Radio teaching Series

You Make Me Crazy (2018)

We all want peace in our relationships, since they are the only things in our lives that will last. In this message series, Pastor Rick helps you understand that to be a peaceful person, you need to be more like Jesus Christ. Join him as he talks more about how God is your perfect model of peace.

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March 27, 2018

How to Keep Your Marriage Growing – Part 3

The kind of affection that leads to a lasting relationship tends to seep out of marriages. It’s almost inevitable at some point. When it happens, Pastor Rick wants you to remember the four steps in this message that will help you recapture your marriage.


March 26, 2018

How to Keep Your Marriage Growing – Part 2

Marriages that grow will always demonstrate the ability to make adjustments for one another. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches three steps to becoming less selfish in your marriage and making positive adjustments for your spouse.


March 23, 2018

How to Keep Your Marriage Growing – Part 1

The most loving act you can show your spouse is to pay attention to him or her. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick shares the two reasons why paying attention to your spouse is one of the most important ways you say, “I love you.”


March 22, 2018

Keeping the Crazymakers from Making You Crazy – Part 3

Pastor Rick uses this message to show how gossip isn’t just wrong but also destructive and why forgiveness is always the better choice. Proverbs 17:9 says, “Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends” (NLT).


March 21, 2018

Keeping the Crazymakers from Making You Crazy – Part 2

What should you do when you struggle with forgiveness? In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how letting go of your hurt and emulating God’s character will bring God’s blessing.


March 20, 2018

Keeping the Crazymakers from Making You Crazy – Part 1

“A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense” (Proverbs 19:11 NIV). In this message, Pastor Rick helps you understand that when you’re dealing with people who are offensive or irritating, you need to look past the behavior to the pain.


March 19, 2018

Escaping the People Pleaser Trap – Part 2

When you understand you’re going to give an account for every word you say today, you’ll ask yourself, “Do I want God or that person disapproving of what I just said or did?” In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains the people-pleaser antidote and three things you need to do when you’re tempted to cop out under pressure.


March 16, 2018

Escaping the People Pleaser Trap – Part 1

“I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant” (Galatians 1:10 NLT). In this message, Pastor Rick teaches that in life, you only have to please one person – your Creator. That simplifies life enormously!


March 15, 2018

Breaking Free from Abuse – Part 3

The starting point in healing from abuse is to get to know your Healer. When you do, you’ll learn that God is truly just, and he is a whole lot better at settling the score than you are. In this broadcast, learn from Pastor Rick how to leave judgment in God’s hands so that you can move on from abuse.


March 14, 2018

Breaking Free from Abuse – Part 2

People don’t like to talk about abuse or even admit that it’s there, but trying to minimize it only makes it worse. Pastor Rick wants you to understand that God can give you the courage to take some healthy steps forward instead of minimizing and rationalizing the abuse.


March 13, 2018

Breaking Free from Abuse – Part 1

You can take a page from the book of Psalms when it comes to breaking free from abuse. In this message, Pastor Rick shows how King David modeled taking the first step in breaking free: sharing your pain with someone else.


March 12, 2018

Finding the Love of Your Life – Part 3

A bad marriage is a million times worse than not going out on Friday night! Pastor Rick uses this message to help you do an honest assessment of your relationship with the Lord and with your partner so that your relationship will honor God and move you toward your purpose.


March 9, 2018

Finding the Love of Your Life – Part 2

Studies have shown that 80 percent of all separations and divorce happen because one or both of the partners are emotionally unhealthy. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick gives a partial checklist of emotional health factors that you need to look for when you are looking for God’s best in your mate.


March 8, 2018

Finding the Love of Your Life – Part 1

The Bible says in Proverbs 12:26, “The righteous choose their friends carefully” (NIV). If you’re supposed to choose your friends carefully, you should be even more careful about who’s going to be your life partner. In this message, Pastor Rick debunks some myths about the choices we make in love.


March 7, 2018

Resolving Conflict – Part 3

There’s a big difference in reconciliation and resolution. Use this message from Pastor Rick to learn the difference and how you can become more like Jesus Christ through reconciling with those people in your life with whom you have conflict.


March 6, 2018

Resolving Conflict – Part 2

What’s more important: to fix the blame or fix the problem? In a conversation where you’re trying to resolve conflict, you can use your emotional energy to fix one or the other. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about some ground rules we need to set in relationships so that we stop fixing the blame.


March 5, 2018

Resolving Conflict – Part 1

Why does God want us to live at peace with everyone? Join Pastor Rick as he walks through the three devastating effects that unresolved conflict has on your life and how you can find the courage to face the conflict and then resolve it.


March 2, 2018

Who’s Pushing Your Buttons? – Part 3

Do you need a heart transplant? Join Pastor Rick as he talks about how your mouth reveals what’s in your heart. If your speech is harsh, boasting, or critical, maybe you need to see the heart specialist – Jesus Christ.


March 1, 2018

Who’s Pushing Your Buttons? – Part 2

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains that hurt people hurt people. It’s important to remember that when people hurt you, it’s because they’ve been hurt. Learn how to let go of your anger so that you can respond to others’ hurt with God’s love.


February 28, 2018

Who’s Pushing Your Buttons? – Part 1

Before you allow yourself to get mad at someone, calculate what you’re going to lose. You’re less likely to get angry when somebody’s pushing your buttons if you realize there’s always a price for returning anger for anger. In this message, Pastor Rick calculates the cost of anger.


February 27, 2018

Six Keys to Peace in Relationships – Part 3

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick walks through the attributes of a person full of wisdom. If God is the wisest and the most merciful person in the universe, any time we are merciful and cut others some slack, we are being like God. Wise people give others what they need, not what they deserve.


February 26, 2018

Six Keys to Peace in Relationships – Part 2

Feelings are neither right nor wrong, and to have peace in a relationship, you have to learn how to not just accept other people’s feelings but also make them feel heard. In this message, Pastor Rick shows you how with Heaven’s wisdom, you can be considerate of other’s feelings.


February 23, 2018

Six Keys to Peace in Relationships – Part 1

We all use tools, tricks of the trade, and skills in relationships that are actually counter productive. Pastor Rick uses this message to talk about three of the tools we use to get what we want from relationships and how a lack of God’s wisdom is the cause.