Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the first sermon of The People of God series, we looked at who the people of God really are and how Adam is the pattern for all who would follow after him. Adam and Eve were created as image bearers and the image of God was passed on from them to the rest of mankind.  As the apostle Paul reminds us in Romans 5, the image of God that was marred by the sin of Adam has been passed down to you. The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus has made available to each of us an abundance of grace and the free gift of being made righteousness through faith. The people of God aren’t perfect people. They are people in need of God’s abundant grace. As we journey through this sermon series, we will see how the people of the Bible fit into God’s redemption story and, ultimately, serve to point us to Jesus. We will also see our role in God’s redemption story and find that the people of God are the many sinners made righteous through believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we wrapped up our One Church, Multiple Generations series by looking at how God is still working in us as adults. In Romans 12, we see that God calls us to have a genuine love for one another. Genuine love comes only from the work of the Gospel in our lives and by the church engaging in Biblical community. We are to urge each other on through genuine love, prayer, rejecting evil, and serving one another. We need to be challenged by the truths of Scripture and held accountable for observing them. At Solid Rock, we desire to continue to work toward Biblical community in which people can know one another deeply and spiritually.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked in Titus 2 at the Biblical model for discipleship, in which Paul calls the spiritually mature adults in the church to invest in the next generation. He lays out this discipleship model: while pastors and elders are responsible for teaching sound doctrine to the whole church, spiritually mature men and women are responsible for discipling younger men and women by teaching them how to apply sound doctrine to their lives, urging them toward Godliness and modeling what it looks like to follow Jesus.

In the second sermon of the One Church, Multiple Generations series, we looked at God’s encouragement to students and how SR Students ministry is leading our Junior High and High School students to set an example for adult believers. There may be times when students do things that are looked down upon. Immaturity occurs when a person encounters freedom without a sense of responsibility. Maturity is the ability to bridle independence and freedom through self-control and displaying a deep sense of responsibility for personal decisions. In 1 Timothy 4, Paul calls a young pastor to spiritual maturity: to live his life in such a way that he shows the older people in his church what it looks like to be truly mature in Christ. This is not a call for teenagers to disregard those who are older than them, but instead to show others who Jesus is by allowing their lives to serve as an example.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we began a new series looking at how God has called Solid Rock to be one church that spans multiple generations. We began this past Sunday by looking at Solid Rock Kids ministry through the lens of Deuteronomy 6:4-9. We learned that leading children to know and love Jesus is rooted in who God is, instead of who parents want their children to be. Seeing children become everything God created them to be begins with seeing God clearly. Secondly, we learned that leading children must begin with the hearts of the parents. By God’s design, parents don’t simply pray their children into the Kingdom of God; parents have to lead them there. Parents who want their children to know and love Jesus must first fall in love with Him themselves. All of this takes place within the God-ordained partnership between parents and the local church. The role of the church in this partnership is to fully support and equip parents to be the primary disciple makers in their homes. 

In the sermon this past Sunday, we ended the Colossians series by looking at Colossians 3:18-4:1. In this section of Colossians, Paul reminds the church how Christ has redeemed the hierarchy of relationships on earth. Before the Fall, Adam and Eve walked in righteous submission to God that led to abundant life and human flourishing. They were to reflect this leadership and submission by the way Adam led Eve and the way they displayed their dominion over creation. Because of sin, God’s good creation was twisted and marred, distorting the leadership role of human civilization. Through the Gospel, God’s redemption reaches into the darkness of human culture and redeems what has been lost in our homes and in our society.

In 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 displaying compassionate hearts toward one another and bearing with one another in love.

In 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 in Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit.

In 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 captured your attention lately? How can you reorient your thinking towards Christ?

In 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 Gospel, our lives remain rooted in Christ and continue to be built up and established in Christ.