The Choice Is Not Justice or Righteousness
RG Audio 053122 Psalm 45:1-7 We want God to defend us, fight for us, clear a path for us (God can and will!). Yet, God wants us to pursue and love truth, humility, justice, and righteousness. God is...
View ArticleRisking Boldness
RG AUDIO 060122 Acts 4:5-12 Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus! He was crucified by a sinful system and world, but God raised Him from the dead! These words must be shouted from the...
View ArticleEternal Life for the Persecuted
RG AUDIO 060222 Hebrews 1:10—2:4 Have you ever panicked at just how long eternity is? I did, when I was a child. Death and hell sounded bad, but there was a certain way in which eternity sounded . ....
View ArticleFaith Is Action
RG AUDIO 060322 Hebrews 11:1-7 “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). Too often, we reduce faith to some sort of individualized, internalized...
View ArticleBeing Honest About the Part God has Created Us to Be
RG AUDIO 060422 1 Corinthians 12:12-20 Which part of the body are you? I suspect that healthy discipleship involves a radical honesty to this question. We all are called to play our part, but if God...
View ArticleThe Armor of God is Defense
RG AUDIO 060522 Ephesians 6:10-18 Armor is tactical defense. No one armors up for offense. Armor is used to withstand. This is not to say that the armored up do not have an offensive plan, but the...
View ArticleThree Words
RG AUDIO 060622 Hebrews 2:5-13 There are three words you’ve likely never noticed that convey the unfathomable width of God’s love for the world and the incomprehensible depth of God’s love for you:...
View ArticleIn God’s Image
RG AUDIO 060722 Genesis 1:26-31 What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Some say, “It means we carry a spark of God about with us everywhere we go.” Others say, “It means our...
View ArticleBold Assumptions
RG AUDIO 060822 2 Corinthians 4:1-10 Paul makes a bold assumption that carries with it the weight of expectation when he writes to us believers. You see, when Paul writes to followers of Jesus, he...
View ArticleAssured Love
RG AUDIO 060922 Hebrews 2:14—3:6 Jesus spat. I’d prefer to deny it, except that the gospels mention it often, almost as if they knew we would recoil at the sheer humanness of such an act. Jesus—who...
View ArticleWho I Really Am
RG AUDIO 061022 Romans 6:1-10 “This isn’t like you,” my mother said to me when I was seven years old, after I confessed to stealing my sister’s favorite toy. She’s right, I thought as I sat with my...
View ArticleIn Awesome Wonder
RG AUDIO 061122 Psalm 8:1-9 We who live in an age of space exploration and unprecedented knowledge still marvel at the incalculability of a starry night. We’re brought low by the titanic...
View ArticleCrucified With Christ
RG AUDIO 061222 Revelation 12:7-12 How is the devil defeated, do you think? Through the strength of Christian conviction or confronting sin? By maintaining loyalty to the holy land? By quoting...
View ArticleLearning By Example
RG AUDIO 061322 Hebrews 3:7-19 Who has most significantly influenced your spiritual formation? The first person to come to your mind is probably a parent, teacher, coach, coworker, or possibly a...
View ArticleToday
RG AUDIO 061422 Hebrews 4:1-7 When was the last time you thought about the power of “today”? We often dream about the potential power of tomorrow. There is no power in tomorrow because tomorrow is...
View ArticleTraining Partners
RG AUDIO 061522 Hebrews 4:8-13 There’s an old African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” As a distance runner, I’ve found this to be true. I’ve...
View ArticleLooking in the Mirror
RG AUDIO 061622 James 1:19-27 Imagine a world without any mirrors. There is no way to fix your hair before you walk outside. You have no way to make sure that your tie is straight or that your teeth...
View ArticleAt Rest in His Presence
RG AUDIO 061722 1 John 4:16-24 It’s easy to allow our hearts to become heavy with the weight of all the ways we fall short in life. The task we left unfinished. The unkind word we let slip from our...
View ArticleAnother Advocate
RG AUDIO 061822 John 14:15-24 Wouldn’t it be great if we could have Jesus with us all the time? You know, like the first disciples did. If you found yourself struggling with a decision, all you’d...
View ArticleCraving Peace
RG AUDIO 061922 John 14:25-31 Just like people experience physical cravings for sugar, salt, and coffee, people experience spiritual cravings. Cravings for things like love, acceptance, and peace....
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