Rooftop Church - Sermon Podcasts

"Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?" Things in the Garden take a turn with the introduction of a nefarious character. Who is this serpent? What is he up to? But more importantly, how can we guard ourselves from serpents trying to speak into our lives?

Join us as we wrap up the final passages for a slow walk through Genesis 2. What does creation have to do with marriage, and what does marriage have to do with the church?

The man put in the Garden of Eden quickly realizes that the job of working and keeping the garden is too big for him to do alone. But who can help? The armadillo? The butterfly? None of them prove to be a worthy helper. But God has a plan. It's an interesting one, though...

The LORD didn't just put Adam in the Garden of Eden to eat fruit and watch Netflix. He put him there to "work and keep" the garden. This was a very important job that recurs throughout the Bible, in some surprising places. It also describes what God has given us to do as gardeners in his Church.

For centuries, people have been obsessed with where the Garden of Eden was. They've searched high and low for possible locations. But where IS the Garden of Eden? The answer might surprise you!

Pastor Matt Herndon starts our near series called Chapter Two with a slow walk through the Garden of Eden. What have we missed in this story? Lots. There's plenty to debate and learn from, including what God intended when he first formed man from the dust of the earth. He didn't just make people -- he made pots!

Pastor Matt explores the truth that God - the creator of the Heavens and Earth - made himself into a creature in his own masterpiece to show us how to live, give us love, and redeem our souls.

Family Pastor Sean Sullivan explores the concept of Carpe Diem from a Biblical perspective and how to seize what God wants to give us.

Pastor Matt Herndon responds to questions from Rooftoppers about the fist eleven verses of Genesis that came up during our study called Chapter One.

In Part 14 of our series, Chapter One: A Slow Walk Through the Creation of the World, Pastor Jeremy describes how and why God rested after he made Creation.

In Genesis Chapter One, God tells us he gave humans and animals the plants with seeds to eat. He provided what we needed to survive on Day 6. But that provision was also corrupted, as Pastor Matt Herndon describes in his sermon "Food, Glorious Food" from our Chapter One series.

God created humans and then blessed them as His image-bearers on Earth. Then we botched the blessing, says Pastor Matt Herndon. Find out how in Part 12 of the Chapter One sermon series.

Day Six of a creation week is a big day! God creates people. But before he creates people, he creates their pets--and their predators.

Here be Dragons…Join us as we look at Genesis 1:20-23 as we continue walking through the creation of the world in a slow walk through Genesis 1!

You probably weren't aware of the deep spiritual and cosmological debate going on in The Lion King. But it's there. What exactly are the stars above? And when the author of Genesis says that God created the lights in the sky on Day 4 of creation week, what exactly was going on?

On the second half of day three of creation-week, God creates plants and trees. This is good, because we have shade and food. But is there something deeper going on in the author's mind? There most certainly is. One of the most important metaphors in Scripture is here officially introduced.

On the first half of day three, God separates dry ground from the sea and calls it "land." That seems simple enough--until we keep reading about what happens to the land! The idea of God as land-giver became important to readers of the Bible, and should be important to us.

"On day two of creation, God separated the waters above from the waters below. What does that mean? And how did he do it? Join us as Pastor Matt explores one of the most interesting and perplexing days of creation."

Join us as we dive into the six days of creation as we look at God's activity on day one. How can God make light without sun and stars? Join us to find out!

We think of God creating the universe out of nothing. And he certainly did. But the book of Genesis describes a primordial chaos ocean that was disordered, desolate, dark, and deep. That uninhabitable place becomes a metaphor for our own lives--and what God can do in them, through the creative power of his Holy Spirit.

A good book starts with a good first line. The Bible is a good book (the best book), and starts with a good first line: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It'd be easy to skip over that and move on to verse two, but there's lots to see and think about, and there's a reason this is one of the most famous first lines in any book ever written.

Join us as Pastor Matt kicks off our series on Genesis 1, the story of God's creation of the universe and an introduction to the entire Bible. Before we jump into the story itself, we'll do an introduction to the introduction of the Bible and discuss WHY we're studying Genesis 1 and HOW we should be studying it.

Join us this Sunday as we discuss how we are Rooftop plan to grow in our corporate and individual walks with Jesus.

It's hard to believe, but some people in Thessalonica were so convinced that Jesus was coming soon (or already had!) that they had stopped working and were mooching off their fellow church family members. Paul addresses this situation in his first letter. But it gets worse, and he has to address it again! And this time, he sounds serious.

The Apostle Paul hopes that the success of the gospel in Thessalonica might extend to every city in the empire. He knows, however, that evil people--and the evil one himself--is out there, opposed to the work of Jesus. So he asks the Thesslonians to do what all Christians everywhere should be doing--he asks us to pray. And Paul is confident that God will hear our prayers so that his work can conti...