RG AUDIO 050517   Psalm 111:1-10 Traffic lights have impressive influence. Of course, they are only doing what they have been programed to do by the engineers who created them. All the same, millions of drivers obey their colorful commands. Three simple colors: green, yellow and red, control traffic flow and bring order out of […]

RG AUDIO 050417   Psalm 32:1-11 “Whodunit?” is the underlying question of every good mystery. However, one very popular television series turned that familiar storyline completely around. Instead of the viewers waiting until the end to find out who did it, each episode of Columbo began by allowing the viewers to see the crime take […]

RG AUDIO 050317   2 Kings 5:19b-27 On several occasions, while making pastoral calls in hospitals, I have had to “suit up” to limit exposure to or the spread of an infectious illness. The suit not only protects the visitor from contracting the patient’s illness, it also reduces the possibility of exposing the patient, who […]

RG AUDIO 050217   2 Kings 5:11-19a Naaman’s impressive list of credentials as commander of the king of Aram’s army seemed to be overshadowed by the one thing in his life over which he was powerless. Leprosy changed the rules of warfare for this highly-regarded valiant soldier. Naaman now found himself fighting a battle he […]

RG AUDIO 050117   2 Kings 5:1-10 In 2 Kings 5, we learn of a young girl taken from her home against her will. She was carried to a foreign land as a prisoner of war and forced to serve as a personal aide to the wife of the commander of the very army that […]

RG AUDIO 043017   Proverb 19:1-11 If I had my way, when the occasion called for a meal out, the choice would always be Chinese. My wife, on the other hand, doesn’t care for Chinese food, except for the fortune cookie. We always laugh at the pithy sayings that come on that slip of paper […]

RG AUDIO 042917   Psalm 19:7-14 The acronym, GIGO, is computer science terminology for the phrase, “garbage in, garbage out,” implying that bad input will result in bad output. Nowhere is this as true as when it applies to our personal Scripture intake. It has been said that a car mechanic wouldn’t be a car […]

RG AUDIO 042817   Daniel 9:1-19 How can anyone read Daniel’s prayer in Daniel 9 and not agonize with him over the plight of his beloved, yet wayward people? How often do we watch or read the news and lament over the condition of our country and world? Daniel’s story is one of great bravery […]

RG AUDIO 042717   2 Kings 9:30-37 It’s difficult to read 2 Kings 9 without feeling at the very least sorry for the person Queen Jezebel had become. Certainly, as a child she didn’t grow up imagining that she would become an enemy of God. Yet, here she is on the pages of Scripture, with […]

RG AUDIO 042617   1 Kings 21:15-29 To understand the fury that is leveled toward Queen Jezebel and King Ahab, we must go back and read 1 Kings 18. In verse 4, we read that Queen Jezebel was persecuting and “killing off the LORD’s prophets” (v. 4). With this, we can begin to understand the […]