A Bigger Life: Episodes

Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover

Christian Meditation can help refocus your mind and recalibrate your body to get the stress, anxiety and anger out of your heart and out of your body. Spend about 23 minutes to "be still" with God as each episode uses a different biblical image to e...

Recent Episodes

Overcoming Demonic Slander in Your Mind with Ephesians 6:11-12

17:06 | 03-19-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to stop, relax, and refocus. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.Ephesians 6:11-12 NIV“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”Revelation 12:10-11 NIV“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.’”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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Envisioning God’s Works in You from Psalm 143:2-5 and Ephesians 2:4-7

14:24 | 03-12-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to stop, relax, and refocus. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.Psalm 143:2-5 NIV2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.4 So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.5 I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.Ephesians 2:4-7 NIV“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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Envisioning God’s Steadfast Love Focused On and Filling You in Isaiah 63:7

11:41 | 03-07-2024

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Envisioning Your Soul Joined Together with God in Psalm 63:6, 8

17:17 | 03-05-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to stop, relax, and refocus. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.Psalm 63:6, 8 ESV“...I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night. …My soul clings (“joined together”) to you; your right hand upholds me.”Same word in...Genesis 2:24 (NIV)“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”1 Corinthians 6:15-19 (NIV)“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? ...For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. ...Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?”So imagine this…You are joined together — one body with — one spirit with — Jesus right now. This is who you are.Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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Envisioning the Same Mind That Created the Universe Intentionally Creating YOU from Zechariah 12:1

19:29 | 02-29-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.Zechariah 12:1 (NIV)“The LORD [is the one] who stretches out the heavens (created the universe with all its laws of physics), who lays the foundation of the earth (established the laws of nature), and who forms the human spirit within a person...”The same one – the same mind — that created the entire universe also specifically created you.You are infinitely important (because he is infinite!) to the one who created this entire universe. He specifically created you to be a YOU in his creation. Forever! Revelation 2:17 (NIV)“To the one who is victorious (those who remain true to Jesus’s name - 2:13), I will give …that person a white stone with a new name (identity) written on it, known only to the one who receives it.”There is a real you that is in his image that he is transforming you into. That’s what your life is about. That’s the bigger story your life is in at every single moment.Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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A Meditation to Integrate Your Body with God’s Spirit from Job 10:12

14:11 | 02-22-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?”Romans 12:1-2 NIV“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”Job 10:12 ESV“You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.”Job 33:4 NIV“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”Acts 17:25 NIV“…He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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A Meditation on God Creating and Sustaining You from Job 10:12

12:03 | 02-20-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?”Romans 12:1-2 NIV“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”Job 10:12 ESV“You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.”Job 33:4 NIV“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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A Meditation That Only What God Gives You is Truly Good in Psalm 16:2

13:39 | 02-15-2024

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A Meditation to See Your Life in a Bigger Story from James 1:16-18

15:02 | 02-13-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.James 1:16-18 NIV“Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.”John 1:12-13 NIV“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”Ephesians 1:13-14 NIV“And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession.”Psalm 23:6 NIV“Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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A Meditation to Trust God with Work and Other Opportunities from James 1:16-17

13:59 | 02-08-2024

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can stop, break through all the distractions, and bodily experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.James 1:16-17 NIV“Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.”John 3:26-27 NIV“They came to John and said to him, ‘Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.’ To this John replied, ‘A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.’”Ephesians 2:10 NIV“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it.Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecoverFollow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePodOur audio engineer is Matthew Matlack.This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

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