Rocklane Christian Church Sermons

This will be our second week with Joseph in the book of Genesis. We will be reading through Genesis 39 and talking about the difficult task of trusting God in unfair situations. Read through this chapter and consider unfair situations you’ve found yourself in, maybe you’re in one right now. What do you think God wants you to do in these types of situations? What did Joseph do?

This Sunday we begin a new series out of Genesis called “Trust”. In it, we will examine the very difficult life of Joseph. He dealt with betrayal from his family, enslavement in a foreign land, the false accusation by an employer’s wife, and wrongful imprisonment. He was forgotten by the world for years and during that time he had no idea what God was doing. And yet, through it all, he trusted God...

This Sunday we conclude our study of 1 John entitled “Blessed Assurance” with a look at how our faith in Jesus can give us the assurance of our salvation that God means for us to have. Read 1 John 5 with particular attention to vs 4-5. How can you overcome the world?

This week we will be studying 1 John 3:11-22; 4:7-21 together and examining the notion that we can find assurance of our salvation in God’s love – in acting out God's love towards others and in recognizing – over and over again – how much God loves us. Read the text and jot down what it says about loving other people as Jesus does along with all things profound truths about how much God loves us –...

This week we are looking into 1 John 4:1-8 and examining the 5 tests the preacher of old Jonathan Edwards drew from the text for determining if a thing (idea, action, movement, teaching etc.) is from God. One of the great reasons we deal with doubt in our eternity is because there are so many lies out there. How do we determine what is true? The Holy Spirit is there to help us with this.

This week we look at 1 John 3:1-10. We are talking about how assuring it ought to be that we are children of God. Read the text and examine what it means to be a child of God – how that knowledge to affect our everyday lives. Also, consider what this text has to say about being a child of God and dealing with sin in our lives.

This week we examine the purpose of your life in 1 John 2:7-17. We encourage you to spend some time prayerfully reading the text, perhaps once a day, and jotting down any thoughts or questions that may arise from it. What is John saying here about the purpose of your life? Also, see John 13:34-35.

This week we begin a 6 week study of the letter 1 John called “Blessed Assurance”. This Sunday we will be covering 1 John 1-2:6. We encourage you to spend some time reading over this text. What is John telling us about our salvation and about Jesus?

This week we close out our series on Rocklane’s core values with our 7th and final core value: We must reach the lost. We are going to be looking at Romans 12:2 and how a renewed mind – thinking in new ways will help us do this. Hope to see you Sunday!

This week we examine Core Value #6: Everything Christian is a Minister. Take some time and look up the meaning of the word minister. Why has our culture and churches starts to see minister as a select group of people rather than every single Christian? Why is this dangerous to the Cause?

This week we examine our 5th core value at Rocklane: The Youth are the Heartbeat of the Church. Consider Jesus stark warning in Matthew 9:42. According to the Barna Group 64% of 18-29-year-olds who were raised in the church left the faith in 2019. Why is this? What does the church do to feed this and what can the church do to battle this?

This week we take a look at Core Value # 3: The Church is the United Family of the body of Christ! We will take some time to unpack the idea of unity and what things help keep us united. Then we will take a look at our responsibilities in maintaining it.

This week we look at our second core value: The Bible is our governing source of absolute truth. This Sunday we talk about the profound experience of hearing God speak directly to us through the Bible and how essential this is to our church! Texts of interest: Isaiah 40:8, 2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 4:12, Isaiah 55:10-11.

This week we look at the first Core Value of Rocklane Christian Church that Jesus Christ is the only way to God and the Head of the church. These core values are designed to undergird our effort to accomplish our mission to help people to know God. Our primary texts will be John 14:6 and Colossians 1:18. Hope you will join us online or in service this Sunday!

This week we begin a new series called “Core Values” where we examine who we are and what we are here to do as a congregation. This week we cover the vision statement and get refocused on the main purpose of our congregation – the mission we are trying to accomplish together.

This week we finish our brief survey of the life of Jacob and his relationships with each other. This Sunday we are looking at Jacobs relationship with God and what it took to humble Jacob and make him an effective vessel for the Lord. Look to Genesis 28:10-22 and 32:22-32 and pay particular attention to what God seems to be trying to communicate to Jacob. See you Sunday on campus or online!

Here we see Jacob once again seeing someone for what he could get from them. He wanted Laban’s daughter. We also see Jacob experience some divine justice and Laban basically does to Jacob what Jacob did to Esau.

This week we begin a new series called “Other People” based on the life of Jacob in Genesis. During this series we will present this thesis: The Christian’s life work is meant to be their relationships with God and other people. This Sunday we will be examining about favoritism goes against our ability to love other people as Christ would. Read Genesis 25-33 and makes notes on how favoritism adver...

What a powerful message and question and answer time with Phil and Seth.

This week we close out our series on respectable sins with an examination of discontent. For those who read ahead check out 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 and Philippians 4:11-13. And consider these questions: In what situations did Paul say he could be content and why? Why is discontentment sinful? Is there discontentment that is not sinful but healthy? And in what areas of your life do you struggle with...

This week we talk about self-control. Many of us exercise self-control in some areas of our lives but not in others – putting the “healthier” areas of lives at risk! Take some time and read 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 and prayerfully examine what Paul is saying there about self-control.

This week we examine four areas where sinful pride sneaks into the Christian’s way and leads to contempt and judgment for others.

This week we continue are examination of Respectable Sins based on Jerry Bridges book by the same name. The first sin we will address is ungodliness. This is not so much an action but an attitude. Do you live as if God were with you all the time? Do you treat God as relevant to your entire life?

This week we begin a 5 part sermon series that works from Jerry Bridges’ excellent book “Respectable Sins”. It is a series about the sins that we in the church don’t often address. This Sunday we are looking at my favorite parable in Luke 18:9-14 and the importance of being aware of your own sinfulness.