RG AUDIO 090419   Acts 2:25-36 A story can be unbelievable, unless you have an eye-witness. The significance of a witness can change someone’s story from a fairytale to solid fact. Don’t believe the “tall tale” you child just shared but if she brings along a credible witness it’s suddenly all plausible. The events leading […]

RG AUDIO 090319   Acts 2:14-24 Speaking the same language does not automatically mean you will be understood. In Acts 2 we learn that the Holy Spirit enabled the believers at Pentecost to be able to speak in a variety of languages. This miracle made it possible for the diversity of people in Jerusalem to […]

RG AUDIO 090219   Acts 2:1-13 Mark studied Spanish in high school. Despite the time that has passed between his Spanish classes and now, he still strikes up conversations with Spanish speakers whenever he can. During these conversations, usually the person will look at his wife Stefanie and say something in Spanish. Unfortunately, her high […]

RG AUDIO 090119   Psalm 143:1-12 David spent a good deal of time running and hiding from King Saul. One of his most reliable places of refuge was in the Judean wilderness. This barren territory was largely unoccupied. In the Lord David found a refuge for his soul. Not all of his challenges were geographical. […]

RG AUDIO 083119   Acts 1:12-22 Has anything good ever come out of a church meeting whose sole purpose wasn’t prayer? A friend pastored a church that had monthly congregational business meetings. These meetings had an open agenda. Any member could ask any question or make any statement they wished. The pastor lamented that nowhere […]

RG AUDIO 083019   Acts 1:1-11 A cold wind shook the funeral pavilion. The tarp flapped and the ropes tugged against their pegs, seemingly anxious to flee the gale. Soon to be frozen flowers bent to the wind as garish green carpet covered the frozen ground; frail harbingers of a distant spring. A wife, daughters, […]

RG AUDIO 082919   John 14:15-26 I remember a schoolroom. It was the beginning of the sixth grade. I was a new student in a new school in a new town. There were nearly 40 students, in two grades. About 25 fifth graders and the rest sixth grade. I sat in the last desk in […]

RG AUDIO 082819   John 1:24-34 John was the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind. Unlike the proverb, instead of making him king some wanted to brand him a crazed, deluded, even dangerous prophet. Yet, many came to him and believed his testimony of “He who comes after me” (John 1:15). John’s baptism […]

RG AUDIO 082719   Joel 2:23-32 A locust plague, more devastating than any in memory, scoured and scarred Judah like a vast invading army. Fields, pastures, orchards, and vineyards were stripped and dying. Where was God? “Exactly,” Joel seems to say. “Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. […]

RG AUDIO 082619   Isaiah 42:1-9 We tend to think of power as force, authority, or influence. We often look for it in the realms of technological, military, financial, or political might. God’s servant, as revealed in Isaiah 42, displays a power so contrary to our expectations that we are not sure it qualifies to […]