RG AUDIO 102918   Deuteronomy 29:1-15 Growing up, I can remember hearing people on television, and sometimes even in my own church, presenting a concept of God that was very simple. God gives rules. You keep those rules. You go to Heaven. Easy peasy, right? If I acted a certain way, I was golden. The […]

RG AUDIO 102818   Psalm 136:1-18 Human beings can be very limited in our thinking. Our concept of time, for example, is very limited. We general think of time as having a starting and a stopping point such as morning and evening, or life and death. This can get in the way of us understanding […]

RG AUDIO 102718   1 Corinthians 11:17-26 Paul understood, and wanted the church in Corinth to understand, that when it comes to the sacraments, we (the Church) are saying something. As the word sacrament indicates, communion is sacred—it is dedicated to a specific purpose. It should be done with reverence and (equally important) in unity. […]

RG AUDIO 102618   Matthew 26:17-30 The Lord’s Supper has long been a powerful sacrament that Church partakes together. We celebrate Jesus’ last supper with His disciples. They were celebrating the Passover. This supper happened thousands of years ago. At the time, the Passover had happened thousands of years ago, yet their impact on the […]

RG AUDIO 102518   2 Samuel 6:12-23 David’s undignified worship of God is more than just an exuberant display. It was also a show of his priorities. There are so many things in this life that we are tempted to falsely put our faith in from possessions to political parties. Too often we are brought […]

RG AUDIO 102418   Deuteronomy 16:13-22 I have friends who not only celebrate and make a big deal out of their birthdays but also out of the week leading up to their birthdays. For them, their birthday weeks should be filled with various forms of celebration culminating with the actual day of their birth. I […]

RG AUDIO 102318   Deuteronomy 16:1-12 In reading through the Holy Scriptures, it is hard to miss the fact that time and time again, God has shown grace and love to God’s people. We are given a large record of women and men who experience God’s grace, peace, wisdom, and intervention over and over again. […]

RG AUDIO 102218   Exodus 15:1-18 In today’s world, it can be easy lose hope. It feels like we just can’t catch a break. We can find ourselves in a funk. Nothing seems to give us hope. There can be any number in internal or external things that leave us feeling like the world is […]

RG AUDIO 102118   Isaiah 50:1-11 I am reminded by the prophet Isaiah that we are never condemned to a faithless state. He speaks of a God who opens eyes and renews. It can seems quite hopeless at times to trust the Lord and there are times when we give into despair, but we are […]

RG AUDIO 102018   Numbers 14:36-45 What we see in Numbers 14 is the people of God falling because they failed to be holy as God is holy. One thing we discover about holiness is it is more than simple obedience. When we talk about sanctification we are not talking simply about begrudgingly obeying God […]