RG AUDIO 061118   Jeremiah 7:1-11 The first days of basketball practice were always the toughest. There wasn’t a basketball in the whole gym. Instead, we filled our two-hour practice time with conditioning drills, running sprints, and doing push-ups. We groaned and whined. “Why are you here?” the coach yelled. Truthfully, I wanted esteem and […]

RG AUDIO 061018   Isaiah 30:8-18 Have you ever needed to be rescued from a difficult situation? Desperate times can move us toward solutions that are outside of God. Fear can drive us toward taking matters into our own hands to move toward a solution. Because honestly, waiting is hard. Most of us would have […]

RG AUDIO 060918   2 Timothy 2:14-26 Second Timothy 2 is such a timely verse for today. We live in a world of opponents—in sports, in politics, in the workplace, and in the classroom. Opposition is part of life, but how we deal with our opponents is the focus of our passage today. There are […]

RG AUDIO 060818   Acts 26:12-23 The first step in repentance is turning to God. Through God’s amazing prevenient grace, we are called to repentance, but the act itself is on us. Of course we are enabled by the power of the Holy Spirit to recognize God’s call in the first place! Once we decide […]

RG AUDIO 060718   Mark 1:1-13 When John was sent to prepare the way for Jesus, he preached “a baptism of repentance.” Before sins can be forgiven there must be repentance: a complete turning of heart and mind toward God. It is in the act of repentance that our hearts are primed for the work […]

RG AUDIO 060618   Jeremiah 3:21—4:4 In the days of Jeremiah, the people of Israel had gone down such a destructive path, that punishment was inevitable. Yet while preaching words of judgment for their idolatry, Jeremiah is also offering God’s words of hope. God is a God of judgment and justice, but he also works […]

RG AUDIO 060518   Jeremiah 2:10-19 Our actions are not free of consequences. When reading through Jeremiah 2, one thing may be hard to discern but is abundantly clear: God is grieved. God is absolutely exasperated with the decision of Israel to reject God’s love and leadership, even his very presence, for the temporal and […]

RG AUDIO 060418   Jeremiah 2:1-9 What happens when the newness wears off? The people of Israel started out being wholly devoted to God. It was new and fresh, and the feelings were strong. When the newness wears off, the decision must be made consciously to choose love regardless of feelings. Our life in Christ […]

RG AUDIO 060318   Proverbs 12:1-14 Television, social media, and politics thrive on character assassination and they revel in the failures of others. The hotter the scandal, the more it is covered. People used watched their words. Now however, we act as if words have no weight. The truth is that words mean things. Proverbs […]

RG AUDIO 060218   Acts 8:26-35 We are living in what is often called a post-Christian world. This simply means there are people who have no knowledge of God, except what they might get in the media. They are hungry for the Spirit but are looking in all of the wrong places. Culture today is […]