The Thirst Beneath the Thirst

Monuments That Last: Building Legacies That Matter

In this episode, Spencer reflects on two recent trips. First, Washington, D.C. for National Police Week to honor his brother-in-law Mark. Then California with colleague Brandon Gossett to visit faithful neverthirst donors. Walking among the monuments and memorials in D.C. got him thinking about how people throughout history have built structures to be remembered, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Taj Mahal to the Great Pyramids to Cambodia's Killing Fields memorial. He brings that thread to the story of Mary anointing Jesus in Matthew 26:6–16, where an act of sacrificial worship became an eternal memorial. Mary poured herself out for Christ, and Jesus said her story would be told wherever the gospel is proclaimed. Spencer draws on James Montgomery Boice and the Puritan prayer collection The Valley of Vision to show how God's economy works: the way down is the way up, and whoever loses his life for Christ's sake will find it. He connects this to the generosity of neverthirst supporters whose giving platforms the gospel through clean water in unreached communities. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media [http://flintstonemedia.com/] Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

Don't Waste Your Life

Spencer revisits Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper, a book he first read during the 2007–2008 financial crisis that went on to shape the founding of neverthirst. He shares three principles from the book that still drive the ministry today: be mastered by one great thing, risk is right, and live to prove that Christ is more precious than life. Along the way, he gets personal about the tension between wanting a life that counts and wanting comfort, and he closes by praying for the Tugali people of Sudan, an unreached group of 130,000 near the Nuba Mountains. Resources Mentioned: * Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper [https://amzn.to/42qUpZf] * The One Thing by Gary Keller [https://amzn.to/4ddfpro] * Tallyho the Fox by Herb Hodges [https://amzn.to/4dlxJ1L] * Joshua Project (joshuaproject.net) [https://joshuaproject.net/] =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media [http://flintstonemedia.com/] Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

Do You Want to Get Well?

In this episode, we walk through John 5:1–9, the story of Jesus healing the invalid at the pool of Bethesda. We explore why Jesus asked “Do you want to be healed?” and what it reveals about our tendency to grow comfortable in brokenness rather than face the cost of change. We also see similarities through neverthirst’s field work, where communities without clean water are asked if they’re willing to sacrifice for transformation. The episode closes with a spotlight on the Mubi people of Chad and a prayer for laborers to reach them with clean water and the gospel. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media [http://flintstonemedia.com/] Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

Faithfulness on the Front Lines: Praying for the Church Where Christ Is Not Yet Known

Spencer dives into Paul's prayer in Colossians 1:9–14. Drawing from a recent trip to Southeast Asia and conversations with neverthirst's programs team, Spencer reflects on what it means to pray for the global church...especially believers serving faithfully in remote, hard-to-reach areas where Christ is not yet known. He challenges listeners to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and bear fruit for His glory. The episode closes with prayer for neverthirst's church partners and for the Kanembu people of Chad, an unreached group of roughly one million with no known evangelical believers. Notable Quote: "The problem with the church today is not that there are too many people who are passionately in love with heaven... The problem is that professing Christians are spending 10 minutes reading scripture and then half their day making money and the other half enjoying and repairing what they spend it on. It is not heavenly-mindedness that hinders love. It is worldly-mindedness that hinders love, even when it is disguised by a religious routine on the weekend." — John Piper =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media [http://flintstonemedia.com/] Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

The Thirst Beneath the Thirst

Spencer opens this episode with a vivid memory from a 2010 field visit: trekking through elephant grass ten feet high, following two children to the muddy stream they relied on for water every day. That image becomes the lens for a central conviction: there is always a thirst beneath the thirst. Drawing from John 4 and the story of the woman at the well, Spencer walks through seven core desires that God places in every human heart, and why only Christ can fully satisfy them. He also explores why Neverthirst's water access work matters beyond the water itself, and how a community gaining clean water becomes an entry point for gospel conversations that simply weren't possible before. The episode closes with a prayer for the Cham people, an unreached people group of nearly half a million with no known believers. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org [https://neverthirstwater.org/] =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media [http://flintstonemedia.com/] Copyright of neverthirst 2025.