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Put on Christ
July 14, 2019 05:41 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we continued the Colossians series by looking at Colossians 3:9-17. In this section of Paul’s letter, he declares that “Christ is all and in all.” Therefore, all that is Christ is in us. This means that the indwelling power and presence of the Holy Spirit, and His transformational power, is conforming us into the image of Jesus. Additionally, because Christ is all and in all, He leads His followers into a community that bears the identity of Christ through dis...
The Death that Leads to Life
July 07, 2019 05:41 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul’s call to live, not as who we used to be, but as we are in Christ. In Colossians 3:5-10, we are called to put the evil desires of the flesh to death and to cast off who we used to be. When we live our lives according to the desires of the flesh, it leads to death. However, when we die to ourselves we are free to live empowered by the Spirit of God, which leads to life. Paul’s command is to stop living as we were and start living as we are now...
Set Your Mind on Christ
June 30, 2019 05:41 - 35 minutes - 32 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at God’s command to set our minds on Christ. In Colossians 3, Paul contends that if we have truly believed the Gospel and therefore, died to ourselves, then we should redirect our minds away from the things of this world and set our minds on something that has real value. As he addresses the inherent human desire to seek after things of perceived value, Paul calls believers to set their minds on Christ and seek after Him. What things of earth have c...
The Fullness of Christ
June 23, 2019 05:41 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday we looked at how Christians are saved and transformed in daily life through hearing and believing the Gospel. When we instruct one another in the Gospel, we are united together and built up in our faith, in order that no one is able to knock us off course. Paul reminds the church that they are to continue growing in Christ through the same means that they were first saved: by believing the Gospel. When we make it our daily practice to hear and believe the Gospe...
Lordship over Creation and the Church
June 16, 2019 05:41 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we unpacked a beautiful hymn of praise to Christ that contained two very powerful statements: He is the firstborn of creation and the head of the Church. For the former, we saw that everything is created through and for Him, He is preeminent over all things, and He is the sustainer of all things. For the latter, His headship over the Church is proven through His resurrection, His deity, and His saving work on the cross. Because of these beautiful truths from s...
Rescued from Darkness
June 09, 2019 05:39 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBThis past Sunday, we began a series in the book of Colossians. Paul began by encouraging the believers at Colossae. Although they were surrounded by a domain of darkness, along with false teaching and doctrines, Paul reminded the Colossians to remain faithful to the hope of the Gospel and the person of Jesus. As former citizens of the domain of darkness, it’s easy for Christians to be tempted by the things and beliefs of this world. However, through the work of Christ, we are now citizens of...
Building up the Body
June 02, 2019 05:40 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBIn the final sermon of our Gifts of the Spirit series, we looked at 1 Corinthians 14. In this passage, Paul continues his plea for the church to pursue love as the basis from which they serve with their spiritual gifts, in order that the church may be built up. Paul reminds the church that in order for the gift of tongues to be beneficial, there must be an interpreter who can translate the tongues spoken into a revelation, knowledge, prophecy or teaching. Without translation, the person spea...
Rooted in Love
May 26, 2019 05:39 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how our spiritual gifts must be rooted in love toward one another in order to be beneficial to the Church. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul reminds us that our spiritual gifts are simply like a noisy or clanging symbol without the foundation of love. The Bible defines love as a sacrificial commitment that is directed toward the object of love. How we engage in using our spiritual gifts should reflect the love we have for one another in Christ.
Better Together
May 19, 2019 05:41 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God orchestrates spiritual gifts among the members of the church in a way that reflects His oneness, accomplishes His purposes, and serves the common good of the church. God has orchestrated the coming together of the members of the church in a way that allows us to accomplish more for the Kingdom than we could on our own. Our oneness also allows us to divide one another’s grief and multiply one another’s joy. When the church walks in loving u...
The Gospel for Moms
May 12, 2019 05:39 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel sets moms free from the burden of not being good enough. In Matthew 11:25-30, Jesus invites the those who are weak and helpless to come to Him in order to find rest for their souls. We were reminded that we don’t become close to God by impressing Him with how many tasks we complete, how smart we are, or how amazing our Pinterest-perfect our lives are. In His great love, God chooses to reveal Himself to us despite our inability to ...
A Variety of Gifts
May 05, 2019 05:41 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the Biblical for understanding our individual and unique spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. Paul reminds the Church that the Holy Spirit empowers every believer with specific spiritual gifts according to God’s will. Spiritual gifts are given to believers to serve the common good of the Church, not the personal preferences or ambitions of the believer. Each spiritual gift is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit and equally supernatural, valid...
The Lordship of Jesus
April 28, 2019 05:41 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis past Sunday, we began our Gifts of the Spirit sermon series. In 1 Corinthians 12:1-3, Paul begins by calling the church spiritual gifts are a supernatural product of our salvation. The Holy Spirit of God opens the ears of those who hear the Gospel in order that they might believe. Spiritual Gifts are a supernatural outworking, or fruit, of our salvation. The presence of spiritual gifts is a confirmation of the Lordship of Jesus in our lives.
Made Us Alive
April 21, 2019 05:41 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God makes us alive through the power of the resurrection. According to the Apostle Paul, apart from Christ we are physically alive but spiritually dead. It’s only through the power of the resurrection at work in us that we are made truly alive. God doesn’t wait for us to get our lives together because He knows that we can’t. God makes us alive, even when we are dead in our trespasses. He meets us in our fallenness, rescues us from darkness, a...
The Light of the World
April 14, 2019 05:41 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked in Isaiah 42:5-9 at God’s calling for Israel to become a lighthouse of hope to the world. God spoke to Israel out of His authority as the creator of the universe. He reminded them that He is the Lord and that He was going to rescue them from darkness and send them into the world to be the conduit of light through which He would rescue the nations. In the same way, God has called Solid Rock to be a light of hope in a dark and fallen world. In the Gos...
A 'Sent' Church
March 31, 2019 05:41 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at what it means to be a ‘sent’ church. In Psalm 67, God issues a clear invitation for the nations to praise, be glad, and sing for joy because of God's amazing salvation. This is the mission of the church: to make God’s ways known on earth and to proclaim His saving power among the nations. The mission of God doesn’t exist for the church; the church exists for the purpose of accomplishing the mission of God. As a church, our mission is to lead pe...
One Sinner is Worth It
March 24, 2019 05:41 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBThis past Sunday, we continued the ‘Sent’ sermon series by looking at Jesus’ response to the Pharisees and Scribes in Luke 15. Jesus was being criticized for showing hospitality toward people who had been identified within the culture as being unclean or sinful. Jesus responds to this criticism with three parables. In each of these parables, we find a very similar theme: heaven rejoices when one sinner repents. Whether it was illustrated by one sheep, one coin, or one son, Jesus believed th...
Supremacy of Christ
March 17, 2019 16:18 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the supremacy of Christ in light of the Gospel. Once we have been believers for some time, we can become so accustomed to considering Christ as our redeemer that we take for granted the depth of this...
Jesus Sends the Least Likely
March 10, 2019 05:41 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Jesus calls the most unlikely people to become His most influential leaders. When Jesus called Saul, who later becomes known in the Bible as Paul, he was one of the leading persecutors of the church. While traveling with legal authorization to terrorize the church and arrest Jesus’ followers, Saul was radically stopped in his tracks by Jesus. As Saul was struck with blindness, his friends helped him into town where Jesus then called another ...
Living a "Sent" Life
March 03, 2019 02:20 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBThis past Sunday, we began our ‘Sent’ sermon series. Our desire is for God to begin stirring a passion in our church that will normalize the Biblical calling to live our lives on mission, sent by God into the world to share the Gospel with those who are not yet saved. This is what we mean by living a ‘sent’ life. There is a world of people around us who are dying and set to spend eternity in hell, separated from the good and glorious presence of God. They have no hope unless someone is sent...
What is Discipleship?
February 24, 2019 18:22 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at God’s design and purpose for discipleship. Matthew 28:18-20 reveals that there is no authority in heaven which can challenge the will of Jesus, and there is no authority on earth that can call the will of Jesus into question. No power on earth or in heaven can rival His authority. Therefore, we can trust His command to be disciples and make disciples for Christ. Being disciples of Jesus means surrendering our lives and embracing the life that Chr...
What is a Church Leader?
February 17, 2019 05:41 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the unique calling of church leadership. The primary roles of church leadership are divided into elder and deacons. Elders, a synonymous title with pastors and overseers, are Godly men who serve in humility and wisdom to lead the church in Godly character and shepherd hearts through prayer, counsel, teaching Biblical doctrine and decision making. Deacons are Godly men and women who set the example for other believers by acting as lead servants, h...
What is a Church Member?
February 10, 2019 05:40 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at what it means to be a church member. In John 13:34-35, Jesus called his followers to be distinguishable by the way they love one another. The New Testament goes into great detail to define what Jesus fully meant by “love one another,” with at least 42 ways that the members of the church are to love one another. These are explicit Biblical commands of Jesus that create a culture of truth and grace among the members of the church. Devotion to the B...
What is the Church?
February 03, 2019 05:41 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBIn our first week of The Body of Christ sermon series, we looked at how the Bible outlines clear distinctions of the Christian church. Jesus established much of the doctrine of the church through His life and teaching and then commissioned His disciples to go make disciples of the nations, as a mission to establish the church. Through His teaching, we learned that the true Christian church is the distinct, called-out assembly of those who profess that Jesus is the Son of God and follow His ...
My Redeemer Lives
January 27, 2019 05:41 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how, in the midst of his suffering, Job holds on to the hope that God would redeem his story. Half way through the story, we find Job longing for God to step in and write a better story with his life. At the end of the story, God reveals Himself to Job instead of offering explanations or giving Job immediate relief form his suffering. After Job begins to see God for who He is, Job repents and turns to God to worship Him for His infinite power and...
God's Mighty Power
January 20, 2019 05:41 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the first half of God’s response to Job. In chapters 38-40, God calls Job to collect all of his good deeds and ready himself for questioning. God begins by revealing his power over all of creation, the sin of the wicked, and the darkness of death. He also reveals how all of creation exists in submission to God’s sovereign power. Then God asks Job to compare himself to God: Who is more Holy? Who has more power? Who has more glory? Who has the abil...
God's Infinite Wisdom
January 13, 2019 05:41 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBIn the sermon on Sunday, we looked at the connection between worshipping God and finding true wisdom. In Job 26, Job gives a summary of what man can do with his wisdom: Man can cut channels deep into the earth, and put an end to darkness, in order to bring precious metals and gems to the light. However, despite man’s best efforts, Job confessed that true wisdom cannot be found in the things of earth or within man’s own strength. God holds the knowledge of what man cannot understand. Only Go...
Worthy of Worship
January 06, 2019 05:40 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBLast Sunday, we began the year with a new sermon series - Worthy of Worship: The Book of Job. Job was a wealthy and successful man with a large family. Job’s fear of the Lord empowered him to turn away from evil and worship God. His worship was rooted in seeing who he was in comparison to God. Satan accused Job of only worshipping God because of his many blessings and proposed that if God removed his blessings, Job would cease to worship. With God’s permission, Satan stripped away all that ...
The Prize that Lies Ahead
December 30, 2018 22:22 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at Paul’s exhortation to the Philippian believers, and to us, to look forward to the prize that lies ahead for the believer in Christ—that prize is heavenly communion with our Savior. In the meantime, our lives on earth are the “race” God has given to us to run on our way to receiving that prize.
A Journey of Promise
December 23, 2018 05:40 - 24 minutes - 22 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Abraham and Isaac’s story ends with a promise. The promise God makes to Abraham is fulfilled in Christmas. Like Abraham and Isaac’s journey, Jesus’ birth at the manger is the beginning of His difficult journey of trust, obedience and sacrifice. As Jesus lived out His life on earth, every day was one more step in His journey up the mountain toward the altar of the cross, where He laid down His life as the perfect substitute sacrifice for us. T...
A Journey of Sacrifice
December 16, 2018 05:41 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how Abraham and Isaac’s story continues to point us toward Jesus. As he constantly walked in obedience and trust, Abraham obeyed God all the way to the point of offering his son Isaac as a burnt offering. From the beginning of man’s relationship with God in the Garden, God’s law has prescribed death as the requirement for sin. So, for hundreds of years, the nation of Israel offered sacrificed animals as an atonement for their sins. Later on in th...
A Journey of Trust
December 09, 2018 05:41 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the heart of what it means to truly trust God. In Genesis 22, we see how Abraham’s trust in God compelled him to continue his journey to sacrifice Isaac, even in the midst of uncertainty. At this point in the journey, Abraham had no indication that God was going to provide a substitute sacrifice. Abraham trusted God because he believed that God was in control and able, even if it meant resurrecting Isaac back to life. Abraham obeyed God because h...
A Journey of Obedience
December 02, 2018 09:23 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at a portrait of true obedience through the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. God approached Abraham to test, refine and solidify his faith by asking him to give up his one and only son, whom he loved dearly. When God calls for Abraham’s attention, His authority is rooted in who He is, not what He is asking for. Similarly, Abraham’s obedience is rooted in his understanding of who God is BEFORE God asks for anything. Abraham’s response of “He...
A Journey of Obedience
December 02, 2018 07:07 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at a portrait of true obedience through the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. God approached Abraham to test, refine and solidify his faith by asking him to give up his one and only son, whom he loved...
Taste & See That the Lord is Good
November 25, 2018 05:41 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we recognized how easy it is to affirm the goodness of God in general terms. It’s easy to proclaim God’s goodness when things are going well but it becomes much more difficult when our plans and our lives seem to be going backward on a daily basis. The Psalmist David reminds us that, no matter our life circumstances, fear of the Lord leads us to a heart of worship. We are called to praise God, not just with our mouths but with every fiber of our being. The fe...
The Gospel in Suffering
November 18, 2018 05:40 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God redeems our suffering for our good. In James 1, God calls Christians to find joy in suffering because He is redeeming what was intended to bring us harm and using it to lead us to something better. God is using suffering to expose where our faith is diluted by doubt and where it is rooted in false doctrine, in order to bring to completion the work that He began in our lives. Redemption is the miraculous process of restoring something to b...
The Gospel in Temptation
November 11, 2018 05:41 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel calls and empowers Christians to wage war against the sin that we face in our daily lives. In Romans 8, we see that the Holy Spirit leads us into battle. The war for our souls has been decisively won with one very specific battle victory: the resurrection of Jesus. However, the war has yet to come to an end and we fight this war in small battles with sin everyday. As Paul reminds us, the battle with sin is a battle of the affection...
The Gospel and Forgiveness
November 04, 2018 05:41 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the forgiveness we receive from God should compel us to readily forgive our neighbor. In Matthew 18, Jesus uses a parable to tell Peter that there should be no measure to the forgiveness we extend to one another. The debt we owe God for our sins is immeasurable and impossible to fathom ever paying back in 10,000 lifetimes. Yet He freely offers His forgiveness. When we consider forgiving one another, there is no comparison between the moral vi...
The Gospel and Prayer
October 28, 2018 05:41 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel informs and impacts the way we pray. In Matthew 6, Jesus lays out a framework for how His followers should pray, in light of the Gospel. Because of what Jesus has done for us, we are not praying to a far-off, unknown spiritual being; we are praying to our Heavenly Father. Our familial bond to God means that we are praying to One who loves us and in whom we can trust. At the same time, Gospel-saturated prayers are tempered with a se...
The Gospel and Our Money
October 21, 2018 05:40 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel impacts the way we view our money and possessions. In Matthew 13:44, we learned that the Kingdom of Heaven is the greatest treasure a person can find. In fact, the Kingdom is so valuable that the person who finds Him willingly and joyfully trades allegiance with every earthly treasure out of the joy of finding Him. He is infinitely more valuable than anything else we can find in our lives. Jesus tells us that whatever our treasure ...
The Gospel and Your Physical Health
October 14, 2018 05:40 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel impacts our physical health. Because of our sin nature and ever-present battle with our flesh, we have a tendency to see our bodies as irrelevant to spiritual living. As we saw in 1 Corinthians 6, Jesus died and resurrected that we might experience the eternal resurrection of our physical bodies. Therefore, our bodies matter to Jesus. Our physical bodies were bought, with a price, by the death of Jesus. The sins you commit in your ...
The Gospel in Our Work
October 07, 2018 05:41 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we continued the Everyday Gospel series and looked at how the Gospel impacts our work. In Genesis 1 and 2, we see that God created human beings to flourish through work. As a part of God’s original design, untainted by sin, work is the cultivating and harvesting of God’s creation in order to receive God’s good provision. Because of sin, the way humans view and interact with their work became marred and distorted. Rather than being a joy through which we receiv...
The Gospel in Parenting
September 30, 2018 05:40 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the Biblical mandate for children to obey their parents and for parents to bring up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. This is a calling to walk in faith toward complete restoration of what was before The Fall. Parents, the purpose in disciplining your children is to imitate your Heavenly Father. Your children should see a reflection of their relationships with God through their relationships with you. When they receive ...
The Gospel and Marriage
September 23, 2018 05:41 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how gender is part of God’s design for humans flourishing. Our gender-based identities are inherently part of the Imago Dei and the way we interact within our genders reflects the way that the Godhead interacts within Himself; This is especially true in marriage. The Bible presents a blueprint for marriage that leads to human flourishing and true joy. We are all called to mutually submit to one another and we are all called to submit to Jesus. Wiv...
The Gospel and Our Time
September 16, 2018 05:40 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel shapes how we invest our greatest commodity in this life: our time. Every calendar entry reflects our personal theology on happiness. Our commitments govern how we spend our time; How we spend our time reflects what we give our lives to; And what we give our lives to is guided by the answer to one primary question, “What will make me the happiest?” The lie of the ‘American Dream’ is that I will be happy if I can graduate from high ...
The Gospel in Sanctification
September 09, 2018 05:40 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel is good news in our justification and sanctification. Trusting in Jesus, and His work alone, changes who we are. And because the Gospel changes who we are, it changes what we do and how we live. Jesus says that he who hears and believes the Gospel is like a farmer planting seeds in good soil; genuine faith produces good fruit. James says the same thing more specifically when he says that genuine faith in Jesus will produce good wor...
Who You Are
September 02, 2018 05:40 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBLast Sunday, we began our new series: The Everyday Gospel. We started off the series by looking at how the Gospel shapes our identities and the way we see ourselves and each other. Unlike the cultural worldview that determines your identity based on what you do and how well you perform what you do, the Gospel declares that who we are is 100% based on who God is. We are image bearers. In the same way that God cannot be understood apart from the Trinity, who you are is rooted and reflected in ...
Satisfied in Jesus
August 26, 2018 05:41 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we wrapped up the sermon series “Even Sinners Such As I” by looking at how Jesus alone truly satisfies the longing of the human soul. Ironically, as fallen people, we are prone to seek satisfaction in things on Earth that can’t satisfy. In Isaiah 55:1-3 we were reminded that true satisfaction for the soul comes from placing our faith solely in Jesus. Through hearing and believing the Gospel message, our souls find true delight in the life-giving promise of et...
Stand Firm in the Freedom of Christ
August 19, 2018 05:40 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how we have been set free from our slavery to sin by Christ and we are called to stand firm in that freedom through walking by the Holy Spirit, not giving ourselves, once again, as slaves to sin. As Christ followers, we don’t have to convince God to lead us toward His will. The Holy Spirit is consistently leading us towards holiness, compelling us to live our lives for Jesus and issuing warnings to us when we consider listening to the voice of th...
Freedom From Idols
August 12, 2018 05:41 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel frees us from our slavery to idols. In Deuteronomy 4:15-20, God reminds us that anything can become an idol. An idol is anything or anyone that takes the place of “first love” in our lives. Idols are most often the good things that we have received from God that have become ultimate things. Idols draw us away from worshipping God by convincing us to bow down to them and serve them. God rescues us from our idols when we chose to see...
The Gospel of Peace
August 05, 2018 05:40 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBIn the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the Gospel rescues us from our fears and anxieties. In Philippians 4:4-9, we were reminded that our battles with anxiety and fear are common struggles among Christ followers. The Apostle Paul calls Christians to combat anxiety through worship, prayer and living in Christian community. We set our attention and affections on Jesus by recalibrating our hearts to worship, through reading His Word and meditating on His flawless character and infin...