The Excellent Way!: September 2015

Sunday, September 27, 2015

A Few Painters I Enjoy...

I love many of the paintings of artists Thomas Blackshear and Ron Dicianni:

Listen as Pastor Rick scratches the surface of 1 Corinthians chapter 13 by recapturing and sharing part of a great sermon from more than 135 years ago by Henry Drummond. It is a passionate reminder to the church to keep the greatest commandment and pursue the greatest virtue: that of agape love.

Footprints to Follow - The Submissive Child

Listen as Pastor Rick concludes this section of the Footprints to Follow Series on Submission. This one is particularly kid oriented. We pray it is a blessing to your family.

Footprints to Follow Series - The Submissive Husband

Listen as Pastor Rick continues the sermon series from last week and discusses the important role the husband has to fill in marriage. It's not as easy as you think!

Footprints to Follow Series - The Submissive Wife

Listen as Pastor Rick endeavors to discuss a Biblical perspective on Marriage. This message has two parts. This week is the first part addressing the role of the wife. Next week will address the role of the husband. Though this topic is a sensitive one in our culture, it is extremely important. Feel free to leave comments on your thoughts. :-)

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Footprints to Follow Series - The Submissive Life

Listen as Pastor Rick preaches a very serious and personal message about what it means to submit ourselves one to another in imitation of Christ Who left us an example we ought to follow. The world may not understand it, but submitting ourselves humbly one to another is a hallmark of the Christian faith. Are you living the submissive life?

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

What Does God See When He Looks at Me?

Listen as Pastor Rick talks about recent events in the news and uses them as a springboard for self-searching and seeking to draw closer to God. Are you in an intimate relationship with God? Do you know how He perceives you? What does God see when He looks at you.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Building Altars

Listen as Pastor Rick weaves together several streams of thought to lay the foundation for this very intimate discussion about the importance of Family Altar. This is one of the most important practices of the Christian Home. Do you practice it?

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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