Bible counsel with a nightlight left on.
RTTBROS is a devotional Christian show from Gene Kissinger and Norman Kissinger, two brothers speaking to people who want steady biblical counsel. Episodes move from a passage, story, or prayer into practical exhortation about trust, surrender, spiritual warfare, mortality, and hope.
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RTTBROS is a Bible-centered devotional show with the pace and texture of a familiar sermon. It is steady. The episodes move through scripture, prayer, personal reflection, and practical exhortation without trying to sound polished into sameness. Gene Kissinger and Norman Kissinger are described as two brothers who spent their lives in ministry and raising large families, and the show carries that seasoned, family-room quality. A short episode may start with Proverbs 3, John 1, Galatians 5, Ephesians 1, or the Garden of Gethsemane. From there it widens. Historical examples, bedside conversations, family prayer concerns, and everyday images become bridges from the biblical text to the listener's ordinary fears. The show returns often to trust. It treats human understanding as limited, while presenting God's direction as steady even when a season feels closed off. That gives episodes such as "When the Music Stopped" their shape, using Ira Sankey's uncertainty as a way to talk about providence beyond the visible moment. Prayer is another major thread. In the episode on praying over children, the show moves from personal family practice into specific categories: physical protection, teachability, fear, words, truth, friendships, counsel, and inherited patterns. It can be emotionally candid. The reflection on Larry Crabb and Gethsemane makes room for anguish, arguing that sorrow is not automatically spiritual failure. Mortality also gets plain treatment, with Stoic language, Stephen Covey's phrasing, and biblical warnings about life's brevity used to press toward eternal seriousness. Spiritual warfare appears without irony. The siege image from Julius Caesar becomes a framework for the struggle between the flesh, the world, and the need for God's word, prayer, and armor. Even then, the show aims at encouragement rather than spectacle. Its recurring "Nightlight" frame gives the heavier themes a gentle landing. RTTBROS is best understood as devotional counsel for Christians who want scripture applied directly to family, suffering, calling, surrender, and daily endurance.
Made for: For Christians who want devotional teaching that is practical and rooted in scripture. It especially fits listeners drawn to family prayer, old-fashioned exhortation, and comfort during anxious or spiritually heavy seasons.
What sets it apart: RTTBROS stands out through its blend of sermon, bedtime devotional, and lived ministry reflection. It can move from Ira Sankey, Julius Caesar, or Larry Crabb to Proverbs, Gethsemane, and a closing prayer without losing its homely center.
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 herehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbroshttps://linktr.ee/rttbros
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture, personal testimony, humor, and prayer meet in practical teaching about Christian conduct, hardship, service, and spiritual endurance.
RTTBROS builds its Bible teaching around extended, sermon-like readings of Philippians, Ephesians, and Matthew, then carries those passages into ordinary Christian conduct.
A parakeet disappears into a vacuum; suddenly you're paying attention to Philippians.
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Ephesians 1 becomes a sermon on revelation, purpose, and prayer.
A class anecdote about a listener admiring the speaker and watching his wife’s face opens into Ephesians 1:15-23, where the host dwells on Paul’s prayer for wisdom, revelation, and the line about the eyes of understanding being enlightened.
A Bible-centered sermon on endurance, sacrifice, and finishing the race of faith.
Run To the Finish treats faith like a race that must be completed, and it gives that idea a sturdy frame. It begins with John Stephen Akwari's fall in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics marathon and then turns to Paul's call to press on, so the sermon keeps its direction even when it…
Philippians, unity, and a mind shaped by Christ anchor a sermon that keeps circling practical obedience.
RTTBROS remains in Philippians and keeps the focus on joy, a submitted mind, and Paul’s prison setting. It draws on Chuck Swindoll’s Laugh Again and the parakeet-and-vacuum story to give the passage a concrete frame, then returns to Paul’s concern for conduct that matches…
A prison sermon connects confinement, epilepsy, and suffering with ministry and witness.
Paul's imprisonment becomes the frame for a sermon about ministry under pressure. Desert places, dark nights, and constricted seasons are treated as settings where Christ can form a person more deeply, with Philippians 1 supplying the main argument.
A devotional reading of Philippians 1 that ties church belonging to gratitude, service, and gospel outreach.
The episode approaches Philippians 1 as a word about belonging, with church life framed as shared work rather than private devotion. It follows the host through memories of Salem, Oregon, where a free will Baptist church joined door knocking to a large bus route, then on to a…
Matthew 25 becomes a call to ordinary compassion, with faith shown through mercy before anyone thinks they are being measured.
Matthew 25's sheep-and-goats judgment is framed through ordinary acts of mercy: feeding, welcoming, visiting, and noticing people in need. The episode keeps its theological center clear, treating compassion not as a replacement for grace but as faith becoming visible.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The host shares a personal story about preaching at an Upwards Basketball outreach ministry, discusses its Christian character-building aspects, and transitions into a biblical passage about forgiveness from Matthew 18.
The host begins by reflecting on how hymns trigger personal memories, including childhood experiences in Missouri.
The episode opens with a story about a daughter's salvation following a difficult event.
This episode discusses the theme of joy in the book of Philippians, illustrated by Chuck Swindoll's humorous story about a parakeet accidentally sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
This episode explores how trusting in God during difficult life chapters, illustrated through the story of Ira Sankey's transformation from a Confederate soldier to a famous gospel singer, reveals that apparent dead ends can be divine setups for greater purposes.
This episode provides practical guidance on praying for children of different ages, based on insights from Stormio Marty's books, to address areas like protection, anxiety, and breaking generational cycles.
This episode explores the concept of remembering death and eternity from Stoic and biblical perspectives to encourage living purposefully with an eternal mindset.
This episode explores the concept of persistent soul ache through Christian counseling insights, using Larry Crabb's perspective and Jesus' anguish in Gethsemane to reframe it as evidence of spiritual realism rather than failure.
This episode explores how faith acts as a persistent light in life's darkest moments, using the metaphor of a firefly to illustrate steady hope from the gospel.
The host begins with a class story.
It opens with chapter 3, verse 7.
The speaker opens in Philippians and stays with Paul's call to a submitted mind.
RTTBROS frames Philippians 1 around Paul's Roman prison, arguing that confinement can become 'the furtherance of the gospel' rather than the end of ministry.
The host opens with a joke before turning to Philippians chapter 1.
The speaker reflects on how a hymn triggered nostalgic memories of childhood homes in Missouri, including a traumatic trike accident.
A speaker shares personal stories about visiting an elderly stroke patient with cookies and devotional literature, emphasizes the Nazarene Church's cradle-to-grave ministry, encourages community outreach to those who are absent, and briefly mentions a Valentine's Day trip before discussing Jesus' parables.