Solid Rock Church Sermons

In this sermon, we looked in John 10:1-18 at the contrast between Jesus and the Pharisees. The Pharisees were trying to lead people to heaven through their own system of religion that required paying the substantial price of self-sacrifice and carrying the heavy burdens of guilt and shame. Jesus tells the Pharisees that He is the only one who can lead the people to abundant life and points out the...

In this sermon, we looked at the peace that Jesus brought into the world through His birth. In Luke 2, the angel announces to the shepherds that the Messiah has been born and He has come into the world to bring peace to those with whom God is pleased. Isaiah 9:6-7 describes this peace as the peace that has no end and Philippians 4:4-6 describes this peace as the peace that surpasses understanding....

In this sermon, we looked at how Christmas serves as a reminder that what we already have in Christ gives us enough reason to rejoice, even if God doesn’t change our struggles and hardships. In Psalms 69, David describes the desperation of his suffering and calls on the Lord to respond. While David asks for deliverance, he also asks for the Lord to sustain him if the situation doesn’t...

In this sermon, we looked at how we are compelled to rejoice because of the hope we have in Jesus. In 1 Peter 1, Peter writes to Christians who were losing hope in the midst of suffering and hardship. While Peter was honest with God’s people about the suffering they were experiencing, he also reminded the Church that our various trials in life do not kill our ability to rejoice because our h...

In this sermon, we continued our "A Weary World Rejoices" Advent series by looking in Jeremiah 33 at God's Christmas promises to His people. God's people were living in a very tumultuous world during Jeremiah's time. They were weary from all of the political struggles and oppression they were experiencing and God seemed far off and unresponsive to the injustices Israel was facing. In the midst of...

With this sermon, we began our Advent series, “A Weary World Rejoices.” Today’s world can often drain us and make us feel weary. This redirects our hearts’ attention away from Christ, causing us to rely on our own understanding and strength to persevere or simply just survive. Hebrews 4 tells us that, when hardships tempt us to find rest apart from Jesus, He will help us in...

In this sermon, we looked at the Gospel promise that Jesus takes away God’s judgement against those who humble themselves before Him and acknowledge that He is the Lord. In John 9, Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth in order to open his spiritual eyes and lead him to salvation. In contrast to the religious leaders who stand in their religious pride and self-righteousness, the blind m...

In this sermon, we looked at the cost of following Jesus. Through the story of the blind man who Jesus healed in John 9, we see that even though our salvation is given to us as a free gift, following Jesus comes with a cost. Jesus healed the man’s blindness as a free gift but the man then had to make a decision: Would he risk everything in order to acknowledge Jesus as the Christ? When we&rs...

In this sermon, we looked at how spiritual blindness keeps us from seeing the works of God in our lives and in the world around us. In John 9, Jesus heals a man who was born blind. When Jesus’ disciples assume that this man’s blindness is due to the sins of his parents, Jesus tells them that the blindness was allowed by God so that His works might be displayed. The Pharisees hear that...

In this sermon, we looked at the primary factor that distinguishes Christians from non-Christians. While the evidence of true saving faith can reveal itself in many ways, the primary evidence of true faith is found in who a person believes Jesus to be. In John 8:48-59, the Jews reveal that they truly don’t understand who Jesus is when they accuse Him of being demon possessed. As the conversa...

In this sermon, we looked in John 8, when Jesus challenged the true spiritual identity of the Jews who claimed to believe in Him. While some Jews had begun to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, they were still relying on their spiritual heritage from Abraham to validate themselves as children of God. However, Abraham was not saved by his family ties but by faith in God’s promise. Just as Ab...

In this sermon, we looked at John 8:31-38 when Jesus proclaimed that if we will abide in His Word, we will know the truth and the truth will set us free from our slavery to sin.   Jesus proclaimed this to a crowd of Jews who had already placed their faith in Him. However, when the people heard these words, they argued that they were not enslaved to anyone. Jesus explained that we are all slav...

In this sermon, we were reminded that Jesus is not from our world. In obedience, Jesus left the perfect presence of God to come into our broken world where sin leads to spiritual death. Throughout His ministry, Jesus repeatedly emphasized our great need for salvation and His plan to reconcile us to Himself. In John 8:21-30, Jesus warned his listeners that their unbelief and denial would lead them...

In this sermon, we looked at John 8:12-20 in which Jesus tells His followers that He is the light of the world and that, if they truly believe in Him, they will follow Him. The Pharisees, who were experts in the law, begin to question Jesus from a legal perspective, asking Him to name witnesses that validate His claim to be the Son of God. In verses 19-20, Jesus exposes the real root of the proble...

In this sermon, we looked in John 8:1-11 when the Pharisees bring a woman before Jesus. They claim that this woman had been caught in adultery and ask Jesus what to do with her. The Pharisees hoped to corner Jesus and force Him to condemn her to death so His followers would turn away from Him. Instead of condemning the woman for her sins, Jesus exposes the sins of the Pharisees. In this encounter,...

In this sermon, we looked at what Jesus meant when he said, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink." In this simple invitation, Jesus outlined the Gospel. With gentle honesty, Jesus told the crowd that they had all broken the law of Moses, but they were also invited to come to Jesus to drink of His forgiveness. After this, the religious leaders started debating whether or not Jesus was bo...

In this sermon, we looked at how Jesus lived His daily life in complete submission to the unfolding plan that His Father had for Him. In John 7, Jesus' brothers encouraged Him to make a public appearance in Jerusalem but He refrained from traveling there at that time because it would have put Him directly in the crosshairs of the Pharisees’ plot to arrest Him and have Him killed. Jesus knew...

In this sermon, we looked at how Jesus challenged the large crowd that was following Him to consider whether they were following Him because of who He claimed to be or because of what they wanted from Him. Up to this point in Jesus’ ministry, many people were leaving their homes to follow Him. Jesus tells the crowd that unless they eat His flesh and drink His blood, they won’t receive...

In this sermon, we looked at Jesus’ claim to be the only way by which a person can get into heaven. In John 14, Jesus makes it clear that our entry into the Kingdom of Heaven is not something that can be bartered for or purchased by us. Our entrance into heaven is already paid for by His death and resurrection and Jesus has invited us to enter through the only way possible: faith in Him alon...

In this sermon, we looked at how Psalm 51 reveals the transformative power of repentance and how God works in our repentance to lead us to abundant life. In this Psalm, we see that our repentance begins when God lovingly and mercifully reveals our sins to us, leading us to have broken and contrite hearts. It’s in our brokenness that the loving kindness of God begins to work powerfully in our...

In this sermon, we looked at where God’s people go to find perfect peace. In contrast to the peace that we find in the world when we are comfortable and things are going our way, perfect peace can only come from trusting in the Lord. Isaiah reminds us that when the people of God put their trust in the Lord, He keeps them in His perfect peace; a peace that is not contingent on our circumstanc...

With this sermon, we began our Listen to the Music series, looking at the importance of the Truth we sing and declare in worship. Ephesians 5:25-27 tells us that believers are the Bride of Christ and we wait with great anticipation for the day when we will be reunited with our Bridegroom. Until that day, He continues to lovingly redeem us as we prayerfully ask Him to continue working in and throug...

In this sermon, we looked at the reason we do not lose heart amidst the growing darkness we experience in the world around us on a daily basis. In 2 Corinthians 4, we are reminded that we live in a fallen world with an enemy who is seeking to devour us. Despite this, we do not lose heart because we know that, through our perseverance, things that are unseen by the world are being made visible. Whe...

In this sermon, we looked at how the Church is called to be a light in the midst of suffering. In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus uses a parable to illustrate what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. In this parable, a man who was beaten by robbers and left for dead was passed up by two religious leaders. The only person willing to stop and show compassion for the dying man was the most unlikely cand...

In this sermon, we looked at Galatians 6:1-5, in which the Apostle Paul calls us to bear one another’s burdens through the power of the Holy Spirit. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus defeated the ultimate burdens of sin and death. Now when our brothers and sisters are caught in sin, we are to seek restoration with gentleness and humility. As we bear one another’s burde...