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We need to redeem the time as the passage in Ephesians 5 states BECAUSE the days are evil. It is vital as believers that we learn to discern. We need to acquire wisdom so we can walk in truth. Wisdom is word based and God given. We learn it from the word of God and ultimately from the God who gave us the Word. My brother Norman and I are going to be setting up a ministry and under this ministry umbrella we will establish a YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbros https://linktr.ee/rttbros

  1. 2 days ago

    Living for the Eternal #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 USA250 #NATION250

    Living for the Eternal #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 USA250 #NATION250 Living for the Eternal “...for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:18 THE STORY The final hours of Alexander Hamilton’s life were fought not on a battlefield or a political floor, but in the quiet chambers of his own soul. Following his fatal duel with Aaron Burr at Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11th, 1804, Hamilton was carried across the Hudson River to the home of a friend in Manhattan, where he lingered in agony for thirty-six hours. As the end drew near, the brilliant, combative architect of the American financial system completely lost interest in the temporal political battles that had consumed his adult life. He called for the Reverend Benjamin Moore, the Episcopal Bishop of New York, to administer Holy Communion. Hamilton drifted from the faith that had formed him and spent years living at a distance from the Father who saw him all along. And in his final hours, he turned toward home. The Father ran. The founding era was full of imperfect men. So is every era. What this story offers us, on the 250th anniversary of the nation Hamilton helped build, is the reminder that the God of the founding is the God of the last hour, still running toward those who turn toward home. THE REFLECTION Our daily routines are so often bound by the temporal—the tasks, the schedules, and the urgent demands of the visible world. Yet, true legacy is built when we look past the immediate and anchor our choices in what lasts beyond this life. Like Hamilton in his final hours, we are reminded that worldly achievements fade, but our relationship with the Father and the spiritual stewardship of our days endure eternally. When we align our daily selections with Kingdom values, the frantic pace of the temporal yields to the steady peace of the eternal. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER *Father, You are the God who runs. You do not wait for us to arrive clean and rehearsed and proven. You run while we are still a great way off, and we are so grateful for that. May no one who reads these words delay the turning. There is no distance too great for Your love to cover. Adjust our eyes to eternity today, Lord. Let our daily works reflect Your Kingdom, and help us to value what lasts beyond this life. In the name of Jesus Christ, who made the way home, Amen.* PRAY IT FORWARD Is there someone in your life who has drifted far from the Father? Pray for them today with the confidence of Luke 15, that the Father is already watching, already running, already ready to receive them. Ask God how your choices today can reflect eternal values rather than just temporal urgencies.

    2 min

  2. 4 days ago

    The Warning We Have Forgotten #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #America250 #Nation250

    The Warning We Have Forgotten #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #America250 #Nation250 The Warning We Have Forgotten "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock." — Matthew 7:24 THE STORY Washington knew it would happen. He said so publicly, and then spent the rest of his life watching it begin. His Farewell Address, delivered in September 1796, is one of the greatest documents in American history and one of the least read. His warning was specific and urgent: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." Not helpful additions. Indispensable supports. He went further: "In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness." A man who works to remove religion and morality from public life, Washington said, has no business calling himself a patriot. He warned against excessive partisanship, foreign entanglements, and the accumulation of national debt. He named the temptations that would always threaten the republic and warned against them with the plainness of a man who had nothing left to gain and only the truth left to give. He was ignored on nearly every point. Promptly and comprehensively. THE REFLECTION There is something almost unbearably poignant about a great man's farewell wisdom being set aside by the very people he served. Washington had earned the right to be heard. And the warning he left was grounded not in political theory but in lived conviction: without God, republics fall. Matthew 7:24 is the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount. The wise man builds on rock. The foolish man builds on sand. The difference between them is not intelligence or resources. It is whether they have heard Christ's words and done them. Washington was applying the same principle to a nation. Build on religion and morality and the storms will come and the house will stand. Remove those pillars and build on human cleverness, and the end is predictable. We have had two hundred and fifty years to test Washington's thesis. Every generation that has honored the pillars has prospered. Every generation that has subverted them has suffered. The warning was left for us. We still have time to hear it. THE PATRIOT'S PRAYER Lord, we confess that we have been among the generations that neglected the warning of the wise. We have allowed the pillars to be weakened, in our public life, in our schools, in our homes. We repent of the neglect and ask You to help us rebuild. Let this anniversary be not merely a celebration but a rededication, a return to the rock on which this nation was founded. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD What one thing can you do this week, in your home, your church, or your community, to strengthen the pillars of religion and morality that Washington called indispensable? Ask God to show you, and do it.

    3 min

  3. 5 days ago

    The Cost of the Signature #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #NATION250 #AMERICA250

    The Cost of the Signature #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 The Cost of the Signature "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost?" — Luke 14:28 THE STORY They knew what they were signing. The fifty-six men who placed their names on the Declaration of Independence were not acting on impulse. They were committing, in the plainest terms imaginable, an act of treason against the British Crown. The document itself acknowledged it — that to secure the rights they were declaring, they were pledging to each other "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Those were not empty words. Nine of the fifty-six died as a result of the war. Five were captured and imprisoned by the British and treated brutally. Twelve had their homes ransacked or burned. Two lost sons in the conflict. One had his wife imprisoned until she died. Richard Stockton of New Jersey was subjected to conditions so harsh that his health never recovered. He died before the war ended, having watched his estate plundered and his papers burned. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter, saw his ships seized by the British Navy and his fortune wiped out. He died in poverty. Francis Lewis of New York had his home destroyed and his wife taken prisoner. She was held in brutal conditions for months, never fully recovered her health, and died in 1779. They counted the cost. They signed anyway. And many of them paid exactly the price they had agreed to pay. THE REFLECTION Luke 14:28 is a verse about discipleship, not patriotism. Jesus uses the image of a man building a tower, the foolishness of beginning a project without calculating whether you have the resources to finish it. The point is not that the cost should discourage us. The point is that we should count it honestly before we commit, and then, having committed, be prepared to pay it. The signers counted the cost. What they could not have counted was what their sacrifice would produce, a nation that two hundred and fifty years later still stands as the longest-running experiment in constitutional self-government in human history. That is what sacrifices made in the right cause tend to produce. Not always visible results. Not always gratitude. Not always survival. But something that outlasts the sacrifice itself. We owe these men more than a holiday. We owe them the same honest reckoning they made: the counting of what faithfulness to this inheritance will cost us, and the willingness to pay it. The freedoms we enjoy were not free. They were signed for with blood and honor and the quiet death of men whose names we have largely forgotten. Remember them today. And count your own cost.

    3 min

  4. 5 days ago

    Not Only A Sword #NIGHTLIGHT #RTTBROS #holyspirit #God #Christ

    Not Only A Sword #NIGHTLIGHT #RTTBROS #holyspirit #God #Christ

    29 min

  5. 19 Jun

    "The Author of the First Amendment," #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250

    "The Author of the First Amendment," #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 The Author of the First Amendment "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." — 2 Timothy 3:16-17 The Story Almost nobody remembers who actually wrote the First Amendment. James Madison proposed it. The House and Senate debated it. But the man who crafted the final wording was Fisher Ames of Massachusetts. Fisher Ames was a congressman, a lawyer, and a man of strong Christian conviction. And he believed, with a certainty that would astonish modern interpreters of the First Amendment, that the Bible should be the foundational textbook of American education. "Why should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book?" he wrote. "Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble." The Amendment he helped write was intended to prevent the establishment of a national denomination, not to make America religiously neutral. The author of the First Amendment wanted the Bible in every schoolroom in America. The Reflection The distance between what Fisher Ames intended and what the First Amendment has been interpreted to require in our own day is a measure of how far we have traveled from the founding. The men who wrote the Constitution were not trying to build a secular republic. They were trying to prevent the entanglement of state power with a specific ecclesiastical institution. That is a very different thing from removing faith from public life. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 was not a disputed text for the founders. It was a settled conviction. Scripture was profitable, practically useful, for building the kind of citizens a free republic required. When we removed the Book, we removed the foundation. The First Amendment protects the right to preach the gospel. The man who wrote it hoped we would. The Patriot's Prayer Lord, Your Word is profitable for this nation as much as for our souls. We confess that we have allowed Scripture to be driven from the places where it once shaped the minds of a free people. Restore a love for Your Word in the homes, schools, and hearts of this nation. Begin with us. May our own reverence for Scripture be so deep that those who watch our lives cannot miss it. In Jesus' name, Amen. Pray It Forward How deeply is Scripture embedded in your daily life, not just in devotional minutes, but in your decisions, your conversations, your parenting? Ask God to show you where the Book needs more room.

    3 min

  6. 17 Jun

    The Chief Justice’s Open Bible #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250

    The Chief Justice’s Open Bible #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250 The Chief Justice’s Open Bible “"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” — Psalm 119:105 THE STORY John Jay is one of the most important and most forgotten men of the founding era. He co-authored the Federalist Papers alongside Hamilton and Madison. He served as the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Washington himself. He was a diplomat, a governor, a statesman of the first rank. And he was, without qualification or apology, a committed Christian who made no separation between his public life and his personal faith. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers," Jay declared, "and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. Jay served as president of the American Bible Society. He believed that the Bible was the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. The first Chief Justice of the United States spent his final years distributing Bibles. THE REFLECTION There is a tendency in our time to divide the founding era between religious founders and secular founders. John Jay will not cooperate with that narrative. Here was a man at the absolute center of America's legal and political founding, the first interpreter of the Constitution, and he believed that the Bible was the foundational text for human happiness. He said it publicly, repeatedly, without embarrassment. What he models for us is something rarer than political savvy: the integration of faith and public life without apology. He did not have a public faith and a private faith. He had one faith, and he carried it everywhere. Psalm 119:105 was not a decorative verse for John Jay. It was an operating principle. The Word of God was the lamp by which he navigated the most consequential legal questions of the new nation. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Lord, we thank You for men who carried Your Word into every room, the courtroom, the congress, the cabinet, without shame and without compartmentalization. Forgive us for the faith we have kept private when it should have been public. Let Your Word be a lamp to our feet in every room we enter today, not just the sacred ones. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Is there a room in your life, a workplace, a relationship, a role you occupy, where you have left your faith at the door? Ask God for the courage to carry it in.

    3 min

  7. 16 Jun

    The Preacher Behind the Constitution #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250

    The Preacher Behind the Constitution #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250 The Preacher Behind the Constitution “"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” — Jeremiah 17:9 THE STORY James Madison arrived at the Constitutional Convention with a plan. He had spent the winter of 1786 to 1787 reading every book he could find on the history of governments. He studied them as a diagnostician, trying to understand why human governments so reliably collapse into tyranny or anarchy. His conclusion was thoroughly biblical: the problem is human nature. People in power abuse it. Majorities oppress minorities. Madison's genius was in designing a system that took human sin seriously as a structural assumption. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. Federalism. Each element of the Constitution reflects a deep suspicion of concentrated human authority. Madison had learned this from a Presbyterian minister. John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, was president of the College of New Jersey when Madison was a student. The Father of the Constitution was, in a real sense, the student of a preacher. THE REFLECTION Jeremiah 17:9 is not a comfortable verse. The heart is deceitful above all things. Desperately wicked. This is the anthropology of Scripture, which takes the Fall seriously. Madison took it seriously. His Constitution was built for fallen people living in a fallen world, which is exactly why it has lasted longer than any comparable governing document in history. It does not assume the best about human nature. It builds in safeguards for the worst. The irony is beautiful: the most successful secular governing document in human history works precisely because it was designed around a profoundly biblical understanding of human nature. We live in an age that has recovered the Enlightenment's optimism about human nature, the belief that people given enough education will reliably choose good. History has not been kind to that view. Scripture has always been honest about it. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Lord, You know the heart better than we know ourselves, and we are grateful that You do not leave us to our own devices. We thank You for the wisdom You gave to the framers of this Constitution, wisdom that looked honestly at human nature and built accordingly. Forgive us for the ways we have trusted in our own goodness rather than Your grace. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Ask God today to show you an area of your own heart where you have been trusting in your own goodness rather than His grace, and receive His honest assessment with humility.

    3 min

  8. 15 Jun

    The Quill and the Covenant #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250

    The Quill and the Covenant #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250 “"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” — Romans 13:1 THE STORY Jefferson agonized over every word. The Declaration of Independence went through multiple drafts, multiple committees, and multiple rounds of debate. Jefferson was frustrated by many of the changes, most famously the removal of his condemnation of the slave trade, which the Southern delegates refused to allow. But there was one phrase that survived every draft unchanged. One phrase that Jefferson never reconsidered, never revised, and never removed. Endowed by their Creator." The rights of man, in Jefferson's Declaration, do not come from Parliament or from the goodwill of kings. They come from God. They are not granted by governments and therefore cannot be permanently taken by governments. They are inalienable because they are divine. Every government that has ever tried to permanently crush human freedom has had to reckon with those three words. Rights that come from God cannot be finally extinguished by men. THE REFLECTION Romans 13 has always been a difficult passage for readers who want an easy relationship between faith and politics. Paul's instruction that governing authorities are ordained of God was written under the Roman Empire. Power comes from God. All of it. Even the power of kings and tyrants is derivative, borrowed, contingent, accountable. The Declaration of Independence, read through this lens, is not a rejection of Romans 13. It is an application of it. When a government acts in direct contradiction to the source of its authority, the covenant is broken from above, not below. The Founders understood this. Their quarrel was not with the idea of government. It was with a government that had forgotten its accountability to God. Two hundred and fifty years later, the words still stand. "Endowed by their Creator." Three words that have outlasted every empire, every ideology, every philosopher who tried to replace them. They will outlast ours as well. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Creator God, we acknowledge that every right we possess is a gift from You, not a political achievement, not an accident of history, but a divine endowment. Forgive us when we have acted as though our freedom is self-generated or self-sustaining. We hold these truths because You are the Truth-giver. Guard them in our generation and in the generation that follows. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Thank God today specifically for one freedom you possess, religious, political, or personal, that you most often take for granted. Ask Him to help you steward it faithfully.

    3 min
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We need to redeem the time as the passage in Ephesians 5 states BECAUSE the days are evil. It is vital as believers that we learn to discern. We need to acquire wisdom so we can walk in truth. Wisdom is word based and God given. We learn it from the word of God and ultimately from the God who gave us the Word. My brother Norman and I are going to be setting up a ministry and under this ministry umbrella we will establish a YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbros https://linktr.ee/rttbros

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  • Creator
    Gene Kissinger
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    2k
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    © Gene Kissinger
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