Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the second sermon in the series, A Church United, we looked at the key elements of corporate worship and how it miraculously affects the lives of believers. We learned that corporate worship is much bigger than simply singing songs about Jesus.  Corporate worship includes biblical teaching, the ordinances of baptism and communion, fellowship and prayer.  When believers gather together...

We launched a new series this past Sunday on the unity of the church entitled, “A Church United”.  In the first sermon of the series, we looked at why unity matters.  In Ephesians 4:1-6, the Apostle Paul urges the church to walk in unity and describes our bond as more than simply being nice to each other or singing songs in the same building.  As a church, we are called...

In the Easter sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the resurrection of Jesus and its impact on our lives today. In order to understand the fullness of the resurrection, we must understand it within the context of the whole story of the Bible.  The resurrection was a real moment in time that dramatically impacted all other moments in time.  Reaching backwards to the beginning of human hi...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the details surrounding the return of Jesus.  There are few topics more debated in Christianity than the timing and series of events surrounding His return.  Our focus in this sermon was less on the areas of debate and more centralized on the indisputable biblical Truths concerning the return of our Savior.   The Bible paints a clear pict...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at biblical mandate for Christian living.  The Bible calls us to pursue a lifestyle that reflects God’s character in the fallen world around us.  When we first become a Christian by believing in Jesus, we begin our spiritual journey as a spiritual infant. Through a growing knowledge of Jesus, combined with hard work and human effort, God ca...

This past Sunday, we took a look at the ordinance of communion as a part of our Unity of Faith sermon series.  We began by looking at how communion originated from the Old Testament Passover meal.  On the night before Jesus was arrested and crucified, He revealed to His disciples that the Passover Meal, celebrated by Israel for 1500 years, was really pointing forward to how God planned t...

This past Sunday, we took a look at the ordinance of baptism as a part of our Unity of Faith sermon series.  We began by looking at how baptism originated with Jesus and how He commissioned the church to continue baptism for all believers as expression of their faith. We learned that baptism is not the point of salvation, but instead, it is an outward symbol of the transformation that has alr...

As we continued the Unity of Faith this past Sunday, we looked at the identity and role of the church according to Jesus.  In Matthew 16:13-20, we looked at Jesus’s statement, “on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” In this short, but enlightening statement, Jesus reveals that his church will be a people who gather together,...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the foundational truth about human nature. We saw that through Adam’s disobedience in the Garden, sin and death entered the world and spread to all of mankind. Because of Adam’s sin, the glorious image of God was exchanged for the image of betrayal, and human nature was permanently bent towards sin. In Romans 5, the Apost...

In the Unity of Faith sermon series this past Sunday, we looked at the purpose of the Bible. We learned from the Psalms that God intends for the Bible to be read, and His words are to be treasured more than anything else on earth. God gave us the Bible to give us direction in life’s decisions by illuminating the path of righteousness. We also learned that, even though the Bible was written b...

As we continued the Unity of Faith series this past Sunday, we looked at the work of the Holy Spirit. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit of God is active throughout all of human history, creating the universe, supernaturally filling men and women in the Old Testament to accomplish God’s purposes in redemption and now He transforms the lives of those who believe the Gospel to become more...

As we started the new Unity of Faith series this past Sunday, we began with the foundational question, “Who is God?” While there is no way to answer that question in one sermon, we observed how God has chosen to reveal himself through the Bible as a God of three persons from the same source. This foundational truth lays the foundation for all Christian theology and establishes the esse...

As we started the new Unity of Faith series this past Sunday, we began with the foundational question, “Who is God?” While there is no way to answer that question in one sermon, we observed how God has chosen to reveal himself through the Bible as a God of three persons from the same source. This foundational truth lays the foundation for all Christian theology and establishes the esse...

In the sermon this past Sunday, we were challenged to consider the balance between working hard for Jesus and resting in the work that Jesus has done on our behalf. In Philippians 3:1-11, the Apostle Paul challenged us to loosen our grip on the things we possess here in this life, including our own achievements, and to rejoice in the Lord because he has achieved secured our eternal position with G...

As we continued in the Philippians sermon series this past Sunday, we looked at what it takes to walk in complete joy. In Philippians 2:1-18, the Apostle Paul used the example of Jesus to show us that complete joy is found in Christian community. Complete joy is found in living counter-intuitively to human nature, by emptying ourselves to live self-sacrificially for others and humbling ourselves t...

As we continued in our series through the book of Philippians, The Apostle Paul uses his own life as an example to call Christians to rejoice in the things that matter most in life. Rather than fixating and grumbling about things we don’t like in this temporary life, he calls us to focus on things that last like the eternity of others, biblical truths, unity in the church, our own salvation...

In the second sermon from Philippians, Paul shifts our focus from what God has done in our livescorporately to what He is doing in our lives individually. Paul begins this section by reminding the Philippians Christians that God is faithful to finish the work he began in us when he saved us. Even though our sins have been forgiven and our eternity is secure at the moment of salvation, God continue...

We began our journey through Philippians this past Sunday by looking at ten reasons we have as Christians to rejoice corporately and individually. Rejoicing is a significant theme in Paul’s letter to the Philippians church and Paul begins his letter by pointing out that Christians belong to the koinonia . This one Greek word implies that the Christian community shares in a common grace, a co...

In the sermon on Galatians 5 this past Sunday, we took a deep look at the freedom we have as Christians. The Apostle Paul begins this sect ion of his letter by reminding us that in Christ, we have been set free to walk in unrestricted harmony with God and His people. We learned that walking in freedom requires submitting to the Holy Spirit’s lead in our life and walk...

We continued the Letters to the Church series in Galatians this past Sunday by looking at how absurd it is for Christians to turn back to the things that we turned away from when we met Christ. In Galatians 4, Paul writes from a personal perspective about the time he has invested in the Galatian believers. He is concerned that if they turn back to the small things in life, his investment in their...

In our Family Fellowship Sunday services this past Sunday, we took a deep look at the source of our identity and ambitions for life. In Matthew 3:13-18, Jesus demonstrates what it means to trade your dreams for the mission of God. We learned that the mission of God is more exciting, more fulfilling and provides more joy than anything we could ever dream up for ourselves because our identity isn&rs...

As we continued the Galatians series this past Sunday, we looked at the full story of the Gospel. In Galatians 3:7-9, Paul reminds the church that the Gospel of Christ is the story of the Bible. We saw that the Gospel has always been a Gospel for the nations, uniting ethnicities and creating one kingdom under the sovereign authority of Christ. As we surveyed the Old and New Testament, we saw a bea...