Living Rock Podcast

Jesus began his public ministry and set forth his mission (Luke 4) by quoting from Isaiah 61. In this great message, Tony Ling shows how the prophet sums up God’s intention to restore everything. Restoration starts personally (“beauty for ashes, joy instead of mourning, praise instead of despair”) but goes on to involve the restoration of the church, and of the entire world - as our lives flow out...

Jesus assures us the harvest is plentiful everywhere (Mt 9:35ff) and the New Testament attests to this by showing how the good news spread like wildfire from house-to-house and from village-to-village! How does this perspective affect the way we see the hundreds of towns and villages all around us?...

God’s purpose for our lives and church is always far bigger than we realise! But when we allow the Holy Spirit to fill us and work through us we begin to see the incredible heavenly strategy… In this message, Arne Skagen encourages us to open our lives up to a dynamic and powerful friendship with the Spirit and to begin experiencing the growth He has planned for us.

In the latest in our ‘School of Ministry’ series, Arne Skagen describes the heart and burden of an Ephesians 4:11 “evangelist”. Drawing from the Scriptures, and from his own experiences of being used by God to bring hope and healing to many, Arne emphasises the importance of being secure in our own identity as he equips the church to look outwards and lay hold of our destiny together!...

When we enjoy the covenant meal together we remember Christ's death and resurrection! As we look around the room together we can be thankful that the Lord has joined us to one another. We see again as we think of Christ's sacrifice that in His sight we all stand equal before Him and with each other. As we break bread we have to stop and consider again our need of Christ everyday; and as we take th...

The story of Abram and Lot in Genesis 13 reminds us that we always travel in the direction of our vision and gaze. Lot looked ahead, saw the bright lights of Sodom, and made choices that served his own self-interests; but Abraham looked up, saw the whole land as his inheritance, and made choices that benefited generations of believers! In this message, Mick highlights the need to see beyond our ow...

Written after a narrow escape at the hands of a Philistine King, David tells us that praise is always the answer in the midst of trouble, because it opens our eyes to the spiritual realities all around us. He teaches us that natural fear is often our enemy, but the 'fear of the Lord' is always our friend. The fear of the Lord starts with our tongues and ends with the total surrender of our hearts....

In Psalms 22-33 King David describes a wide range of circumstances, and the widest range of emotions and heart-cries. But whatever situations he faced, each Psalm concludes with a ‘last word’ or ‘bottom-line’ -expressing his overriding confidence in God’s goodness and faithfulness. These Psalms remind us how vital it is to have a sure and certain ‘bottom line’ that God is good, all the time.

In the closing message from our Momentum conference, David outlines a fantastic vision of the church we see, and encourages us to ‘step-up’ and ‘step-out’ - so that we can be part of the fulfilment of all we long for!...

In this opening message from our Momentum conference, Ezekiel shows us how God’s people are to “rise and shine”: as we fulfil the various, unique God-given callings on our lives, living as we were made to, we radiate light to others and start to influnce our workplaces and communities in the way God intends...

The shepherd loved and watches over the sheep. The Great shepherd lives in us and has given us a tender and responsive heart, to help us to gather in, "the sheep without a shepherd". It's ALL about the sheep and it's about ALL the sheep.

Andrew shows us the importance of hearing the word of The Lord and helps us understand how we can use God's promises to speak over ourselves and see breakthrough. In the context of breaking bread and wine, Andrew invites us to draw upon the power of God's word to us, to hear the word of The Lord and to prophesy the word to ourselves.

As Spirit-filled believers we can experience God’s presence all the time! Nevertheless, when we gather round the Lord’s Table there’s a real sense in which we enjoy the special ‘flesh and blood’ presence of the Lord, and are reminded of what He’s done for us and who we are ‘in Christ’. This is HIS Table, He is our Host, and the covenant meal is His appointed ‘rendezvous' with His Church!...

Our First Love: Let's keep our eyes firmly fixed on Jesus, our relationship with Christ is our most important call. Let's press on to see His love for us and see our relationship grow ever closer with our wonderful Lord and saviour. Authority In Congregational Worship: Our worship is an overflow of what is in our hearts. Because our hearts are under the lordship and authority of Jesus Christ, it m...

Tony Ling describes the type of prophetic ministry that the whole church is called into and - drawing from the opening chapter of Revelation - he outlines three vital ways we can all prophesy so as to see the church built-up and the Kingdom of God enlarged.

Having seen how Authority is expressed so beautifully in the relationships within the Godhead, we now discover how it is to be outworked in the Church. Who has authority in the Church and how is it to be expressed? What is the role of the Apostles and the Elders? And what about the power and authority Jesus has given to all believers?…

Patrick and Adele, members of Living Rock’s youth group , each share aspects of what the fatherhood of God means to them.

In our latest School of Ministry session Matthew Ling outlines some of the vital characteristics of authentic prophetic ministry and encourages the church to be prophetic.

In this second message in our series, we consider God's credentials as Creator to be the source of all authority in His creation and the only fixed point of reference by which all moral judgements can be made. We also examine the lie which Lucifer first told himself and then sold to Adam and Eve, which has cascaded through every generation since, to our day where we see 'truth' being democratised...

From the time of the two great ‘Falls' (of Lucifer and of Man), the issues of the universe have concerned ‘Authority’. Yet due to the many abuses, misuses and corruptions of authority and power so frequently seen, it’s a topic many shy away from. In this message we explore the nature of the Authority God established in creation and the patterns of headship and submission seen in the Godhead, and c...

Following our journey through the gospel of Mark together, we conclude our time in this action packed account of Jesus's life with some personal reflections from Mary Ullyatt, Richard Pemberton, Jo Wheway, and Simon Rowland. Just like the gospels themselves each of them brings something of their own personal revelation of Christ from the pages of Mark!

Mary was a woman who knew what it was to give her all to Jesus, to pour out what was most costly to her. We consider today what it means for us to be like her: will we linger long enough to listen to Jesus, to "waste" our lives in worship at His feet, to surrender our lives as a sweet-smelling sacrifice and to see many saved as a result of the overflow of our time in His presence?

In Matthew 13:33 Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is like yeast that spreads everywhere. In this message Tim encourages us to know that this ‘yeast' works in every believer and will work in every environment - but will work much better and much quicker in the right environment! As we say ‘yes’ to God and stay properly connected with other believers, we find great fulfilment as the Kingdom ex...

Based on the story of the transformed man in Mark 5, Tim Jones shares personal testimonies and insights that help us understand more of the task and burden of the ‘evangelist’.

Debora Lyon gives the second session from the recent Behold Ladies Day.