The Rock Church Temecula Valley

Love is personal self-sacrifice. Love isn't a feeling or an emotion. It may create feelings and emotions, but it isn't confined to those things. Our highest pursuit is and should always be love. 

What matters most to God? Love! Love must be our highest goal; it keeps no record of wrong; it does not envy it does not boast. Love should be the number one objective in your life. Love isn't a part of your life; love is your life. Without love, life is empty, so let's walk in love with all we do!

As we conclude on hope there is an important thing we have to learn. We have to get free from past pains in order to accomplish what God has for us. It starts by changing your heart. 

If you don’t have hope for the future, you don’t have power for the present. Things will get better, but you have to have hope that they will get better. And if you become hopeless, then you lose all hope, and you lose all power. Hopelessness can kill you. So as we continue speaking on hope, it’s a reminder that you live a life of hope. 

Moving past hopelessness means we must put our hope into action. To move beyond spiritual immaturity, we need to be confident in our hope. Hope, in and of itself, changes nothing.  Actions do.  Hope can be the catalyst for the change, but actions are what get us there.

Hope is the confident expectation of the future God promised that fuels my faith in Christ and my love for others. We can live 40 days without food, three days without water, but we can’t live a single day without hope. Many things can come against us to give up on hope. However, when we put our faith in God, we can be reliant on the hope that he supplies. 

Faith is being fully persuaded that God is fully in control of my future. If you are going to operate in the kingdom of God, you need faith. Our lives should be completely given to God because God can do far more then we can even imagine. However, we have to have faith in order to give our lives to God. 

Have you ever thought about how we can activate the gift of faith that God has given us? We learned that faith is not passive, but something we need to use in our everyday life. We were reminded about the many people that had faith in the Bible and what their outcomes were because they believed and trusted in God.

Faith is a journey. As with all journeys, there has to be a destination. If you are not clear on where you are supposed to end up then you will always be confused. We are to remain strong in our faith in order to receive for what God has for us. 

We need faith for the battle and faith in the struggle. However, sometimes, things occur in the lives that cause us to grow fatigued. We see circumstance fatigue and character fatigue as everyday struggles. If we are to live by faith and fight by faith, then we have to have our eyes on God. Being fatigued is a product of us doing too much by ourselves, instead of trusting that God will supply all...

Trusting in God is the firm foundation for everything. What is trusting in God? Faith! Faith is being fully persuaded that God is in control of the outcome of my future! We must cultivate and built through an Intimate relationship with God. The greater the trust or faith, the greater the intimacy and the greater the intimacy the greater the trust.

Faith is knowing that God is in control of the outcome of our future. We gain spiritual ground by faith, because it attacked the problem head on. David was willing to face Goliath head on. The armies were hiding and fearful, but David went straight to the giant. 

This Father's Day we had such an incredible move of God. Pastor Hennie poured out to us and addressed the father wound that so many of us carry. Some of us hear the word father we celebrate, but others have such a negative experience with it. However, we have a Heavenly Father who gives us safety, love, grace, and compassion. The Father is always waiting for us to take that step toward him.

We have been building an understanding of kingdom economics. The root of this is that love gives. Money is neither good nor bad; it merely obeys the person who controls it. Money shows what we value and what we despise. We must use the funds for kingdom purposes. Money shows the type of people we are. When we give ourselves entirely over to Christ, we see money as a tool and not as a boss. 

What if we choose to live our lives in such a way that the only explanation that makes sense is because of our faith in Jesus Christ! "Apart from faith in Christ, there is no explanation of such a life." We see in Mattew it says, “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.” Do you want to be first now and last when it matters or are you willing to...

The spirit of generosity is wholly founded on love, but it is so much higher than just with money. However, we can become so full of excuses that hinder God's blessing in our lives. Just like Moses was so unsure about himself, he questioned why God would choose him. However, God asked him what was in his hands, because even though it was just a staff, God was going to do something powerful wi...

Is tithing just an Old Testament principle that we have made a rule of the church, or is there something greater about it? Tithing is the only thing that God says we can test him in. We find that tithing is a test. We can't first receive a blessing from God without being obedient to the tithe. We need to honor God where he has placed us.

We’re all in different places when it comes to finances, but the wisdom of God’s Word applies to us all. We learn from the widow in 2 Kings that we need to start with God, consider what we have, and to act decisively even if it feels uncomfortable.  God has a plan to bless your finances and unleash a spirit of generosity in you! But his plan requires our participation. 

Everyone has storms in their life. And there are many types of storms, but instead of looking to people or things we look to God. Guest Speaker Pastor Gerald Brooks, the Founder of Grace Outreach Center in Plano, Texas,  brings us a fresh perspective on how to face storms with a kingdom mindset. 

Why does Jesus sacrifice matter? Listen as Pastor Hennie takes us on a journey of answering such a question. Celebrating the resurrection power of Christ that will impact us for eternity. 

We have to start with giving! If we want God's favor and blessing we have to obey his word. Obedience is the highest expression of faith and love. By following God's word, we allow him to work in our lives. Giving always supersedes managing, generosity isn't just about managing what you have, but creating room so that God can bless you more and in turn, you get to bless others more....

Kicking off Holy Week, we look at three examples of life change found in our church. Join us through these journies as Amy, Tanner, and Warren share their testimonies of life change through Jesus Christ.

The greatest challenge to living generously as greed. The self-serving nature of greed prevents generosity and faithful stewardship of the resources God entrusts to believers. We see Luke 12 as a model for breaking free from the power of greed and unleashing a spirit of generosity. 

We say because we love God all day every day and in every way, we can’t help but grow daily, serve daily and reach daily. We live our lives loving, growing, serving and reaching. We do not stop because we cannot stop who we are! There is no switch or season, where we do one or two and not the other. We cannot turn our God loving off, or our Christ growing, or our other people serving or reaching o...

God has called ALL of us, not some of us. It is our responsibility to answer this call. In order for us to reach our world we have to be obedient to the call. Just as Jesus called us through the great commission to make disciples we have to step out. We may not be able to change the world, but we can change our world.