The Excellent Way!: July 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

Called to the Feast!

Listen as Pastor Rick uses last week's message as a springboard for this week's sermon and invites us to feast on the Word and be filled with His fullness: a call that was given in the past, applies in the present, and gives hope for the future!

Starving Christians

Listen as Pastor Rick examines the symptoms of starvation and prepares a diagnosis of our souls? Are you a starving Christian?

The Truth - The LAW Series - Commandment #9

Listen as Pastor Rick picks up the LAW Series again with commandment 9 and shares with us the depths of what it means to be truthful and live in the footsteps of Christ Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Prepared for Departure

Listen as Pastor Rick shares his feelings about his imminent departure from the military and about the travels his family has been on this summer. He then ties it all together and asks all of us if we are ready for the greatest departure of all. Are you ready?

The Simplicity of Prayer

Listen as Pastor Rick teaches us simply and clearly the method of basic prayer. How do you pray? Are you in contact with God? Does He hear you when you call?

DEEPER STILL

Listen as Pastor Rick challenges us to go deeper still with the Lord in this second half of 2013. Christ is the only answer to the challenges of our lives and culture. Surrender to Him is still most essential above all else.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Tsunami Stones

Pastor Rick's Dad, Rev. Rick Alexander, Sr. shares a powerful message inspired by the March 11, 2011 Tsunami in Japan. What truth can we learn? Listen to find out!

INTERCESSORS

Listen as Pastor Rick breaks down intercession simple enough for even our children can understand it. Will you be an intercessor?

Favorite Quotes!

"I stand vigilantly on the precipice of eternity speaking to people who this week could go over the edge whether they are ready to or not."
- John Piper

Careless seems the great Avenger;
History's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness
'Twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,--
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own.
- James Russell Lowell

"Some wish to live within the sound of Church or Chapel bell; I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell."
- C. T. Studd

"I preached as never sure to preach again and as a dying man to dying men."
- Richard Baxter

"Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and coolly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavor to move the affections and warm the heart."
- George Whitefield

"I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn."
- John Wesley

"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher"
- George Whitefield

"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results."
- R.A. Torrey

"Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word."
- G. Campbell Morgan

"The heart makes the preacher. Men of great hearts are great preachers. . .
We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the important thing to be prepared -- the heart. A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon...It would not do to say that preachers study too much. Some of them do not study at all; others do not study enough. Numbers do not study the right way to show themselves workmen approved of God. But our great lack is not in head culture, but in heart culture; not lack of knowledge but lack of holiness is our sad and telling defect -- not that we know too much, but that we do not meditate on God and his word and watch and fast and pray enough. The heart is the great hindrance to our preaching. . . "
- E.M. Bounds

"God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God."
- H.A. Ironside

"Science is a window through which we may view the spectacular and glimpse the hand of God."
- Rick Alexander

"Never forget: things are not as they seem to have always been nor will they remain always as they are." - Rick Alexander

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