Category: Rick’s Messages

Let’s start this study on Easter Sunday, the day God raised Jesus from the dead in Glory, at the beginning, which is not His birth in Bethlehem nor on His cross dying for us but rather in the distant past before anything at all was created and before time began. In eternity past, God in…

In Lydia’s Salvation story, we can discover how God continues to work in the world. In Acts 16 we find the Holy Spirit actively directing, empowering, growing and furthering the ministry of the gospel and the church of Jesus Christ.  Paul was on his second missionary journey (53-58 AD) and was passing into the region…

Our Lord is shepherding us in this life because we are as children. He’s guiding and teaching us how to be like Him and guides us back onto a righteous path as needed and he takes us to pastures where we are protected and nourished by the Word of God. Eventually, we will receive the…

We call those that are learned in a particular area such as medicine, engineering and many other occupations as having a discipline. They practice their disciplines by closely following rules and applying methods and principles so as to achieve successful outcomes in everything they do and they are watchful for anything that might go wrong.…

Brothers and Sisters, you and I should always be ready to give the reason for our hope in Jesus Christ when we have the opportunity to or when we are asked. Someone may ask us why we act the way we do and that gives us an opportunity to explain our trust and hope in…

The Glory of God is not something we just read about in bible passages written long ago as if it has no meaning for us today. It has a real practical meaning even now in our lives so we should ask ourselves, “Where is the temple of God now and how is He being glorified…

Satan had tempted Peter and he denied knowing his Lord for fear of losing his own life. In that instant, with the cock crowing and a look from his Lord, shame entered into Peter’s heart as he recalled what the Lord had said to him. We can only imagine Peter coming to himself and saying,…

The old covenant with Israel was governed by obeying the law of Moses for righteousness which no one could attain “as it is written: None is righteous, no, not one; The law was a placeholder of sorts until the “Seed” that was to come arrived as the Apostle Paul explains to the Romans. Romans 8:3…

In eternity past before time began and before anything was created, God foreordained His only begotten Son, to Redeem us. God in His foreknowledge knows everything that is to happen so He gave us the only provision we would ever need to have hope: His Son, the Word of God. Now, after God had completed…

Why did God allow heinous acts of lawlessness to happen? The Apostle Paul spoke of the lawlessness this represented as the “Mystery of Iniquity” In 2 Thessalonians 2:7. “For the mystery of iniquity is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.” The so-called…

We’ll read this scripture below in Mathew about the birth of the Lord Jesus and then look at all of the prophesy in the Old Testament about His birth and life so that we can have a strong confidence that God fulfills His promises so that we believe on Him.  In John 14:29, Jesus tells…

In the fullness of time, we’ve come full circle. First came righteousness by faith and then by the Law of Moses and now again by faith after God sent His Son to redeem us. Let’s examine the history of this and what the purpose of the Law was and why it’s no longer needed for…