Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at God’s command to set our minds on Christ. In Colossians 3, Paul contends that if we have truly believed the Gospel and therefore, died to ourselves, then we should redirect our minds away from the things of this world and set our minds on something that has real value. As he addresses the inherent human desire to seek after things of perceived val...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at how Christians are saved and transformed in daily life through hearing and believing the Gospel. When we instruct one another in the Gospel, we are united together and built up in our faith, in order that no one is able to knock us off course. Paul reminds the church that they are to continue growing in Christ through the same means that they were first...

This past Sunday, we began a series in the book of Colossians. Paul began by encouraging the believers at Colossae. Although they were surrounded by a domain of darkness, along with false teaching and doctrines, Paul reminded the Colossians to remain faithful to the hope of the Gospel and the person of Jesus. As former citizens of the domain of darkness, it’s easy for Christians to be tempte...

In the final sermon of our Gifts of the Spirit series, we looked at 1 Corinthians 14. In this passage, Paul continues his plea for the church to pursue love as the basis from which they serve with their spiritual gifts, in order that the church may be built up. Paul reminds the church that in order for the gift of tongues to be beneficial, there must be an interpreter who can translate the tongues...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how our spiritual gifts must be rooted in love toward one another in order to be beneficial to the Church. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul reminds us that our spiritual gifts are simply like a noisy or clanging symbol without the foundation of love. The Bible defines love as a sacrificial commitment that is directed toward the object of love. How we engage in...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God orchestrates spiritual gifts among the members of the church in a way that reflects His oneness, accomplishes His purposes, and serves the common good of the church. God has orchestrated the coming together of the members of the church in a way that allows us to accomplish more for the Kingdom than we could on our own. Our oneness also allows us...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel sets moms free from the burden of not being good enough. In Matthew 11:25-30, Jesus invites the those who are weak and helpless to come to Him in order to find rest for their souls. We were reminded that we don’t become close to God by impressing Him with how many tasks we complete, how smart we are, or how amazing our Pinterest-per...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the Biblical for  understanding our individual and unique spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. Paul reminds the Church that the Holy Spirit empowers every believer with specific spiritual gifts according to God’s will. Spiritual gifts are given to believers to serve the common good of the Church, not the personal preferences or ambitions...

This past Sunday, we began our Gifts of the Spirit sermon series. In 1 Corinthians 12:1-3, Paul begins by calling the church spiritual gifts are a supernatural product of our salvation. The Holy Spirit of God opens the ears of those who hear the Gospel in order that they might believe. Spiritual Gifts are a supernatural outworking, or fruit, of our salvation. The presence of spiritual gifts is a c...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God makes us alive through the power of the resurrection. According to the Apostle Paul, apart from Christ we are physically alive but spiritually dead. It’s only through the power of the resurrection at work in us that we are made truly alive. God doesn’t wait for us to get our lives together because He knows that we can’t. God ma...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked in Isaiah 42:5-9 at God’s calling for Israel to become a lighthouse of hope to the world. God spoke to Israel out of His authority as the creator of the universe. He reminded them that He is the Lord and that He was going to rescue them from darkness and send them into the world to be the conduit of light through which He would rescue the nations. In...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God faithfully guided the nation of Israel across the Jordan River and into the Promised Land in Joshua 3 and 4. We read how God’s promise and presence stopped the waters of the Jordan River and allowed the nation of Israel to cross over on dry land. We also saw that crossing the Jordan was just the beginning of the impossible journey that fac...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at what it means to be a ‘sent’ church. In Psalm 67, God issues a  clear invitation for the nations to praise, be glad, and sing for joy because of God's amazing salvation.   This is the mission of the church: to make God’s ways known on earth and to proclaim His saving power among the nations. The mission of God doesn’t e...

This past Sunday, we continued the ‘Sent’ sermon series by looking at Jesus’ response to the Pharisees and Scribes in Luke 15. Jesus was being criticized for showing hospitality toward people who had been identified within the culture as being unclean or sinful. Jesus responds to this criticism with three parables. In each of these parables, we find a very similar theme: heaven r...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Jesus calls the most unlikely people to become His most influential leaders. When Jesus called Saul, who later becomes known in the Bible as Paul, he was one of the leading persecutors of the church. While traveling with legal authorization to terrorize the church and arrest Jesus’ followers, Saul was radically stopped in his tracks by Jesus....

This past Sunday, we began our ‘Sent’ sermon series. Our desire is for God to begin stirring a passion in our church that will normalize the Biblical calling to live our lives on mission, sent by God into the world to share the Gospel with those who are not yet saved. This is what we mean by living a ‘sent’ life. There is a world of people around us who are dying and set to...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at God’s design and purpose for discipleship. Matthew 28:18-20 reveals that there is no authority in heaven which can challenge the will of Jesus, and there is no authority on earth that can call the will of Jesus into question. No power on earth or in heaven can rival His authority. Therefore, we can trust His command to be disciples and make discip...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the unique calling of church leadership. The primary roles of church leadership are divided into elder and deacons. Elders , a synonymous title with pastors and overseers , are Godly men who serve in humility and wisdom to lead the church in Godly character and shepherd hearts through prayer, counsel, teaching Biblical doctrine and decision making. Deac...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at what it means to be a church member. In John 13:34-35, Jesus called his followers to be distinguishable by the way they love one another. The New Testament goes into great detail to define what Jesus fully meant by “love one another,” with at least 42 ways that the members of the church are to love one another. These are explicit Biblical co...

In our first week of The Body of Christ sermon series, we looked at how the Bible outlines clear distinctions of the Christian church. Jesus established much of the doctrine of the church through His life and teaching and then commissioned His disciples to go make disciples of the nations, as a mission to establish the church. Through His teaching, we learned that the true Christian church is the...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how, in the midst of his suffering, Job holds on to the hope that God would redeem his story. Half way through the story, we find Job longing for God to step in and write a better story with his life. At the end of the story, God reveals Himself to Job instead of offering explanations or giving Job immediate relief form his suffering. After Job begins t...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the first half of God’s response to Job. In chapters 38-40, God calls Job to collect all of his good deeds and ready himself for questioning. God begins by revealing his power over all of creation, the sin of the wicked, and the darkness of death. He also reveals how all of creation exists in submission to God’s sovereign power. Then God ask...

In the sermon on Sunday, we looked at the connection between worshipping God and finding true wisdom. In Job 26, Job gives a summary of what man can do with his wisdom: Man can cut channels deep into the earth , and put an end to darkness, in order to bring precious metals and gems to the light. However, despite man’s best efforts, Job confessed that true wisdom cannot be found in the things...

Last Sunday, we began the year with a new sermon series - Worthy of Worship: The Book of Job. Job was a wealthy and successful man with a large family. Job’s fear of the Lord empowered him to turn away from evil and worship God. His worship was rooted in seeing who he was in comparison to God. Satan accused Job of only worshipping God because of his many blessings and proposed that if God re...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Abraham and Isaac’s story ends with a promise. The promise God makes to Abraham is fulfilled in Christmas. Like Abraham and Isaac’s journey, Jesus’ birth at the manger is the beginning of His difficult journey of trust, obedience and sacrifice. As Jesus lived out His life on earth, every day was one more step in His journey up the...