Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

The first step in recovering God's dream for your life is to honestly accept responsibility for your poor choices. Learn more about recovering God's dream for your life in this message by Pastor Rick.

Without God's dream for your life, you will be confused about your identity. You won't know where you're going or why life even matters. Listen to this message by Pastor Rick as he helps you discover God's dream for your life.

God knows the dreams he has for your life. They are dreams that will give you a great hope and a wonderful future. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why you can have confidence in God's dreams for your life.

The Bible says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6 NIV). Faith is the door to everything God wants to do in your life—it's the door to your future. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about how God moves heaven and earth when you trust him.

When you understand why God created you, your life will make much more sense—especially all the problems and trials you go through. In this message, Pastor Rick continues to look at God's five purposes for your life.

It doesn't matter how many things you accomplish, how much money you make, or how famous you become. What does matter is getting to know and love God a little bit more every day. Join Pastor Rick as he looks at God's five purposes for your life.

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.

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.

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.