Solid Rock Church Sermons

Walking in the Father's Pleasure

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’t contingent on how well we perform. Following Jesus means that we willingly trade our dreams for ...

One Kingdom Under God

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 beautiful portrait of the nations flowing like rivers towards the presence of God, standing shoulde...

Reconciled

In the second sermon of the Galatians series this past Sunday, we looked at the impact that the Gospel has on the relationships we have with others. Because we have been invited into a community, the way we live out our faith in Jesus always has an affect on the community of Christ. In the same way that our faith removes the barrier between God and us, it also removes all barriers between those within the community of Christ, including those who we don’t like, those who are different from us...

No Other Gospel

In the Letters to the Church series, we started our journey through the book of Galatians this past Sunday. Pastor Jason pointed out how Paul boldly opened his letter to the churches in Galatia by reminding them that there is no other Gospel. The power of the Gospel lies within the Gospel without being modified or added to. As it is, The Gospel has the power to transform the worst of humanity into the perfect image of Jesus. Rather than conforming people into a religious mold, the Gospel fin...

A Living Sacrifice

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jasonconcluded the series on Romans in Romans 12:1-2. While this isn’t the last chapter of Romans, we were able to see Paul’s shift in chapter 12 to begin drawing life application from the theology of chapters 1-11. This last section of his letter begins with a clear call to live as “blank checks” before God out of the mercy we have received by presenting our lives as living, holy and acceptable sacrifices to God. As we engage in a lifestyle of faith an...

Everyone Who Believes

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason broke down Romans 10 for us to see the simplicity of God’s plan for salvation. Rather a complex system of religious rules, our salvation is the process of hearing, believing and confessing. While the culture we live in bombards us with a trendy version of wisdom, true salvation is based on believing the wisdom of the Gospel.   Have you truly come to the place in your journey where you trust the wisdom of the Gospel over the wisdom of the world?D...

Children of God

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason walked us through our relationship with God as a loving Father. In Romans 8, we were reminded that God is a loving Father who has set us free from condemnation of our sin, who leads us towards a life of peace, who reminds us of our adoption, who helps us in our times of suffering and weakness, who fights on our behalf to secure our identity and protect us from all accusations, all condemnation and any attempt to separate us from His love. As his c...

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

As we continue in the Letters to the Church sermon series this past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached on the Bible’s instruction for battling sin from Romans 6. In this chapter of Romans, Paul begins with reminding the church what Christ has already done for them and then commands the church to remember this Truth as the starting point for battling sin. By trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection, Christians are now dead to the control of sin and it’s no longer a matter of being mastered by ...

Hope Beyond Life's Circumstances

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason walked us through Romans 4, discussing where we find hope beyond life's difficult circumstances.  From Abraham’s example, we learned that faith is not the absence of dealing with reality.  Rather, faith is walking with an unwavering hope in the midst of uncertain reality.  As we considered the examples of Abraham, Elijah, Job and Jonah, we saw that walking in faith includes struggling with doubt while ultimately clinging to the promises of God.  W...

Counted as Righteous

In his sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason walked us through the biblical truths found in Romans 4. In this text, Paul reminds the church that God is not impressed with our work for him or the status of our position. We don’t have to come from a religious family or grow up in the church culture to impress God. We don’t have to change our wardrobe or hide our tattoos to keep God from being embarrassed of us. We can have what Abraham has by believing in Jesus. While the Law leaves us desper...

The Duality of God's Righteousness

In the sermon this past Sunday, our Mission Team Leader, Jeff Sanders, walked us through Romans 3.  We learned that when it comes to eternal life with our Creator, we have to admit we are all “under sin” from birth.  After we fully grasp what God did...

The Grace that Leads to Peace

Pastor Jason began our journey through Romans this past Sunday.  In Romans 1 & 2, the Apostle Paul boldly proclaims the Gospel as the only true source of grace and peace.  The unrighteousness of man’s heart leaves the human soul in a desperate and weary state.  There is nothing that man can look to in God’s creation and nothing in man's pursuit of morality that can provide true peace.  It is only the perfect righteousness that God provides in the grace of Christ that can give peace to the re...

Stewardship & Generosity

Pastor Jason wrapped up 1 & 2 Corinthians this past Sunday with a sermon on biblical stewardship and generosity.  After laying a biblical foundation for money and possessions, we looked at 14 key principles to biblical stewardship and generosity from 1 Corinthians 16, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9. We learned that biblical stewardship leads to God’s provision and God’s provision leads to generosity, and generosity leads to God’s glory.    How is God challenging you and your family to pursue biblic...

The Ministry of Reconciliation

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached on reconciliation. In 2 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul lays a beautiful foundation for reconciliation by reminding the church that reconciliation is based on seeing our offenses from an eternal perspective, approaching these offenses by faith with a desire to please Jesus. Without these principles, true reconciliation is impossible. We realized that God’s reconciliation is much bigger than our offenses. In the greatest act of reconcilia...

Light of the Gospel

This past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached on the Light of the Gospel from 2 Corinthians 3 & 4.  Far too often, the church teaches that being the light simply means to be kind or moral.   The Apostle Paul confronts this perspective by helping the church to understand that being the light in the world means sharing the only thing that unveils truth and delivers people form darkness into light: the Gospel.  Christians should be kind and pursue holiness, but these things alone won’t set people fre...

Affliction

As Brian walked us through 2 Corinthians 1 & 4 this past week, we saw that Paul answers a main question of our culture, “How can a good God allow suffering and evil?” He answers this by stating the reason as to why we go through affliction and...

Edifying Worship

Continuing the series through 1 Corinthians, this past Sunday we walked through chapter 14 where Paul begins by imploring his reader to, “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” Coming on the heals of...

Spiritual Gifts

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached on spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12.  Before discussing biblical instructions for spiritual gifts, the Apostle Paul first lays a gospel-foundation.  He reminded us that understanding spiritual gifts begins with a personal relationship with Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our life.  We learned that ALL believers have been given spiritual gifts and empowered by God to serve the church.  Because God disperses spiritual gift...

Communion

Before our taking Communion as a church this past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached through 1 Corinthians 11:17-29. In this text, the Apostle Paul pointed out a major issue of division among the Corinthians believers during Communion. Instead of taking...

Communion

Before our taking Communion as a church this past Sunday, Pastor Jason preached through 1 Corinthians 11:17-29.  In this text, the Apostle Paul pointed out a major issue of division among the Corinthians believers during Communion.  Instead of taking the Lord’s Supper as a community devoted to Christ and each other, some of the people were showing up early and eating and drinking way too much, leaving nothing for the other believers.  Paul tells the church that when they gather together with...

The Community of Surrender

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel confronts the entitlement-attitude of the current generation.  We were challenged to consider the areas of our own life where we operate in entitlement rather than surrender.  In 1 Corinthians 8 and 9, the Apostle Paul uses personal examples from his own life to show how he has surrendered his rights for the sake of the Gospel.  The community of Christ is distinguished from other communities by a willingness to lay down personal rig...

The Ministry of Discipleship

In the sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Jason walked us through an overview of the discipleship process in 1 Corinthians 3.  Discipleship is the process of learning and observing all that Jesus has commanded.  Believers do this by meeting regularly with a mature believer over a period of time; learning how to deny the desires of the flesh, die to selfish ambitions, and shift obedience from self to Jesus.  Discipleship helps us look less like ourselves and more like Christ everyday.  From Paul...

The Ministry of Biblical Counsel

This past Sunday Pastor Jason led us through 1 Corinthians 2 to see that the church as been given the responsibility and entrusted with the rich, life-giving message of God’s word to lead people through life’s difficulties towards an eternal relationship with God.  It’s the role of the church to invite the world into a life of hope and joy that is found along the path, paved with the wisdom of God’s Word.  We were challenged and reminded that the the power of biblical counsel isn’t contingen...

The Foolishness of the Cross

As we continue our journey through the Letters to the Church sermon series, Pastor Jason preached 1 Corinthians 1.  We observed Apostle Paul going after the division that was beginning to emerge in the Corinth church over loyalty to certain individuals over others.  We discussed how most church division stems from placing personal preferences over and above biblical conviction.  As Paul addressed the points of division in the Corinth church, he calls the church to unity.  He reminds the chur...

The Word That Leads to a Good Conscience

This past Sunday Pastor Jason wrapped up 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus by focusing on a “good conscience.” Because of our struggle with sin, every person is subject to a guilty conscience and the world offers 3 options for ridding ourselves of a guilty conscience: 1) hide our sin and pretend it didn’t happen, 2) shift the blame to someone else, or 3) change God’s moral law.   In 1 Timothy 1:5, Paul charged the church to walk in love that comes from a good conscience. We looked at Paul’s sinful ...

The Word That Leads to a Sincere Faith

For Mother’s Day this past Sunday, Jason challenged moms to see the significance of their role in imparting sincere faith to their children.  In 2 Timothy 1:5, Paul reminded Timothy that his sincere faith dwelt first in his grandmother and mother.  The Bible defines faith as the conviction of things that are true combined with a deep level of trust and value.  Christian faith isn’t simply wishful thinking or positive thinking, but it’s exemplified by genuinely standing on the truth of script...

What is an Elder?

The Word that Leads to a Pure Heart

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul’s connection between godliness (God-likeness) and the Gospel. According to Jesus, the Gospel has been deposited in our hearts and when it is deposited in good soil, it will reveal itself by producing good fruit. In his letters to Timothy and Titus, Paul continuously calls the church to guard the deposit of the Gospel. He calls the church to stay rooted in the Gospel in order to produce the good fruit of godliness. The Gospel is where Christia...

The Word that Leads to Life

The Mystery of the Gospel in the Daily Fight

We wrapped up the Ephesians series this past Sunday in Ephesians 6:10-20, where we discussed the power to stand against the evil schemes of the devil.  We were reminded that the battles we face on Earth are not primarily against one another, but against the spiritual forces of evil.  The most powerful thing we can do in spiritual battle is to remind ourselves and our enemy of what is true: God chose me in Christ that I should be holy and blameless before him.  In love he predestined me for a...

The Mystery of the Gospel in Daily Living

Putting on the Image of God

Taking Off the Dead Man

Growing Together in Community

The Gift of God's Grace

One In Christ

Boldness IN the Gospel

The Mystery Revealed

Many Made One

Made Alive

Asking for What is Already Ours

The Perfect Redemption

The Mystery of the Gospel

All Member Meeting

This is the audio for our all member meeting on January 14, 2014. Here you can find out information on Solid Rock and also see where God is leading us as a church. If you have any questions regarding this meeting please feel free to email [email protected]

The Church-The Mission Movement

The Church-The Community of Christ

The King and His People, part 1

The Rescue

A Forgotten People Part 2

A Forgotten People