Dr. Jim Richards

Please enjoy this encore Cyberchurch episode from July, 2020. "Spiritual Secrets For A Brand New Beginning" will return soon. So many people have asked me if this is the end of time. If you’re asking that question, you don’t really understand what the Bible means when it talks about “the end.” In Matthew 24, when Jesus talks about the many things happening and says, “This is not the end”; He is ta...

Please enjoy this encore Cyberchurch episode from July, 2020. "Spiritual Secrets For A Brand New Beginning" will return soon. When Jesus returns, it will not be to bring an end to the world but to prevent the antichrist and evildoers from destroying the world and mankind. Until He returns, there are ways we can manage ourselves so that we can be overcomers no matter what’s going on around us. Part...

Please enjoy this encore Cyberchurch episode from July, 2020. "Spiritual Secrets For A Brand New Beginning" will return soon. Anyone can look around and see what is happening in the world today. But God wants us to see what’s happening and properly understand “the times.” Unless we understand the times, i.e. "why" these things are happening, we can never properly understand what actions to take. O...

2021 is upon us, and here in America, we’re facing what is probably the most perilous times our country has ever faced. Many are living in fear and dread, trying to predict what kind of year it will be. While I can’t tell you what’s coming next, I can assure you that we can still be overcomers regardless of what happens. We can face the obstacles, and we can win. God can do something in us that su...

Every year at Christmastime, the phrase “peace on earth” is declared around the world. However, in Luke 2:14, when it says, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” the angels weren’t saying that at His coming, Jesus would establish peace among men. The Bible specifically says there would be peace toward men. In other words; for the first time since man rebelled in...

I hope you’re preparing for a meaningful Christmas. By that, I mean a Christmas that honors God and celebrates what Jesus came to earth to give us. You can bring the life of God to your family and friends in an incredibly meaningful way. In this week’s CyberChurch message, I’m talking to you about The Star of Bethlehem. The Star of Bethlehem brings us to an incredible truth - that all of what we c...

“You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you...” (Job 22:28, AMP). To be true people of faith, we must understand that we are made in the likeness and image of God, and regardless of whether we deserve it or not, we have authority here on Planet Earth simply because we are human beings. Likewise, we have authority in heaven because we are in Jesus, and He has author...

Everything that happens in the supernatural between us and God is supposed to happen from and through the heart. At creation; God conceived and believed each element in His own heart. Once He conceived and believed it in His heart He spoke it into existence. He spoke with intention and it manifested exactly the way He believed. Speaking with intention is faith that says, “This is already mine.” We...

Everything about our faith begins with what we believe about creation. The first and simplest place to understand what it looks like to be created in God’s likeness and image is in the life of Jesus. Jesus wasn’t just with God; He WAS God. When He came to Planet Earth, He emptied Himself and became a man. This means that everything Jesus did on Planet Earth required the same abilities to get thing...

God wants us to be able to move past the pain of our bad decisions. In order to do that, we must first identify and own it. Then, we have to decide what we will do with it - send it away or keep it and allow it to destroy our lives. Once we make a bad decision, it’s like having a rock in our shoe. When there’s a rock in our shoe, in order to remove it, we have to take hold of it and throw it away,...

We all make bad decisions. When we do, God doesn’t beat us up, put us down, or try to make us feel guilty. However, the people around us often do. Some people use our failures as an opportunity to express their envies and jealousies towards us, in order to build themselves up, making it difficult for us to overcome our bad decisions by making new and good choices. Unfortunately, God is usually bla...

My new series, “Overcoming Bad Decisions,” starts today! Everything happening in our lives at this moment is, to some degree, related to a very specific decision that we’ve made. A single bad decision can take us down a road that we never intended to walk. That doesn’t mean we caused it, but we are where we are because of our decisions. As children of God, one of the most spiritual things that wil...

The one thing Jesus said more than anything else is, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matthew 11:15) In the days to come, we will see some of the most phenomenal miracles that have ever happened. Most of them won’t happen at the altars of churches, or at the hands of the clergy. Most of the miracles will happen with real believers, facing real-life situations. We have to make a decision...

Man has created a concept of God that has nothing to do with who God revealed Himself to be. The doctrine of sovereignty is the greatest theological misunderstanding that probably negatively affects more people in the world than any other doctrine. We have redefined sovereignty to mean that God is in control and can do anything He wants. All sovereignty really means is that God acts without being...

Everyone wants to be treated fairly, but we want to define fairness based on our own personal perspective. We feel like victims, but never go back and look at how we got where we are. We choose to blame others Instead of taking personal responsibility for our problems. The justice we need in our world today doesn’t come from any type of legislation but from the hearts of people who love righteousn...

God’s justice is far more than a code of laws and consequences. God’s justice has the inherent power to transform the believer into a fair, merciful person. God doesn’t merely give us a standard; He gives us the power to live in that standard. We will never understand what it means to have a fair and just society, city, state, country, or workplace until we understand what God says about it. Once...

Most people define original sin as Adam and Eve disobeying God in the Garden by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Original sin was not just them eating from the tree. Original sin was that they ate from the tree for a particular purpose - because they believed a lie. They believed God wasn’t good, that they weren’t created in His likeness and His image. They believed the only...

In our world today, most everything is based on rumor rather than fact. The Bible speaks very strongly against liars, and people who exaggerate and spread rumors. It clearly shows us the destruction this type of communication causes. Once a rumor is accepted as truth and begins to pass through the population, the rumor does more damage than the activity that is actually taking place. The news medi...

A lot of people want to know what’s going on in America and the world. Is this the end? Is Jesus coming back? People don’t know who or what to trust. We are distracted through fear and trepidation. We are living in a time the Bible calls “the beginning of sorrows.” Times are bad, no doubt. But no matter what is going on around us or how bad it is, we can connect with God and experience strength, p...

The cry of the world today is that there is injustice. Everything is unfair and slanted toward the white or the wealthy, this group or that group. The people setting buildings on fire, stealing, robbing, and killing other people all say they’re seeking justice. The problem is in how you define justice. One of the primary characteristics God conveys about Himself in Scripture is justice. He is just...

One of the most important aspects of God’s character is Justice. Eight of the Ten Commandments were about treating one another with love, respect, and value. When Israel entered Canaan, the Ten Commandments were expanded into a code of justice, based on the love of God. God’s system of justice was revolutionary. It provided protection and rights for women, slaves, servants, and immigrants. It abol...

All it takes to completely change your life is a heart awakening and in an instant, everything in your world can be transformed. One glimpse of healing can forever change your health. A single inspiration can lift you out of poverty or lack. When your heart awakens, it will transform you into what it sees. You can use the Word of God to show your heart a completely new reality, the one God promise...

I want to help you get past your failures! Sadly, we tend to define ourselves by our past mistakes. The greatest success stories in the world came from people who simply used their failures as stepping stones to success: Albert Einstein, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison, just to name a few. If we were to put as much effort into learning from our failures as we do making excuses for them, w...

We are not who we think we are! In early childhood we began to act like our influences dictated. We buried our true identity beneath the behavior our family required. Sadly, we came to believe we were our behavior. But that’s not the real you. That is what the Bible calls the old man: the man you think you are outside of Jesus! But the Bible tells us we can put on the hidden man of the heart. Join...

Of all the factors that can consistently affect our lives negatively, there is probably nothing more devastating than what the Bible calls a “broken” heart. Because the heart is the seat of who we are, it affects every aspect of life. It is the source of all abiding emotions, good or bad. From the heart emerges all of life’s boundaries. In other words, every sense of limitation we experience flows...