The Building Series - Building A Relationship with God

   

Listen as Pastor Rick "builds" on the Nehemiah Series with more "building" ideas.  We begin the series with this one, about building a relationship with God.

"We know that we need a strong Christian experience as individuals, but how do we do that?  We know that we need strong Christian homes, but how do we build them?  We know that we need strong marriages, strong parent-children relationships, and strong churches, but how do we build them.  This new series focuses a little more on the details."

Nehemiah Series - Rebuilding the Wall of Covenant - Sermon 8 (Final Sermon)

In this final message of the Nehemiah series, Pastor Rick urges us all to follow through the steps of revival.  Return to humble worship of God.  Rebuild devotion to His Word as the authority for your life.  Repent of your sins before God.  Receive the gift of salvation by grace.  Rebuild that precious relationship with God for which we were originally created.  But don’t stop there.  Enter into the new covenant: fully surrendered to God, completely filled with the Holy Spirit, walking in holy righteous love toward Him and toward our fellow man.  In so doing, the rebuilding is complete and we are positioned to do the work of the Kingdom.

Nehemiah Series - Rebuilding Walls of Worship & the Word - Sermon 6

After a break of three weeks, Pastor Rick returns to the Nehemiah Series.  In this sermon, Pastor Rick transitions from the lessons learned during the rebuilding of the physical walls of Jerusalem to lessons of the spiritual rebuilding of the nation of Israel.  


"...take hold of the idea that as we work hard to build the walls of strength, integrity, righteousness, and holiness in our homes and communities we cannot expect it to be achieved through work alone.  We also must spend the needed time to rebuild the walls of worship and the WORD individually and collectively.  I urge you to embrace the call to worship privately and publicly.  I invite you to saturate yourself and your life with the WORD of God.  Let it guide every moment, every breath!  This is where Revival and Relationship begin!"

Nehemiah Series - Facing Opposition - Sermon 4

            In the face of the obstacles to building, in the face of the opposition to building, the people remained united.  They stayed diligent, watchful, unified, and committed.  They knew it was a big job.  That was undeniable.  They could see the incredible task before them every day when they woke up.  Just the same, it is a huge work that we strive to do to build the walls we should all along the way.  But do not be discouraged.  When you need help or strength or encouragement, sound the call, and we should come a running! Keep those communication lines open.  Don’t let the enemy sow seeds of conflict and mistrust and isolation!  In fact, it sounds like Nehemiah walked the wall with a man carrying a trumpet and when the attacks came, he would sound the call and the people would come-a-running to stand together in the face of the opposition.  Day and night they did not falter or fail or quit or divide.  And the work went onward.