RG032322   Psalm 34:1-7 A couple of years ago, a husband lost his job unexpectedly. He and his wife were caring for another family in their home, in addition to their young son, and his wife was pregnant with their second child. It was an overwhelming and fearful time for them. The wife sat weeping […]

RG032222   Psalm 27:7-14 People have shared with me that being forsaken by someone who was supposed to love you, be it a spouse, a parent, or a close friend, creates a grief more painful than a grief caused by death. The pain of having someone choose to walk away from you generates an incredibly […]

RG032122   Psalm 27:1-6 I’ve never had an army advance against me, but I do know what it is like to be afraid. I do know what it is to watch the world change around me in an instant due to death and disease. I’ve never encountered enemies in the ways of the Psalmist, but […]

RG032022   1 John 1:5—2:2 Have you ever, perhaps as a less-than-mature and thrill-seeking teenager, been driving down a poorly lit and deserted country road, when a friend in the passenger’s seat suggests turning off the headlights just to see how dark it is? Those of us who have, know how disorienting and even terrifying […]

RG031922   James 5:13-20 Jessica was five years old. The tears were just beginning to well up in her eyes when she saw her mom. She had only been lost in the supermarket for about three minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. Her mother had been engaged in conversation with a friend from church […]

RG031822   Ephesians 4:25-32 When Paul wrote his letter to the followers who had gathered themselves together into the various newly formed Christian churches in cities like Ephesus and Corinth, he often advised them to remember that they were, in a very real sense, the body of Christ that was to be poured out for […]

RG031722   Proverbs 28:11-18 Proverbs 28:13 tells us, “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,” and it is certainly true that unconfessed iniquity can haunt our lives and hinder us from the fullness of life that God intends for us. But this need not be the case; as verse 13 continues, “the one who confesses […]

RG031622   Psalm 103:1-12 How many of us have walked into a room and forgotten why, what we were looking for, or what we had intended to do there? It is a helpless feeling to be unable to remember something, to retrieve some information from the depths of our minds, and this is why the […]

RG031522   Psalm 32:6-11 When the Underground Railroad helped enslaved African-Americans find their way out of bondage, they didn’t just lead them to the edge of the slave-holder’s property, but they guided them on the remainder of their journeys through fields and forests, over rocks and through rivers until they found rest in a safer […]

RG031422   Psalm 32:1-5 Guilt hurts. This is not only true in a spiritual sense, but medical science has also long known of the detrimental effects, both mentally and physically, of hidden iniquity. The Psalmist portrays the symptoms of the sickness of sin in vivid detail: “when I kept silent, my bones wasted away” (vv. […]