Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope

God loves to bless our generosity! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches the principles you need to follow for God to “bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV).

Using the life of Daniel, Pastor Rick teaches about the qualities God wants you to develop in your life: integrity, discipline, control, and humility.

What is the right way to pray when you’re in pain? Join Pastor Rick as he teaches in this message how to pray like Jesus, who trusted God and prayed for God’s will even as he faced the cross.

Sometimes God delays his answer to our prayers because he knows his plan is better than ours—but we’re not ready for it! Pastor Rick shares in this broadcast how God uses our seasons of waiting to grow our character and faith and make us more like Jesus.

Healing doesn’t happen on your own. God has given you people in your life to help you, and he wants to give you everything you need for restoration. He just wants you to ask him! Pastor Rick explains in this message the importance of prayer in our healing.

There is no secret strategy to having a powerful prayer life. The Bible has given us everything we need to know how to pray. Pastor Rick shares in this message how to combat distractions to prayer so that you can focus on God as you talk to him.

When you understand how deeply God loves you, it will transform your prayer life. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how God’s love and acceptance gives you confidence to approach God and ask him for everything you need in Jesus’ name.

When you understand how deeply God loves you, it will transform your prayer life. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how God’s love and acceptance gives you confidence to approach God and ask him for everything you need in Jesus’ name.

Every day you go without prayer and spending time with God, he is waiting to hear from you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches in this message about the way God feels when you don’t talk to him. You were created for companionship with God—it’s time to start talking to him!

Every day you go without prayer and spending time with God, he is waiting to hear from you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches in this message about the way God feels when you don’t talk to him. You were created for companionship with God—it’s time to start talking to him!

God doesn’t want you to try and impress him with your prayers. He already knows everything about you—and he still loves you and accepts you. In this message, Pastor Rick continues teaching about how to draw closer to God by being yourself.

Prayer is not a formal ceremony that requires you to follow a set pattern for God to hear you. In this message, Pastor Rick shows you how to talk to God in simple and sincere ways and explains why longer prayers are not necessarily stronger prayers.

God is a Father who is never too busy for us and who loves to meet our needs and heal our hurts. We can turn to him for comfort and support, attention and protection. Join Pastor Rick as he digs deeper to explain how God has the heart of a good Father.

When we embrace just how much God cares for us, it’s only natural to start trusting him more. In this message, Pastor Rick helps you understand how committed God is to working good out of all the details of your life.

Instead of running from difficult situations, God wants you to stand strong! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches what it means when the Bible tells us to stand firm against adversity.

No matter how impossible your situation, your problem is never too big for God to handle. Join Pastor Rick for this lesson on why it’s important to go to God first when things seem overwhelming—and why God is your best defender.

Will you trust God with your disappointments? Pastor Rick speaks about the importance of acknowledging that God is sovereign in your life, that he knows what’s best for you, and that his plans for you are good, even when things seem bad. Will you trust God with your challenges?

God is ready to pour out his blessings upon you, but first you have to decide: “Who will be first in my life?” Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why you need to rely on God and not yourself.

You can’t have the peace of God until you first make peace with God. But how do you do that? In this message, Pastor Rick explains how to live a life surrendered to Christ and how to make God your first priority.

The starting point to peace is accepting what cannot be changed. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can get stuck in resentment, bitterness, or guilt over things you cannot change. Learn how, instead, to change what you can and accept what you cannot.

God sees it all, God knows it all, God cares about it all, and God is in control of it all. So what are you worried about? In this message, learn how to break free from worry, conflict, and “when and then” thinking so you can be joyful, no matter what happens.

A joy-filled person has creativity, energy, and productivity. But to become that kind of person, you must learn to forgive past hurts, trust God for the future, and understand God’s purpose for your life. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to live a joy-filled life according to God’s Word.

God wants you to experience his best for your future. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can stop focusing on your hurts and start focusing on Christ. You will learn how to live a life of significance and purpose.

God wants to heal your hidden wounds. In this message, Pastor Rick provides practical, biblical steps that will transform the way you think about your past, helping you to find healing from rejection, ridicule, and regret.

No matter how hopeless your situation may seem, God is always there, working to give you a future and a hope. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches that you are never alone because God will never abandon you. Where God is, hope is.

God is the only source of true and everlasting hope. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how God is always present in your life, no matter how good or bad your circumstances are. Where God is, there is always hope.

Suffering doesn’t automatically build character, but it can if you respond to it in a godly way. Pastor Rick teaches how to handle unfairness in a way that honors God.

God could make the world completely fair in just an instant. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches why God doesn’t do that and how God wants you to respond to unfairness.

No matter how you’ve strayed from God’s design for sexuality, there’s hope and forgiveness available to you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains how you can find a fresh start after moral failure.

Garbage in, garbage out. That’s not just a cliché. It’s what the Bible teaches! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to make good choices based on biblical truth that protect your moral purity.

You can’t expect to maintain moral purity if you can’t agree on a moral standard. In this message, Pastor Rick reminds us that purity begins with a commitment to live by God’s standards instead of making up our own rules.

After his life fell apart, Job had every reason to harbor resentment toward God and his friends. Instead, as Pastor Rick teaches in this message, Job’s story demonstrates how to deal with resentment in a healthy, God-honoring manner.

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why and how to show respect to people, even when they don’t appear to deserve it.

You have just enough time to do everything God wants you to do. In this message, Pastor Rick shares the importance of putting Jesus at the center of your schedule and the steps it takes to do that.

In this message, Pastor Rick explains why a balanced life is only achievable when you put Jesus at the center of all you do.

God wants you to step out of your comfort zone in faith. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what God can do through your life when you fully trust him.

God values who you are more than what you accomplish. Join Pastor Rick as he explains what it means to live with great character and teaches how the Bible can help you build it into your life.

What you value in life will define how you live. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to identify and claim eternal values so you can establish your life on a rock-solid foundation.

In this message, Pastor Rick explains why God wants you to build up, motivate, and inspire other people by sharing your experiences with them. you help take away their fears.

By sharing your experiences, you can give people hope, help them overcome their fears, and help them break through barriers. Join Pastor Rick as he explains why God wants you to use your experiences to mentor others, and how you can do that.

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick continues to explain what it means to be a talker, feeler, thinker, or doer in service to Christ. God expects every one of us to mature in all of these areas. But he also knows each one of us tends to lead in one area. The great news is that God is always right there with us, helping us to follow his instructions.

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the good news that God specializes in heart transplants. Learn about what God can do through a broken heart submitted to him. When you do what God wires you to do, your purpose in life will be fulfilled and you will bring glory to God.

Join Pastor Rick as he helps you discover the specific mission God created you to fulfill, based upon your SHAPE. Your spiritual gifts are the equipment he gives you to do what he asks you to do. Learn how to develop your gifts and then use them to serve God and others.

In this message, Pastor Rick explains the gifts God gives you when you become a believer. When you know who you are shaped to be, then you can start focusing on the things God created you to do.

Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach why God doesn’t compare you with anyone else. He created you to be uniquely you with a specific mission in life.

Influence doesn’t come from what you get in life. Influence comes from what you give away in life, and the more you give away, the more influential you’re going to be. Join Pastor Rick as he shares examples of how this has been true in his own life.

The first law of the harvest is this: Everything starts as a seed. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains what the seeds are in your life and why you need to work hard to plant seeds of trust, kindness, and encouragement in your relationships.

Jonah didn’t want to follow God’s mission for him and go on a long journey to preach to Israel’s enemies. But Jonah also found out that the longer you run from your mission, the worse the storm is going to get. Join Pastor Rick for this broadcast as he shows you how to stop running from God and accept and follow God’s mission for you.

In today’s message, Pastor Rick teaches about the crucial role Jesus plays in fixing the broken bond between God and us. Learn why Jesus needed to step in and make amends for our mistakes, setting the stage for a new beginning. Learn how you can always live in peace for the present and rest in hope for the future!

How do you put on the full armor of God? Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why prayer is essential for preparing yourself for spiritual war. Prayer is how we fight the battle! And the best time to put on your spiritual armor is in the morning, before you even set foot out the door.

God wants us to learn to be generous, because he wants us to be more like him. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why, when you use what God gives you to help others, you learn to trust him and develop one of his characteristics: sacrificial generosity.

The Bible tells us that God is looking for people with faith—but faithful people are hard to find. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why living the life you were created to live requires you to trust God with your finances, your health, your job, your relationships, and your future.

When you get closer to God, his light reveals your sin and how it causes emotional distress and disappointment, relational distance and discord, and a disconnect with God—the worst result of all. But Jesus overcame the world and defeated the power of sin! Learn from Pastor Rick in this message what that means and how it will change your life.

Satan wants to establish a foothold in your life, and once he gets deep enough into an area of sin, he turns the foothold into a stronghold. Once that happens, it will be harder for you to take back control of your life. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick talks about strongholds and what we can do to protect ourselves against them.

Before there was sin, death and sadness and sorrow and difficulty did not exist. It was only when everything got broken that our rebellion brought death into the world. But Pastor Rick reminds us in this message that God did not leave us without hope—and he is ready to help us change and become more like him.

It’s easy to become so focused on what not to think about that you end up thinking about it even more! The Bible teaches that the thoughts we resist tend to persist. Pastor Rick explains in this broadcast how Jesus helps us to shift our thoughts from negative to positive.

You can say “no” to sin—and you need to constantly remind yourself of that as you seek freedom from your hurts, habits, and hangups. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how to make the right choices as you respond to the Holy Spirit at work in you.

You know that when you come to God and confess your sin, he is faithful to forgive. But God also wants you to confess your sin to another person. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast how an accountability partner helps you make lasting changes as you experience someone else loving you unconditionally, accepting you, and praying for you.

God expects you to run the race he has set for you—not the race you set for yourself or the race that other people set for you. Run the race God created you to run! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how living for the approval of others will hold you back and why you need to live for an audience of One.

The Bible says two things will hold you back as you run the race God sets before you: the things that weigh you down, such as unrealistic expectations or being stuck in the past, and sin, the things we know are wrong but we do anyway. Join Pastor Rick to learn how to let go of the things that keep you from running your race well.

Don't waste your pain. The Bible teaches you need to let it turn you to God, spend more time with him and his Word, and remind you of his promises.

The Bible is worthless to you when it’s sitting on a shelf at home. But with God’s Word in your mind, it becomes a powerful weapon to fight every temptation Satan can throw at you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why memorizing God’s Word will help you overcome the persistent temptations in your life.

Join Pastor Rick as he explains how to change the way you think by relying on the power and direction of the Holy Spirit.

To have the mind of Christ means you want to do God's will, even when it's painful, even when it's difficult, and even when it seems impossible. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how Jesus gave us the ultimate example of this the night before he went to the cross.

When you have the mind of Christ, you will be so secure in your identity, your purpose, and God's presence in your life that you won't need to look to other people for approval.

Join Pastor Rick as he continues to explain how knowing and applying biblical truth leads us to the life God wants us to live.

As a believer, your goal is to learn to think like Jesus. This starts by seriously thinking about the things you think about. Learn why it is important to let God guide your thoughts.