Sunday teaching from a South Texas pulpit.
Sunday teaching from Redeemer Bible Church of the Valley in Alamo, Texas, recorded as it happens. Rotating preachers work through passages like 1 Corinthians 7 line by line, then turn the text toward marriage, work, contentment, and the global church.
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Redeemer RGV is the sermon feed of Redeemer Bible Church of the Valley, a congregation in Alamo, Texas. There is no studio layer. What listeners get is the Sunday service as it unfolds, including the housekeeping — a reminder to pick up a name tag, a correction from the front when someone turns out to be Jerry and not Larry. The teaching method is expository, stated plainly by the preacher: go through the Word of God passage by passage rather than topic by topic. Chago Curling leads an extended run through 1 Corinthians 7. Verses 10 through 16 come first, on marriage where one spouse believes and the other does not, on separation, on peace. The following week picks up at verse 17 and the rule about each person leading the life the Lord assigned. Curling frames it as a text about circumstances — how to see them biblically and how to move through them — and says conversations with people shaped where he took it. He also admits when he planned to cover more ground than he managed. That candor is part of the register. Guest Sundays change the texture. Carl Kerby, of the ministry Reasons for Hope, describes research behind the finding that young adults raised in solid churches were often already gone before they reached college. He is direct about wanting a generation to trust that scripture is true and trustworthy. In another talk he sets up three tools Satan uses to deceive, opening with sumo, his four and a half years in Japan, and his conversion in Salt Lake City, all to make a point about identical words carrying different meanings. He works the room, asks for an amen, teases when the response is thin. Missional Sunday sets the series aside. Mike Baker presents on believers who left families, communities, and jobs to follow Christ, and Karen answers the question of what to do with information that heavy: pray, and remember them. The service closes in prayer for those in authority and in a hymn of praise. The tone across all of it is warm, pastoral, and unhurried. Points arrive two or three times in slightly different words. Illustrations run long before the application lands. Scripture is read aloud at length and returned to often. It is spoken teaching meant to encourage and correct at once, aimed at people already inside the same faith world.
Made for: Christians who want unhurried, verse-by-verse preaching rather than a polished podcast format, especially those interested in 1 Corinthians, marriage and calling, apologetics, and the persecuted church. It assumes a listener already familiar with church language and comfortable being taught.
What sets it apart: Rather than repackaging sermons into a produced show, the feed keeps the whole Sunday — announcements, guest presentations, congregational responses, closing prayer — so the room comes through alongside the text. The rotation between an ongoing expository series and visiting speakers on apologetics and missions keeps it from settling into one register.
Redeemer Bible Church of the Valley is located in Alamo, TX. We exist because Christ became a man, lived the life we could not live, and died the death we could not die for our sin. Jesus was a man on mission—the ultimate missionary—coming to give people hope and bring sinners back home to God. Because of His life and His mission, we long to make His name known and to obey Jesus’ call to “make disciples.” It is our joy and our desire to learn about our Father and Christ through His word and then live out what we have learned by committing our lives to God and others. We hope that through Redeemer Bible Church we can bring much glory to God in South Texas and expand His kingdom by making much…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Redeemer RGV turns close biblical teaching into concrete questions about marriage, holiness, prayer and responsibility within Christian community.
Redeemer RGV records a congregation reasoning from scripture toward the demands of shared Christian life. Messages from Chago Curling, Tom Van Gorkom and Carlos Garcia begin with biblical passages, establish their theological context, and then press toward practice.
Marital intimacy meets holy ground here, if your faith prefers specificity over slogans.
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Missional Sunday centers persecution and answers it with a direct call to prayer.
Missional Sunday is framed around worship, prayer, and missionaries, then gives Mike Baker the stage to speak about the persecuted church. The service keeps its attention on believers around the world who pay a cost for following Christ, and it handles that subject with plain,…
A sermon on marriage, sex, and covenant mutuality in 1 Corinthians 7.
After a missed week and a thank-you to Carlos for covering last Sunday, Redeemer RGV returns to 1 Corinthians 7 and keeps close to Paul's questions about marriage, mutual authority, and abstinence by agreement.
A sermon on holy ground that turns an unlikely church morning into a call to reverent response.
An unlikely calculation about being in Alamo, Texas, on February 14 opens into a focused sermon on divine calling. Carlos Garcia, an RGBM intern studying Christian education, moves from that setup to Moses at the burning bush, where the repeated call of "Moses, Moses" frames…
A sermon on how Christ's work forms the demanding, ordinary practice of belonging.
Jesus Makes a Family centers on Hebrews 2:9-11, where Jesus enters suffering, tastes death by God's grace, and is not ashamed to call the sanctified his brothers.
A pastoral call to build God's church with Christ at the center and courage in the work.
A sermon in a 1 Corinthians series turns into a careful reflection on building God's church with the right foundation. It begins in Eden, tracing the break caused by sin before returning to unity, the limits of worldly wisdom, and the call to rely on Christ's message and God's…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode is a sermon continuing a series on 1 Corinthians chapter 5, focusing on church discipline and addressing sexual immorality within the Christian community.
Pastor Chago Curling preaches a sermon titled 'Jesus Makes a Family' from Hebrews 2:9-11 and 13:1-4.
Tom Van Gorkom preaches on 1 Corinthians 3:10-17, focusing on building the church with care.
On Redeemer RGV, Chago Curling reads 1 Corinthians 13 and argues that Paul is correcting Corinthian Christians, not offering a sentimental wedding passage.
Chago Curling of Redeemer RGV teaches from 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 that communion is a communal pledge of ongoing faithfulness to Christ and his people, not an isolated private ritual.
Chago Curling of Redeemer RGV examines 1 Corinthians 11:2–16, focusing on head coverings, prayer, prophecy, gender, authority, and glory in gathered worship.
This episode discusses three tools Satan uses to deceive people, using personal anecdotes and analogies like sumo wrestling to illustrate how communication can be misunderstood.
Carl Kerby discusses research showing that most young people leave their faith before college, not during it, and emphasizes the mission of his ministry Reasons for Hope to help them trust in Jesus Christ.
This episode explores 1 Corinthians 7:17-24, focusing on biblical teachings about contentment and how to view life circumstances through faith.
This episode explores biblical teachings on marriage and divorce from 1 Corinthians chapter 7, focusing on commitment and reconciliation in relationships.
This episode explores 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, focusing on biblical guidance for marriage, divorce, and relationships with unbelieving spouses.
Missional Sunday opens the morning.
The host returns to 1 Corinthians 7 after missing the previous week.
Carlos Garcia of Redeemer RGV uses a calculated 0.0000185 percent probability, or about 1 in 54 million, to ask why listeners are gathered in Alamo, Texas.
This episode is a Bible study focusing on 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, exploring themes of sexual morality, spiritual union with Christ, and the Christian's responsibility to guard their body as a temple of the Holy Spirit.
This episode is a Bible study focusing on 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, exploring themes of sexual morality, spiritual union with Christ, and Christian ethics.
A pastor introduces a sermon on 1 Corinthians 3:10-17, discussing the challenges of preparation and setting the biblical context starting from creation.
This sermon introduces a continuation of a series on 1 Corinthians, focusing on building with care as discussed in chapter 3, while emphasizing the importance of starting from the beginning with God's creation for context.