A Dirty Pool & A Clean Heart

How can Pastor Rick find a sermon in a dirty swimming pool?  Listen to find out! :-)

It is a fact that we will never be able to stand before God at the Judgment, or commune with Him here below if our hands are unclean and our hearts impure.  It is only when we allow Him to connect His purifying element (the Holy Spirit) to our hearts to cleanse us and daily filter the water of our hearts through His Word that we can discover personal cleansing, earthly communion, and the hope of eternal love and favor as a cherished child of the Father and bride of Christ.

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!

A Garden Heart

In the beginning God created man and woman in His image, stamped with His likeness, possessing pure hearts.  They were made perfect without flaw.

Yet, when they chose to sin, they marred forever the perfect creation gifted them by the Creator.  From that day to this, the world has tended to chaos and mankind to decay. 

Many still believe there is no hope of restoration until eternity comes.  But I want to encourage you all.  It is true we cannot restore creation (though we should work to preserve it as best we can).  We cannot restore our bodies (though we should take care of them as God’s temple). 

However, God can restore our souls to the same status they had when created: pure and whole – perfect.  The same sacrifice which Christ made for our justification also provides the means for our sanctification – restoration of a Garden Heart.

This does not mean you will be perfect in every action, but it does mean you may be guided by the Holy Spirit in every motive.  Thus, though cursed with a dying body in a fallen world, we may live with Heaven in our hearts.

          How about you?  Have you met Jesus Christ and surrendered all you are to all He is so you may be all you can be until you reach the gates of Glory?  Do you have a Garden Heart?