Tara Lee Davis's Podcast
by Tara Lee Davis
Reading, writing, and speaking gives Tara life. Having spent nearly a decade wandering from the heart of God and into a life of bondage, it was the love of Jesus which would ultimately set her free. Her story of redemption, freedom, and new life is woven into every facet of her stories. Tara is a gifted storyteller, using everyday examples, raw life lessons, and humor to reach hearts. Her passion is Jesus, her gift is storytelling, and her life purpose is simple: To make much of Jesus!
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A Woman of Destiny; I Am Who God Says I Am
Send us Fan Mail Do you know who you are in Christ? Or have you been living with a stolen identity? If you operate out of a mistaken identity, you'll never be who God created you to be!
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Checkmate: Hostage No More
Send us Fan Mail Are you tired of being punched by the enemy and living in defeat? Are you weighed down by the chains of sin and the accusations of the enemy of your soul? Jesus not only promised us life, but the abundant life! it's time to stop eating throw up and walking around with chains…
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Do You Want To Be Well?
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the reason we remain stuck is because we really don't want to be well. It's far easier to remain dormant with a victim mentality than it is to live by faith, rise up and trust God with what we are going through.
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Don't Be A Goose
Send us Fan Mail What are we doing with the lives we've been given? Has greed and selfishness taken over, just like the owners of the golden goose? Let's look at Acts 5:1-11 and see how greed and selfishness can literally cost you everything, even your life.
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A Teacher's Tribute
Send us Fan Mail Praise God for the teachers and coaches in our lives who leave a lasting impact on us! A fun look back at those who impacted me and made a difference!
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Unstuck: Learning to Ask Better Questions
Send us Fan Mail Everyone has had chapters in the story of their lives, and most get stuck in this place by asking the wrong questions. While God is not opposed to our asking questions, just as Job proved, asking the right question is key to forward movement in our faith journey. What if we've…
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SRD: The Christian's Counteroffensive
Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to fight the good fight of faith? How does God His children to engage with the spiritual battle that rages on? Have we lost our own hearts and in so doing forgotten how to fight for the heart of our King? It's time for God's church to rise up and fight!…
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A Deep Dive Into Grace
Send us Fan Mail One of the things that I appreciate the most about who God is, is His love and long-suffering. Romans 3:23 says that all of us fall short, and we can easily fall into the trap of shame and self-condemnation if we are not careful. There is always a chance to get it right, but some...
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A Recalibration of Rightful Worship
Send us Fan Mail What is worship? And what does it have to do with warfare? Is worship just sining 3 songs every time we find ourselves at church? Or is it deeper than that?
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Clean Up on Aisle 7
Send us Fan Mail Do you make God vomit? Are you like a dog returning to its vomit to eat? Have you found yourself in a pile of fish vomit because of your disobedience?
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Savage: Identity Theft
Send us Fan Mail We continue our series on David and Goliath, looking at identity. A mistaken identity, as God's child, will cost us more than we could know. The problem with a mistaken identity is that if we operate from that place, we will never be who God has called us to be or accomplish what...
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The Impact Of the Cross
Send us Fan Mail The single greatest event in all of human history made an impact on every single human for all of history, whether they know it or not. When Jesus sacrificed His very life to pay for the sins of the world, that single event would change the course of human history for all of...
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Impact As a Believer
Send us Fan Mail Every single human on the planet will make an impact, either in a good way or a bad way. What kind of impact does Christ call His followers to make? What good is salt if it loses its flavor? Have you ever thrown a blanket over a lamp once you've turned it on? Such is the…
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Roadtrip Essentials
Send us Fan Mail How do we live with intentionality as Christians as we make our way home to heaven? Is there more to the Christian life than just surviving? How does God call us to live with purpose?
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Psalm 23: Wonder Over Wander
Send us Fan Mail Psalm 23 is a jam packed chapter of Scripture, reminding us of who we are and who we are not. Our Shepherd, is more than enough and capable, of leading us well on this journey of life. We are book ended with grace and invited to the table of all tables, but sometimes we have to...
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The Purpose Behind Trouble
Send us Fan Mail What if my greatest struggles in life were actually God's gift to me? So many ask, "If God is good, then why........." and no one can come up with an answer. Are we so entitled as to think that we should only receive the good from God and not the hard, too? Is there purpose…
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Treasuring God's Word Rightly
Send us Fan Mail What does the Bible mean to us? Are we approaching it in the right way, or with wrong motives? When we approach God's Word rightly, we find hope! What would it look like if we stopped taking our Bibles for granted, or misusing them to cut down others, and instead used it as…
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2025 CCS Sports Banquet "Run Your Race"
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to run your race well, as a believer? Cliff Young shows us the way. What an honor to be the guest speaker at the Cornerstone Christian School Annual Sports Banquet.
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You Have Heard It Said
Send us Fan Mail Jesus gives His followers a striking command in Matthew 5:43-48, telling us to love our enemies. But we cannot love our enemies without first forgiving them. Are you carrying heavy weights that you were never meant to carry? Because there is freedom, healing, redemption,...
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How Love Changes Everything: My Testimony
Send us Fan Mail I was in a dark place while in college, and God used a professor of mine to rescue me. The secret weapon? She loved me where I was, but loved me enough to not let me stay there. I will forever be grateful for my professors and how God used them to rescue me! Love changes...
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Encouragement for Youth
Send us Fan Mail Know a young person who is discouraged? Share this with them!
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2024 COGIC Advent
Send us Fan Mail What if our greatest gift has been lost in the shuffle and chaos of it all? What would it look like to unwrap the greatest gift ever, slowly savoring Him? Advent, a season of expectant waiting knowing that the God who promised is the God who will deliver.
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An Ugly Christmas
Send us Fan Mail Most of exhaust ourselves getting ready for Christmas! Has anyone seen the tape? Where are the scissors? We need more Christmas gift wrap! But what if we were exhausting all of our energy, time and resources on the wrong preparations? How do we prepare and get ready for the…
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Killswitch: Conquering Sin
Send us Fan Mail Tired of sin ruling your life? Exhausted from riding the fence as a Christian? Feel like God is about to vomit you out of His mouth because of your lukewarm temp? Can we ever truly master sin? We can, and it’s easier than we realize! But most of us spend our lives looking for a…
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Trusting God to Write My Story
Send us Fan Mail If God is good, then why did I get cancer? Why can't I have children? Why did my parents divorce? Why did my friend die? The list of questions is exhaustive, and this is where many get stuck. Habakkuk faced trouble, big trouble. But he didn't give up, because at his core he knew...
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Obedience: From Obligation to Opportunity
Send us Fan Mail What if we viewed our obedience as God's children differently? How would it change if we didn't obey out of obligation but rather saw it as an opportunity? What impact does our obedience make?
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2024 Rainbow Tea "Green"
Send us Fan Mail What does green repress in Scripture?
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The Great Exchange
Send us Fan Mail When was the last time you thanked God for a bad day? Same! But God calls us as believers to give thanks in all things! What if the hard parts of our story were actually intentional from a loving God? What if He was renovating our hearts from the cottage of our selfish, inward...
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Walking With Others in Grief
Send us Fan Mail What do we do when the unthinkable happens? We all want to help, to fix, to take away the pain, but how do we tangibly do that? How do we help our friends who are grieving? Here are 4 simple ways that you can walk with others who are grieving. We are better together, and we need...
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Hemorrhaging for Hope
Send us Fan Mail Is your life marked by desperation for Jesus? Or are you among the crowd, watching your miracle pass you by? For the woman with the issue of blood, she had no choice! She had to get to Jesus, no matter the cost! She had every reason to give up hope, to quit! But she refused to...
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An Extraordinary Life In the Everyday Small Things
Send us Fan Mail So many of us exhaust our resources chasing the next big thing. But what if God could do something incredible through our everyday, simple yes? How would obedience change if we delighted to follow His commands rather than out of duty or obligation? Is it really that simple for…
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How to Walk Through Grief
Send us Fan Mail So, you're grieving. How exactly does one walk through grief?
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What is Grief?
Send us Fan Mail What is grief? And what do we do with?
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Ready or Not, Here I Come
Send us Fan Mail Are you ready for the return of Christ? Is it possible to look ready, yet not actually be ready? Let’s take a look at what Matthew 25 teaches us in regards to being ready for the return of Christ!
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The God Who Answers By Fire
Send us Fan Mail What is tenacious faith? And where does it come from? How do we live our lives as believers that are marked by victory and overcoming? Who's really in charge of our lives? Can others look at your life and declare, "The Lord, He is God!" What do we do when the odds are stacked...
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When We Put God on Trial
Send us Fan Mail In a fascinating exchange, Job questions God as to the misery he is facing when he loses everything in a single day. This story deeply resonates with all of us, as we've often asked "If God is good, then why ______________________?" But God in turn questions Job, and he responds…
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3 Tools for Success
Send us Fan Mail Behind every successful person are 3 characteristics; they are quick to accept responsibility, they always say thank you, and they never give up. What is your life marked by, acceptance or blame? Is your life marked by complaining or gratitude? Do you easily throw in the towel or...
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Wool, Wilderness, and The Way
Send us Fan Mail John 10:1-10 paints a beautiful picture of Jesus as not only our good Shepherd but also as the gate, but what exactly does that mean?
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My Anchor Holds
Send us Fan Mail Specifically looking at the idea of peace in the advent season. does Jesus stand the test of time? When He's asleep on the boat as the storm threatens to take them out, is it because He is unaware or indifferent or because He knows something we do not?
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Why We Quit Running
Send us Fan Mail Paul compares our walk with God to a race. Most start strong, but few know how to finish strong. What keeps us from finishing our race well? What are the things that get in our way?Nu
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Throw Kindness Like Confetti
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to be kind? Why does kindness matter? Imagine a world in which people threw kindness like confetti!
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Crushing Idols
Send us Fan Mail What's the problem with idols? Who or what am I worshipping, other than Jesus? Is Jesus really the Lord of your life, or is He just your genie-in-a-bottle?
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Dogs Eat Vomit
Send us Fan Mail Everyone knows that dogs eat vomit, but does anyone know why? Why is Proverbs 26:11 in the Bible, and what does it mean for us? Is sin really that big of a deal?
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Unmasked
Send us Fan Mail What if the time and energy we spent trying to hide behind filters to fit in, be accepted and liked was the exact opposite of what God really wanted from us? How do we live unmasked, as we are? Is God's love and acceptance of us really enough, even if no one else loves and…
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Ccs Commencement 2022 "Choose Wisely"
Send us Fan Mail Life is full of incredible disappointments, and certainly the graduating class of 2022 has faced 2.5 years of cancellations, new normals, and a majority of their high school lives spent in isolation with all of the fun cancelled. But, as God's children, how are we to respond in…
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Sour Patch Kids
Send us Fan Mail Revelation 21:1-6 paints a beautiful picture for us of what's to come when Christ reigns fully with His glory on display, but how exactly are we to live within the tension of the here and now? How are we as God's children living out His love and putting His glory on display, or...
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My Pleasure
Send us Fan Mail Hebrews 12 instructs us to throw off everything that weighs us down and hinders us from running our race, but what if what kept us held back from true freedom in Christ was our own obligation? Do we read Scripture out of obligation, or desire? Do we pray because we have to, or...
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Stay Thirsty
Send us Fan Mail Isaiah 55:1-9 offers us an interesting invitation, an invitation to those who are hungry and thirsty to come and be satisfied, an invitation for those who are broke to come and buy. Oh how the grace and mercies of Christ satisfy us in ways we've never known. We are called as...
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The Touch of Compassion
Send us Fan Mail For Jesus, compassion was more than just a feeling. It was a commitment to get involved with hurting people. What could it look like if we embraced others, even with their oozing sores?
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The Eyes of Compassion
Send us Fan Mail In order to have compassion on others, we must learn to see others as God sees them. The father in the story of the prodigal son saw, from a distance, who his son truly was. And his acceptance of him, inspire of his failures, changed the trajectory of his life forever.
About this show
Reading, writing, and speaking gives Tara life. Having spent nearly a decade wandering from the heart of God and into a life of bondage, it was the love of Jesus which would ultimately set her free. Her story of redemption, freedom, and new life is woven into every facet of her stories. Tara is a gifted storyteller, using everyday examples, raw life lessons, and humor to reach hearts. Her passion is Jesus, her gift is storytelling, and her life purpose is simple: To make much of Jesus!
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