The Excellent Way!: November 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Bless the Lord (1)

Pastor Rick considers with us Psalm 104 looking at the magnificence of God to bless our souls and cause us to bless the Lord together!

Saturday, November 9, 2013

The First Words of Witnessing - Witnessing Workshops

Have you ever given much thought to the first words you will speak about faith to someone you meet? Tonight is an exercise as a group to think about this very thing. Not a typical sermon, this open format discussion is worthwhile if you spend the time to follow it.

Friday, November 8, 2013

FIRSTBORN

Listen as Pastor Rick talks about the fascinating concepts of the Firstborn, First Fruits, and our Birthright, to discuss Christ's role in each of these areas and what it means to us. Are you a member of the church of the First Born?

Thursday, November 7, 2013

A Clear View of Jesus - Witnessing Workshops Series

Listen as Pastor Rick shares from Max Lucado's book, "God Came Near" to remind us of the importance of possessing a clear view of Jesus.

Monday, November 4, 2013

LOST & FOUND

Listen as Pastor Rick shares a famous story to teach a simple but powerful truth in this message, "Lost and Found."

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Are You in Good Hands? - Words of Earth Wisdom of Heaven Series

Listen as Pastor Rick shares another message in this intriguing series to examine a commonly known phrase in the light of God's Word. Are you in good hands?

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Born Free

Listen as Pastor Rick begins with Acts 22:28 and elaborates on what it means to be born free in Christ. Are you delivered from the chains of sin? Are you a citizen of Heaven?

Friday, November 1, 2013

The Three R's of Witnessing - Witnessing Workshops Series

Listen as Pastor Rick opens a new series about "witnessing" or sharing our faith. Do you know the three "R's" of Witnessing? Listen to learn them! :-)

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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