Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

Unresolved conflict has three devastating effects in your life: It blocks your fellowship with God, hinders your prayers, and inhibits your happiness. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what the Bible says about facing and resolving conflict.

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2024

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains why hurt people hurt people. Learn how to let go of your anger so you can respond with God’s love to people who have been hurt.

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2024

Before you let anger take control, calculate what it will cost you—because there’s always a price for returning anger with anger. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about the relationship costs of out-of-control anger.

Transcribed - Published: 24 July 2024

In this message, Pastor Rick teaches why growing more like Jesus will lead you to become a more peaceful person.

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024

People often use manipulative tools and tricks to get what they want from relationships, but those strategies are actually counter-productive. Listen in as Pastor Rick explains what the strategies are and why they fail.

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2024

God is a Father who is never too busy for us and who loves to meet our needs and heal our hurts. We can turn to him for comfort and support, attention and protection. Join Pastor Rick as he digs deeper to explain how God has the heart of a good Father.

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024

When we embrace just how much God cares for us, it’s only natural to start trusting him more. In this message, Pastor Rick helps you understand how committed God is to working good out of all the details of your life.

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2024

Instead of running from difficult situations, God wants you to stand strong! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches what it means when the Bible tells us to stand firm against adversity.

Transcribed - Published: 17 July 2024

No matter how impossible your situation, your problem is never too big for God to handle. Join Pastor Rick for this lesson on why it’s important to go to God first when things seem overwhelming—and why God is your best defender.

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024

Will you trust God with your disappointments? Pastor Rick speaks about the importance of acknowledging that God is sovereign in your life, that he knows what’s best for you, and that his plans for you are good, even when things seem bad. Will you trust God with your challenges?

Transcribed - Published: 15 July 2024

God is ready to pour out his blessings upon you, but first you have to decide: “Who will be first in my life?” Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why you need to rely on God and not yourself.

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2024

You can’t have the peace of God until you first make peace with God. But how do you do that? In this message, Pastor Rick explains how to live a life surrendered to Christ and how to make God your first priority.

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2024

The starting point to peace is accepting what cannot be changed. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can get stuck in resentment, bitterness, or guilt over things you cannot change. Learn how, instead, to change what you can and accept what you cannot.

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2024

God sees it all, God knows it all, God cares about it all, and God is in control of it all. So what are you worried about? In this message, learn how to break free from worry, conflict, and “when and then” thinking so you can be joyful, no matter what happens.

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024

A joy-filled person has creativity, energy, and productivity. But to become that kind of person, you must learn to forgive past hurts, trust God for the future, and understand God’s purpose for your life. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to live a joy-filled life according to God’s Word.

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2024

God wants you to experience his best for your future. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how you can stop focusing on your hurts and start focusing on Christ. You will learn how to live a life of significance and purpose.

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024

God wants to heal your hidden wounds. In this message, Pastor Rick provides practical, biblical steps that will transform the way you think about your past, helping you to find healing from rejection, ridicule, and regret.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2024

No matter how hopeless your situation may seem, God is always there, working to give you a future and a hope. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches that you are never alone because God will never abandon you. Where God is, hope is.

Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2024

God is the only source of true and everlasting hope. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how God is always present in your life, no matter how good or bad your circumstances are. Where God is, there is always hope.

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2024

Suffering doesn’t automatically build character, but it can if you respond to it in a godly way. Pastor Rick teaches how to handle unfairness in a way that honors God.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2024

God could make the world completely fair in just an instant. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches why God doesn’t do that and how God wants you to respond to unfairness.

Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2024

No matter how you’ve strayed from God’s design for sexuality, there’s hope and forgiveness available to you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains how you can find a fresh start after moral failure.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2024

Garbage in, garbage out. That’s not just a cliché. It’s what the Bible teaches! In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to make good choices based on biblical truth that protect your moral purity.

Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2024

You can’t expect to maintain moral purity if you can’t agree on a moral standard. In this message, Pastor Rick reminds us that purity begins with a commitment to live by God’s standards instead of making up our own rules.

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2024

After his life fell apart, Job had every reason to harbor resentment toward God and his friends. Instead, as Pastor Rick teaches in this message, Job’s story demonstrates how to deal with resentment in a healthy, God-honoring manner.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2024

The Bible says, “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32 NIV). In this message, Pastor Rick introduces you to the best model for living in forgiveness: Jesus.

Transcribed - Published: 21 June 2024

In this message, Pastor Rick looks into God’s Word to explain how to show respect to people who disagree with you.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2024

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why and how to show respect to people, even when they don’t appear to deserve it.

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2024

You have just enough time to do everything God wants you to do. In this message, Pastor Rick shares the importance of putting Jesus at the center of your schedule and the steps it takes to do that.

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2024

If you feel like the load you are carrying is too heavy, then it doesn’t come from Jesus. Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest . . . the load I give you to carry is light” (Matthew 11:28, 30 NCV). In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to find rest and balance in Jesus.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2024

In this message, Pastor Rick explains why a balanced life is only achievable when you put Jesus at the center of all you do.

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2024

We all experience anger. But just getting angry doesn’t automatically mean you’ve sinned. Join Pastor Rick for this message where he teaches what the Bible says you should do to keep your anger from turning into sin.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2024

When you respond to a conflict impulsively, you’re more likely to respond in anger. But if you wait to talk about it, there’s a better chance you’ll be more rational and reasonable. Join Pastor Rick for this biblical lesson on self-control.

Transcribed - Published: 12 June 2024

God wants you to step out of your comfort zone in faith. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches what God can do through your life when you fully trust him.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024

When you don’t trust God, it leads to worry, conflict, and the feeling you have to control everything. Only God is truly worthy of your trust! In this message, Pastor Rick continues to teach steps toward developing a greater trust in God.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2024

When you trust anything or anyone other than God, you set yourself up for stressful living. The Bible makes it clear that those who make idols are disillusioned. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches how to develop a greater trust in God.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024

God values who you are more than what you accomplish. Join Pastor Rick as he explains what it means to live with great character and teaches how the Bible can help you build it into your life.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2024

One day you “will give a personal account to God” of how you lived, and that’s why you want to live responsibly (Romans 14:12 NLT). Join Pastor Rick as he teaches practical wisdom from God’s Word on how to become more responsible in all areas of your life.

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2024

The Bible says, “Your words are a flashlight to light the path ahead of me and keep me from stumbling” (Psalm 119:105 TLB). We desperately need a light to guide us through moral chaos. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches you how to make the Bible your standard as you build your life on its unchanging values.

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2024

What you value in life will define how you live. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to identify and claim eternal values so you can establish your life on a rock-solid foundation.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2024

In this message, Pastor Rick explains why God wants you to build up, motivate, and inspire other people by sharing your experiences with them. you help take away their fears.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024

By sharing your experiences, you can give people hope, help them overcome their fears, and help them break through barriers. Join Pastor Rick as he explains why God wants you to use your experiences to mentor others, and how you can do that.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2024

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick continues to explain what it means to be a talker, feeler, thinker, or doer in service to Christ. God expects every one of us to mature in all of these areas. But he also knows each one of us tends to lead in one area. The great news is that God is always right there with us, helping us to follow his instructions.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2024

Jesus said, “You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength” (Mark 12:30 NLT). In this broadcast, Pastor Rick helps you identify if God shaped you to be a talker (heart), feeler (soul), thinker (mind), or doer (strength) in service to Christ.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2024

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick walks through three ways you can use your abilities the way God intended. He created you and shaped you with unique abilities, and one day he’s going to ask you, “How did you use your abilities to honor me, to serve others, to make a living, and to be an example?”

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2024

Knowing what you’re good at will help reveal what God wants you to do with your life. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach how your SHAPE—your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, and experiences—points you in the right direction for how to be who God created you to be.

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024

Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the good news that God specializes in heart transplants. Learn about what God can do through a broken heart submitted to him. When you do what God wires you to do, your purpose in life will be fulfilled and you will bring glory to God.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2024

In this broadcast, Pastor Rick explains how you can make a difference in the world by placing your passions, desires, and dreams under God’s control so that you serve God through the way he has designed you.

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2024

Join Pastor Rick as he helps you discover the specific mission God created you to fulfill, based upon your SHAPE. Your spiritual gifts are the equipment he gives you to do what he asks you to do. Learn how to develop your gifts and then use them to serve God and others.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2024

In this message, Pastor Rick explains the gifts God gives you when you become a believer. When you know who you are shaped to be, then you can start focusing on the things God created you to do.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2024