Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the inward mission of the church in Acts 6:1-7. In this part of the early church narrative, we see church growth cause the workload of ministry to increase and personal barriers emerge. In response to these challenges, the church is driven by the Gospel and empowered by the Holy Spirit to overcome personal barriers in order to love one another well. Thr...

In the sermon this past Sunday we continued the Acts sermon series by looking at the contrast between someone who engages in ministry as a response to encountering the grace of Jesus versus someone who is involved in ministry for their own glory. Through comparing the example of Barnabas to that of Ananias and Sapphira, we see that giving to God is never really about money. As Jesus taught in Matt...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at what happened to Peter and John after the religious leaders caught wind of the miracle they performed at the temple. After being confronted, Peter and John were arrested and interrogated. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Peter spoke with boldness and refused to give into the pressure of the religious leaders. After being threatened and released, the church...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Peter’s response to the growing crowd that gathered outside the temple after God miraculously healed a man who had been lame since birth. Peter begins by shifting the attention of the crowd away from himself and towards God, giving Him the glory for the power to heal the man. Then Peter quickly points the people to God as the architect and designe...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the first recorded miracle of the church. In Acts 3:1-10 God worked through Peter and John to miraculously heal a man who had been lame since birth. In this account the apostles went beyond meeting the man’s temporary need for money and addressed the man’s permanent need. As he begged for money, the apostles offered the man the ability to wa...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the portrait of Biblical community described in Acts 2:42-47. The believers of the first church were fully devoted to the principles of Biblicalcommunity: Biblical teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer. These early Christians had all things in common. Their common faith in Jesus created a common rhythm for living life according to a common s...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the launch of the first Christian church. In chapter 2 of Acts we see the apostles carrying on the mission of Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to launch the first Christian church in Jerusalem. In this early example of the church, we see that the primary message of the church is the truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. This is t...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the predominant role of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. Starting at Pentecost in Acts 2, the Holy Spirit has center stage as Jesus’s Church launches and the Gospel spreads from Jerusalem towards the ends of the Earth. In Acts 2, the promised Holy Spirit arrives with the sound of wind and the appearance of fire. As the Holy Spirit rests on the...

In the second sermon in the Acts series, we looked at what a Christian church is and what a Christian church is supposed to be doing in the world. We concluded that the church is a public gathering of the citizens of God’s Kingdom made up of those who have believed and professed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Every believer is part of the church and every church is a pa...

In the opening sermon of the Acts series this past Sunday, we looked at the connection between the mission of Jesus and the mission of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came to Earth to live perfectly, die sacrificially, and resurrect victoriously, defeating sin and death. These accomplishments set the stage for God to launch His mission to establish His Kingdom on Earth through those who would believe in Je...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the parable of the loving Father found in Luke 15. While this parable is traditionally known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son, we looked at the main focus of the parable as the love of the Father. As we concluded the Redemption Stories sermon series, we looked at how the parable illustrates God’s love for all of us. We have all been marked as reb...

In the sermon this past Sunday we looked at the beautiful command to abide in Jesus found in John 15:1-11. Jesus uses a vineyard as a metaphor to describe the relationship between Himself, His Father and His followers. The Father is described as a vinedresser who distinguishes between genuine believers and those who pretend to be a Christian. As you would expect, the Father exposes the nominal or...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked Paul’s teaching on the amazing grace of God in Galatians 3. Pastor Jason talked about the difference between earning God’s favor by perfect obedience to God’s Law verses receiving God’s favor through faith. Paul says that it should be evident that no person could ever earn God’s favor through obedience, so the only hope we hav...

This past Sunday we looked at how God has designed marriage to be a living portrait of His redemption in the world. After four and a half chapters about redemption in Ephesians, the Apostle Paul describes how God has designed marriage to reflect the greater reality of the Gospel. Paul instructs wives to respect and follow their husband’s lead as they lay their lives down in sacrificial love...

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason taught from Genesis 22 discussing how good things can easily become bad idols in our lives. Idols can be anything that we love more or are more devoted to than God. As we learned from Genesis 22, even the good God-given gifts like children or ministries can become idols. As Christians, the essence of our faith is that we have confessed that we trust God...

This past Sunday we looked at the true source of joy in contrast to the vast attempts of our culture to find happiness in fleeting things. In 1 Peter 1, we see the indescribable joy that comes from the living hope we have in Jesus. Because Jesus guards our eternity, we have an imperishable, undefiled, and unfading eternal inheritance. Knowing this truth provides for us a joy that hinges on eternit...

This past Sunday we looked at understanding God’s purpose for trials in light of His redemptive story. In James 1, we see that God uses trials of various kinds to mature believers to be complete in Christ. These trials can come from within ourselves through desires and choices we make, the fallen world in which we live, or from the choices that people in our lives make. We are reminded that...

As we continued the Redemption Stories this past Sunday we looked at the implications of our adoption into God’s family. In Galatians 4, we looked at the comparison between the servants of the house vs. the children of the house. While we used to be strangers in reference to knowing God, now through faith we have been immediately adopted in His family. We looked at the example of Jesus as He...

As we continued the Redemption Stories sermon series this past Sunday, we looked at a clear call from God to let go of any confidence we have in our ability to impress Him and to trust in the work of Christ alone for our salvation. While this struggle manifests itself in the early church through ritual acts like circumcision, the modern day church displays this struggle in the form of religious pe...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked out how God leads his children through seasons of darkness as a loving Father. We looked at the redemption story of Israel and their journey through the darkness and suffering of slavery. Every redemption story begins with an epic struggle of despair and hopelessness. Being a child of God doesn’t infer an absence of darkness, but rather it promises t...

In the first sermon of the new sermon series, we looked at the reality that every life is telling a story. With our choices and actions, we all write stories with our lives where we are the main character, and the storylines are driven by our own ambitions. In the stories we write, most often our failures are the hidden truths all throughout our story that we attempt to disguise as the failure of...

As we continued the A Church on Mission sermon series we looked at the identity markers of a church on mission. In Acts 11-13, the church of Antioch was a pivotal place for the advancement of the Gospel beyond the Jews to reach the gentiles. It was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first called “Christians”. They took the commission of Jesus to heart by sharing the Gospel and...

In the sermon series this past Sunday, we looked at discipling women of Kingdom. In the Apostle Paul’s letter to Titus, he instructs Titus to set up the discipleship process within the church. He reminds Titus that women of the Kingdom are to live in a manner that reflects the sacred nature of being created in the image of God. Paul commissions Titus to release the spiritually mature women o...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the God-given design and calling on the men of God’s Kingdom. As the Apostle Paul lays out the structure of discipleship within the Church for Titus, we see that all men are called to the character of Christ described in the qualifications of the Elders. The role of Elder is not an elite role in the church for the special few. But instead, the rol...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued to look at our inward Mission as a Church: to invest and engage in making disciples of the next generation. Whether you have children in your home or not, every believer is mandated to engage the next generation and lead them towards spiritual maturity. There is a significant difference between conforming our children into our image verses participating...