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Friday, December 13, 2013

How Much Do You Love Jesus?

Pastor Rick shares a message about a very personal question: "How much do I love Jesus?" This is a question we all should answer. How about you? How much do YOU love Jesus?

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Stirred in his heart by pictures of Pope Francis in action, Pastor Rick turns our attention to the writings of the Apostles Peter & Paul to call us to deep, fervent love toward our fellow men above all else. This helps defeat the enemy in spiritual warfare, preventing the establishment of a beachhead in our lives and in the church.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Shaky Faith

Listen as Pastor Rick preaches to himself. Listen and maybe you will be challenged by the "splashover." :-) How strong is your faith? Do you trust God as much as you trust your pharmacist and the electric company?

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

All These Things

Listen as Pastor Rick returns to Matthew chapter 6 to finish considering the truths of verse 33. If I seek first the Kingdom of God, what are all the "things" that will be "added unto me?"

Monday, December 9, 2013

The Kingdom of God

What is the Kingdom of God? What does it mean to seek it first? And if I do seek it, what do I gain in return? These are great questions. Listen as Pastor Rick takes us down a path of better understanding the answers to them.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Mystery of Godliness

Listen as Pastor Rick shares 10 mysteries of history and then compares them to the great Mystery of Godliness. The Gospel is powerful. Have you considered it. Are you living God-like?

Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Promise of Godliness

Godliness means to exercise ourselves to be God-like. Are you living God-like? Do you reflect His image? To do so is to live under the blessings and promises accompanying godliness. Listen as Pastor Rick explores these ideas with us.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Mirror Mirror of the Word

Pastor Rick shares the fascinating story of a small Italian town called Vigonella. Will you be a mirror on a mountain?

Thursday, December 5, 2013

A Sweet Savor

How do you smell to God? It's a question worth answering. Listen as Pastor Rick considers this question with us.

Can You Hear Me Now? - WEWH Series

In this installment of the "Words of Earth Wisdom of Heaven" series, Pastor Rick teaches us about how to communicate with God and how to learn to hear His voice.

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