Radio teaching Series

The Keys to a Blessed Life

God wants to bless your life! The problem is that people don’t always choose to live in ways that God can bless. Listen to this series by Pastor Rick 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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May 31, 2023

Handling Opposition to Your Faith – Part 4

How did Jesus treat those who opposed him? Even on the cross he said, “Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing” (Luke 23:34 GW). In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can show love—even when you’re under attack—to those who oppose you.


May 30, 2023

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 three kinds of suffering and how to remain faithful while facing opposition.


May 29, 2023

Handling Opposition to Your Faith – Part 2

The pressure you feel to cave in, 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.


May 26, 2023

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 face opposition to your faith.


May 25, 2023

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.


May 24, 2023

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.


May 23, 2023

How to Reconcile a Relationship – Part 2

When you meet with someone to resolve a conflict, you need to listen to 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.


May 22, 2023

How to Reconcile a Relationship – Part 1

It takes courage to approach someone you are in conflict with and tell them you want to work things 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.


May 19, 2023

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity – Part 3

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


May 18, 2023

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity – Part 2

If you are serious about becoming a person of integrity, the first step is to admit that you don’t always act with integrity. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why, if you want to have integrity, you must confess your sins and then make the choice to sin less.


May 17, 2023

God Blesses a Heart of Integrity – Part 1

In a world that is absolutely obsessed with appearance and image, how can 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.


May 16, 2023

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.


May 15, 2023

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.


May 12, 2023

Your Ministry of Mercy – Part 1

Jesus says in Matthew 5:7, “God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (NLT). If you want to experience God’s mercy, then you need to learn to be a minister of mercy. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick gives you four reasons God expects you to show mercy.


May 11, 2023

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 NLT).


May 10, 2023

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” (NCV). Pastor Rick uses this message to explain the three points of the Gospel, how God makes you right with himself, and what you need to do about it.


May 9, 2023

Why You Need to Stay Hungry – Part 1

“Righteousness” is a big word that’s used hundreds of times in the Bible. 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.


May 8, 2023

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.


May 5, 2023

The Strength of Gentleness – Part 3

Practicing gentleness helps you become more like Jesus. Listen to Pastor Rick as he teaches why developing a Christ-like gentleness will help you rest faithfully in God’s love.


May 4, 2023

The Strength of Gentleness – Part 2

If you claim to be a follower of Jesus, you don’t want 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.


May 3, 2023

The Strength of Gentleness – Part 1

It’s human to mimic the emotions of people around you. When someone gets angry at you, you often get angry back. Pastor Rick explains in this message why you need to respond to anger with gentleness and the effect that will have on the conflict.


May 2, 2023

How God Blesses Broken Hearts – Part 3

When you have a broken heart, God draws you close and grieves with you, and then he uses your grief to help you grow. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how God can bring good out of your pain.


May 1, 2023

How God Blesses Broken Hearts – Part 2

Everyone will experience loss in their lives. You don’t just get over a loss, and you can’t go under it or 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.


April 28, 2023

How God Blesses Broken Hearts – Part 1

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


April 27, 2023

It Depends on Who You Depend On – Part 3

If you put your security in your bank account, your job, or your investments, it won’t make you more secure—because you can still lose all of those things. Pastor Rick explains through this message how you get God’s blessing when you depend on God’s wealth and not your own.


April 26, 2023

It Depends on Who You Depend On – Part 2

When you are criticized or attacked, you’ll be tempted to 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.


April 25, 2023

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 tells you. 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.