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Making It Home
RG AUDIO 071421 Ecclesiastes 3:12-22 Growing up in southeastern United States, songs about heaven were abundant both in and out of church. I couldn’t understand how people could be a hurry for...
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Collecting But Infecting
RG AUDIO 071521 Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 From baseball cards to Beanie Babies, collectible items have found a place of welcome in many homes. Some are inexpensive and fun, others interesting and...
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An Unforgettable Assurance
RG AUDIO 071621 Matthew 6:24-34 I’ve often considered Matthew 6:33 the pinnacle of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, the culminating point of His “inaugural address” describing the kingdom of God. Now my...
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An Unshakeable Confidence
RG AUDIO 071721 1 John 3:1-8 His name was Richard Gunn, but everyone called him Uncle Pek. He was Poet Laureate of Tennessee, but our church’s children just knew that he was a kind man who always...
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Brass Tacks and Bottom Lines
RG AUDIO 071821 Ecclesiastes 12:6-14 Perhaps the most challenging aspect of learning English as a second language can be understanding various idioms used to express meaning. Native English speakers...
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Enjoying The Giver
RG AUDIO 071921 Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 God is a loving Father who withholds no good thing from His children. Why, then, does the author of Ecclesiastes seem to suggest that God is responsible for evil?...
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Savoring The Moment
RG AUDIO 072021 Ecclesiastes 6:7-12 Our modern translations of the scriptures can often fail to capture the nuances of the original texts. In Ecclesiastes 6, the author seems to suggest that because...
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Clinging To Hope
RG AUDIO 072121 Habakkuk 3:10-19 Welcome to Reflecting God. We serve a holy God. His love is holy, His justice is holy, and even His anger is holy. God hates evil and the destruction it causes. He...
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The Real Thing
RG AUDIO 072221 John 10:1-10 For every good thing that God has made, humanity, under the influence of sin, has created a counterfeit. We trade genuine love for selfish lust, healthy desire for...
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Life In God
RG AUDIO 072321 John 17:1-10 Love requires an object. Love flows from our hearts and our hands into the lives of others. Love is the act of putting another before yourself. This is why Jesus said...
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Making Peace
RG AUDIO 072421 Ephesians 2:11-18 We live in an increasingly polarized world. Jesus warned that a day would come when things would get bad for the human race. In the past year, we have experienced a...
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Singing God’s Praises
RG AUDIO 072521 Psalm 84:1-12 Most people, even those who are not particularly religious, intuitively associate prayer with thanksgiving. “Thank you, God, for giving me food, shelter, a job, a car, a...
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We Lack Nothing
RG AUDIO 072621 Psalm 23:1-6 What a phenomenal and foundational truth we find in Psalm 23. God is our shepherd—we lack nothing. Yet, despite this colossal good news, how easy is it to forget this or...
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God’s Peace Steadies Us
RG AUDIO 072721 Psalm 119:153-168 There is a good chance that the society and culture in which you live have been experiencing what is called discontinuous change. This happens when there is a big...
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Trust God’s Guidance
RG AUDIO 072821 Isaiah 42:10-17 Do we really know where we’re going? Yes, if we’re going to the market. Yes, if we’re going to visit a relative. If there’s a place we’re trying to get to, if we don’t...
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Never Separated From God’s Love
RG AUDIO 072921 Romans 8:31-39 Some friends were in the Caribbean enjoying the breathtaking views of the sea from a boat. One of the men peered into the crystal-clear water and saw the sea floor. He...
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We Are Never Alone
RG AUDIO 073021 2 Corinthians 1:12-22 The apostle Paul, in one of his letters, talks about how the gift of faith (belief that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, that Christ died and rose again, removing...
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In Our Difficulties, God Comforts
RG AUDIO 073121 2 Corinthians 7:1-10 Sometimes, God blesses us by putting one or two persons in our life who become deep and meaningful means of grace. It might be simply their presence or their...
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God’s Grace Is Sufficient
RG AUDIO 080121 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 2 Corinthians 12 is the well-known “thorn in the flesh” passage from Paul that has captured much of our modern imagination. Just what was that thorn? It’s...
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God’s Target
RG AUDIO 080221 Nahum 1:1-8 God had a bull’s eye on the city of Nineveh. In Genesis 10 Nineveh was built by Nimrod. Nineveh was dedicated to Ishtar, the fertility goddess. In the Bible Ishtar is...
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