{"podcast":{"title":"RTTBROS","slug":"rttbros-107316","podcast_index_feed_id":107316,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/127be410/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RTTBROS","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/3001092/3001092-1652304774197-5e20feeb09c77.jpg","author":"Gene Kissinger","episode_count":1985,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T02:18:11.359324+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316"},"episode":{"title":"The Unread Message #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #AMERICA250 NATION250","slug":"the-unread-message-rttbros-nightlight-usa250-america250-nation250","published_at":"2026-07-13T17:13:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316/the-unread-message-rttbros-nightlight-usa250-america250-nation250","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RTTBROS/episodes/The-Unread-Message-RTTBROS-Nightlight-USA250-AMERICA250-NATION250-e3m1g75","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/127be410/podcast/play/122781349/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-13%2F427885207-44100-2-6cc915fbcf8eb.mp3","summary":"Trenton on Christmas Night #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #USA250 #Nation250 “It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:22-23 THE STORY On Christmas night, 1776, everything was about to end. The Continental Army had been retreating for months. New York had fallen. New Jersey had fallen. Philadelphia was threatened. Men were deserting by the hundreds, their enlistments expiring, their feet leaving bloody prints in the snow. Washington's army had shrunk from twenty thousand men to fewer than three thousand. Thomas Paine, writing by firelight as he marched with the army, produced the lines that named the moment: "These are the times that try men's souls" Washington decided to attack. The plan was to cross the ice-choked Delaware River on Christmas night, march nine miles to Trenton in the dark and cold, and surprise the Hessian garrison before dawn. It was the kind of plan that only a desperate man would attempt, and Washington was desperate in exactly the right way: desperate enough to trust God with what human calculation could not support. The crossing was brutal. The river was full of ice. The boats were inadequate. It took far longer than planned, and the column did not reach Trenton until well after dawn. But something remarkable had happened in the Hessian camp. Their commander, Colonel Rall, had received a note during a Christmas celebration warning him that the Americans were coming. He had put the note in his pocket without reading it. He was still in bed when Washington's men came over the walls. THE REFLECTION Nine hundred Hessians were captured. Not a single American was killed in the battle. Washington wrote to Congress afterward…","meta_description":"Trenton on Christmas Night #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #USA250 #Nation250 “It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":67,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rttbros-107316/episodes/the-unread-message-rttbros-nightlight-usa250-america250-nation250/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316/the-unread-message-rttbros-nightlight-usa250-america250-nation250.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}