The Excellent Way!: John

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Monday, August 14, 2017

BAPTISM

Listen as Pastor Rick teaches about Baptism in advance of our baptism service scheduled for next Sunday! We hope you can join us!

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The Gospel of John - The Witness of Surrender

Listen as Pastor Rick talks about living surrendered. What does the "Best Man" of the bridegroom have to do with it? Listen and see. Is your life surrendered to the will of God?

Saturday, May 3, 2014

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.

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!

Thursday, January 10, 2013

DROP THE ROCKS

God's perspective only gets implemented in our lives when we drop the rocks that drive us away from Him and from other people. Are there rocks in your hands?

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Characters of Christmas - "The Faithless Priest"

Listen as Pastor Rick begins a Christmas series with this challenge to face down the sin of unbelief with faith while trusting in a merciful God.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Letting Down the Nets

Listen as Pastor Rick shares a message originally inspired by Rev. Bill Blair. "Thanks Brother Blair for sharing your heartbeat with me. I only hope I did it justice when passing it on to my folks!"

Monday, January 2, 2012

"I Love You Most" Sermon (20120101)

Please be encouraged and challenged by my first sermon of the New Year! Just click on the link.

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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