Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the role of women in the church through the example of Lydia, the first recorded Christian in Philippi. In Acts 16 we read that God opened Lydia’s heart to hear and believe the Gospel. As a woman in first-century Roman culture, it was very risky for Lydia to choose her own religion. It was also dangerous for her to live out that new religion among...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at a major dispute that divided Paul and Barnabas on their second missionary journey. We used this as an opportunity to talk about Christian disputes, where they arise from and how to pursue reconciliation. In Acts 15, Luke tells us a story of what happened and not necessarily what should havehappened. Through the counsel of scripture, we see a consistent a...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the significance and power of the resurrection of Jesus. In Acts 13, the Apostle Paul preaches the Gospel to the Jews by showing them how Jesus is the descendent of David who was expected from the Old Testament prophesies. Everything about Jesus’s life, death and resurrection was a fulfillment of God’s plan, which He revealed ahead of time th...

In the sermon this past Sunday we continued the Acts series by looking at the spiritual battle that the devil has waged against the souls of mankind. In Acts 13, we find the narrative of Paul and Barnabas leading a key Roman official to Jesus. In this account of evangelism, we see that behind the scenes of every salvation is a spiritual battle between the will of God and the will of Satan. As the...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued the Acts sermon series by looking at how God used the people of Antioch as a launching pad to send Paul and Barnabas out as missionaries. This was a great reminder to us a church that in order to fulfill the mission that God has called us to, it will require some to go out from the church to reach unreached people around the world and some to stay put i...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we finished the All In sermon series and celebrated the work that God has done and will continue to do through the Solid Rock Church family. In 2 Corinthians 9, Paul ends his plea for generosity by reminding the church that God is the actual supplier and multiplier of our resources, enabling us to be generous. He lays out 4 things that happen when God’s people...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the role of the saints in the mission of Jesus. Admittedly, Christians have nothing significant to offer Jesus for the purpose of accomplishing His mission. If the mission of Jesus were contingent on what we could do for Him, the mission would have been wrecked on day 1. But through Acts 12, we are reminded of the role of the saints in the unstoppable mi...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we resumed the Acts sermon series by looking at what it means to live our lives in alignment with the mission of Jesus. In chapter 11, we saw that through persecution, God led his followers from Jerusalem to Antioch where they shared the hope of Jesus with the Gentiles. This was a big turning point in the story of the church. It was through the faithfulness of a few...

In the final sermon in the ‘All In’ series, we looked at how making a commitment is the first step of putting our faith into action. Making a generous commitment is an individual decision guided by faith and joy in God’s economic principles of reaping according to what you sow. Making an ‘All In’ commitment means trusting God will provide beyond what you need in order...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we learned how the grace of God fuels all-in generosity. When a person truly encounters the generosity of God, it compels them to willingly and eagerly give sacrificially of themselves regardless of their circumstances. When we willingly surrender our hearts 100% to God and His promises, we are able see generosity as an opportunity to sow seeds in God’s Kingdo...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued our discussion on what it looks like to live with all-in faith. We learned that living with all-in faith means trusting in Jesus and letting go of what we can do. Trusting in ourselves is rooted in what seems possible or attainable. All-in faith requires trusting Jesus to lead you beyond what seems possible and letting go of trusting in anything we can...

On the second Sunday in the “All In” series, we looked at the first of two sermons on what it looks like to live with all-in faith. We learned that living with all-infaith means abandoning your faith in anything other than Jesus as the only way to attain eternal life in God’ s Kingdom. All-in faith means believing that eternal life in God’ s Kingdom is better than anything...

In the opening sermon for the 'All In’ series, we discussed what it truly looks like to follow Jesus all-in. In Luke 9, Jesus tells His followers that we have to be willing to die to ourselves in order to live for Him. This type of dying means surrendering selfish ambitions and desires and allowing God to replace those with His ambitions and desires for you. A life that is all-in for Jesus r...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we read in Acts 11 as Luke retold the story of the Gentiles coming to faith in Jesus and receiving the Holy Spirit. This passage encourages us to take a closer look at the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. It’s only through the Holy Spirit’s work in us that we are able to see the desperation of our sin and the hope that Jesus provides. A...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Acts 10 is a significant turning point in the redemption story of God’s people. Long ago, God had promised to work through Israel in a way that would reach far beyond the borders of Israel. Though the Gospel had spread outside of Jerusalem, the church was still primarily focused on sharing the good news of Jesus with the Jews. In Acts 10, God...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the miraculous work that God was doing through the unstoppable church in Acts. As we saw in Peter’s example in Acts 9, the unstoppable church operates in complete faith that God can do anything and heal anyone. In everything we ask of God, we must also submit every desire and plan to God’s good and perfect will. God is not on the hook to do a...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the power of God to save the most unlikely people through the most unlikely people. When God saves a person, it doesn’t mean that they are no longer tempted to sin or that they will have an easy life. Salvation means that the person is now new on the inside and has a new mission in life. The ‘Unstoppable Church’ is a group of unlikely p...

In the sermon this past  Sunday , we looked at the Gospel-appointed meeting in Acts 8 between Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in which we have this beautiful insight into how the Holy Spirit worked in both Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch's life. Philip is lead by the Holy Spirit to "rise and go" and live out the mission and meet the Ethiopian Eunuch who is seeking the Truth of Scripture;...

In the final sermon of the Real Tree of Christmas series this past Sunday, we looked at the Tree of Life. As the story of the Bible unfolds, we find that the Tree of Life has great significance. The Tree of Life represents eternal life in the Garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve sinned, they were banished from the Garden of Eden in order to keep them from eating from the Tree of Life. Through the pr...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued the Real Tree of Christmas series by looking at the Tree of Suffering. Over 600 years before Jesus was born in the manger, God spoke through the prophet Isaiah, describing the Messiah as a tree that would suffer on behalf of God’s people. In Isaiah 53, we read that the tree of suffering would enter our world in complete vulnerability, from the mos...

In the sermon his past Sunday we continued the Advent series, The Real Tree of Christmas, by looking at the Tree of Promise. In Genesis 12, God makes a promise to Abraham, that through his family tree God will bless all other family trees. The Gospel of Matthew opens the nativity story with a genealogy that introduces Jesus as the promised descendent of David and Abraham. Through faith in Jesus, G...

This week we started our journey toward Christmas with our Advent sermon series, looking at how the Bible uses trees to bring about the full meaning of Christmas. On Sunday, we looked at the fall of the family tree of humanity in Genesis 2 and 3. In these chapters, we see how God’s laws are always for our good and how Satan twists the words of God to tempt man into disobedience. At the momen...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the movement of the Gospel from Jerusalem to Samaria. Fueled by severe persecution, the church members from Jerusalem began to disperse throughout the region of Judea and Samaria. In Acts 8, we followed the story of Philip as he took the Gospel message to the Samaritans. Here, Philip encountered a dark and demonic culture steeped in magic. Through Phili...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the biblical topic of adoption. In Galatians 4, we see that adoption is the central theme of the good news of the Gospel. All that we have in Christ is a means to the end of being adopted into God’s family. God initiated our adoption at His costly expense and extended the free gift of son-ship to us by faith. As image bearers, God has called His p...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at Acts 6 and 7, where we see the first martyr of the church. Steven, who was selected to serve the church as a deacon in Acts 6, was a man full of the Holy Spirit, of good reputation and full of wisdom. Just after being selected to serve, he is arrested while talking about Jesus in the streets of Jerusalem. After being falsely accused and questioned, Steve...