The Ranch Church Podcast

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, visit ranchchurch.com. Guest speaker Derek Bluett opens Acts chapter 9 and the conversion of Saul, arguing that the gospel offers not behavior modification but true transformation. Walking through Saul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus and Ananias's obedience in going to pray for him, Derek shows tha...

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, visit ranchchurch.com. On this family Sunday, Dr. Rich Danson teaches the whole congregation, kids included, what it means that Jesus is the Good Shepherd. Starting in John 10, he traces the shepherd picture from Isaiah's prophecy of a coming Ruler through David the shepherd king, showing how sheep are helpless w...

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, visit ranchchurch.com. Continuing through Hebrews 11, Pastor Rick Soto asks the church a direct question: are you ready to grow? Preaching from verses 17 through 22, he walks through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, four men who all experienced God's discipline on the way to becoming heroes of faith. He grounds...

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. John and Debby Wright, who are stepping into the role of global leaders of the Vineyard movement, join us at the Ranch while on sabbatical in the Santa Ynez Valley with their family. Debby opens with a greeting from the worldwide Vineyard family and a picture of churches gathering in every...

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. Guest speaker Pastor Lars Linton opens John 5 at the pools of Bethesda, where a great crowd of sick people waited for the water to stir and one man had been lying there thirty-eight years. Out of that entire crowd, Jesus walks straight to the one person nobody noticed. Around that single mo...

You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. Continuing through the hall of faith in Hebrews 11, Pastor Rick Soto turns to verses 13 through 16, where the saints of old are called strangers and exiles who died in faith while seeking a better country. His message begins with a simple charge: don't waste your life. Using the picture of...

Continuing in the book of Hebrews, Pastor Rick Soto opens what he calls the hall of faith in Hebrews 11 and walks through three lives: Noah, Abraham, and Sarah. He teaches that all of life revolves around faith, and that our faith is never in faith itself but in the person of Jesus Christ. Tracing David's confrontation with Goliath and his prayers in Psalm 18 and Psalm 62, he shows how God builds...

Show notes You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. In this interactive teaching, Pastor Rick Soto opens Psalm 23 as a school of prayer. He teaches two simple practices, praying scripture by agreement and praying scripture by application, and leads the church in praying the shepherd psalm together, line by line. Along the way he t...

Scripture references: Primary: Hebrews 11:4-6 (Abel's offering, Enoch's walk, faith pleases God) Supporting: Genesis 4 (Cain and Abel), Genesis 5 (Enoch), Ephesians 2:8-9, Luke 1:37, Galatians 5:16, Psalm 14:1, Romans 1:22, Proverbs 20:12 Message summary: Dr. Rich Danson opens Hebrews 11 by establishing that faith is the foundation of the Christian life—not earned works, but God's gift received th...

SERMON TITLE: Pray Our Father SCRIPTURE: Matthew 6:9-13 (The Lord's Prayer) You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. THE MESSAGE Pastor Rick Soto teaches on prayer through the lens of relationship. The deepest truth about God is not a doctrine but a person: He is Father. The power of praying the Lord's Prayer lies not in repeating...

Show Notes: "Faith Is" (Hebrews 11:1-3) You're listening to the Ranch Church Podcast. For more information and service times, go to ranchchurch.com. Scripture Hebrews 11:1-3 Message Pastor Jeff Clay defines Christian faith by starting with a simple but profound question: What is faith? While everyone exercises faith in some form, Christian faith is distinct because its object matters entirely. Fai...

Don't Throw Away Your Confidence - Pastor Rick Soto SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Primary: Hebrews 10:31-38 Supporting: Genesis 35:5, 2 Chronicles 17:9, Acts 5:11, Matthew 3:15, John 1:38, John 3, John 5:6, John 5:47 MESSAGE SUMMARY: Finishing out Hebrews 10, Pastor Rick builds the case that true confidence in God is inseparable from the fear of the Lord. Using free climber Alex Honnold as an illustration...

Lines Not to Cross - Pastor Rick Soto Primary: Hebrews 10:26-29 Supporting: 2 Timothy 2:15, Philippians 1:21, Galatians 2:20, Matthew 4:19, Matthew 14:22, Revelation 2:4, Luke 7:41-48, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 5:11, Hebrews 6, Hebrews 12:15 MESSAGE SUMMARY: Part two of the sacred space series, following directly from Hebrews 10:19-25. Pastor Rick turns to the warnings in Hebrews 10:26-29,...

The Power Of Sacred Space - Pastor Rick Soto - Hebrews 10:19-25 The cross doesn't just forgive you. It gives you access. In this message, Pastor Rick Soto unpacks Hebrews 10:19-25 to show that the invitation of the gospel goes further than the removal of sin. Through the blood of Jesus and his role as great high priest, you are now welcomed into a sacred space with God, a place of healing, identit...

Once for All -- Hebrews 10:1-18 - Jeff Clay The old sacrificial system was never meant to save anyone. It was meant to teach. Every animal brought to the altar was a reminder of sin, and a pointer toward the one sacrifice that would actually settle the debt once and for all. In Hebrews 10, Jeff Clay shows how the author builds an airtight case for the supremacy of Christ as the perfect high priest...

How Can We See Revival in the Valley? -- Matthew 9:35-38 - Dr. Rich Danson Revival does not start with an event. It starts with a heartbeat. In Matthew 9, Jesus looked at the crowds and was moved with compassion, and that compassion is exactly where Dr. Rich Danson begins this message on what it would take to see genuine revival in the Santa Ynez Valley. Drawing on his own conversion during the Ca...

Before Timothy became one of the most trusted leaders in the early church, two women shaped his faith from childhood. His grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice gave him something no school or program could: a life rooted in God's word, lived out in front of him every day. In this Mother's Day message, Mike Waliser traces the story of Timothy and the apostle Paul to make a simple and serious point...

Knowing the Lord -- Hebrews 8:1-10 - Pastor Rick Soto What was God doing before he created anything? Before the universe, before time, before you, the Father and the Son were already in love with each other. That love is the foundation of everything, and you have been invited into it. In Hebrews 8, Pastor Rick traces five things that Jesus as our high priest actually does: he rules at the right ha...

He Has Risen John 20:1–29 Jeff Clay & Rick Soto  ·  Easter Sunday   On Resurrection Sunday, Jeff Clay and Pastor Rick walk through John 20 together and show you what the disciples actually saw inside that empty tomb, and why it matters that John believed before he ever saw the risen Jesus.   "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed." — John 20:29   This message covers the grief of...

The Four Mysteries of Melchizedek -- Hebrews 7:1-22 - Pastor Rick What does a mysterious king-priest from Genesis have to do with your life right now? In Hebrews 7, Pastor Rick unlocks four mysteries hidden in the figure of Melchizedek and shows how each one points directly to Jesus Christ as the eternal king and high priest. In this message you will hear why Jesus had to fulfill the Melchizedek p...

SHOW NOTES Who was Melchizedek, and why does the book of Hebrews make such a big deal about him? In this message from Hebrews 7:1-22, Jeff Clay takes us back to one of the most mysterious figures in all of scripture and shows us why he matters more than most people realize. Using the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe as a backdrop, Jeff draws a line from Abraham's daring hostage rescue of his nephew Lo...

In this message from Hebrews 6:9-20, we explore what it means to live with confident hope in the promises of God. The passage opens with the word "beloved," and the preacher anchors the entire sermon there: everything that follows, the call to diligence, the warning against sluggishness, the illustration of Abraham, flows from the fact that God loves his people unconditionally. Key stops along the...

Episode Title: Go Deeper: From Elementary Faith to Maturity Text: Hebrews 6:1–8 In this message, we continue our study through Hebrews and confront one of the most sobering and misunderstood passages in Scripture. “Let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity.” That is the invitation. Go deeper. This message wrestles with what spiritual maturity actually looks like and why...

Episode Summary In this message from Hebrews 5:11–14, we step into a sharp but loving rebuke. The writer of Hebrews pauses his deep teaching about Jesus as our High Priest to address a serious issue: spiritual immaturity. The problem is not ignorance. It is sluggishness. A drift. A loss of hunger. This passage challenges us to examine whether we are growing in Christ or settling into spiritual com...

Episode Summary In this message from Hebrews 5, Pastor Rick explores the obedience of Jesus and what it means for us today. Jesus’ obedience led to perfection and eternal salvation. Ours leads to direction, maturity, and discernment. This teaching challenges believers to grow beyond spiritual milk into spiritual maturity, learning to love God deeply, walk in wisdom, and hold fast to Christ in a cu...