On beginning again: Finding your Rhythm in a New Season
This time of year resets everything — backpacks, bedtimes, commutes, priorities. It's the closest thing the calendar gives us to a second January.
For your listeners, that reset runs deeper than logistics. Summer rhythms fall away and the bigger questions surface: What do I want this season to look like? What am I supposed to do with this change I didn't ask for? What is God doing in this next chapter of my life?
Those questions arrive on their own schedule, and chances are your audience is asking them right now. Below are four ministries meeting listeners in exactly that place. Some you may already know. Some may be new to you. All four are available, and we'd be glad to tell you more about any of them.
what is god doing in this next season? Chip INGRAM, lIVING ON THE EDGE
Living on the Edge builds its teaching around seasons, and the September/October focus is Community — launching with a new series, Caring Enough to Connect: Building Bridges to Those We Love. The timing is worth noting, because transition tends to isolate people at precisely the moment they most need to be known. Schedules change, groups shift, and the relationships that carried someone through last year quietly stop working. Chip's teaching moves listeners past the surface-level version of Christian friendship toward the kind of connection that actually holds weight when a season gets hard.
sending them out with something solid dR. jAMES doBSON, fAMILY tALK
Family Talk speaks to parents at every stage, which makes it a durable presence in a listener's week rather than a seasonal one — but one recent two-part series is especially timely this fall. In Crises on Campus: A Christian Student Solution, Dr. James Dobson welcomes Morton Blackwell, founder of the Leadership Institute, to name the pressures Christian and conservative students face on today's college campuses, territory that can feel genuinely hostile to a student holding to their faith and values. For parents who just moved a kid into a dorm, it's the conversation they're already having at the kitchen table.
When the Season Feels Impossible pASTOR sTEVE dewitt, the journey
Not every new season is a fresh start — some feel closer to a sentence, and listeners in that place don't need a pep talk about new beginnings. That's the strength of The Journey: Pastor Steve DeWitt preaches straight through the text, and the text keeps landing on exactly where people actually live. His current series, Exiles: A Study in First Peter, is a fitting fit for listeners navigating unfamiliar ground. The Journey has also begun offering free digital resources, and the current release, Identity in Exile, is available now to download.
A Rhythm That Lasts All Year Dr. J Vernon McGee
66 books of Scripture with the late Dr. J. Vernon McGee — affectionately known as the Bible Bus — alternating back and forth between the Old and New Testaments. The Bus pulled out on a brand-new five-year cycle earlier this year, and host Steve Shwetz shared a short video about what that means for Thru The Bible stations and listeners. It's worth a few minutes. What makes the Bible Bus such a natural fit for the fall is that there's no wrong stop to board at. A listener who tunes in for the first time isn't behind; they're just getting on. And many riders make the trip more than once.
Begin again. Endure the hard stretch. Discern what's next. Release your kids into it.
Four ministries, four different entry points, one season your listeners are all walking into together. Whether your audience skews toward young families, empty nesters, or the person driving to a job they started three weeks ago, at least one of these voices is speaking directly to them this month.
Want to learn more about any of these ministries and their available radio programs? Send us a note at info@rkmedia.co. We'd be glad to share program details, audio samples, and availability in your market.