Dr. Jim Richards

We did get an operator’s manual in the Bible, but because people don’t trust what God said, they struggle to work a plan. Jesus taught us everything we need to know to have life at its best, and He taught us the keys of the Kingdom – the operating system for a believer who intends to have the abundant life. Jesus said, “Those who hear my words and put them into practice will be the one who builds...

Planet Earth becomes a place of death or life based on the entire collective beliefs and expectations of the people who live here. What is happening in our nation is the last big push to overthrow true civil justice and to establish a socialist government where the government’s word replaces God’s morals, values, and standards. It is not God bringing the downfall – it is iniquity bringing it. A co...

No matter how bad the wickedness is on Planet Earth, God will always move to recover, redeem, and protect us. God will always try to get us out of this mess we have gotten ourselves in. And even when the world reaches such wickedness that it is on the brink of destruction, He will show up and give us 1,000 years of peace and goodness. When we are standing before God and know we don’t deserve somet...

Isaiah 30:18 says, “For the Lord is a God of justice." As we see a lack of justice, the foundations of the earth are becoming unstable. To the degree that man abandons justice based on righteousness, mercy, and truth, to that degree, the very pillars of all foundations of the earth are being shaken. Without mercy and truth, there is no justice! God is incredibly merciful but He is also incredibly...

The world today presents a version of justice that is totally contradictory to the Word of God, and Christians are accepting that because they don’t know what true justice is. We often ask, “What is fair?” We must decide if man is more just than God. If we don’t believe God is fair, we’ll never trust Him and more than likely, we have been indoctrinated by religion or by Luciferianism. Isaiah 30:18...

It doesn’t matter where we start—what matters is the day we start over. God wants us to know what to expect from Him. Even if sin has hardened our heart, the moment we come to our senses we will remember the goodness of God and experience His tender mercies. No matter where we have been or how many mistakes we have made, our hope will be restored. God has paid an incredible price for us to have th...

God gets the wrap for being mean and hateful, but the truth is that generation after generation He shows love and compassion to people. When God began to declare His name or His goodness to Moses, He started with compassion. In other words, God is filled with loving sympathy for human frailty, does not put people into situations of temptation, and eases the punishment of the guilty. The word “comp...

If we believed what religion told us, it would be impossible to believe that God is fair and just. Most Christians struggle with whether God is fair. If we say that God allowed something we are saying He could have stopped it but He didn’t. Religion teaches that killing our relative was the only way God could get to us and teach us something. But would we go to someone who arranged for the destruc...

Clearly, the Bible shows that society and culture influence us, but we are not to solve problems the way modern society dictates. Socialization is an important biblical principle to living in victory and making life work for us. But we are being socialized or programmed by messages developed into society that go against the Word of God. Jesus said to take His yoke, which is His Lordship and His in...

The glory of God is the view, the reality, the opinion as God sees it. God has a view. His view is real. Our view is distorted by our emotions, limited understanding, and corrupt beliefs of the heart. I want to live in God’s reality; anything less than that is not God’s glory. So, if I want to live in His reality, but I am falling short of the glory of God, it means I am failing to perceive how go...

We won’t experience the goodness of God if we don’t believe the goodness of God! Just knowing about God is different than experiencing God with all of one’s capacity, according to the Greek word “know.” Scripture says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8). Believing is in a continuum with experiencing. When we experience the goodness of God, our level and capacity to believe expand gre...

There is a secret to transformation that lasts because it doesn’t require effort. The more time we spend in the presence of God, the quicker transformation will occur. Anything that requires effort, one day we are going to get tired of doing! Transformation takes place because we believe and perceive God as He really is. And to the degree that we see God as He is and abide in His presence and harm...

Redefining words is one of the most subtle and powerful tactics for twisting the truth. Most argumentative questions come to us because people have an agenda and a desperate need to be right. They try to convince themselves what they believe is the truth even though it does not produce peace in their lives. We have the right Scripture but like the rich young ruler, we interpret it with our own def...

The life we settle for is not the normal Christian life; experiencing God’s promises should be our normal. How do we get there? Jesus located the real need in the rich young ruler's life through questions. We need to be sure when having conversations with someone or reading the Bible that we understand the meanings of the words spoken or the words read. Words can create either a positive or negati...

When faced with a negative situation, your first response determines the path you walk and the process you take to get out of that situation. Is your first reaction to ask, “Why is this happening to me?” No matter what hits you or where it comes from, you must navigate in a way not to lose your footing in the battle through hesitation or inaction. You want to have a readiness of mind and to guard...

God wants us to have the best life possible, but we don’t know how to get there – is it my part or God's part? Join me this week and I will show you how to get there. On multiple levels, you are always creating the world around you for good or bad. God has already done His part by sending His Son and through His death, burial, and resurrection, has given us the New Covenant. Because of that covena...

If you’ve found yourself in a ditch and don’t even know how you got there, watch this week’s CyberChurch teaching to gain perspective for getting out and never getting in another one! Sin always begins with a sense of lack. The deceitfulness of sin is the hardening of your heart. When you start down a road of compromise, you do not know the end of that road. No matter how small the compromise, har...

The Bible talks about the way of Balaam and the error of Balaam. Join me this week to understand the difference. Balaam was a prophet. He was hired by an enemy of Israel to pronounce a curse on them, but God had blessed His people Israel. If a curse was pronounced on them by God's prophet, that would make God a liar and therefore none of His word would be true. Job's friends believed God had curse...

Religion has wrongly condoned and often instigated the blaming of God for our tests and trials, but the Bible clearly states that God tempts no one! Join me this week for a better understanding of God’s interaction with satan and with Job. God cannot be tempted; therefore He was not drawn into a wager with satan about Job’s reaction under duress. God will not curse what He has blessed; therefore,...

This statement is often quoted by Christians. Join me this week as I share its true context and if the answer is yes or no. Job is an historical book; it gives an accurate account of events and conversations that took place. It is very important to understand the difference between an account of history and what God actually says. Jesus was the Word made flesh; therefore, we must view every word o...

Job is a book people often refer to when they blame God for their difficulty. Join me this week to examine some reasons we cannot logically do that. One of the ways God has revealed Himself to mankind is by His names. If He brought sickness and death into our lives to teach us, He would have a name that represented that; if He used torment to make us more spiritual, He would have a name defining t...

How can the God who heals you be the God who makes you sick? Join me this week as we look at the truth about Job. Most of what people quote about Job denies the names of God, denies the life and teachings of Jesus, and presents God as an author of confusion and chaos. He is NOT the author of confusion and chaos; Satan is! You can never have solid faith if you have contradictory beliefs about God....

Righteousness has to start from the heart. Join me this week to gain an important distinction between good behavior and true righteousness. The overall concept of righteousness is “as it should be.” No amount of good behavior can produce righteousness, because it has to originate in our heart. We experience life as it should be in our heart when we are first at peace with God. When we believe that...

Righteousness is not just a position with God. Join me this week to study what righteousness should look like in our lives. If you are earning righteousness, it’s about you, not Jesus. Our righteousness is only because we are in Jesus. To experience His righteousness, we must know how He applied it in His life and harmonize our own lives with that. If it doesn’t affect our behavior and how we trea...

The parable of the narrow gate is about the Kingdom, not about getting saved. Join me this week as we look closely at what Jesus said was hard about entering the narrow gate. Jesus never said it was hard to get saved. Getting born again allows us to perceive the Kingdom realm. We enter, experience, and walk in the realm of Heaven on earth as we recognize Jesus as our source, our strength, our Lord...