had to do a lot of digging. It says, He exercises loving kindness, judgment and righteousness. Now, how does that go? How does that work together? It is mercy, uh, a love that forgives, embraces, and endures, but he doesn't clear the guilty. God's love is about justice. But it's not a weak love, it's fiercely faithful. And when we hear the word judgment, like it's in that verse there, we we think in terms of condemnation, but in biblical terms, it's setting things right, especially for the weak and the vulnerable. The Bible says in Isaiah 1.17, learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. That is justice in the heart of God, restoring dignity and equity and peace. I remember one of the most exciting times in my ministry in Peru. We were making our first video that we ever made in the big old cameras that used to use in the old days. And one of the ladies in the church was giving her a testimony, and we had to translate it, and she said she had been an alcoholic, and she said, The Lord restores our dignity. That's exactly what justice means. It's when God's loving kindness, love, takes form. It intervenes, it protects, and it restores, it sets relationships right. Because God loves us, but God fixes the mess up. This world plunged into sin and plunged into filth and plunged into being away from God when Adam and Eve chose to separate themselves from God and to be who they wanted to be and not who God wanted them to be. And so they that that's what sin is. Sin is displacing God and putting ourselves in that place. That's what they did. Well, you see, Jesus comes to fix that, set that right. And God is big on that. Jesus is the living expression of Jeremiah 9.24. Let him that gloryeth glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, which exercised loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, says the Lord. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 1 30, but of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption. So the cross sitting the compromise between justice and mercy, it was justice satisfied, mercy poured out, and righteousness given as a gift. So that's what we glory in. That's what we brag about. We only brag about knowing God and understanding Him. And when you know and understand God, how wonderful can it be? And then there's one more verse. Let me just throw that at you right quickly. Micah chapter 6 and verse 8. He that shows thee, O man, what is good, what does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? That's what the Lord calls on us to do. So I wanted to kind of, I hope maybe help your day feel a little better today as you listen to this. Glory in knowing God. Don't glory in being moral, being baptized, being a Baptist, or whatever denomination you proclaim, or something you do, or somewhere you've been, or something that you've accomplished. Glory in knowing God. And when you know God, know that He is a God of love, loving kindness, mercy. He is the God who exercises loving kindness. I love that. He didn't, we didn't think that up. He said it that I am the Lord, which exercise. And so that's what God does. You understand that? You get to take that home with you. You get to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that's who God is, and that's what he does. So I want to just ask you maybe to spend the day meditating on who he is. The Lord who exercises loving kindness, the Lord who exercises judgment. If I could somehow get you to just kind of get a hold of that verse, it's such a beautiful verse. It'll change the way you think today. It'll change the way you're looking at things today, that God is loving you like that. So let me give you just one more little thought about it before we move on. If you know you want to understand that he's the God who exercises kindness, that he's a God of justice, that he's a God of righteousness. But here's the beautiful thing He takes pleasure in doing all of that. And so I challenge you to think today about how good your God is and how wonderful it is to serve him. Thank you so much for listening. God bless every one of you.
