Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel calls us to walk in transparency with God and each other. In 1 John 1, the Apostle John admonishes the church to understand that our confession of sin is what opens the door to true fellowship. John says that if we claim to have no sin in our lives, we are essentially calling God a liar and declaring that we have no need for the Gospel. T...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God’s power is perfected in us in the midst of our weakness. In 2 Corinthians 12, we saw how the Gospel leads us to boast in our weakness rather than hiding or pretending to be something we are not. The Apostle Paul writes to the church in Corinth, encouraging them from his own experience, that God takes the things that Satan uses to harass us...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the humble confession of the Apostle Paul to Timothy, when Paul openly declared himself the “chief of sinners.” Through looking at Paul’s confession, we were reminded that Jesus didn’t come to rescue people who think they have it together. Jesus came to save sinners . In contrast with what much of the Church today believes, the s...

For our Mother’s Day sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Sarah’s response to God’s promise in Genesis 18 and 21. Through her example, we see a beautiful picture of what it looks like to be a woman after God’s own heart. Through her lack of faith, God turned Sarah’s self-doubt and fear into faith in God’s power to do what seemed impossible. Being a woman after...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the Bible’s Gospel Story conclusion in Revelation 21 and 22. In this passage, God reminds us that He is the author of the story and the Bible is ultimately about His redemption plan to rescue the nations from sin and death and restore all things to the condition they were originally created to be at the beginning of the story: “Very good.&rd...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked again at the final restoration that God promised. Revelation 19 begins with the mighty sound of the nations gathering together in the great wedding hall, where Jesus will claim the Church as His bride. In this passage, we see a beautiful picture of our worship and community being fully and finally restored. Jesus rides into the wedding hall, at just the ri...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we were reminded that we are God’s children and, therefore, we are saints because of the finished work of Christ on the cross. The Holy Spirit reminds us who we are in Christ during our journey through sanctification, as we become more like Him every day. Paul reminds us that, since we are children of God, we are awaiting our inheritance of glorification as he...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the second part of God’s re-creation work in our lives. Last week, our focus was on the work that God has done to restore everything that was lost in the Fall. Our focus this week is on how our efforts fit into the amazing work that God is doing in us. Fueled by the love of Christ, we are compelled to put our old selves to death and walk in the ne...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the impact that the resurrection of Christ has on our lives. God has restored everything that was lost in the Fall. Through faith in Christ, we are re-created as image bearers and stirred once again to worship the one true God. In Christ, every barrier that kept us from dwelling in genuine fellowship with one another has been put to death, allowing us t...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued looking at God’s great Rescue. We recognized that the resurrection of Jesus is the greatest singular moment in the Gospel Story. Jesus came to do what no person in the Old Testament had been able to accomplish. All of man’s attempts to save himself fell short. The sacrifices in the temple weren’t enough. The pursuit of a high standard...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the part of the Gospel Story where the rescue begins to takes place. The first four books in the New Testament, referred to as the Gospels, contain the story of God’s Son stepping down from His throne and into our world to become flesh and live a perfect life of obedience to the Law of God in order to rescue us. Through faith in Jesus alone, His p...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued our journey through the Gospel Story by looking at one of the primary themes in the Old Testament. From Genesis 12 through the book of Malachi, we see God making and reiterating his promise to rescue mankind from sin and death. Through every small story in the Old Testament, we see a perpetual cycle of man’s struggle with sin and God’s promi...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued our journey through the Gospel story. We looked at the fall of humanity and the impact that sin had on our God-designed purpose for worship, community and mission. Through believing the lie of the serpent, Adam and Eve sinned by engaging in self-worship, the root of all sin. Once our worship was distorted, our community and our mission followed. Self-wo...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the beginning of God’s Gospel story. The story began with the account of how and why the universe was created. In this narrative, we see that the first man and woman were created with the primary purpose of reflecting God’s image in the created world. God was building for Himself a Kingdom of image bearers, through multiplication and living...

This past Sunday, we began The Gospel Story sermon series. In this series, we will be looking at how all of the small stories of the Bible come together to tell one epic story of redemption. In God’s redemption story, Jesus is the hero. The Bible tells the story of Jesus coming to rescue His people from sin and death. This story continues today in our lives. When we trust Jesus as our rescue...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we revisited Isaiah’s story from week 2 of the All In series. We looked at Isaiah’s response to God’s forgiveness in his life and asked the question: “Why did Isaiah respond to the forgiveness of God with complete devotion and surrender?” In 2 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul explains that our salvation compels us to live for Christ and...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the first church devoted itself to the mission of Jesus immediately after hearing and responding to the Gospel at Pentecost. Those who were saved were baptized and devoted themselves to the mission of Jesus inside and outside the church. Their devotion was evident by the way their hearts overflowed with gladness and generosity toward one another thr...

In the second sermon of our 2018 All In series, we looked at Isaiah’s response to his encounter with the Holy presence of God. Like Isaiah, when we encounter the presence of God, it leads us to repentance and surrender. We surrender our deep, desperate situation to Jesus, as the only hope we have of being rescued. The redemptive rescue of Jesus leads to the mission of Jesus. Everyone who has...

In our first sermon of the 2018 All In series this past Sunday, we looked in Matthew 25 at a parable in which a wealthy man went on a journey and entrusted his servants to manage his resources while he was gone. Through this parable, we are reminded that everything we have belongs to God, and we have been entrusted with God’s resources according to our abilities. Therefore, God expects us to...

This past Sunday, we continued in our SR Vision series by answering the question, “What is Biblical community?” We discussed that Biblical community is designed by God, with an intentional purpose to eternally change the lives of those who are in Christ Jesus. Biblical Community is set apart because it is solely centered on the Truth of the Gospel. When we live in true Biblical co...

As we kicked off the SR Vision sermon series this past Sunday, we began by looking at what worship truly is and what it has to do with God’s work in transforming our lives. With New Year’s Resolutions fresh on our minds, most of us have been evaluating the changes we want to see in our lives in 2018. As we seek positive change, we need to remember that true change doesn’t come fr...

In the final sermon of the Advent series, we looked at the essence of Christmas. What is Christmas really about? Christmas isn’t merely the celebration of the birth of Jesus, but it is the celebration of God’s plan to rescue sinners through Jesus. God gave his Son as a gift to us, that He would live a perfect life, die a sacrificial death and resurrect victoriously over death. Through...

In the third sermon of the Advent series, A Son is Given, we looked at the significance of Jesus being called the Son of Abraham. The Apostle Paul saw a very deep and profound connection between Jesus and Abraham and, according to Paul, this was the center of the Gospel. He even mentions that when God made his original promise to Abraham in Genesis 12, God was “preaching the Gospel beforehan...

In the second sermon of our Advent series, A Son is Given, we looked at the significance of Jesus being identified as the Son of David . In order to understand the real meaning of this title, we looked deep into the Old Testament to a promise God made to King David in 2 Samuel 7 that God would establish the throne of David forever through one of his descendants. When the Angel Gabriel tells Mary s...

As we move through this Advent season, we are focusing on Jesus as the Son of God who was given for us. In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at prophesy about the birth of Jesus from Isaiah 8 & 9. Isaiah announced, 700 years before the birth of Jesus, that God would send a light to shine in the midst of our darkness and bring hope to our hopelessness. The “light” would be God&...