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Sunday, September 27, 2015

The Greatest Is Love

Listen as Pastor Rick scratches the surface of 1 Corinthians chapter 13 by recapturing and sharing part of a great sermon from more than 135 years ago by Henry Drummond. It is a passionate reminder to the church to keep the greatest commandment and pursue the greatest virtue: that of agape love.

Friday, March 29, 2013

The Strength of Sacrifice - Contagious Christians Series #6

Listen as Pastor Rick wraps up the teaching on Potent Christian Living from the book by Mark Mittelberg & Bill Hybels. Sacrifice is memorable, powerful, and reaching. Are you living sacrificially?

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Contagious Christians - Lesson 4: Authenticty Attracts

Listen as Pastor Rick re-approaches this series and shares the importance of being REAL: how to avoid hypocrisy and live an authentic witness based on the book by Bill Hybels & Mark Mittelberg.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Trusting the Invisible

Listen as Pastor Rick shares how we can trust the Almighty Who is also personal and caring toward us.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

A REAL CHRISTIAN

What is a real Christian? Are you sure you know how to describe one? Better yet, do you know how to be one? Listen as Pastor Rick breaks down what it means to be a Real Christian.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Real Relationship

Listen as Pastor Rick adds an unexpected installment to the "Reality" series as he talks about the importance of a genuine relationship with Christ. Is it a religion, a relationship, or both? Listen to find out!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Reality of Man

In light of the tragic shootings in Aurora, Colorado, listen as Pastor Rick continues the series on "Reality" with this timely sermon titled, "The Reality of Man." Listen as he explains why people commit terrible crimes and perform acts of sin. But don't worry. He doesn't leave it there. Listen as he also shares the solution to man's dilemma.

Monday, July 16, 2012

The Reality of God

Listen as Pastor Rick begins the "REAL" Series with this sermon titled, "The Reality of God."

Monday, February 6, 2012

Who Jesus Is
Click on the link (or right click and "save as") to listen to Pastor Rick as he questions whether Jesus is truly knowable. If He is knowable, have you been introduced?

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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