RG AUDIO 041719   2 Corinthians 3:7-18 Have you ever played with Russian nesting dolls? The dolls have a top and a bottom that you take apart to find another doll inside. As a child, they seemed to go on forever. It’s a gift that keeps on giving. Salvation is also like that: there is […]

RG AUDIO 041619   Ephesians 3:14-21 At times life seems difficult to bear, the light at the end of the tunnel is impossible to see, you feel overwhelmed and under qualified. Even then, God favors you! God has made a way for you to be strengthened because He loves you. God loves us so much […]

RG AUDIO 041519   Ephesians 2:1-10 I tell my kids there is nothing they could do to make me love them more and there is nothing they could do to make me love them less. I just love them. They have my free and unmerited favor—grace. Just like my kids, we have free and unmerited […]

RG AUDIO 041419   Psalm 51:9-17 The sermons or devotions I’ve heard on this passage generally focus on the phrase “restore to me the joy of your salvation” (v. 12a). It is a key part of this verse, but as I read this passage again, the part that stood out to me was “grant me […]

RG AUDIO 041319   1 Peter 1:1-9 It is easy to think about new birth around Easter. In the Northern Hemisphere it is spring. New life is bursting forth all around. Trees are blossoming; flowers are blooming. It is a time of natural renewal. New life is all around. But sometimes even in the spring, […]

RG AUDIO 041219   Acts 6:1-7 The pastor sat in her office with the door closed. Anyone passing by, looking through the window, would have thought her deep in prayer, but her bowed head was not in humble prayer but in utter defeat from the load of ministry she had been carrying. In a living […]

RG AUDIO 041119   Acts 2:29-41 The hills and valleys of the Kingdom of Swaziland echoed with a voice of man crying, “Phendukani! Repent!”. As a child, I often heard stories of Harmon Schmelzenbach walking through the bush, calling people to repentance. To this day, “repent” sounds like “phendukani” in my mind. Peter was Schmelzenbach’s […]

RG AUDIO 041019   John 11:17-27 Sometimes the truth of the Gospel can be a bit old to our ears. If we’ve been in the Church for more than a couple of years, it is easy to start to forget that first burst of energy and excitement we felt hearing the Gospel through the Spirit […]

RG AUDIO 040919   Luke 8:40-48 Although electricity is fairly inexpensive where I live, we have frequent power cuts. It is not uncommon in the developing world for there to be regular, planned blackouts as well as unscheduled blackouts. In those times, we are all looking for alternative sources of power. In the case of […]

RG AUDIO 040819   Ephesians 1:15-23 Our world is obsessed with power. Who has it? Who does not? Where can I get it? A short time of watching the news and you will see plenty of examples of power and how it has gone wrong. Movies, television shows, documentaries, and social media are rife with […]