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Fair Judge
RG AUDIO 031621 Romans 2:9-16 It has been said that the ground is level at the foot of the cross. As we walk through the season of Lent, we should all take a penitential posture. Apart from God’s...
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Our Lives Reflect
RG AUDIO 031721 Romans 2:17-24 There is a great weight upon those who teach and preach to be certain they speak the truth and point people toward God’s paths of righteousness. Yet we should pay close...
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God Is Always Faithful
RG AUDIO 031821 Romans 2:25-29 Pastor Carol received a frantic call from the father of a newborn son. “Pastor, come quickly to the hospital! They are about to circumcise the baby. We need you to do...
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Good Fruit Inspectors
RG AUDIO 031921 Matthew 7:1-6 This may come as a shock but the Sermon on the Mount teaches us to make good judgments while strongly admonishing us not to be judgmental. We are not to take the role of...
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Do, Know, Be
RG AUDIO 032021 2 Timothy 4:1-8 The second habit of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is: “Begin with the end in mind.” This applies to any project, and our lives as well. In 2 Timothy 4,...
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Leave It To God
RG AUDIO 032121 Hebrews 10:26-35 To avenge means to retaliate, punish, redress, revenge, or even the score. God says that it is His to avenge. He will repay. Yet the human temptation is to take...
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Hopeless Without Him
RG AUDIO 032221 Romans 3:9-20 During the week of Palm Sunday, we often reflect on the exciting events of the day. The cheers of “Hosanna” and the waving of palm fronds. The people of Jerusalem were...
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God Is So Good
RG AUDIO 032231 Romans 3:21-31 Paul reminds us that the gift of salvation is for everyone to receive and embrace, the Jew and the Gentile. There is no age, gender, or nationality that can bring us...
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Trust and Obey
RG AUDIO 032421 Romans 4:1-12 Abraham is one of the most famous men in the Bible. He is the first patriarch. Abraham is the grandfather of the Jacob, who became known as Israel. The Jewish lineage...
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Hope Well-Placed
RG AUDIO 032521 Romans 4:13-25 God kept every promise He made to Abraham. As outlandish and impossible as those promises may have seemed, God kept them all. Abraham could trust that God would never...
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One Person Can
RG AUDIO 032621 Romans 5:12-21 When faced with the challenges of life, we can often feel overwhelmed and insignificant. We may feel powerless to bring solutions to the problem. Can one person make a...
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See it Different
RG AUDIO 032721 John 3:28-36 It’s easy to think about Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross through our human perspective. We often think about Jesus as the “perfect God-man” but today’s scripture passage...
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Victory
RG AUDIO 032821 Hebrews 5:1-10 It’s hard to obey sometimes. If you have ever been a caregiver to a tiny human, you know that truth. Obedience can be very difficult. We like to be in control. We like...
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Whole-Hearted Devotion
RG AUDIO 032921 Romans 6:1-14 The definition of death in a conceptual form is that it is the irreversible cessation of organismic function and the irreversible loss of personhood*. Quite simply, it...
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Eternal Faith
RG AUDIO 033021 Romans 6:15-23 Fifty years ago, Derl officiated his first funeral service. Last week, in retirement, he officiated another one. Between that first funeral fifty years ago and the last...
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When Life Begins
RG AUDIO 033121 Acts 2:31-41 Life begins when I repent of my sins. This repentance includes a summons to a personal, absolute, and unconditional surrender to God as Lord of my life. This is sewn...
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Power of the Spirit
RG 040121 Acts 11:11-18 Jesus comes to transform our lives through the grace, mercy, and power of the resurrection. He literally makes us a new creation ready for heaven. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit...
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Cups of Cold Water
RG 040221 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 I traveled in a mission group while in college. We sang, preached, taught Sunday School classes, held kid’s meetings and more for the cause of missions in local...
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Journey of Faith
RG 040321 Galatians 2:15-21 While traveling in Brazil, my wife and I met a minister. His story of faith touched our hearts. As a teen he and his girlfriend (now wife) became involved in drugs, but...
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In Our Place
RG 040421 Hebrews 10:8-18 Writer J. N. Greene* tells the story of a tribe of Seneca Indians who lived around the Niagara Falls in the 1800s. They had a custom of making an offering to appease the god...
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