The Excellent Way!: April 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

What Manner of Love!

Listen as Pastor Rick shares details of his personal family history as a springboard to then describe how spectacular is the Love of God! Listen as Pastor Rick describes how holy hearts and holy lives should be anchored in the unfathomable depths of God's Love!

HONOR YOUR PARENTS - The LAW Series #7

Listen as Pastor Rick begins the second section of the Ten Commandments with "Honor Your Father and Mother." Drawing from the book "Written In Stone" by Dr. Ryken, Pastor Rick shares the importance of this commandment!

FAN OR FOLLOWER?

Listen to this challenging message as Pastor Rick springs from the book NOT A FAN by Kyle Idleman to ask the essential question, "Are you a follower of Jesus Christ?" Becoming a true follower of Christ is a lot more than most people think it is.

The Post-Resurrection Series - MARKED BY THE SON

Spring is here and all of us are spending more time in the sunshine. Usually we can tell this because sunburns show up in the congregation! :-) But this caused me to wonder if the sunshine marks us so quickly when we spend time in it, can people tell when we have been in the presence of THE Son of God, Jesus Christ? How about you? Are you marked by the SON?

THE SABBATH PRINCIPLE - The LAW Series #6

The culture at large and the church in general has greatly fallen away from the keeping of this commandment. Listen as Pastor Rick shares the teachings of Dr. Ryken and explains what the commandment means both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, and applies how we should practice it in our world today.

CHRIST OUR CORNERSTONE!

Listen as Pastor Rick explores the idea of Christ our precious Cornerstone, the Cornerstone of the Christian church which is built of living stones: you and me!

The Post Resurrection Series - ANCHORED IN HOPE

Listen as Pastor Rick shares a message of faith and hope based upon the resurrection. It is a hope certain and sure! This is the first message in the Post-Resurrection Series. Listen and be encouraged!

THE EASTER COVENANT

Listen as Pastor Rick explains the significance of The Lord's Supper and the Communion celebration. It is a beautiful ritual with rich meaning! Remember, Recognize, and Rejoice!

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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Monday, April 29, 2013