RG AUDIO 010721   Mark 1:21-34 Candee Michin was the scariest and most amazing band director of all times. In 7th grade I joined the Park Jr. High Marching Band and Candee was the director. She was authoritative and knew her stuff. You never doubted it. In moments where we were off task, she was […]

RG AUDIO 010621   Mark 1:9-20 Rachel’s wedding day had finally come and her dad stood next to Chad giving him some final words of wisdom. He leaned in and said, “Now she is my daughter and I have spoiled her, so if you want to get out of this, you better do it now.” […]

RG AUDIO 010521   Mark 1:1-8 In 2009 the Kuhn family worked on a convention center grounds in Arequipa, Peru. With three young boys in tow, Rachel and her husband did their best to get the place ready for the moment when over 5,000 people would come to the Lord. Their son Miles’ adventurous explorations […]

RG AUDIO 010421   Isaiah 40:1-8 Rachel is a West Virginia girl. She always has been and always will be, no matter what her address reads. It is her home and she adamantly adhere to the fact that it is the most beautiful place in the world. On a most recent trip from Ohio to […]

RG AUDIO 010321   Psalm 20:1-9 The concept of sanctuary becomes clearer when one stands in the medieval remnants of a fortress somewhere on the European continent. In the past, grain, water, vegetables, and other supplies would be stored within the high walls of the fortress. Sentries watched from the highest points and when invaders […]

RG AUDIO 010221   Joshua 24:19-28 The passage of time and the changing of culture all make it easy for us to read the words of Joshua to the Israelites and miss the weight of the situation. We may imagine his words to be an easy recipe for the abundant life that the Israelites stood […]

RG AUDIO 010121   Exodus 3:1-10 Across the countries of Eastern Europe where I live, one never enters a home without removing shoes. Shoes are staunchly prohibited in your own home and certainly in the home of another. As a guest, it would be a gross insult to bring the dirt, mess, and germs of […]

RG AUDIO 123120   1 Peter 2:11-25 In the time period of the early church, people of The Way—the followers of Christ—were believed to be heretical because they met to eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus. The accusations against those early believers were rampant and powerful, yet here is a word of […]

RG AUDIO 123020   1 Peter 2:1-10 Paul continues to breathe life and hope into a people who are marked for death by their choice to follow a living Christ. Each of us who are marked for death, both to sin and in these bodies, becomes a living testimony of the life that can only […]

RG AUDIO 122920   1 Peter 1:13-25 We are pulled and tempted and besotted by promises that lead us ever into a greater sin which is a loss of what it actually means to be fully human and fully alive. Early Church fathers explained the spiral of sin as a literal deterioration or loss of […]