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Forward With Joe PomeroyIgnite the Intersection of Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship with David Lee MartinDavid Lee Martin is a writer, poet, and dynamic entrepreneur whose transformative journey began at the age of 19. Once lost in a world of substance abuse and spiritual confusion, a life-altering encounter with Jesus turned his life around, igniting a passion for faith and creativity. Now, with nearly 30 years of experience, David encourages others to harness their creativity and grace, bringing hope and inspiration to a world in desperate need.David shares his story of realigning his priorities, simplifying his business ventures, and focusing...
2025-06-1925 min
The Martin Bailey Photography Podcast (Old MP3 Feed)A Conversation with Stormchaser David LeeDuring my Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure, I recorded a conversation with an old friend, David Lee, and reminisced about how we met and discussed his new passion for storm chasing.
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Music by Martin Bailey
2025-01-2432 min
The Tricia Goyer ShowWriting and Publishing Christian Fiction with David Lee MartinDavid Lee Martin is an ordained pastor, a creative, and passionate follower of Christ. He has dedicated his life to sharing the message of Jesus Christ with others and prays that you will be drawn closer to the Savior through his books and publications.
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2024-08-301h 31
Surf Splendor Archives - Surf Splendor513 – Josh MartinCraftsman Josh Martin joins us to discuss inventing the Shark Board, why people morph into looking like their dog, how ancient materials may be the future of board building, constructing a camper out of surfboard material, and making a living as an Instagram Influencer. Enjoy! Presented by: Roark.com Presented by: REALWatersports.com Presented by: VAERWatches.com/surfsplendor Partner: WaterwaysTravel.com Partner: Driftline.co promo …
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2024-05-151h 52
Irish Stew PodcastS5E5: David Clinch – Making Media MatterFor Dublin’s own David Clinch, media is serious business. He’s been working on the front lines of innovative journalism and the complete overhaul of the news business for the past 30 years.He jokes that he’s been called “the Zelig of the media,” an “accidental journalist” popping up in key roles at the companies driving the changing media landscape, including ITN News in London, CNN where he helped manage the CNN International Desk in Atlanta and pioneered the use of social media for international newsgathering, a direction he pursued to help our previous Irish Stew guest Mark Lit...
2023-05-151h 06Surf Splendor Archives - Surf Splendor443 – Terrence Martin: Get Away If You CanWriter/Director Terrence Martin joins us today to discuss the seven year journey to make his latest film, how he got Ed Harris to co-star, funding the project with poker winnings, why his real-life love story is too farcical for fiction, how even “failure” is gratifying if you’re chasing your passion, and why evolved humans always …
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2022-12-301h 21
The His and Her Money ShowHow David Lee Martin Made Millions From EbooksIn a world where content is king, and attention spans are increasingly short, it’s no wonder more people than ever are turning to books to tell their stories. Whether you have an excellent idea for a novel or nonfiction book or want to use your business expertise by writing a how-to guide, getting published seems like an obvious way to take your career to the next level. But getting started can be hard, especially if you don’t know where to begin, from deciding what you’re going to write about and choosing the right company to work with, to set...
2022-09-2859 min
William Lee Martin - The Hawg Wild ReportHawg Wild Report # 20 - Guest Songwriter David BanningIn today's episode of The HAWG Wild Report, comedian William Lee Martin visits with friend and songwriter, David Banning to discuss their friendship and the songs he's written for other artists.
2022-07-181h 09
Thomas Umstattd Jr. GuestcastCreativity & Podcasting with David Lee Martin
In this episode of The David Lee Martin Show, David and I talk about how to use podcasts to bless listeners.
2021-11-1133 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives086 Two Thirds of Wow is Ow – Turning Pain Into ProfitBelieve me, you have your own heroic feats that are worthy and willing to become your story, and it will be your story that sells the solutions that you bring.Don’t discount the power of your “OW!”, and its ability to help you reach your WOW!
2021-05-1011 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives085 The 818 AdvantageRecognize the wealth that God has placed in others, and find more and better ways to draw that wealth out so they can make an impact, and your own will be multiplied many, many times over.
2021-05-0711 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives084 Reasonings And RoadblocksYour voice will only be found by using it. That means, dear creative friend, that you’ll have to shut that naughty nay-sayer, crush your inner-critic, and DO IT DESPITE THE FEAR!
2021-05-0606 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives083 The How or The Who?There are essentially two components to making an idea a reality. With a clear understanding of these two essentials, the many other working parts become immensely more manageable.
2021-05-0515 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives082 Do It Anyway!I’m not good enough yet.“Do it anyway!”I’m worried what other people might think or say.“Do it anyway!”Most of the people we admire and aspire to become like have one thing in common somewhere in their history.They did it anyway!
2021-05-0415 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives081 You Have Something Special To ShareThe purpose I carry in my heart today is to convince and convict you that you have something awesome to bring to the world. Most people have far more to give than they realise. And even when they do have an inkling of how much worth they carry, they undervalue what it is worth.
2021-05-0313 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives080 Your Own Peculiar Pathway of PrayerYour prayer life is a reflection of your own peculiar and precious relationship with God. It grows and blossoms in the closet as you draw close. Sure, your Father knows everything about you, but He still delights in the journey of discovery that you are taking together.
2021-04-3008 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives079 Prioritise PrayerDo we fit prayer around our busy life, or is life fitted around the priority of prayer?
2021-04-2911 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives078 Visionary PrayerGod’s way of communicating is colourful. Far greater than 3D, 4D or virtual immersion reality. His realm is one of extreme wonder, and when He speaks entire worlds are thrown into motion.
2021-04-2810 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives077 Growing In GodDon’t compare your journey with others. Don’t measure your progress by the crowd. Let your heart lead you in fervent pursuit to know and serve God with every ounce of your being.
2021-04-2710 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives076 Of Angels and MenThere truly is no end to the parameters of prayer. The further we venture the more surprising the delights that open to our understanding. The Person of God, the majestic Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, are participants in this great orchestra. They conduct the universal symphony that is happening all around us in the spiritual realm, directing our heads, hands, and hearts to join with the other agents rendering service to the King.
2021-04-2606 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives075 A Rare Kind of Awesome Every human being on the planet has a deep seated desire to be “known”. Let me introduce you to one of the most life-changing pleasures of prayer - the fact that place of prayer is the place of being accepted, loved, and liked by the most important Being in the universe.
2021-04-2309 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives074 A Man With Experience Is Never At The Mercy Of A Man With An ArgumentPrayer is the doorway to experiencing God. Prayer is the place where this knowing blossoms and flourishes into friendship.
2021-04-2211 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives073 The Broad and Beautiful Spectrum of PrayerPrayer is communication with God. It is a conversation that takes place in the spirit realm. There is a broad and beautiful spectrum of ways in which this takes place.No language on earth is out of bounds, and even tongues of angels are spoken and heard.
2021-04-2111 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives072 An Open BookYou have a war map in your hand called the Bible. Emblazoned on its pages is every tool you need to live a life of victory and freedom. The covenant cut is laid bare on its pages, and every blood bought promise bears your name.
2021-04-2008 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives071 Blessed Is The ManI believe that the ways of prayer are ones that the Lord reveals to those who seek Him.
2021-04-1907 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives070 Plough The GroundSometimes a little ploughing in prayer is required before you sow the seed.https://davidleemartin.com/plough-the-ground/
2021-04-1610 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives069 Baptism in The Holy Ghost And Speaking In TonguesBaptism in the glorious Holy Ghost is a promise given to you, to your children and the their children after them, as many as God shall call. If He has not ceased calling, the promise remains active!https://davidleemartin.com/baptism-in-the-holy-ghost-and-speaking-in-tongues/
2021-04-1508 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives068 Following The Footsteps of Greatness (In God’s Eyes)Through the ages men and women have explored the deep regions of God’s word and will, leaving marks for their spiritual children to follow.God’s ways have never changed.https://davidleemartin.com/following-the-footsteps-of-greatness-in-gods-eyes/
2021-04-1409 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives067 Learn To Lean Your HeartLearning to lean your heart into God is a sensitive skill worth developing. It is one of the intimate strings on the prayer bow, and requires quietening the soul in God’s presence.... Like a plant leaning toward the sun our heart leans toward the presence of God and we entwine our affections to His purposes.
2021-04-1307 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives066 Practice PracticeI’m a strong advocate of passion in prayer. I believe that the wings that carry prayers to the nostrils of the father are like the flames of incense on the altar. Fire causes our requests to rise. But fervency alone is not sufficient to enjoy the depths of all the Father has provided....
2021-04-1208 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives065 Songs of Deliverancehttps://davidleemartin.com/songs-of-deliverance/God’s habitation does not live by the natural rules we are accustomed to. He steps outside of time and space and invites us to do the same. This time-busting, realm-leaping, eternity-dwelling practice is called prayer! ...
2021-04-0905 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives064 Great Outpouringshttps://davidleemartin.com/outpourings/Great outpourings of power begin with great outpourings of prayer.The rains of revival in the House of God always begin with the houses of God pouring out their hearts.
2021-04-0807 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives063 Whole Hearted – Filling Your Heavenly Coffershttps://davidleemartin.com/whole-hearted-filling-your-heavenly-coffers/A favorite promise box scripture, so worthy of bumper sticker, is found in Jeremiah chapter 29. I’m sure you are familiar with it:“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)What most people don’t include on their sanctified T-shirt or bookmark is the context and what follows:“Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you...
2021-04-0708 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives062 Shut Your Doorhttps://davidleemartin.com/shut-the-door/I will not be unmannerly, but I will be forthright. Intimate encounters are not intended for public display. The coming together of a man and wife is a private celebration of something uniquely shared by the couple in question.Prayer is intimate in a way that requires privacy.The Master taught us the way:“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward th...
2021-04-0606 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives061 The Endless Pleasures of Prayerhttps://davidleemartin.com/the-endless-pleasures-of-prayer/How anyone can diminish the delights of prayer to a morning drudgery is almost incomprehensible, but I believe I know the reason such a tragedy may occur. It has nothing to do with the devil, or some other external enemy seeking to derail your desire (although there will be many of these too).The problem is a simple one. Failure to give attention to the practice.Like a marriage untended, where spouses grow coldly familiar with one another and fail to appreciate the beauty and strength in their partner...
2021-04-0512 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives060 The Sheer Horror of the Cross and the Shocking Beauty of Exchangehttps://davidleemartin.com/the-sheer-horror-of-the-cross-and-the-shocking-beauty-of-exchange/Can we ever comprehend the blood that broke from Jesus’ brow as he contemplated the horror of sin upon himself. He became sin. The sinless, spotless, pure Son of God.How great the price that he paid so personally for you!Could we ever really imagine to true cost that was paid that night in Gethsemane? On the cross at Calvary.Do we for a moment grasp why the Father had to turn his eyes away? The One who sees all, blinded by the horror of our si...
2021-04-0210 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives059 Why the Right Answers Don’t Always Workhttps://davidleemartin.com/why-the-right-answers-dont-always-work/Is the key to life finding the right answers? Or is more about learning to ask the right questions?A classic question, with an equally class answer, is found in Exodus chapter 3.Moses meets with God and in course of conversation asks:Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what...
2021-04-0112 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives058 Peaceful Profits & Joyful Richeshttps://davidleemartin.com/peaceful-profits-joyful-riches/Why produce more if it only multiplies your misery?Money is an amplifier, not the music.The music is the tune that plays in your heart.Scripture does not teach that money is evil. It highlights that the love of money opens the door to all kinds of trouble. However, the Good Book does point to the unredeemed and unhealed heart being evil and prone to deception. That is where the music plays, for good or for bad. All issues of life flow from the heart and...
2021-03-3119 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives057 Master This (Special) Moment And You’ll Master Your Lifehttps://davidleemartin.com/master-this-special-moment-and-youll-master-your-life/Fruitfulness and multiplication rest on the command of mastery. If we fail to subdue our propensity to excuse ourselves (“it’s not my fault, the woman told me to do it”, “It’s not my responsibility, the serpent told me to do it”) we’ll continue as we always were. Worse still, we’ll diminish in our own eyes and hide away in a fig leaf life.Purposeful productivity is really the mastery of time and energy in positive productive ways that bless mankind.At base, I think it boils down to si...
2021-03-3013 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives056 Excellence In Everyday Tasks – The Human Way To Go From Once Upon A Time To Happy Ever Afterhttps://davidleemartin.com/excellence-in-everyday-tasks-the-human-way-to-go-from-once-upon-a-time-to-happy-ever-after/It is not the quantity of tasks that you accomplish that will set you apart.It is not even doing many things right that will stand you before kings.It is doing the right things with exceptional excellence that makes you remarkable.
2021-03-2918 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives055 No More Excuseshttps://davidleemartin.com/no-more-excuses/You have two choices today. Multiply your efforts or multiply your excuses. Generally, you will do one or the other.Despite what the marketers might like to tell you, real results take real work, and making a dent in the world with your creativity takes work, sometimes a lot of it.There are a million reasons, “why not”, but an even bigger reason why you MUST!
2021-03-2609 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives054 Good Days, Bad Days, And Avoiding Burnouthttps://davidleemartin.com/good-days-bad-days-and-avoiding-burnout/We all have good days, and we have not so good. Occasionally we have something that could rightly be described as a bad day!Our measure of good and bad are relative of course, and we could say much about perspective when discussing how we see and respond to the challenges we face.However, this is not a discussion about perspective.What I want to tackle here is how to wrestle a ‘bad’ day to the floor. A day when you feel zero motivation to makes forward stri...
2021-03-2511 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives053 Become a Weapon of Mass Creationhttps://davidleemartin.com/become-a-weapon-of-mass-creation/The creative life is not one that resides in the world of ideas, it lives and breathes in the realm of action. Application is where the rubber meets the road and visions become reality. It is no use to have a notion roll around in your skull endlessly without it somehow finding a vent of expression. Only in its outing can an idea find an audience. And with an audience it takes form.
2021-03-2408 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives052 Minimalism & Creativity – Ditching the Distractions For Ultimate Flow!https://davidleemartin.com/minimalism-creativity-ditching-the-distractions-for-ultimate-flow/In the past, I would have equated creativity to many things. But simplicity and minimalism would not have been one of them.The idea that somehow doing less and curtailing my creative impulses was foreign to me.If it was there to do, I would do it. Every idea was somehow equal in my estimation as a route to explore.I would never want to discourage your own exploration, but I have discovered one key truth that has multiplied my effectiveness and my own peace of mind.
2021-03-2310 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives051 An Ounce Of Application Is Worth A Ton Of Inspirationhttps://davidleemartin.com/an-ounce-of-application-is-worth-a-ton-of-inspiration/The tendency to be “ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth” (2Timothy 3:7) is a human condition not confined to Paul’s experience with early churchgoers.How often are we looking for the next key to our breakthrough or the next word from God when we have not applied the previous one that was handed to us?Or how often are we looking for the BIG thing that will rock our world, instead of taking a small step that nudges us toward completion?Jim Rohn...
2021-03-2217 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives050 Don’t Compete And Don’t Compare (Seriously, Check Out My Results!)https://davidleemartin.com/dont-compete-and-dont-compare-seriously-check-out-my-results/How do you measure success?That’s a brilliant question because the world is fiercely pursuing you, seeking to force its own elastic rules into your thinking.
2021-03-1926 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives049 The Myth of Multitasking And Doing Away With My To-Do’shttps://davidleemartin.com/the-myth-of-multitasking-and-doing-away-with-my-to-dos/If only I was actually able to do seventeen things at once. So said the nutcase looking for an early grave.Only one thing is needful. Only one thing, at one time, with all your heart and mind focussed upon it.It can be personal, loving your wife or husband in tangible ways. It can be spending time with your kids and not two-timing them with your devices.It can be a business related task.Prayer of course. Wholehearted and unhindered by worries about ten...
2021-03-1809 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives048 Learn The Art of Lean Excellencehttps://davidleemartin.com/learn-the-art-of-lean-excellence/Spending and saving. Two sides of the same slippy coin.Productivity is all about these seeming opposites.Spending time, saving time.Spending thought, attention, and energy, saving thought, attention, and energy.Spending money, saving money.The right time to spend and to save is an art and a science rolled into one.An old proverb reads, “a penny saved is a penny earned”. The less we spend the more we earn.It is very easy to accumulate, and unchecked accu...
2021-03-1715 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives047 On Line But Off Trackhttps://davidleemartin.com/on-line-but-off-track/“You can be on line but off track.”I first heard this said by Jim Rohn, and even back when he said it he hit the nail square on the head.In another story he related a story about a friend who was prone to TV. Let’s call the friend Mark for the sake of this story.He asked Mark how much his television set cost him. Mark proudly boasted he snatched a bargain for just $400. Jim turned and said that that was not right, but the fr...
2021-03-1612 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives046 Know Your Enough and Lengthen Your Stridehttps://davidleemartin.com/know-your-enough-and-lengthen-your-stride/There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G K ChestertonProductivity is not just about more.It is about enough. Getting the most out of your intentioned, invested input, so that you can enjoy the benefits of time and money it affords you.The payoff is not more boxes ticked, more lists annihilated, more dollars flowing, more minutes filled, more activity, notoriety, fame, fortune…Rewards of this kind have their payo...
2021-03-1518 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives045 Working With The Dresser So Your Joy Can Be Fullhttps://davidleemartin.com/working-with-the-dresser-so-your-joy-can-be-full/Yesterday’s harvest must make room for today’s growth, and give way to tomorrow’s crop. We live to expand and stretch our branches further, and to do so is a path of letting go and taking hold.
2021-03-1215 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives044 Life with Margin and The Three Keys To Freedomhttps://davidleemartin.com/life-with-margin-and-the-three-keys-to-freedom/Life with margins.For many, the crammed lifestyle pushes to the very edge of every page, and there is no room to breathe.The slightest shift can tip the cart over the edge.We need margin. Look for the whitespace and be careful not to fill it.A moment in your day does not immediately demand that it be filled with phone. You know what I mean.It’s in the spaces that we find new things. It’s through the cracks that fres...
2021-03-1124 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives043 Spending Habitshttps://davidleemartin.com/spending-habits/Whatever you are doing I can almost 100% assure you that there is an easier way to do it.Scalability is hindered by complexity. The more complex the system, the harder it will to sustain and to scale.Looking for ways to simplify is a gloriously fruitful way to spend some time, thought, and energy because the payoff will blossom over time.
2021-03-1013 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives042 Action Taker And The One Great Reason Whyhttps://davidleemartin.com/action-taker-and-the-one-great-reason-why/
2021-03-0917 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives041 DE-cisionshttps://davidleemartin.com/de-cisions/Where procrastination is king no movement is possible. Life and business require that we be decisive. Cutting the ballast from your lives so you are not dragging confusion and fear every step of your journey is an important step to take. It is one that needs to tackled fiercely because there is an ever present temptation to so hedge our bets that we are hemmed in on every side.Here are some thoughts to get you moving...
2021-03-0813 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives040 Pareto’s Potatoes – A Surprising Recipe For Success In Any Area of Lifehttps://davidleemartin.com/paretos-potatoes-a-surprising-recipe-for-success-in-any-area-of-life/A potato story.The farmer went to his potato patch to sow.Some seed was swallowed, some trodden underfoot, some strangled.The seed that found its happy soil bore fruit, some 30, some 60, some a hundredfold.How many potatoes the farmer harvested depended on which plot he plowed and populated. Some were significantly better than others.So said the Master in Matthew 13.So much can be said about this prime-cut parable.I just want to point to one thing. Even...
2021-03-0514 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives039 HEY!!! YOU!!! Listen Here! Don't Be Distracted!https://davidleemartin.com/hey-you-look-here-dont-be-distracted/Productivity and progress are the result of exercising consistent pressure in one direction over time.
2021-03-0415 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives038 Becoming Stewards of Heaven’s Storehousehttps://davidleemartin.com/becoming-stewards-of-heavens-storehouse/“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.” Psalm 90:12Life can be lost to hurry. In our rush to tomorrow we miss the delights of today. And so the dance continues.The number of days only ever diminishes, so it is wise to stop and take stock of how you are spending them. Are the moments dripping through your fingers in pursuit of something you already have? Or something that you think you want but on inspection could never satisfy your craving?...
2021-03-0321 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives037 Multiply Your Results Not Your Effortshttps://davidleemartin.com/multiply-your-results-not-your-efforts/The door that will unlock in your thinking if you ponder what I share here long enough could save you years of frustration.The accumulated moments of unnecessary effort in our daily routines can add up over time and become years of our life. These unchallenged chief robbers of time are the small foxes that spoil the vine. They appear unimpressive and minimal close up, but multiply their destructive consequences and you’ll find time spilling out in all directions.It begins with the false premise that more effort is...
2021-03-0214 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives036 Filling Time Vs Freeing Timehttps://davidleemartin.com/filling-time-vs-freeing-time/Productivity hacks are often used to cram more activity into tight-packed time. The myth of multitasking continues its cultural march, pulling unsuspecting ambitions into an ever-increasing swirl of bigger, faster, more.But productivity at its heart is not about filling time, it is about freeing time.Freeing time for those activities that are most meaningful and impactful...
2021-03-0118 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian CreativesPeace Through Processhttps://davidleemartin.com/peace-through-process/Business and creativity can become like a giant bowl of spaghetti. A tangled mess of awesome but impossible to tame. All of the ingredients for delicious are in there but every day is fraught with problems because no processes are in place.Instead of peaceful pathways leading to predictable results, there’s a constant run round the same mountains, increasingly eating your time and hampering your creative flow.But creative natured entrepreneurs often prefer the chase. They love the starts, not the stays. The making, not the maintaining....
2021-02-2616 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives034 I Pray Weirdhttps://davidleemartin.com/i-pray-weird/I pray weird.In fact, it may be weird to pray nowadays, period.Most folks like to think they can do life themselves. No help. No fallback. No crutch.Not me.I’m helplessly and happily aware that without Jesus I’m up a creek without a paddle. In fact, not just a paddle, a boat, a motor, a direction, a scrap of toilet paper, or even a hope!Atheists passionately practice their non-belief with religious zeal nowadays. Ironic how “not believing” has become s...
2021-02-2508 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives033 Your Secret is in Your StoryI once heard a preacher say, “A man’s secret is in his story.”The life of any sermon is not so much in the accuracy or eloquence, but in the life that sits behind the speaking. It is the secret heart, the man behind the suit and boots, that makes the difference.Behind any product, service, or publication, is a person.Whether you write, sing, act or architect, the vibrancy of your creative work will depend upon and be infused with the life that produced it.https://davidleemartin.com/your-secret-is-in-your-story/
2021-02-2415 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives032 Instead Of Worrying About What You Don’t Know Share What You DoWhen Jesus taught His disciples He did it on the move. They learned on the road, not in a row crammed into neat seats and tidy lines.Men of God learn to pray in the upper room, not the schoolroom.A bare but leafy tree became an object lesson in faithful fruitfulness.A farmer became the frame through which the Master taught the principles of spiritual seedtime and harvest.On the beach, they became fishers of men.The looming mountain was the picture used to distill the working of...
2021-02-2318 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives031 Why I Choose To Share The JourneyI’m here at the head of another week. I’m a typical creative. The day lays before me and my greatest task is deciding which of my plates and projects I want to spin.Some may be far better organised than I am, and have things neatly planned out months ahead. God bless that person, I need them to lay hands on me and impart some of that amazing!It would be easy for me to slap myself up and get on own case for not being more awesome. After all are we not all...
2021-02-2219 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives030 Saved From Saved ForOne of my favourite verses is found in Deuteronomy, where the Holy Ghost declares concerning Israel that he brought them out, in order to bring them in.“And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in” (Deuteronomy 6:23 KJV)Yes, He brought them out, but the purpose was not just to deliver them from bondage and futility, it was in order to BRING THEM IN.Sometimes we can focus so much on the desert that we forget to look and remember that we were made for...
2021-02-1920 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives029 God is My Prize And My Portion“Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance.You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion.I leave my destiny and it’s timing in your hands.”Psalm 16:5, Passionhttps://davidleemartin.com/my-prize-and-my-pleasure-psalm-16-praying-the-psalms/
2021-02-1814 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives028 Avail Yourself of God, and He Will Give You The AbilitySometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that ability is what makes someone stand out, that skill makes all the difference.This morning as I was praying, I was surprised to hear my own spirit calling out to God and saying to Him over and over again, “I want to make myself available to You. I want to make myself available to You.”In itself that may not seem strange. After all, don’t we all want to be available for God. What impressed me was the insistence of my spirit. I could...
2021-02-1722 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives027 A Call To Christian CreativityI am a Christian creative.I believe that the two go hand in hand. Creativity flows from the indwelling presence of the Creator. Christ in us, the hope of glory!Does that mean that non-Christians are excluded? In no way. We are all made in His image. But it is my utmost conviction that to tap the deepest resources of our Father’s limitless heart takes more than mere acquaintance. We want to plumb the depths of what’s possible and allow His creative unction to flow full force through our being.The chur...
2021-02-1613 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives026 Stay The Course And Kick Discouragement To The CurbThis is a DON’T STOP NOW moment. As you read these words you may feel cued up to give up. I get it. I’ve been there plenty and its an unpleasant place to stay.So choose not to stay there.Let’s not camp around the idea that something won’t work. Don’t pitch your tent around the fire of discouragement and despondency. Self pity won’t warm your fingers to write, play, or paint again.These simple words are powerful:“The LORD is on my side” (Psalm 118:6 KJV)You a...
2021-02-1514 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives025 Work IN me, so You Can Work THROUGH MeEverything we do is undergirded by prayer!
2021-02-1210 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives024 The Pace of Peace – Staying Productive Without Losing Your MarblesProductivity is way overrated if it is not attended with peace. The push to run yourself ragged doing 65 things concurrently without breaking a sweat is kind of crazy don’t you think?The pace of peace is walking in tandem with the Father. The cool of the day stroll in the security that He has everything under control.A rest remains for those who will claim it, the Bible tells us.Busy, busy, busy, does not give you bragging rights.The badge of honour is not “I’m busy”, but “I’m blessed”.
2021-02-1116 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives023 Free Me From Foolish PursuitsWhere you will find your amazing is not round the next corner, or behind the next Buy Now button.It is in you right now. The most valuable, most ground-breaking, most life-changing, product on the planet was crafted by divinity.It is you, brother.It is you, sister.And you are enough!From that place, you can begin to share, and the world will be a far richer place because you do.
2021-02-1015 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives022 Unclutter Your Soul – Stop Hoarding Hurt and Give Yourself a BreakSimplifying is so much more than reorganising and sweeping dirt below the carpet. As you head for your destination, your destiny, refuse to carry hurtful cargo any longer. Jettison your offences and sail onward to new horizons with a lighter load, and a hopeful heart...
2021-02-0915 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives021 Finding Your Voice Your voice is waiting for you, and the world is waiting for your voice. It may have been buried under disappointments. It may have been shrouded in fears and insecurities. Maybe your unique contribution is clouded by excuses and reasons you think no one would listen. But it has never been lost. You are not looking for something outside of yourself. You sufficiency is of God (2 Corinthians 3:5). He has planted His will and ways in your heart and you have been given the royal privilege of stewarding that gift. ...
2021-02-0810 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives020 How To Be Heard And Seen In A Noisy WorldSpeaking with the Holy Ghost early last week the words, ”I believe in You” came out of my lips. Maybe that’s not surprising, but what happened next in the conversation caught me off guard. Immediately He reflected back, speaking through the mirror of my heart, and repeated the words back to me.“I believe in you”.God sees you. God, your Father in Heaven, believes in you.We need to let His voice be heard first in us, and then through us.We need to allow Him to help us see others...
2021-02-0518 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives019 Simple Is Hard To Get To – But It Does Not Need To Be ComplicatedBuilding your online presence and a profitable lifestyle business does not need to to be complicated.Build your business to work for you, not the other way around.At the end of the day, it’s not really about the pages, promos, popups, or presentations.Consistency. Persistency. Patience. In one direction. Over time. These are the elements that play most powerfully into a prosperous life and business.Click to Tweet“the hand of the diligent maketh rich.” (Proverbs 10:4 KJV)Find one pathway that fits your p...
2021-02-0419 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives018 The Most Important Thing In Your BusinessWhat’s the most important thing in your business?Cashflow? Assets? Intellectual property? SOP’s? What’s the secret sauce that makes your business stand out from the crowd and how do you protect it? Let me tell you, it’s a great deal simpler than it may first appear, and calls for some radical shifts in practice if you plan on long-term growth and prosperity.The number one thing that sets your business apart is…YOU!You are, after all, ultimately in the business of being you...
2021-02-0312 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives017 Awkward QuestionsAwkward questions. We hate answering them, but even more we hate asking them. After all, who really wants to be the douche bag who questions the emperor’s clothes, or points out a discrepancy.What if we’re embarrassed? What if we’re misunderstood?Let us express ourselves more fully, and without fear of repercussion. Let us learn the difficult art of guileless honesty with our family and friends. Let a culture that does not depend on keeping up appearances be the one that we cultivate. A community of friends who’ll bear wi...
2021-02-0222 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives016 The Who, The Do, And God-Sized BHAPsEvery day I encounter talented, passionate people who are nevertheless searching for their purpose. Not the necessary purposes of our dreary days like paying bills and putting out the trash – the big, hairy, audacious purpose.A God-sized BHAP.It seems that there’s often a disconnect between who we know we are on the inside, and what we do most every day.And right there is the clue.The disconnect is between the “who” and the “do”.I’ve lost count of the number of people who want to be writer, but...
2021-02-0117 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives015 Coming Out In The Open So God Can Be SeenThe biggest hindrance I see to God’s creative people finding their stride and moving forward with their ideas is a reluctance to show their work.Chronic procrastination and never-quite-finished syndrome keeps them from shipping. Perfectionism steals their confidence and prevents the doors from being opened wide for the fresh public breeze of feedback to blow through the workshop.And the world remains a poorer place for it.Follow David on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidleemartinauthor
2021-01-2915 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives014 The Only Step You Need To Take Is The Next OneOverwhelm does not feel nice. In fact, it feels like a fierce assault on your senses that can leave you spinning, not knowing which way to turn.In those moments when a million messages are flooding your brain, and a googol of voices are pulling you in every direction, remember this one choice fact.The only step you need to take is the next one.Take a breath.That’s why the Scriptures teach us that even though it’s healthy and right to plan our way, consider our opti...
2021-01-2812 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives013 Rattling Cages And 3 Keys To Escape Your LimitationsEver face interactions or circumstances that "rattle your cage"? In this episode I share a question my wife wisely highlighted recently when I expressed a bump in my own emotional road, and 3 daily disciplines I am exercising to grow and break out from the limits my thinking and emotions place on me.
2021-01-2722 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives012 Share Your Winning JourneyOut of literally millions in the race you were the sole victor!Only one very special seed broke that finish tape and fertilised that egg, and it was you!You started as a winner, and you’ll end as one also. As a Christian, even death will not be able to hold you. Sin has already lost it’s grip and the grim reaper has no claim to your eternal destiny.The greatest power in this natural universe, death itself, is rendered null in your presence. He may take a swipe, he will cost...
2021-01-2614 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives011 Lift The LImitsGod is a God of expansion. His words, "Let there be..." are still hurtling in every direction extending the bounds of the universe we inhabit.The same nature lives in you as His child, but there are ways in which we can limit Him if we are not careful to stay connected.Lift the lid on your limits today, and let God speak into your circumstances.
2021-01-2517 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives010 Doing The Work Of God By Being Thoroughly And Unashamedly YouIf you are anything like me you live to discover more of God and His purposes for your life here on the green planet. It’s a lifetime of inquisitive deduction that unfolds through a growing relationship with an invisible but oh-so-real and ever present God who shows up in a multitude of ways that are undeniable.God is real.The idea that He has a purpose for your life is not just sermon-fodder. It’s true.How do we enter into the place where our work and our worth align so perfectly that...
2021-01-2229 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives009 Let Your Light ShineOne of the boldest statements you will find in Scripture is the time Jesus put it out there and declared, “I am the Light of the world!” (John 8:12)Perhaps even more mind boggling is that He also said, “YOU are the light of the world!” (Matthew 5:14)It is a startling statement, but it’s right there in red. He said it, I believe it, and to hell with any other opinion.And if you are the light of the world, is it not time to stop skulking in the shadows?Read Mo...
2021-01-2116 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives008 Stepping Off The Hamster Wheel Into Unforced Rhythms of GraceIn my desire to get this message across I’ve spent the past few minutes trying to concoct a clever slant. Some greasy play on words or curiosity inducing enticement to continue reading.I don’t have one.The message will stand or fall on it’s own merits. It’s one that has significant implications. I want to take a little time to talk Hamster wheels.I was certainly in Hamster mode for many years. Spinning plates, scurrying between projects, hustling in life and hassling in prayer. Little surprise I burned ou...
2021-01-2023 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives007 Be A FinisherI’m glad that the words, “It is finished!” Came out of Jesus mouth, not “I am finished.” I’m all in for small beginnings, incremental progress, and making bold moves, but there’s a valley full of corpses that lies between the two peaks of every creative project.The beginning of a thing.And the completion.Between the two a blood drenched chasm where many a creative has given up the ghost and let their dream idea gasp its final breath.Just as the Scriptures encourage us not to despise beginnings, ho...
2021-01-1928 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives006 Have You Joined Clubhouse Heaven Yet? Let Me Send You An Invite!If you’ve not already been introduced, there’s a new hotspot for conversations taking place – a virtual hub of lively debate called Clubhouse.It’s an app by the way. Niche specific rooms with real time audio conversations.Hordes of hungry covid-incarcerated thought leaders, and think-followers, are crowding in to engage together in live, as-it-happens, conversations around just about any topic you can imagine. Some rooms are bursting with hundreds of participants, all eagerly “raising their hands” to take the stage. Others are more intimate discussions among friends and avid fans.It’s presently in...
2021-01-1815 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives005 The First Sign of SanityI don’t recommend you do this (I do really, but maybe not when you are waiting in line to pay for your groceries).I used to work for a newspaper. Not as a writer or undercover reporter or anything glamorous like that. I just laid out the pages and designed ads for local businesses. The press office was over the road from a supermarket, so lunch usually comprised of wandering across the street and a cheap sandwich. Amazing how routines play out day after day. My other routine is to chat with God...
2021-01-1515 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives004 Turning Your Hopes Into Habits One Insignificant Move At A TimeAt one time you were so minuscule you could not be seen with a naked eye. You may even feel just as insignificant today as you did at conception, hidden in the crowd and voiceless. You would not be alone.It’s easy in the mass of humanity to feel like a nobody, especially with the curated stream of success stories and gorgeous selfies we gorge on. It can get to the point where you feel as powerless to make an impact as that fragile embryo swimming in its mother’s juices.But God can see...
2021-01-1417 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives003 “Let’s Go” Promises and Tugboats – Two Keys To Steer Your Ship Into HarbourYour life is a ship, and your tongue is the rudder. So says James, the brother of Jesus:“…take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body…” (James 3:4–5 NIV)The words on your lips steer your life.Tug Boat Words & Let’s Go PromisesThere are also other words that direct us, and the Holy Ghost today described them to me a...
2021-01-1408 min
The David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives002 Take Muscly Mini Actions Today And Crush Your CompetitionTaking action is the only way to learn what really works.That does not mean you are the cornerstone of your success, or that more action taking will automatically lead to more results. What it does mean is that motion puts things in motion to move towards the results you dream of. You learn far more by doing than by watching, reading or listening.Best case scenario: Do all four, read, listen, watch, do.But if you have to lean into percentages, weigh toward the doing rather than perpetual learning, thinking or planning.
2021-01-1414 minThe David Lee Martin Show - Daily Encouragement For Christian Creatives001 Welcome To The David Lee Martin ShowYou are creative! There, I’ve said it.You may disagree or you may not - but the truth remains. If you are living and breathing today there is a deep treasure inside you that deserves to be explored and expressed.Our multi-faceted, colourful, unhindered humanity is a doorway for divinity - the overflow of our Father’s rich heart into the world around us.After all, He is the Creator!And you are made in His image. A unique expression of His heart endued with...
2021-01-1408 minSurf Splendor Archives - Surf Splendor281 – Martin DalyCaptain of the Indies Trader Fleet and founder of the Beran Island Resort, Martin Daly joins us to chat about his greatest finds as a treasure diver, the best session he’s ever witnessed, two horrifying days at sea where he thought the ship was going to split in two, and he addresses accusations that he’s …
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Surf Splendor281 – Martin DalyCaptain of the Indies Trader Fleet and founder of the Beran Island Resort, Martin Daly joins us to chat about his greatest finds as a treasure diver, the best session he’s ever witnessed, two horrifying days at sea where he thought the ship was going to split in two, and he addresses accusations that he’s … Continue reading "281 – Martin Daly" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-08-011h 14Surf Splendor Archives - Surf Splendor209 – Josh MartinIn today’s episode we catch up with surfboard shaper Josh Martin. Josh is carrying on a family legacy of shaping, started by his father Terry Martin and uncle Mickey Munoz. Terry is credited as having shaped more surfboards than any other human (estimated around 80,000) and built boards for Gerry Lopez, Wayne Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, …
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Surf Splendor209 – Josh MartinIn today’s episode we catch up with surfboard shaper Josh Martin. Josh is carrying on a family legacy of shaping, started by his father Terry Martin and uncle Mickey Munoz. Terry is credited as having shaped more surfboards than any other human (estimated around 80,000) and built boards for Gerry Lopez, Wayne Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, … Continue reading "209 – Josh Martin" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-03-141h 47Surf Splendor031 – Josh Martin and the Legacy of Martin ShapesJosh Martin discusses shaping surfboards, his father Terry, and the legacy of Martin Shapes with Hobie Surfboards. Roger Hall explains the Hot Curl Shaping Life Terry Martin from Donald Brink on Vimeo. Learn more about Josh Martin at MartinShapes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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