Pulpit Rock Church

November 10th, 2024 | Speaker: Kyle & Janae Collins Jesus was confident and expectant about the future (hope) because He knew the character and promises of His father and because He experiences the presence and nearness of His father.

November 3rd, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley If anger is not dealt with it can lead to depression. Go to God with your anger- He can handle it and honestly, He already knows. Tell Him!

October 6th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Restore is not about changing the nature of something- only Jesus can do that. It is about helping something regain function and flourishment, and He says to do that Gently.

October 27th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Shame is the feeling that there is something wrong with us that needs to be remedied and what what we need to observe is the same is always rooted in truth but it is only ever a half-truth.

October 20th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland If we don’t find ways, with God, to make sense of our emotional world it will absolutely limit our spiritual growth.

October 13th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley How are emotions and feelings different? Feelings are sensations in the body and are not always related to emotions.. for example, you can “feel” cold or “feel” hungry. I would argue that a feeling is only one component of an emotion. Emotions involve sensations in the body that ... Read more

September 29th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Either you trust your actions of devotion, or you trust Christ.

September 23rd, 2024 | Speaker: Kyle Collins It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

September 15th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley Jesus was the promised one who fulfilled the law and loved God and neighbor and took on himself the curse of sin on himself. So now through Jesus all people- no matter their ethnicity, gender, etc. all can come to God.

September 8th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley The heart of the gospel is that when people trust in Jesus that what is true of him is true of them. His life becomes theirs.

September 1s,t 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | Galatians 1:1-9 Grace – Jesus won’t let you participate in your own salvation. It is his gift for you.

August 25th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Healthy churches honor the complexity of knowing an invisible God who is redeeming and transforming you into the image of Christ.

August 18th, 2024 | Speaker:  Jonathan Cleveland Everything we believe matters but not all of it is of EQUAL importance.

August 11th, 2024 | Speaker Kyle Collins We have to recognize that following Jesus requires us to participate in faith that is by nature and from the beginning – communal. It’s shared and requires the presence and participation of one another in a body we call the church. There is no other way.

July 28th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Nothing you do and nothing that has happened to you will keep you from Kingdom work if you are willing.

July 21st, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley The purpose you live for and what comes out and the impact on others….it is not about just praying because it is good but because it is necessary. Sounds so neat “as the deer pants for the water so my soul longs for you god.” But the truth ... Read more

July 14th, 2024 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland From the Exile to the NT the relationship between the people of God and culture is to win Babylon over through acts of goodness and love. And to be willing at times to stand apart and take the hit if that is necessary.

July 7th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland What deep and good longing in you is the enemy is exploiting to lead you away from God? Are you chasing a thing (idol) that promises power over that longing? Are you believing shame because of that unmet longing?

Sunday June 30th, 2024 | Kyle Collins In the ways God intervenes, we see something about God’s heart for His people… He doesn’t abandon. Even though they reject God as their king and the consequences of that decision are fully coming to bear in this moment God still shows up and delivers them.

June 23rd, 2024 | Speaker Preston Goff When we look at the story of Samson, we see a man who had to reach the very depths of his own failure and brokenness to finally understand the true source of his strength. He confronts the reality that his blessings were not the result of his own ... Read more

June 16th, 2024 Speaker: Christy Penley | Joshua 6 When life is hard we need perseverance. Oftentimes we quit. Sometimes we pray but it is easy to feel that since we’ve asked for something, the answer to our prayers should immediately be forthcoming or our need should quickly be met. However, God is not a ... Read more

June 9th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 20:1-21 The only reason God gives commands is because he loves us so deeply and he is hoping to lead us to a life full of freedom and flourishing.

June 2nd, 2024 Join us as Greg Lindsey from Discovery Church shares about his journey and walk in Christ.

May 26th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 14 We need to be still. We need to still ourselves so that we can see what God is doing… How he is working in our lives and how he fighting for us.

May 19th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 1 & 2:1-10 As we become more formed into the image of Jesus, we will also want to participate in God’s work of opposing oppression.

May 12th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Genesis 37:1-36 & 45:1-11 Jesus broke the rule of Karma in our life. And because of his forgiveness we won’t ever reap what our sin has sewn with God.

May 5th, 2024 | Speaker Suzy Bates God is with us, present in that struggle, no matter what it is and no matter what caused it. We can be assured that God is present and maybe even closest when we are in our darkest moments. And the divine mystery in all of this is that ... Read more

April 28th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley | Genesis 22:1-19 How could God be opening up your eyes to more of himself? What does it look like to step into believing God’s character more fully?

April 21st, 2024 Speaker: Kyle Collins Adam and Eve did the same in the Garden by trying to become like God. We will get something from God and then we won’t need God. In fact the whole first part of Genesis people are trying to figure it out on their own. They are working to ... Read more

April 14th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | Genesis 1-11 The flood is not the story of God destroying humans because he is mad. The flood is the story of how humans destroyed the earth and each other because of our violence. And God sent water to purify the destroyed earth and start again, and ... Read more

Easter Sunday March 31st, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland

March 24th, 2023 | Speaker: Suzy Bates Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know, me you will know ... Read more

March 17th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland What would you do, and how would you live if you really believed death is not the end?

March 10th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must ... Read more

March 4th, 2024 | Speaker: Suzy Bates God knows what he’s doing in the people around us. The moment we think WE are the ones who know what God is or isn’t doing in somebody else is a moment worth being aware of.

February 25th, 2024 | Kyle Collins A secret to the spiritual life is this… the ultimate destination is being with God, not a specific place in our formation or spiritual maturity. Relationship has always been the goal of God.

February 18th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley Don’t settle for coming to Christ for something from Him instead of Him. He is the bread, He is life.

Feb 12th, 2024 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland People who flee sexual immorality and brokenness understand that sex is symptomatic. And they attend to the issues under the surface that express themselves through sexuality. Sexual sin is never just about sex. Never.

February 4th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland The goal for a Christian marriage is to experience the grace of God and to represent God’s grace to your spouse.

January 28th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland To be human is to face this choice: The pain of loneliness OR the pain of relationships with sinners.

January 21st, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland The vision that he has about his Kingdom reigning on earth as it is in heaven is for every person.

January 14th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Sin always begins with us believing lies about our self and God.

January 7th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland We get sidetracked spiritually because the way of Jesus is not what humans would commonly expect it to be.

December 31st, 2023 | Speaker: Kyle Collins Joy isn’t a result of our effort… its a gift that finds us as we follow and walk in the light of Christ

December 24th, 2023 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12 – NIV)

Speaker: Christy Penley December 17th, 2023 | Christy Penley Jesus is essential

December 3rd, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland The light always influences the darkness and the darkness never influences the light.

November 19th, 2023 | Speaker Suzy Bates Jesus is the way to God for everyone

November 12th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland Love is the fulfillment of the law. True righteousness is not about being a perfectly moral person. It is about being a loving person.

November 5th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland How am I currently trusting a righteousness of my own?

October 29th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland Apart from Christ we suffer and we are condemned alone. But in Christ we are redeemed together.

October 22nd, 2023 | Christy Penley Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

October 8th, 2023 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland The scariness of hell has never changed a heart of stone. It is the beauty of eternal life that changes the heart.

Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | October 1, 2023 Faith is us learning to trust that promise and when we do it will change our actions.

September 24th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland | Romans 3 Sin is about being oriented towards self not towards God. And we will never really understand what sin is or how the Gospel frees us from sin until we understand that.

September 17, 2023 | Christy Penley Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Speaker: Kyle Collins The word of God is only alive and active when it’s connected to the Word made flesh… Jesus

September 3rd, 2023 | Suzy Bates The depth of the bible is in the transformation of lives. Not in how we are so tempted to use it, to prove this or disprove that.

Romans 1 and 2 don’t single out gay people as a special class of sinful human. It actually levels the playing field and points out that all humanity together and individually has walked away from God and is without excuse.

August 20th, 2023 | Romans 1:1-17 Paul is convinced that it is only the Gospel that has any power on earth to change things, repair things, and save people.

August 13th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland God is redeeming and reconciling all things on earth under the reign of Jesus Christ our King.

July 16th, 2023 | John 3:1-21 | Kyle Collins To embrace the kingdom Jesus is talking about here means Nicodemus was going to have to give up everything and to be sure there was plenty Nicodemus didn’t want to let go of.

July 2nd, 2023 | Mark 5:21-43 | Suzy Bates “Our prayer today shouldn’t be Lord, increase our faith, but Lord increase our awareness of what faith already looks like in our lives.”

June 25th, 2023 | Mark 5:21-34 | Christy Penley Jesus didn’t come to just make people “better”. He came to make people “closer”.

Guest Speaker: David Hewett | June 18th, 2023 The God we serve lives through us and intends to make himself known through all generations?

June 11th,2023 | Mark 11 | Jonathan Cleveland You are freed from any obligatory giving and you should have a God inspired giving strategy.

June 4th, 2023 | Joshua 5:13-15 | Suzy Bates Ideology is driven by fear. Spirituality is driven by unity.

May 28th, 2023 | Acts | Jonathan Cleveland That was the plan all along – not that Jesus would fix it for us but that we would fix it WITH God through the Holy Spirit.

May 21st, 2023 | Acts 28 Evangelism is less about making something happen than it is about noticing the opportunities for the Gospel and the Kingdom in our current situation.

May 14th, 2023 | Acts 20-22 | Jonathan Cleveland We have a God who chose to suffer too. We are the only people who worship a God who suffered just like us.

May 7th, 2023 | Acts 17 | Gary Cantwell Why did he create us? So that we would seek God. And once you find God, you have the privilege of helping others feel their way toward Him

April 30th, 2023 | Acts 16 & 18 | Suzy Bates The story of God can be found in the stories of His people.

April 23rd, 2023 | Acts 9:23-20:3 The true Gospel frees people from the idolatry of self. A non-religious person doesn’t want a system they just trust in themselves

April 16th, 2023 | Acts 15:36–16:10 & Paul Intro If we are open and humble there is often something God is trying to form in us in the midst of relational strife and conflict.

April 9th, 2023 | Luke 24 | Jonathan Cleveland Believing in a risen Jesus is believing in a Jesus who has scars God’s love for you has left a visible healed wound on him for eternity.

April 2nd, 2023 | Acts 15 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Have you spent more time letting scripture form that opinion or have you spent more time letting other things form that opinion?

March 26th, 2023 | Acts 14 | Suzy Bates Jesus always focused on what was going on inside. Inside hearts and inside heads. And he didn’t let what was going on on the outside, distract him from that.

March 19th, 2023 | Acts 13 | Jonathan Cleveland God will not let you participate in your own salvation. Jesus did it all. And he left nothing undone.

March 12th | Jonathan Cleveland | Acts 12 Trusting God is trusting in his goodness. NOT trusting that he will provide good outcomes.

March 5th | Acts 11 | Christy Penley We need an encourager to come alongside us and support us and counsel us and cheer us on…..to give us grace. This is what Barnabas did for Saul.

February 26th, 2023 | Act 10 | Jonathan Cleveland God never stops working on us because he wants our identity to be SOLELY tied to our relationship with Christ.

February 19th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland Jesus saw sexually broken people as whole people. He loved them and saw them as more than their brokenness. He invited them to faith. He defended them and helped them. And he spoke kindly with them abo

February 12th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland God loves us so deeply. But that means not only does he embrace us at our worst. It also means he longs for us to become our truest self.

February 5th. 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland In the expression of sexuality no one was a body. Everyone was a person connected to God bearing the image of God.

January 29th | Acts 9 | Jonathan Cleveland The ordinary skills God has given us, done in love and in Jesus name, are the primary tool God will use to change the world.

January 22, 2023 | Acts 9: 1-9 Speaker: Cindy Limbrick God is all inclusive and no one is out of his reach.

January 15th | Acts 8:26-40 | Suzy Bates But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made ... Read more

January 8th, 2023 | Acts 8: 9-25 The gift of God in the Holy Spirit is not something we add to our life to make us better. It’s an invitation into relationship.

January 1st, 2023 | Acts 8 | Jonathan Cleveland This year instead of trying to avoid the darkness, challenge the darkness with the love of Jesus.

December 24th, 2022 | Isaiah 9: 2-7 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light: on those living in the land of deep darkness, a light has dawned.

December 18th, 2022 | Matthew 1: 18-25 | Christy Penley Where do you need to be reminded of the truth that God is with you?

December 11, 2022 | Matthew 11:2-11 | Kyle Collins This unexpected kingdom that Jesus has ushered in is better than we can imagine BUT it’s different than we expect both in its substance and in the way it is coming

December 4th, 2022 | Matthew 3 | Suzy Bates The Gospel calls the poor rich. And the rich poor. It says the first shall be last. And the last first. The Gospel turns everything upside down and says you are BLESSED if you are not offended by this unexpected rearrangement.

November 13th | Acts 6 | Jonathan Cleveland We have to observe that everyone has a voice in the community of faith.

November 6th, 2022 | Acts 5:17-42 | Suzy Bates There’s a wildness and a wonder to the Kingdom of God that exists outside of the things we let confine us.

November 27th, 2022 | Matthew 24 Keeping watch is about expectancy and looking not about guessing and predicting. It is about living with an awareness about what Jesus is doing and how he is intersecting with the world.