RG AUDIO 121820   1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Grab a pencil, let’s make a list together. Ready? I want you to list all the times that the love of God has failed you. Yes, I know, and you know that God’s perfect love is incapable of ever failing anyone. However, I’d like for us to really […]

RG AUDIO 121720   Luke 10:25-37 Teachers answer a lot of questions. Many are routine and repetitious; others are so far off in left field that one can’t help but wonder where the young minds come up with such inquiries. As a teacher, Jesus fielded a lot of questions as well. I believe some of […]

RG AUDIO 121620   1 John 4:11-21 Humans enjoy being challenged. People train for marathons, take advanced classes, play thought-provoking games, among other challenges, simply because they enjoy pushing themselves beyond where they are now. Jesus issued humanity a challenge in Luke 6. He told us to treat others as we would want to be […]

RG AUDIO 121520   1 John 4:11-21 I’m guilty—and I bet some of you are as well. I confess to hiding snacks that I am not interested in sharing or that I might consider sharing on a case-by-case basis. I’m certainly not going to let my caramel filled chocolate, for example, be pillaged freely by […]

RG AUDIO 121420   1 John 4:1-10 Generic substitutions of a product can be a wonderful money saver. I buy a lot of generics and I imagine I’m not alone in this practice. However, now and then there are specific product clones that simply don’t measure up to the original item and it’s worth it […]

RG AUDIO 121320   Romans 5:12-21 Like it or not, we are defined by our past, both personal and generational. The story of Adam is our story as we experience brokenness, separation, and death because of the destructive nature of sin at work in our lives. The brokenness we experience today is, at least in […]

RG AUDIO 121220   Hebrews 4:8-16 The disobedience of the Israelites was what led them to miss out on the rest offered to them by God. They ignored the judgment of God’s Word, which penetrates deeply into every human heart. This passage challenges the readers to allow that judgment to examine every motive of their […]

RG AUDIO 121120   Acts 6:1-8 Though the beginning of Acts 6 focuses on Stephen, the servant and eventual martyr of the early church, within the verses we find the story of a people who recognized the value of serving the voiceless in their community. The early church understood the importance of leadership, of course, […]

RG AUDIO 121020   John 1:9-18 Any time we wonder what God is like, all we must do is look at the Word. But the Word is not a book—the Word is a person. John tells us that Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. Jesus is everything God wanted to tell us about […]

RG AUDIO 120920   Proverbs 3:27-35 Isn’t it fascinating how easy it is to jump into harmful actions, and to wait to engage in helpful ones? We often seem to spend hours or days deferring our compassion for our neighbors, waiting until just the right moment—but when something sparks our outrage, we are quick to […]