Radio teaching Series

The Keys to a Blessed Life

God wants to bless your life! The problem is that people often don’t live in ways that God can bless. Join Pastor Rick for this series as he walks through Jesus’ most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, where he shared the Beatitudes — the conditions for receiving God’s blessing on your life. They still apply to your life today!

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November 12, 2015

Handling Opposition to Your Faith, Part 3

The Bible says sometimes suffering is God’s will for your life. Why? Because it makes you more like Jesus. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about the three kinds of suffering and how to remain faithful to him and keep on doing good to others in the face of opposition.


November 11, 2015

Handling Opposition to Your Faith, Part 2

The pressure you feel to cave in or be quiet or sit down when you should stand up is not coming from other people. Pastor Rick explains in this message why, when you face opposition because of your faith, you need to recognize the source of the opposition.


November 10, 2015

Handling Opposition to Your Faith, Part 1

You should never be embarrassed for standing for the truth and doing what’s right. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick helps you understand why you don’t need other people’s approval to be happy and how that understanding will help you as you face opposition to your faith.


November 9, 2015

How to Reconcile a Relationship, Part 4

Join Pastor Rick as he continues to explain how you can be a peacemaker in your relationships at home, at work, and with your friends.


November 6, 2015

How to Reconcile a Relationship, Part 3

In a relationship, you can have unity without uniformity. You can walk hand in hand together without seeing eye to eye. In this message, Pastor Rick helps you understand how to repair a relationship where there is conflict by focusing on reconciliation, not resolution.


November 5, 2015

How to Reconcile a Relationship, Part 2

When you meet someone to resolve a conflict, you need to listen for the other person’s hurt and perspective. Pastor Rick shares in this message how to speak less, listen more, and change your focus so that you can reconcile a relationship.


November 4, 2015

How to Reconcile a Relationship, Part 1

It takes courage to approach someone you are in conflict with and tell that person you want to sit down and work it out. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why, if you want to resolve conflict in your relationships, you have to be willing to make the first move.


November 3, 2015

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity, Part 3

Integrity demands that every area of your life is treated with the same intensity. Pastor Rick wants you to understand through this message what that means in your life. Join him as he shares six practical ways you can work to become a person of integrity.


November 2, 2015

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity, Part 2

If you are serious about becoming a man or woman of integrity, the first step is to admit that you haven’t had integrity. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why, if you want to have integrity, you have to confess your sins and then make the choice to sin less.


October 30, 2015

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity, Part 1

In a world that is absolutely obsessed with appearance and image, how in the world do you keep it real when everybody else is faking it? In this broadcast, Pastor Rick gives you the one thing you need to care about if you want to be a person of integrity.


October 29, 2015

Your Ministry of Mercy, Part 3

You can go overboard on mercy — just look at what Jesus did on the cross. In this message, Pastor Rick shares personal applications for the different facets of mercy so that you can learn how to be generous with your premeditated acts of mercy.


October 28, 2015

Your Ministry of Mercy, Part 2

Most people think mercy means forgiving people who don’t deserve it or helping people who can’t help themselves. Those are two definitions of mercy, but Pastor Rick wants you to understand through this message the many facets of mercy so that you can apply them to your relationships.


October 27, 2015

Your Ministry of Mercy, Part 1

Jesus says in Matthew 5:7, “God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” You’ve got to learn to be a minister of mercy if you want God’s mercy on your life. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick gives you four reasons God expects you to show mercy.


October 26, 2015

Why You Need to Stay Hungry, Part 3

Are you hungry for God? It is possible to maintain a spiritual hunger for God for the rest of your life. In this message, Pastor Rick shares five ways to keep a spiritual appetite so that you will “grow into a full experience of salvation” (1 Peter 2:2).


October 23, 2015

Why You Need to Stay Hungry, Part 2

The Bible says in Romans 1:17, “The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself.” Pastor Rick uses this message to explain the three points of the Gospel and how God makes you right with himself and what you need to do about it.


October 22, 2015

Why You Need to Stay Hungry, Part 1

Righteousness is a big word in the Bible that’s used hundreds of times. But what does it really mean? In this broadcast, Pastor Rick boils righteousness down to two words and explains how it applies to your life.


October 21, 2015

The Strength of Gentleness, Part 4

Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach what the Bible says about gentleness and how it can transform your relationships with others and with God.


October 20, 2015

The Strength of Gentleness, Part 3

Gentleness is an important quality for you to practice, especially because it makes you more like Jesus. Join Pastor Rick for this message as he talks about how the more gentle a person you become, the more Christ-like you become and the more at rest you will be.


October 19, 2015

The Strength of Gentleness, Part 2

If you claim to be a follower of Jesus, you are not allowed to speak evil of anyone or be quarrelsome. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick shares how to treat others with respect without compromising what you believe so that your gentleness is a witness to unbelievers.


October 16, 2015

The Strength of Gentleness, Part 1

It’s a human tendency to mimic the emotions of people across from you. When someone gets angry at you, you want to get angry back. Pastor Rick explains in this message why you need to respond with gentleness instead and the effect of gentleness on conflict.


October 15, 2015

How God Blesses Broken Hearts, Part 2

Everyone will experience loss in their lives. You don’t get over a loss. You can’t go under it; you can’t go around it. You’ve got to go through the grief. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick shares six ways God blesses and heals a broken heart.


October 14, 2015

How God Blesses Broken Hearts, Part 1

Life is full of losses. The world is broken, and nothing works perfectly, including your relationships. Pastor Rick uses this message to help you understand a couple of truths that will give you a better perspective as you face the inevitable losses in your life and rise above them.


October 13, 2015

It Depends on Who You Depend On, Part 3

If you put your security in your bank account, your job, or your investments, that means you are an insecure person, because you can lose all of those things. Pastor Rick wants you to understand through this message how to get God’s blessing in your life by depending on God’s wealth and not your own.


October 12, 2015

It Depends on Who You Depend On, Part 2

When you are criticized or attacked, you’re going to have a tendency to get in there and defend yourself. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why you need to let God be your defender and, instead of retaliating, respond like Jesus did when he was insulted.


October 9, 2015

It Depends on Who You Depend On, Part 1

If you really want God’s blessing on your life, you can’t depend on what your feelings or your gut says. Join Pastor Rick as he shares in this message how to get God’s wisdom so that you will have fewer dead ends and failures in your life.