Category: Rick’s Messages

Those that look for anything to discredit God’s Word will say see, rapture isn’t a word used but they miss the point and the hopeful message. Now I must confess that the word “rapture” is found nowhere in God’s Word. The Apostle Paul uses the Greek word Harpazo in describing believers being “caught up” or…

In this Sunday School lesson, the Apostle Paul is showing us how to serve God using the gifts we’ve received from Him. But before we can put those gifts into service, as a foundation, we have to be transformed into something that is pleasing and useful to Him. So, Paul starts out by showing us…

His disciples asked Jesus to observe the beauty and structure of the temple and Jesus told them that not one stone would be left upon another that would not be thrown down. Rome sent in General Titus some 37 years later and he laid siege to and sacked Jerusalem and destroyed it and the temple…

Now Jesus had been laid in the grave before sunset on the “Day of Preparation” and lied there through the Great Sabbath marking the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and then the regular 7th day Sabbath and now it’s the third day and the women who loved Him came to anoint His body…

Jesus is just a couple of miles from Jerusalem and thinking about the last meal he would have with his disciples but not yet. Now, as they are eating this meal in Simon the Leper’s house, Passover Day of Preparation is but two days away. It was to be on that second day after this…

Today, we will discuss the story about Jesus being anointed by a woman with a very costly ointment (Spikenard).  In Marks version, her name is not mentioned but in John’s gospel, the woman is identified as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus who lived in Bethany. What she did stands as a testimonial to…

Let us fear God and give Him all praise, glory and honor and pray for His gracious mercy upon us. He has put it into our hearts to believe and He has changed us to conform to the image of His Dear Son and to live life for Him and receive everlasting life. Knowing that…

The Apostle John wrote in his first epistle, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father…

The problem in today’s churches with dwindling memberships is a spiritual one – a lack of  the spiritual food which draws people and sustains them when they come. Let me explain. A hungry Jesus, being tempted, said “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word out of the mouth of God.” Just…

The Scriptures We believe that “all scripture is given by inspiration of God,” by which we understand the whole Bible is inspired in the sense that holy men of God “were moved by the Holy Spirit” to write the very words of Scripture. We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally and fully to all…

1. The serpent would bruise the seed of the woman: Prophesied: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Gen. 3:15). Fulfilled: “Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the prince of this…

Let’s start with the Old Testament prophesy of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh (Jews and Gentiles). Joel 2:28-29:  “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young…