Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

People often use manipulative tools and tricks to get what they want from relationships, but those strategies are actually counter-productive. Listen in as Pastor Rick explains what the strategies are and why they fail.

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.

The Bible says, " Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you" (Ephesians 4:32 NIV). In this message, Pastor Rick introduces you to the best model for living in forgiveness: Jesus.

In this message, Pastor Rick looks into God's Word to explain how to show respect to people who disagree with you.

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.