Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

Do you ever want to just cry out to God and tell him how hard life is? God wants to hear it! He wants you to look to him and tell him how you're struggling while you're pursuing your mission. Pastor Rick helps you understand in this broadcast how God cares about your pain and is ready to restore your hope.

When you feel hopeless, it's easy to focus on your circumstances. That's when you need to remember this: No matter what is changing around you, you can always count on God's unchanging goodness and faithfulness. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach a biblical response to feelings of hopelessness so you can continue in your mission.

Jonah didn't want to follow God's mission for him and go on a long journey to preach to Israel's enemies. But Jonah also found out that the longer you run from your mission, the worse the storm is going to get. Join Pastor Rick for this broadcast as he shows you how to stop running from God and accept and follow God's mission for you.

When you run from God's mission for your life, there will always be consequences. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick continues to look at the book of Jonah and shows you why, even though your life mission may be scary at first, it is always better to take a step of faith and follow God's plan.

If you want to know God's mission, then you have to get in the Bible. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why you need God's wisdom when you face the storms that come with your mission. You'll learn the ways God speaks to you to reveal his mission for you and keep you on the right path in the middle of the storm.

In today's message, Pastor Rick teaches about the crucial role Jesus plays in fixing the broken bond between God and us. Learn why Jesus needed to step in and make amends for our mistakes, setting the stage for a new beginning. Learn how you can always live in peace for the present and rest in hope for the future!

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how the sinful choices made by humans have devastated the world and been disastrous in our lives. When we mishandle the gifts God has given us, there will always be consequences. Learn about God's plan for our redemption.

Are you ready to uncover the mystery of God's plan? Pastor Rick digs deep into the reasons the world is in such chaos, and then he reveals the heart of God and his endless love. The great mystery of God's redemptive, eternal plan applies directly to your life, both now and in the future.

The cross and the resurrection prove God's power over death so you no longer need to fear it. In this episode, Pastor Rick explains how the resurrection frees you to live with purpose and faith, knowing that when you die, you'll live forever in heaven because of your faith in Jesus Christ and his resurrection.

But God never intended for you to live life that way. That's why he sent Jesus—to give you forgiveness for your sins so you can live free, letting go of the sin and guilt from your past that weigh you down. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how the power of the resurrection transforms your life.

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to earn the trust of your colleagues by being reliable. As you learn to take on more responsibility, you'll be able to reach your maximum potential at work.

In this message, Pastor Rick explains why loyalty is important to your success at work, and how your choices affect the way the way your coworkers relate to you"?

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick looks to Joseph for an example of how to follow an audacious dream given to you by God. Learn how to step out in faith, even when God's plan doesn't make sense or the odds seem against you.

When you have a major decision to make, the Bible says to count the cost. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how you can use God's Word to evaluate the cost of any decision.

Are you facing a tough decision about what to do with your career, such as whether or not to change jobs? Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what you can learn from Solomon—the wisest man who ever lived, a wealthy businessman, and author of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches what God promises when you trust him by faithfully using your gifts to fulfill his purpose for your life.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 says, "Dreaming instead of doing is foolishness, and there is ruin in a flood of empty words" (TLB). In this message, Pastor Rick explains why it is important to start trying those things you've always wanted to do.

You can learn a lot from your experiences—good and bad. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why it's important to review the events of your life so you can see how God has taught you through your successes and failures.

In today's global economy, the new missionaries are businesswomen and businessmen. Pastor Rick teaches in this message how to use your business to further God's Kingdom.

God is far more concerned about who you are than what you do, but he does use your work and your workplace to develop your character. Pastor Rick uses this message to explain how your workplace is a life course in character development.

God wants you to work so you can express what he made you to be. He's given you certain gifts and talents, and he expects you to use them! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how you can know if your job is right for you.

How do you put on the full armor of God? Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why prayer is essential for preparing yourself for spiritual war. Prayer is how we fight the battle! And the best time to put on your spiritual armor is in the morning, before you even set foot out the door.

If you're going to win spiritual battles over doubt, discouragement, and defeat, then you have to understand that the truth about you is what God says about you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches in this broadcast how to submit your thoughts to God as he leads you to truth.

No matter who you are, you're part of a spiritual war. But the Bible tells us that we're not alone in this fight—and we already know who wins! In this message, Pastor Rick explains how God's presence and promise of victory gives us power for the battle.

No matter what you're going through and no matter what's happened in your life, God isn't done with you, and he's never going to forsake you. You don't have to be afraid! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how God hears and answers your cries for help, no matter how deep the well of pain and grief seems.

God wants you to know he can handle your anger, your gripes, and your grief. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches why, if you don't talk out your emotions with God, you'll end up taking them out on someone else. When you feel like your world is falling apart, the first step toward recovery is getting real with God about how you feel.

God wants us to learn to be generous, because he wants us to be more like him. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why, when you use what God gives you to help others, you learn to trust him and develop one of his characteristics: sacrificial generosity.

The Bible tells us that God is looking for people with faith—but faithful people are hard to find. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why living the life you were created to live requires you to trust God with your finances, your health, your job, your relationships, and your future.

When you get closer to God, his light reveals your sin and how it causes emotional distress and disappointment, relational distance and discord, and a disconnect with God—the worst result of all. But Jesus overcame the world and defeated the power of sin! Learn from Pastor Rick in this message what that means and how it will change your life.

Disappointment is a natural part of life, because everything on this planet is broken. No one is perfect, and nothing works perfectly! The good news is that God knows we're in a mess. And Pastor Rick wants you to understand in this message why God had to send Jesus to rescue us and bring us home to heaven.

Why is this world so hard to live in? The Bible says it is because we all want to be our own boss—we think we know what will make us happy more than God does, and so we want to do life on our own. But that will never work! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how Jesus helps us make it through the difficulties of life.

Satan wants to establish a foothold in your life, and once he gets deep enough into an area of sin, he turns the foothold into a stronghold. Once that happens, it will be harder for you to take back control of your life. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick talks about strongholds and what we can do to protect ourselves against them.

Spiritual transformation is a process of developing new habits over time. Habits become the building blocks of change and collectively shape our character. Join Pastor Rick as he encourages you to engage in the small, step-by-step process with the Holy Spirit that leads to spiritual maturity.

Before there was sin, death and sadness and sorrow and difficulty did not exist. It was only when everything got broken that our rebellion brought death into the world. But Pastor Rick reminds us in this message that God did not leave us without hope—and he is ready to help us change and become more like him.

It's easy to become so focused on what not to think about that you end up thinking about it even more! The Bible teaches that the thoughts we resist tend to persist. Pastor Rick explains in this broadcast how Jesus helps us to shift our thoughts from negative to positive.

You can say "no" to sin—and you need to constantly remind yourself of that as you seek freedom from your hurts, habits, and hangups. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how to make the right choices as you respond to the Holy Spirit at work in you.

You simply can't make lasting changes on your own. The only way to make a real change in your life is to let God change you from the inside out. Pastor Rick explains in this broadcast how the Holy Spirit helps you overcome the self-destructive things you do that keep you from life change.

Do you feel defeated today? Maybe you're thinking, "I just want to give up." Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast why being ready to give up is a good thing. You can stop trying to do everything on your own, because it's impossible. But you can't do life without Jesus. You need his power to keep going!

As Christians, we are born again through the Holy Spirit, yet our old sin nature still fights for control. In this broadcast, you'll learn how the apostle Paul reached a point in his walk with God where he was exhausted because of the intense war going on inside him and how Paul's testimony can encourage you as you fight the same battle.

You know that when you come to God and confess your sin, he is faithful to forgive. But God also wants you to confess your sin to another person. Pastor Rick teaches in this broadcast how an accountability partner helps you make lasting changes as you experience someone else loving you unconditionally, accepting you, and praying for you.

God expects you to run the race he has set for you—not the race you set for yourself or the race that other people set for you. Run the race God created you to run! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how living for the approval of others will hold you back and why you need to live for an audience of One.

The Bible says two things will hold you back as you run the race God sets before you: the things that weigh you down, such as unrealistic expectations or being stuck in the past, and sin, the things we know are wrong but we do anyway. Join Pastor Rick to learn how to let go of the things that keep you from running your race well.

God hasn't just seen every tear you've cried—he's counted them. He's even recorded them in a book. You may be in tremendous pain right now, thinking God doesn't care. But the Bible says that God pays attention to the details of your pain.

Don't waste your pain. The Bible teaches you need to let it turn you to God, spend more time with him and his Word, and remind you of his promises.

Your life will be transformed as you learn to worship, trust, and draw closer to God when you're in pain. Learn why God is never closer to you than when you're brokenhearted.

You may think your weaknesses are something to hide, but they're actually something God wants to use in your life. For this to happen, you'll need to learn to recognize and respect your limitations and to trust in God's power to accomplish his purpose for you.

Nothing is more discouraging than trying to please everybody. If you're always trying to be something you're not, you'll always be stressed and discouraged. To defeat discouragement, simply be who God made you to be. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why you don't have to be perfect for God to bless you, but you do have to be authentic.

The Bible is worthless to you when it's sitting on a shelf at home. But with God's Word in your mind, it becomes a powerful weapon to fight every temptation Satan can throw at you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why memorizing God's Word will help you overcome the persistent temptations in your life.

Don't be intimidated by Satan. As a Christian, the Holy Spirit's power lives in you. You've got God's Word to give you truth. You've got Jesus who is the Truth. The Bible says you have everything you need to overcome your temptations.

You are far more vulnerable to temptation when you're experiencing negative emotions. Satan knows what they are and will try to use them for your destruction. Shouldn't you know what they are, too?