Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at how God calls Christians to pursue holiness. Created in the image of a Holy God, our lives have been marred by sin, and God’s holy image has been distorted by our disobedience. Through our faith in the obedience of Jesus, God is restoring His image in us through the process of sanctification. This is the life-long process of being transformed into...

In our services this past Sunday, we took time to share and celebrate the work God has done in our lives through the Desires of the Heart sermon series. As we walked through each sermon in the series, we looked at the idols of dreams, relationships, performance, being right, control, comfort and possessions. Most of us discovered that our idols are the good things that God has blessed us with that...

In the sermon this past week, we answered the question, “Now what?” Now that we have started to identify idols in our lives, what do we need to do to see these idols removed? Idol worship is not simply disobeying God; it’s setting our whole hearts on something besides God, which always plays out in disobedience. Our idols meet us in our need for comfort, security, significance, a...

In the sermon this past weekend, we looked at the final idol in the Desires of the Heart series: The Idol of Possessions. In Luke 12, Jesus stops his teaching to address a question about inheritance from a man in the crowd. Instead of directly answering the man’s question, Jesus takes the opportunity to teach the crowd about the idol of possessions. Using a parable, Jesus points out that wha...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the idol of comfort. In 2 Corinthians, we learn about God’s perspective on comfort and how that contrasts with the American Dream theology of the modern church. The Bible draws a distinction between pursuing comfort for the flesh and seeking comfort for the soul. God Himself is the one true source of comfort for the human soul and He provides this...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the idol of being right. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with desiring to be right, when we allow that desire to become so significant to us that it causes arguments and divisions, the desire has become an idol that is more important to us than our desire to be loving. The idol of being right hinders us from extending forgiveness when we&rsqu...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we took a break from the Desires of the Heart series to look at the heart of God in the midst of tragedy and suffering. When tragedy strikes, the first human response is to ask the question, “ Why? ”  Questions like  “ Why did this happen? ”  or  “ Why did God allow it? ”  seem to beg to be answered. In&nb...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Jesus sees performance- based idols in the story of Martha and Mary. In Luke 10, Jesus addresses Martha ’ s idol of performance and, through her example, we see how performance-driven idols negatively impact our most important relationships. Performance-driven idols o ccur when we allow our satisfaction in life to hinge on our performance or t...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at another example of how a good thing can become an idol when we allow it to become the ultimate desire of our hearts. In Genesis 22, we saw how God tested Abraham to refine his desires and expose the ultimate object of his love when He called Abraham to sacrifice his only son, whom he loved deeply. God was not calling Abraham to end his love for his son...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the idol of dreams. Like many other things that become idols in our lives, dreams can be good things that become idols when we turn them into ultimate things. When we make our dreams ultimate, we tend to bulldoze over people to get what we want, neglect our most important God-given callings and destroy relationships in the wake of pursuit. The true and...

This past Sunday, we looked at Isaiah 44 as we continued our Desires of the Heart series. We discussed the foolishness of idol worship and yet how common it is in each of our lives to create and keep idols. When we unleash our desires and pursue idols, it causes a deep desperation. This desperation leads to compromising our principals in order to possess and protect t...

This past Sunday, we opened the Desires of the Heart series by looking at how the Bible describes and defines idols. Beyond the idea of statues or figurines, we looked at how anything that God has created “good” can be distorted into something we idolize. When these good things somehow shift in our hearts to become things that we trust in to make us h...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we wrapped up the “Acts - The Unstoppable Church” sermon series by recapping the main outline of the story and asking the question, “What happened next? ”Acts is the story of God’s people, empowered by the Holy Spirit, launching the mission to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. As...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the “fuel” behind the explosive movement of the church. What made the church of Jesus so unstoppable, despite the Jewish and Roman governments’ relentless attempts to shut it down? In Paul’s final recorded sermon, he explains the power of God’s unstoppable church. He uses the Old Testament...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul’s life of worship. Although we never see Paul singing songs to God, we know that he lived his life in worship to the Lord. In Acts 27, as Paul sails through a dangerous storm, we see an illustration of what it looks like to live our lives in worship. Through Paul’s example, we see that worship is ...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Paul shared his story when he appeared before King Agrippa. From his example, we considered how we share our own stories. When we share our testimony it is essential to remember who the main character is. The point of sharing our testimonies is to present Jesus as the hero who has rescued our lives from despair and destructi...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul’s desperate situation in Acts 23, as he was under constant threat of being killed by the angry Jewish mob. As his nephew informed him of the assassination plot against him, Paul told the centurion to take his nephew to see the tribune. Despite that fact that Paul’s life seemed to be completely in...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at Paul’s final address to the Jews bound in chains in Jerusalem. As Paul addressed the angry mob, he compared the Jewish leaders to white washed walls. This was a metaphor that Jesus used to expose hypocrisy among religious leaders who looked good on the outside but had corrupt hearts. Because Paul was a Roman citizen, they w...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued to look at the work of God through Paul’s life. Paul had arrived into Jerusalem and faced rising opposition against the message of the Gospel. After his suffering and arrest, revealed through the work of the Holy Spirit, Paul stands before his accusers and proclaims his defense by sharing the grace of God that changed his life. Even...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the tension surrounding the ministry of Paul and the message of the Gospel in Acts 21. Even with the false rumors and the violent crowd coming against him, Paul demonstrates that he is willing to suffer for the Gospel. His main purpose is not personal comfort, political correctness, or public affirmation; it is to preach salvation by...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Paul and the other believers responded as the Holy Spirit revealed that Paul’s life was headed towards imprisonment and death. As we looked at how the early church took their concerns toGod in prayer, we also looked at what prayer is and the role it should play in our lives. Often times we think of prayer as simply talking to God or askin...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the faithfulness of Paul and all that God did through him to spread the Gospel and expand the church. As he addressed the elders from Ephesus in Acts 20, Paul used his own life as an example of where true faithfulness comes from. Paul had encountered the grace of God in such a way that he lived in constant awareness of the many...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the true work that God was doing in the book of Acts: saving, forgiving and redeeming lives. In the early church, much like the church of today, the primary work that God was doing was sometimes dismissed or sidelined by the miracles He performed. However, God works through supernatural miracles to validate His primary work, not for...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul ’ s response to the idol worship going on in Athens. Upon entering the city, Paul w as very disturbed by what he saw. Instead of seeing a beautiful city that was full of knowledge and culture, he saw a city that was steeped in idolatry and evil. The people of At hens had manufactured an entire religious system that allowed them to control and...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the role that the Scriptures play in declaring that Jesus is the Christ and what it means to claim to believe in Him. In Acts 17, Paul continues his missionary work in Thessalonica and Berea. In every interaction, we see the same pattern in the unstoppable mission of Jesus: the Gospel is preached from the Scriptures; some people believe in Jesus and joi...