Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

This life is preparation for eternity. And how you choose to live on this side of eternity will determine where you spend the other side of eternity. In this message, Pastor Rick helps you organize your life around God's five purposes.

Many people spend their entire lives trying to belong. The universal longing for belonging is in everybody. Listen to this message by Pastor Rick to learn the many benefits of belonging to a church family.

Why is your spiritual family, the church, more important than your physical family? Because your physical family doesn't last. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach what it means to be part of the church.

Before you join a church, you must first commit your life to Jesus. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what it means to be part of the church.

When you know where you're headed and you focus in that direction, you're less likely to be distracted by less important things. Jesus lived that way and was a master of concentration. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how you can live a selective life like Jesus so you can live for God's kingdom and do what pleases the Father.

If you're not sure who you are, you can be manipulated and molded by the pressures, problems, and people around you—and that leads to stress! Join Pastor Rick as he shares how to settle in your mind that God loves you unconditionally and that you're his child.

The antidote to the two biggest causes of stress in your life is gentleness and humility. You learn them by reminding yourself every day that you're not God and you're not the savior. Join Pastor Rick to continue learning about the calm and rest only Jesus offers.

One reason we often feel overloaded is because we're trying to control things too much, often without even realizing it. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches the importance of staying in step with Jesus, the One who loves you and has great things in store for you!

What does Jesus say when we come to him with an emptiness in our lives? How does he respond when we tell him that we have nothing to give? Join Pastor Rick as he reminds you that God will never scold you or turn you away; he will always say, "Come to me."

The bigger the changes that happen in your life, the more time you need to spend with God, reading the Bible, talking to him in prayer, and listening to what he wants to say to you. Join Pastor Rick as he highlights the importance of spending daily time with God so you can experience his peace and rest.

There will always be people in your life who have bad intentions, or who will resent, criticize, and hurt you. There's no way around it. Thankfully, as Pastor Rick teaches in this message, you can trust that God sees, he cares, and he will deliver justice.

Anybody can be happy when everything's going their way. But only true joy can come from God when you're in the middle of suffering, grief, and heartbreak. In this message, Pastor Rick explores how God's peace can flood into the most chaotic of circumstances.

Pain, pressure, people, and problems—the four most common sources of unhappiness. They're the killjoys of life. In this message, Pastor Rick examines why happiness is not based on circumstances—it's a choice.

Do you feel under attack? Tell God. Do you feel like you have no energy? Tell God. Do you feel rejected or lonely? Tell God. In this message, Pastor Rick encourages you to dump everything you're feeling right now onto the Lord—he wants to hear from you!

Spectators at a race often shout, "Keep going!" to motivate the athletes. That's also great advice for anyone who feels emotionally, mentally, or spiritually exhausted from running the marathon of life. Join Pastor Rick as he reminds us that God will give us the power we need to finish what he has called us to do.

Only with Jesus in your life will you ever be able to love your spouse with God's everlasting love. Join Pastor Rick as he concludes this series about growing a love that lasts—by expressing faith, extending grace, expecting the best, and enduring the worst.

The longer you're in a relationship with an imperfect person (and that's everyone), the more you tend to expect the worst because you know their faults and weaknesses better than anybody else. Listen as Pastor Rick shares how staying hopeful and optimistic in your marriage will grow a love that lasts.

The longer you're married, the easier it is to become ungracious. No marriage can last without grace, forgiveness, acceptance, and a lot of patience. In this message, Pastor Rick shares that to make your marriage last, you must learn to extend grace.

In order to get a marriage makeover, you must deal with unresolved hurt. Listen as Pastor Rick explains the two ways to help heal your marriage of unresolved hurt and the three little words every married person must learn to say.

God specializes in marriage makeovers, in bringing dead, stagnant, and stale things to life again. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how accepting responsibility for your part in your relationship problems can help turn your marriage into something fresh, exciting, attractive, fulfilling, and wonderful.

Before you can improve your marriage, you've got to understand what causes marriages to go from harmony to hostility to apathy. Listen as Pastor Rick explains how unrealistic expectations can sink a marriage and how you can learn to be realistic about your spouse's imperfections, as well as your own.

In every marriage, you must continually make adjustments for the relationship to grow. Listen as Pastor Rick shares how adjusting in life requires unselfishness and how learning to be unselfish may be the number one lesson God wants to teach you.

God wants to grow your marriage—and you. Join Pastor Rick as he explains the reasons you need to keep paying attention to your spouse, for their benefit and for yours.

Marriage is a three-legged stool. It takes three to make it stand—you, your spouse, and Christ. Join Pastor Rick as he shares the key to marital stability through reliance on Jesus.

One of the purposes of marriage is to learn to be considerate, because Jesus is considerate. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how to be considerate of your spouse by showing them courtesy and treating them with respect and care.

A healthy marriage starts with two emotionally healthy people. Listen as Pastor Rick shares what the Bible says about emotional health and why it matters when choosing a spouse.

God wants marriage to be a partnership that helps you fulfill your calling. In this message, Pastor Rick explains how spouses who complement each other's SHAPE, gifts, and calling have incredible marriages and can avoid much conflict and pain.

The negative opinions of others can easily get us down. And if our happiness depends on the approval of other people, we'll never find lasting happiness. Join Pastor Rick as he helps you discover God's strategy for true happiness.

If you plan to get married, you need to be sure your future spouse shares the most important part of your life: your relationship with God. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches about the importance of spiritual unity and how it can even allow you to enjoy unity in many other areas.

The world may offer you self-help books or encouraging thoughts. But God offers life-changing truth. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the truth of the gospel and its power to transform.

God wants everyone in the church to be part of proclaiming his message. In this message, Pastor Rick will help you see how God can use you, no matter who you are.

There's one thing that makes the church different from every other group of people: The church has the Holy Spirit. Join Pastor Rick as he explains the difference God's Spirit makes in your life.

When you give your resources as an act of worship or to bring people to Jesus, you honor God. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach about the ways God wants you to invest in his purposes and why he wants you to store up treasure in heaven.

God wants you to invest in growing your character, in encouraging other believers, and in helping those in need. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how those investments will yield eternal dividends.

To be financially healthy, you have to plan carefully how you use your money. Listen as Pastor Rick teaches about the biblical principle of accounting.

You need to honor God first in your finances. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches the principle of tithing.

God designed you to be productive. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why God made you that way and what that means for your daily life.

You reap the same things that you sow. If you plant seeds of selfishness, you reap selfishness; if you sow kindness, you reap kindness. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about how this principle applies to every area of your life.

You always reap in a different season than you sow. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches what you can do while you're waiting for God's blessing.

Everything in life starts as a seed. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why God requires you to first plant a seed in faith before he begins to bless your life with fruitfulness.

Did you know that you can become possessed by your possessions? In this message, Pastor Rick will give you practical strategies for focusing on eternal priorities instead.

You can have very little materially and still be content, or you can have a lot and still wish for more. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how contentment has nothing to do with your circumstances and everything to do with your attitude.

God has made you unique in every way, including in the resources he's given you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why contentment requires you to stop comparing yourself to others.

Everything you have belongs to God: you are only a manager of what he gives you. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches the spiritual discipline of money management.

God often uses money to test your faith. Join Pastor Rick as he explains why God does this and what you need to do to pass the test.

We may not know exactly what heaven will look like, but we do know that God will be there. That means we will get to experience God's glory and his goodness forever—and that will be enough. Don't miss Pastor Rick's continued teaching on how wonderful heaven will be for those who follow Jesus.

Many people wonder what they're going to do in heaven. You're definitely not going to be bored! In this message, Pastor Rick explores some of the specific answers the Bible gives about what your work looks like in heaven.

God created every person because he wants them to be a part of his family. He invites everyone to heaven, his home, but not everyone chooses to accept God's terms. Pastor Rick shares in this message how you can accept God's invitation to heaven.

What is heaven? There are a lot of misconceptions about what heaven will be like. But the Bible says it's a physical and permanent place that will last forever. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how, in God's goodness, God reserves heaven for his family.

Are you worried about the future? You don't know what tomorrow will look like, but you do know that God has prepared an eternity for you in heaven. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to live in light of eternity and share that hope with others.