Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

God wants to meet with you every day so he can speak to you. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach about getting God's vision for your life.

It's hard to hear from God when there's too much noise in your life. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about the importance of getting alone with God so you can hear him speak.

God doesn't want you to just think about his dream for your life; he wants you to long for it! Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to develop a passion for God, making you desperate to hear from him and honor him.

One way to tell if you're hearing God's voice is by listening to the advice of others. Join Pastor Rick as he explains why godly friends can help you test whether or not an idea is from God.

Confusion is often the result of listening to your own voice instead of God's voice. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why there's always peace when you say "yes" to what God is asking you to do.

We often wonder if an idea is instruction from God, deception from Satan, or just something we want to do. In this teaching, Pastor Rick teaches you how to discern God's voice.

Join Pastor Rick as he continues to look at the ways God often speaks to us—through the Holy Spirit, through pain, and even through silence.

When you know how to listen, it's easier to hear from God. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how you can hear God through the Bible, through gifted teachers, and through friends and family.

Like a healthy plant, you need to grow deep roots and keep the weeds at bay. Listen to this message by Pastor Rick and learn how to develop deep spiritual roots that help you bear fruit and eliminate the distractions that keep you from hearing God.

Cell phone reception varies widely, depending on your location. The same is true with how easily you can hear God speak. In this teaching, Pastor Rick talks about the barriers that can block your reception and close your mind to what God wants to say.

Your prayer life says a lot about where you put your trust—in your feelings or in your heavenly Father. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to encourage you to pray more persistently.

While we work on having a more vibrant prayer life, God is working on us. Discover what God wants to teach you while you wait on him in prayer in today's message with Pastor Rick.

No matter what crisis we face, God will walk through it with us. In this message, Pastor Rick explains that when we pray, we are talking to a caring, consistent, capable, and close heavenly Father.

When you begin to pray for others to experience a breakthrough in their lives, guess what happens in your life? Your own breakthrough. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach about the importance of talking to your heavenly Father.

The fact is, prayer can often be confusing. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches us how to not only pray with more confidence, but to actually enjoy it!

Our problems can often leave us feeling powerless. In this message, Pastor Rick encourages us to pray: "Lord, I need your strength and wisdom today. I can't do this without you."

Our problems can often leave us feeling powerless. In this message, Pastor Rick encourages us to pray: "Lord, I need your strength and wisdom today. I can't do this without you."

Breakthrough prayers always include gratitude—thanking God in advance for his blessings. In this message, Pastor Rick explains how important it is to have an attitude of gratitude when you pray.

Join Pastor Rick for today's message, and continue to learn how to experience more victories by focusing on God through prayer.

When you put your focus on the right things—on God—you won't have time to worry. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches you how to say, "God, I'm choosing to focus on you."

Sometimes God tests us with stress before he trusts us with success. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about the importance of remembering to seek God at all times.

Many of the problems we face in life happen when we make decisions without seeking God first. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to look at the life of Daniel for answers to the question: "How can I depend on God more through prayer?"

There are many ways God uses adversity for your good. Listen to this message by Pastor Rick, and learn how to trust in God's goodness even when you don't understand your circumstances.

The best thing to do during times of crisis is turn your face toward God. In this message, Pastor Rick looks at the life of Daniel for insight into how to lead a vibrant prayer life.

In this message, Pastor Rick shares how God sometimes asks you to move slowly, such as when you don't have all the facts, when you're hurt or angry, when you're facing a major decision, or when you're waiting on a seed that you've planted.

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how God sometimes expects you to move fast, such as when you need to ask for forgiveness, when you're feeling tempted, when you have the opportunity to do good, and, particularly, when God offers you salvation.

Listen as Pastor Rick continues to share how you can maximize your strengths by knowing your SHAPE—Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, and Experiences.

God made you unique and wired you for a specific purpose. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can determine your purpose by discovering your SHAPE—Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, and Experiences.

What will last the longest? That's a critical question to ask when you're trying to decide how you should invest your life. Join Pastor Rick as he helps you understand and focus on what truly matters.

One of the fundamental questions in life is this: "Who will have the final authority in what you do?" In this message, Pastor Rick shows how the authority you follow shapes your values—and why that authority must be God and his Word.

God doesn't want you to get distracted by negativity. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what the Bible says about staying focused on your unique mission in life—even when the naysayers are telling you it can't be done.

The greater your view of God, the smaller your problems appear. When you look at life through God's eyes, the opinions of others matter less. In this sermon, Pastor Rick continues to teach about how to handle the naysayers in life by changing your perspective.

When naysayers criticize or mock your dreams, how do you handle that kind of negativity? Join Pastor Rick as he looks to the Bible for guidance on how to deal with the naysayers in your life.

It's important to know what you believe and shape a worldview that is built on God's Word. Once you have that, it should change your life! Pastor Rick continues in this message to show us how following Jesus' example will help us live a counter-cultural and purposeful life.

To live like Jesus, you have to build certain values into your life that he modeled for us through his life. In this message, Pastor Rick continues to look at the values Jesus embodied that show you how to apply the truth of God's Word to your everyday life.

God wants us to live a life that reflects a biblical worldview and how he sees the world. Thankfully, he gave us the perfect model for how to do this: Jesus Christ. Join Pastor Rick as he shares what it means to live like Jesus in a broken world.

Do you know how to respond when someone asks, "Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?" Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the reasons Jesus had to die, why it's a big deal, and how to share with others the only real solution to all of our problems.

One of the biggest problems in the world is heart disease—but not the physical kind. In this message, Pastor Rick walks through the common spiritual heart diseases and how to spot the symptoms so you can bring them to Jesus, the Great Healer.

When you have a problem, you can't just address the surface issue. You have to dig deep and root out the cause! In this broadcast, Pastor Rick shares some popular approaches to dealing with sin and why they don't get to the heart of the problem.

Yes, the world is broken, and yes, there is evil, but God is still in control. He's got the whole world in his hands! In this message, Pastor Rick wants you to understand specific things you should do in response to God's grace, while there is still time.

God has the power to wipe out all the sin in the world, but he's choosing not to while history moves toward a climax. Join Pastor Rick as he shares the reasons God hasn't shut things down yet and how history is all his story.

Why do we so often choose to ignore God and do the wrong thing? In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches the reasons why we sin, how it's affected not only us but all of creation, and how to get back to a right relationship with God.

We owe everything to God, who made us and loves us and cares for us—and yet we still choose to sin against him. In this audio teaching, Pastor Rick walks through various kinds of sin and how we can make a different choice that honors God and leads to his blessing.

All of creation is preparing for the biggest event in history, when God gathers all of his family to be together forever. Listen as Pastor Rick shares how God's design and plan for you make a way for you to be part of his forever family.

In the beginning, God created everything and saved the best part—us!—for last. But he thought of us first and custom-designed us for his purposes. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how the implications of this truth frame our worldview and prepare us for our mission in the world.

Some of the biggest questions in life are, "Who am I, and why am I here?" In this message, Pastor Rick shares what Jesus says about who you are and how those truths are fundamental to shaping what you believe.

The Bible says that once you believe in Jesus, you affirm that God is true (John 3:33). So, as a believer, what should you do with the truth once you've discovered it? Pastor Rick gives "next steps" for moving forward in faith in this audio teaching.

We know what truth is because God has revealed himself to us. Truth can be discovered! In this message, Pastor Rick continues to teach about how God shows us truth and how to let it shape your worldview.

A postmodern culture wants to convince us that there may be truth out there, but it's impossible to know it. Yet Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32 NIV). In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to know truth so that you can live in freedom.

What happens when we give up on truth and choose tolerance instead? Join Pastor Rick as he shares the signs of "truth decay" in our culture and how to avoid its effect on every area of our lives.