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Saturday, October 22, 2016

THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING

"My brothers and sisters in Christ, reckon it and count it all cheerfulness, calm delight, and exceeding great joy when you are surrounded and engulfed by many many many tests, adversities, and trials that prove you and test you; knowing and understanding that this testing and trying of your trustworthiness, faith, moral conviction, consistency, and entire reliance upon Christ for salvation accomplishes cheerful endurance, constancy, and patience. Then hold onto that cheerful endurance and be held by it so that its accomplishing work may come to full maturity so that you also may reach full maturity and be complete and entire without blemish, lacking nothing: a completed masterpiece of God." James 1:2-4 (Pastor Rick's Version)

Monday, February 8, 2016

Gear Up Series - The Adversary

Pastor Rick begins a series that teaches us some about spiritual warfare. Listen as he begins this series by teaching about our adversary the devil.

"Therefore, walk away today knowing that Satan is big; he is mean; he is hateful; he is a destroyer and devourer. He is our adversary. But God is bigger and God gives us the victory over Satan in this life and in the life to come if we will trust Christ and surrender to be engulfed and defended by the power of His might. Let us walk in his footsteps, and gear up for the fight knowing that the victory is already ours."

Monday, February 20, 2012

The Warrior

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Listen as Pastor Rick ends the Warrior Saints Series with a message titled, "The Warrior." This uplifting and challenging conclusion motivates us to develop a warrior mentality and participate in the brotherhood of arms. Finally He closes with a reminder of Whom we serve!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Armor

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Listen as Pastor Rick describes the armor in detail listed in Ephesians 6 and how it applies to us today. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand!

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Enemy

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Listen as Pastor Rick continues the Warrior Saints series with this introduction to the enemy, his origin, his current status, and a reminder of the ultimate victor in this fight, our Lord Jesus Christ. Be encouraged!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Battle - Warrior Saints Series

This message was shared the evening of January 29, 2012.
Synopsis: In this introductory message of the Warrior Saints Series, Pastor Rick introduces us to the spiritual battle space. From before creation until today there is clear context of conflict. Why do we battle? Should we fear spiritual attack? Listen to become better equipped to face the fight!

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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