The Rock - Paarl

// WHY GOD, WHY? PART 1 // “God is good, all the time.” We love to say it, but here is a question: have you ever doubted that God IS good? There has always been and will always be suffering, pain and tragedy in the world and in our lives. If God is loving, why would he allow suffering? The answer is this: If love is a choice, suffering is a possibility. If it is possible to love, it is possible to...

Every week, The Rock streams their church services on podcast.

This week we received a word that shared on “The Father heart of God”. It was a message that reminds us of the incredible love God has for each of us. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtM9OXE7_U (Read Ephesians 1:3-6 TPT) The more we get to know God the more we understand how much we have to be thankful for. How much we can praise him for being a good Father. Consider praise as gratitude towards God...

1️⃣ My debt is paid in full. Romans 8:1 Question: Can you identify areas in your life where you have tried to get closer to God through performance? We can only understand grace when we understand the depth of sin and the great price that Jesus alone was able to pay. 2️⃣ I have been set free. Romans 8:2-4 Question: Just like a mirror only reveals things to us but cannot change them, we in our own...

This week we heard a message on part 2 of moving forward financially, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DcjrSVxz8Ts Observation: Pastor Mark raises the question; what does it look like to be rich to God? And we discover that it looks like generosity. Generosity will bring you closer to God and make your world larger. But what is generosity all about? Discuss the following points from the message and t...

Constant financial stress is so common today. You can’t fully pursue the purposes God has for you if you are always under financial pressures; and if you don’t live by His principles you will end up living by the worlds pressure. (Read Luke 12:13-21 NIV) Here are some principles we can apply to our lives: 1️⃣ God does not measure success the way we measure success. You are more than what you make....

In the book of Ruth we are taught a beautiful story of redemption and how God is able to restore lives when hearts are turned to him. When we look at Naomi’s life, we see how God was able to use her faithfulness to bless and restore others. (Ruth 1:6) Here we find Naomi making a choice to move back towards God, after having drifted from Him through a series of bad life choices. This is what we can...

God is the best gift giver! He gives us the gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23). He gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4). He also gives us the gift of spiritual gifts. Jesus came to pour out the Spirit on all people to be used in this life. Not just a select few religious leaders, but all of us who are open to receive it. This is the priesthood of all believers! (Ephesians 4:11-12). A sp...

Moving forward with God requires being actively involved in our own lives, as we put our faith in Him daily. Jesus teaches us (Matthew 21:28-32) that doing God’s will means changing our hearts and minds and putting action to our faith. This faith is accomplished by remembering: 1. Faith that works is more important than faith with works. Trust God to do what only he can do and put him at the centr...

Every week, The Rock streams their church services on podcast. (Acts 1:3-5) The Holy Spirit came to empower the Church and is a gift to each of us. We also know that Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament law, and therefore we too can live empowered lives (Matthew 5:17).

Eternity is a reality for each of us (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Jesus himself taught his disciples about what the Kingdom of heaven is like, and how we should be prepared for eternity.

Every week, The Rock streams their church services on podcast.

Every week, The Rock streams their church services on podcast.

Every week, The Rock streams their church services on podcast.

Like on a GPS, God has a route planned out for your life, with a destination in mind. How can we move forward in our lives in the natural and the supernatural with God? Jonathan teaches us to: 1. Sharpen our tools: (1 Samuel 13:19-22) The enemy will try take away your spiritual weapons to convince you that you have no hope. This is when we need to sharpen our tools and press on to see victory. 2....

Like on a GPS, God has a route planned out for your life, with a destination in mind. But unlike a GPS we cannot see the entire route overview before hand. Instead we must have faith and trust God to lead us each step of the way. (Psalm 119:105) A lamp implies that you have just enough light to see ahead of you, and not all the way to the end of the route.(Hebrews 11:8) Abraham had to trust God to...

In life we can get to a place where we are drifting, in our faith, in our marriage, even in our commitment to our God-given dreams, but God can call us back from that drift in our hearts. We need to understand that God is faithful - He is loyal, firm, loving -  and He is standing at the shore calling you back to safety. Let His word be like a life guard’s whistle pulling you back. When we dri...

When we step into life we need to be ready to fight against the enemy.  So what do we do when life throws punches at us? How do we respond when  we get hit? The option to quit always seems like an easy out, but don’t quit when  the hard times come. Instead we need to be refueled for the fight ahead.  Our fight is so that our coming days will be better than our former  days...

Our lives are the results of patterns and routines. We may even find  that we have patterns in our lives that are keeping us from moving  forward. Such as patterns of offence. What is your default pattern when  you are offended?  You are not able to live life without being offended. So we need to know  how we will react when we are (Luke 17:1).   Here are 3 patte...

Have you ever felt at times when you have attempted to move forward in  life that you were limited by something?  One of the biggest things that  can hold us back is our thinking. And so we need to have forward  thinking.(Rom 12:2) If we want to start to move forward in areas where  we are not seeing progress then we need to change our thinking. We can’t  simply defau...

This Sunday we got into the Valentine spirit and heard a message centered on love. Love is not simply about romance, but it is always about the “doing” and the choices we make (Matt 22:37-40). In 1 Cor 13:2 we see that if we have all things but we don’t have love, we have nothing.  We need to have love in our hearts. In Prov 4:23 we learn how everything flows from the heart, and we need to kn...

This past Sunday was our vision Sunday where we looked at the year ahead and put a word to it. To give us direction for where we want to go with God! In 2023 let’s move out of a place of languishing and let’s start MOVING FORWARD with renewed sense of hope and purpose! So others may live (Philippians 3:12-15). Let’s start pressing forward to the call that God has on our lives.  In 2023 let’s...

This week we hear from our Lead Pastor Jared Cerfonteyn on how we can all live our lives intentionally in 2023! Have your notebooks and pen ready for this week's message.

In this weeks inspiring message we learnt that if we are going to take new ground in 2023, then we need to walk with the wise, seek wisdom and apply God’s word in our lives (Prov 13:20). When we read Proverbs 26:1-28 and break it down we find the wisdom we need to use in our day to day lives in order to move into all God has for us.

Let's listen to the importance of using our weapons of prayer and fasting and how God can shift our lives due to pressing into Him.