Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

Did you know that God uses your failures to build his church? Join Pastor Rick as he explains how God's mercy encourages you to seek the support of others in your church family.

Every time you make a decision based on what other people think, you sow seeds of failure. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how God's mercy helps you break free from people-pleasing.

The Bible says one reason we have so many failures in life is because we think we're stronger than we really are. Join Pastor Rick as he explains how God's mercy helps you trust in God's strength, not your own.

No matter how many times you've failed, God's "mercies never come to an end" (Lamentations 3:22 ESV). Listen to this message by Pastor Rick to discover how Jesus responds to your failures with mercy.

You're not the center of the universe—God is. When you live a self-centered life, you become unfulfilled and eventually bored. Join Pastor Rick as he looks into Scripture to explain how God's mercy helps us live for others.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future! That's because of the mercy of God. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick talks about how God wants to use you for his purposes—no matter how badly you've messed up.

What does Jesus do with your disappointments? He responds with mercy. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how God's mercy forgives you and frees you.

The Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways" (James 3:2 NIV). Join Pastor Rick as he explains why we all need God's mercy.

Jesus' ministry was all about mercy. In fact, he showed mercy to everyone. In this message, Pastor Rick shares stories of mercy from God's Word and teaches how those stories relate to your life.

Before we celebrate the resurrection, we need to pause and remember the meaning of the cross. In this message you'll learn how to respond to what Jesus did for you—and why gratitude is the right place to begin.

Everything is by God's grace. We wouldn't even have our own lives if it weren't for God's grace! In this message by Pastor Rick, you'll discover the three things Jesus accomplished when he died on the cross, and why it still matters today.

When you became a follower of Jesus, you were born again into God's family, and you cannot be unborn. Your sin may break your fellowship with God, but your relationship with him will still be there. You're just one step away from returning to him. In this message, Pastor Rick walks through what you should do when you sin so you can be restored to God.

God created you to be you. In fact, his mercy allows you to be authentic. Join Pastor Rick as he dispels the myth that, for God to use you, you have to be somebody different from who you are.

There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus—but there are still consequences for when we reject God's will and go our own way. Pastor Rick shares in this message why, even when there are many things we lose when we sin, we can never lose our salvation and how God's refusal to reject us points to his restoring grace.

If your faith starts to feel a little stale or you just don't feel as close to God as you used to, how do you get your joy in the Lord back? In this message, Pastor Rick identifies four common causes for why people stop walking with God by looking at the story of Peter, who denied Jesus and was ultimately restored to God, so that you too can start your restoration.

Genuine forgiveness is never easy. So many people are walking around with deep wounds because they've never forgiven or been forgiven, and the bitterness has become a heavy load to carry. In this message, Pastor Rick wants you to understand what forgiveness really is and why you need to give and receive grace so that you can release your bitterness and be filled with God's love.

There are a lot of misconceptions about forgiveness today that keep us from giving forgiveness as freely as we have received it from God. Pastor Rick walks through some of those misconceptions in this message and helps you understand what forgiveness is by first understanding what it is not.

Are you tired of people telling you to "chill out"—because that just doesn't seem possible? Today, it's hard to find someone who is not stressed out and wishing for more time in the day. Pastor Rick wants to help you relax in God's grace by sharing in this message five steps to letting go of stress and learning "the unforced rhythms of grace" (Matthew 11:29 MSG).

When you understand God's grace, you'll find a level of joy and freedom that you've never experienced before. In this message, Pastor Rick explains just how destructive perfectionism is in your life and why the only antidote is replacing your inner critic with God's voice of love and relaxing in his liberating grace.

Life often feels like a marathon, and that makes sense because the Bible describes life as a race. In your race, there are going to be many pitfalls that are going to make you feel like giving up. In this message, Pastor Rick continues to look at three ways life will try to trip you up and how, with God's sustaining grace, you can finish your race well.