Solid Rock Church Sermons

With this sermon, we began our Listen to the Music series, looking at the importance of the Truth we sing and declare in worship. Ephesians 5:25-27 tells us that believers are the Bride of Christ and we wait with great anticipation for the day when we will be reunited with our Bridegroom. Until that day, He continues to lovingly redeem us as we prayerfully ask Him to continue working in and through us.

In this sermon, we looked at the reason we do not lose heart amidst the growing darkness we experience in the world around us on a daily basis. In 2 Corinthians 4, we are reminded that we live in a fallen world with an enemy who is seeking to devour us. Despite this, we do not lose heart because we know that, through our perseverance, things that are unseen by the world are being made visible. When the world sees Christians suffer without being destroyed, God’s power in the resurrection of Jesus is made visible, shining like a light of hope that extends the grace of Jesus to more and more people for the glory of God.

In this sermon, we looked at how the Church is called to be a light in the midst of suffering. In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus uses a parable to illustrate what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. In this parable, a man who was beaten by robbers and left for dead was passed up by two religious leaders. The only person willing to stop and show compassion for the dying man was the most unlikely candidate: a Samaritan. Not only were Samaritans considered to be social outcasts, but this Samaritan man was already in the middle of his own difficult journey. Nevertheless, the Samaritan was willing to set aside his personal agenda, comfort, and resources in order to bridge the gap between death and life for this beaten man. Through the example of the Samaritan’s sacrificial love, we see what it looks like for the Church to be the light of the world in the midst of suffering.

In this sermon, we looked at Galatians 6:1-5, in which the Apostle Paul calls us to bear one another’s burdens through the power of the Holy Spirit. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus defeated the ultimate burdens of sin and death. Now when our brothers and sisters are caught in sin, we are to seek restoration with gentleness and humility. As we bear one another’s burdens, we act as extensions of God’s grace and redemption, and a light to the world around us.

In this sermon, we looked at the light that comes from proclaiming the true Gospel. In 2 Corinthians 3:7-4:6, the Apostle Paul contrasts the glory of God revealed through the Law (Old Covenant) with the glory of God revealed through the Gospel (New Covenant). While the glory of God can be seen in the Law, that glory is veiled to us because of our unrighteousness. It’s the light of the Gospel that shines in our darkness when we hear and believe the Good News that we are made righteous by faith alone in Christ alone.

In this sermon, we looked at Paul’s response to the hardship and difficulty he had faced in his life: He chose to focus on Jesus and His provision. Paul knew the faithfulness of Jesus to provide for him before and he was confident that Jesus would provide again, this time through the support of other believers. Like Paul, when we are facing difficulty and struggle, we must choose to remember what Christ has done for us in the past and confidently trust that He will provide light in the darkness of our current and future struggles.

In this sermon, we saw that through the death of Jesus on the cross, the divisions and distinctions that we see in the darkness the world promotes have no place within the church. Believers are responsible for working towards unity and peace within the church and are called to go into their communities and workplaces, bearing the Light of the Gospel, to those who are trapped in darkness and sin.

In this sermon, we looked at Jesus' command to His followers to reflect the light of His love toward one another. In John 13, Jesus reveals the depth of His love for His church by humbling Himself to wash His disciples’ feet then commands them to do the same for one another as an expression of their love. In this act of sacrificial love, we see a glimpse of the humility our Savior displayed when He died a criminal’s death on the cross and washed away our sins. It is by our sacrificial love toward one another that the world will know that we belong to Jesus. Before we can be a shining light of hope to the world around us, we must first humble ourselves before one another in sacrificial love.

With this sermon, we began our new series, “The Light in the Darkness.” In this series, we’ll explore what Jesus meant in Matthew 5:14-16 when He declared that His followers at the light of the world. In this sermon, we looked at Psalm 96 and were reminded that the light of the Church is seen when we gather in worship, bringing glory to God by singing the Gospel and declaring His glory to one another. When we exalt the splendor, majesty, strength, and beauty of Christ together, we remind one another that all of our idols are worthless and only God is worthy of our praise. Before we can be a shining light of hope to the world around us, we must first knit our hearts together in Christ-exalting worship.