RG AUDIO 040218   Exodus 15:18-27 Freedom after generations of slavery is no match for three days of thirst. You might even say real thirst can test your faith. It would be easy to call out the Israelites’ faithlessness. All too easily they turned from rejoicing to questioning the goodness of the God they had […]

RG AUDIO 040118   Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 I am certain I am not alone in singing the words of Ecclesiastes 3 to the tune of the popular 60s song. The tune stays with you and powerfully conveys a message of hope. Life is not just the bad times, but a mixture of seasons of good and […]

RG AUDIO 033118   John 20:19-31 “Peace be with you.” The Disciples are huddled together, scared and uncertain of what may happen next. Mary had been to the tomb and was certain that Jesus was alive. Mary and the other women were so certain of His resurrection. They probably had told the story of their […]

RG AUDIO 033018   John 20:11-18 Death has been defeated! Jesus Christ is risen! Mary experienced the risen Christ and all she could do was “cling” to Him. The fear, the desperation, the hopelessness and doubt all were gone. Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was alive and before her! Her joy was not […]

RG AUDIO 032918   John 11:28-37 Sometimes we rush right past sections of Scripture without really considering the meaning of the text. Jesus is recorded in other places as being indignant, angry, filled with compassion, but here He weeps. The text says he was “deeply moved in spirit and troubled” (v. 33). This kind of […]

RG AUDIO 032818   John 11:1-16 “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” (John 11:25). In this simple, yet world altering pronouncement, Jesus begins to turn Martha’s world upside-down. She believed in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, and she seemed […]

RG AUDIO 032718   John 11:1-16 In John 10 Jesus asserts that “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand” (v. 28). Then Jesus proves His power and equality with God as a witness to the Disciples and to all believers throughout time. “Seeing […]

RG AUDIO 032618   Matthew 27:45-56 One of the most human of emotions is loneliness. Christianity teaches us that we were made for communion with the triune God and at best incomplete outside of that relationship. I remember being three and waking up from my nap to what I thought was an empty house. The […]

RG AUDIO 032518   1 John 3:11-24 African societies have long-been communal in nature. As Western ideals and greed creeps in, this is dying off or being warped for material gain. Traditionally, however, the community would gather to care for one another in times of death or financial burden, or to celebrate with each other […]

RG AUDIO 032418   2 Corinthians 1:1-11 When Rachelle was eight months pregnant with her first child, she sat with a friend who was seven months pregnant with her long-awaited first child, as she mourned the sudden loss of her husband to a heart attack the day after Christmas. It was horror compounded on horror. […]