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Saturday, October 22, 2016

THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING

"My brothers and sisters in Christ, reckon it and count it all cheerfulness, calm delight, and exceeding great joy when you are surrounded and engulfed by many many many tests, adversities, and trials that prove you and test you; knowing and understanding that this testing and trying of your trustworthiness, faith, moral conviction, consistency, and entire reliance upon Christ for salvation accomplishes cheerful endurance, constancy, and patience. Then hold onto that cheerful endurance and be held by it so that its accomplishing work may come to full maturity so that you also may reach full maturity and be complete and entire without blemish, lacking nothing: a completed masterpiece of God." James 1:2-4 (Pastor Rick's Version)

Monday, February 8, 2016

HEAVEN!

Listen as Pastor Rick turns our hearts heavenward to remember we are headed toward Heaven!

"...for us, Heaven awaits! Heaven: that spectacular place prepared for us by the Master Creator Himself who loves us and who gave himself for us. It is his certain promise and our certain hope. Let us therefore run this race with patience and persistence looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. “For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.”

Saturday, May 3, 2014

The Gospel of John Series - God SO Loved

Listen as Pastor Rick shares perspective on the most famous verse in Scripture: John 3:16. Word by word Pastor Rick draws out the beauty of this verse. Do you realize how MUCH God loves you? No matter your sin, God loves you and gave His only begotten son for you. Will you surrender to Him?

The Gospel of John Series - SIN

Listen as Pastor Rick unburdens his heart and challenges us to be confronted with truth in this dramatic assessment of the thing called sin. Have you found the solution to sin?

Gospel of John Series - Lifted Up

Listen as Pastor Rick describes the cure for sin. Have you looked upon Christ for salvation and life?

The Gospel of John Series - Cleanse Your Temple

Listen as Pastor Rick describes the introduction of the Messiah to the World with an act of holiness rather than power, and then applies it to our hearts by calling on us to cleanse the temples of our hearts.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

The Gospel of John Series - Episode 3 - BELIEVERS

Listen as Pastor Rick concludes chapter 1 of the Gospel of John by introducing us to the next actors on stage, the first followers of Christ who were witnesses to his identity. Go beyond the familiarity to discover the reality of their testimony.

Monday, September 9, 2013

YOLO - Words of Earth - Wisdom of Heaven Series

Listen as Pastor Rick preaches another message from the Words of Earth - Wisdom of Heaven series. Is YOLO a philosophy Christians should live by?

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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