On beginning again
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 chance are your audience is asking them right now. Below are four ministries meeting listeners in exactly that place. Some you may already air. Some may be new to you. All four are available, and we'd be glad to tell you more about any of them.
A rhythm that lasts all year
School might already be in session, but it’s never too late to get on the Bible Bus. Thru the Bible is a five-year, verse-by-verse journey through all 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. What makes it 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 in August isn't behind; they're just getting on. And many riders make the trip more than once. Notes like Linda's come in regularly, and we pass them along — every month we include listener testimonials in our promo pack emails for stations to use and share.
what is god doing in this next season?
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
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
Not every new season is a fresh start — some arrive as something closer to a sentence, and listeners in that place don't need a pep talk about new beginnings. This August, Pastor Steve DeWitt took listeners into Judges, where God's people find themselves twenty years under a cruel king and his nine hundred iron chariots. By any honest accounting, the situation was finished. And then God brought rescue from the most unlikely place imaginable. That's the strength of The Journey: Pastor Steve preaches straight through the text, and the text keeps landing on exactly where people actually live. That continues this fall in Exiles: A Study in First Peter, running September through the end of November — a fitting series for listeners navigating unfamiliar ground. The Journey has also begun offering free digital resources to accompany their teaching, and the current release, Identity in Exile, is available now on their website for listeners to download.
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.