Solid Rock Church Sermons

In this first sermon of the 1 Peter series, we looked at how Peter opened his letter to the believers who were suffering from persecution in Asia Minor. In 1 Peter 1:1-2, we read that God sees His people who are suffering as chosen exiles. As believers, the suffering we encounter in the world is evidence that we are exiles living in a foreign land that is not, ultimately, our home. Even though we...

In this sermon, we looked at the calling for every believer to live out the ministry of reconciliation in our everyday lives. In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul calls the Church to be moved by the love of Jesus to give away to others what we have received from Him. Through the Gospel, Jesus first reconciled us to Himself, then to one another. This Biblical concept of reconciliation means to be completely re...

In this sermon, we looked at how God designed mankind to thrive in life-giving relationship with Himself and others. Because of sin, shame entered the story and became a significant enemy to intimate relationship. The shame of Adam and Eve, reflecting the shame in our lives today, moved them away from one another and God. Instead of showing up after the Fall and telling the truth about their sins,...

With this sermon, we started a series looking at the Vision of Solid Rock Church. This Vision comes from seeing how we were designed to gather with the saints of God in a regular routine to practice the rituals of worship. While the concepts of routine and ritual can be off-putting to the modern-day church goer, God designed this to happen in a way that gives life and leads to a flourishing relati...

In this sermon, we looked at the prophet Elijah's experience in 1 Kings 19. Elijah fled from Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab, after she swore an oath to kill him. He was frightened, discouraged, and exhausted—a situation we find ourselves in all too often. In the midst of Elijah's anguish, God ministered to him by giving him food, water, and an opportunity for rest. Elijah then went to Mount...

In this sermon, we looked at how the baby born in a stable will return as a groom who returns for His bride on their wedding day. At His first Advent, Jesus paid with His blood to purchase us as His bride and to ratify the covenant relationship between us and God. In Revelation 19:6-9, we see that not only has Jesus paid the price for us, He has also done everything required to prepare us to be pr...

In this sermon, we looked at how the second coming of Jesus gives us hope in the midst of a world that seems broken and full of injustice. 1 Corinthians 15 and Revelation 19 illustrate how Jesus is predicted to return as a victorious warrior who conquers His enemies and establishes the Kingdom of God on Earth. This is the same Jesus whose first Advent led Him to suffer, die, and resurrect from the...

In this Advent series, we are looking at the differences between the first and second coming of Jesus. In His first Advent, He came as a humble servant, fulfilling prophesies of the Messiah who would come to Earth to suffer and die to heal His people from sin and suffering. When He returns, He will come as a battle-ready groom, prepared to rescue His bride from His enemies and reign as a victoriou...

In this sermon, we looked at how fasting is deeply connected to worship. In the Old Testament, fasting was closely related to grieving or repentance of sin. In the New Testament, fasting became a spiritual discipline or pathway that leads to a deeper, more personal relationship with the One who created and redeems us. Fasting allows us to slow down and be more present and aware of our needs as wel...

In this sermon, we looked at the connection between serving God and worshipping God. The book of Malachi opens with God referring to Himself as a father and Israel as His son. In verses 3:13-18, God confronts Israel's vanity in serving. The people had ceased to serve God out of their love for Him and had, instead, come to a place of complacency and contempt in which they were going through the mot...

In this sermon, we continued to look at God’s design for His Church and how our fellowship with one another is connected to our worship. In the New Testament, God uses the Greek word "koinonia" to describe the community within the Church. The koinonia is a community of close mutual relationships, in which people share possessions and partner in living the mission of Jesus in everyday life. I...

In this sermon, we looked at the connection between our love for God and our love for others. In 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Paul gives the church six commands, starting with the command to rejoice or worship. The next five commands guide us in our relationships with one another. In the Bible, God continually compares our fellowship with Him to our fellowship with one another, saying that we can't cla...

In this sermon, we looked at Colossians 3:12-17 to see how we can cultivate a lifestyle of worship through gratitude. Paul calls us to put on and wear the attributes of Christ on a daily basis. Additionally, he encourages us to allow the peace of Christ to rule over our hearts with thankfulness and to let the Word of God dwell in us richly so that everything we say and do gives thanks to the Fathe...

In this sermon, we looked at the role of prayer in our worship. We read Matthew 6:7-13 to see Jesus' instruction on how to pray and Mark 14:32-36 to see His example of prayer. We also looked in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 at how Paul modeled this same prayer in his own life. Through these passages, we see that prayer is not only about getting God to change something external in our lives but also about...

In this sermon, we looked at the role of the Word of God in worship. The Word of God reminds us of who God is and what God has done. It leads us to salvation and restored relationship with Him. With our relationship with God restored, we are able to see God for who He is and reflect on His goodness and kindness towards us which evokes reverence, gratitude and love in our hearts towards God. Worshi...

In the first sermon of our "Worship is…" series, we studied what a heart of worship looks like and where it comes from. Worship happens when our love for God aligns with our right thoughts about God and is expressed in our obedient actions toward God. When the Lord gives us His presence, it exposes our neediness and we either run and hide or turn toward Him. When we take our neediness to th...

In our last sermon of the Ephesians series, we looked at Paul's final charge for believers to stand strong in the gifts that Jesus has given them. This exhortation reminds us that the devil seeks to steal, kill, and destroy us through his evil schemes. Our defense against these schemes is to put on the whole armor of God, given to us as Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, His Spirit, and His Word....

In this sermon, we looked at how God is restoring His people as image bearers in the way we work and lead others. In Ephesians 6:5-9, Paul calls those who are in Christ to engage in work in a way that reflects His image. We do this by following instructions and going about our work willingly and wholeheartedly, whether or not anyone is watching, always looking for opportunities to do the will of G...

In this sermon, we looked at God's call for parents and children to bear His image in the home through the way they interact with one another. God calls children who are in Christ to honor their parents by speaking respectfully, listening to and following their instruction, and expressing gratitude for their care. When children honor their parents, we get a glimpse of the honor that we are all cal...

In this sermon, we looked at how we are called to bear the image of God in marriage. In Ephesians 5:22-31, Paul turns his attention to marriage as he calls husbands and wives to a specific role in reflecting the image of the Gospel. Wives are to submit to their husbands in a way that bears the image of the Church submitting to and honoring Christ. Husbands are to sacrificially love their wives in...

In this sermon, we looked at Ephesians 5:1-21 to see Paul's description of what it looks like to imitate God as those who are being transformed by the Gospel. Paul uses the metaphor of walking in the light, instead of the darkness, as a picture of the transformative process for those who are in Christ. In Him, we are being transformed back into image bearers of God. In this section of Ephesians, P...

In this sermon, we continued looking in Ephesians 4, where Paul tells the church in Ephesus to put off the old self, from before they heard the Gospel and knew the Lord, and to put on the new self, which is theirs in Christ Jesus. Beginning in verse 25, Paul gives practical advice about how to conduct ourselves as we live everyday life in Christ. When we put on this new self and truly live as His,...

In this sermon, we looked at Paul's reminder to the Christians in Ephesus to no longer walk as their old selves before they heard the Gospel and learned about Jesus. In Ephesians 4:17-25, Paul teaches us that at the core of the old self is a darkened heart that has become calloused and can no longer feel pain, grief, guilt, or conviction. He also warns that once our hearts become darkened and call...

In this sermon, we continued to look at the gifts of grace Jesus has given to the Church in order to build up the Church and maintain unity. Jesus has called spiritual leaders to equip the members of the Church for ministry so that they may minister to one another in truth and love. Every believer has been equipped and entrusted with a spiritual gift of grace to serve the other members of the Chur...

In this sermon, we looked at how God has given the Church everything it needs to maintain the unity Christ provided. In Ephesians 4:7-12, Paul says that God has given leaders to the church as gifts of grace in order to equip all of the members to fulfill their calling in ministry, thereby leading the whole Church to spiritual growth and unity in Christ.