Balanced in the Lord

   

"Today, I encourage you as you face the stormy winds, earthquakes, and chaos of life that you not try to survive it in your own strength.  Your strength won’t be enough.  But His will be.  Rely on Him.  Let Him be your harmonic balancer, the tuned mass damper of your heart."

A Thanksgiving Meditation

Here's an excerpt from Pastor Rick on Thanksgiving and Praise Sunday:



All the time, like a patient Father, He stands waiting for us to realize and remember that it is not solely our story to write.  He is the Master of all things in all of time and He is writing a grand story across history that will resound into eternity.  He is the Master Creator and Artist Who is painting a masterpiece.  It has always been HIS Story.  He is waiting for us to realize it and let go of the writing pen.  He is waiting for us to surrender the illustrator’s brush.  He is waiting for us to stop Instagramming our life and let Him accomplish His will in and through us no matter what we are going through.

The Building Series - Building on the Word (Embracing the Action of Faith)

   

"Today, as we continue our “building series,” the title is “Building on the Word – Embracing the Action of Faith.”  What I am trying hard to communicate today is that if we are to be true “believers” – if we are to build strong Christians, strong marriages, strong children, strong relationships, and a strong church – we must do more than assent to the truth with our heads.  We must do more than accept the truth in our hearts.  We must actually live the truth of the Word in our lives.  We must “put our money where our mouth is."

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."

Baptized - Now What?

 

We have believed.  We have confessed Jesus as Lord.  We have been baptized…now what?  The answer is very simple: Let Him Do His Work in Us. 

Nehemiah Series - Preparing to Rebuild - Sermon 2

Are you Prepared to Serve?  Are you Prepared to Rebuild?  Are you ready to answer God’s call to build up what is torn down in your life, in your home, in your relationships, in our church, in our community? 

Nehemiah Series - Prepared to Serve - Sermon 1

 

I have been feeling it on my heart for several months that it was time to do a new series – a time where we spend several weeks concentrating on a particular section of Scripture.  But when you look at doing something like that, there are so many different paths to go down, where do you begin.  So I just kept my heart open and have been thinking about it and praying about it for a long time.  Then, several weeks ago, I heard a message by Ravi Zacharias titled, “Living a Life Used by God” that was really good.  I really appreciated his words and that got me to thinking about and pondering on this man called Nehemiah.  A few weeks ago, we started studying about Nehemiah in our Godly Men Bible Study using notes from © 2014 – Verse By Verse Ministry International (www.versebyverseministry.org) and today we are going to begin focusing on this section of Scripture to pull out some lessons from this fascinating story using information I have also derived from there.