Pulpit Rock Church

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.

November 20th, 2022 | Acts 7 When we get stuck in our pain it is because we’ve allowed it to become our identity; it becomes how we see our self. That’s why healing from pain always involves – acknowledging the pain…But then also grieving the pain, forgiving those who hurt us and reclaiming our identity ... Read more

October 30th, 2022 | Acts 4-36, 5-16 It is not the sin you’re obsessed with. It is what the sin promises to do for you. That is what we are obsessed with. And that is what Jesus ultimately wants to heal in us.

October 23rd, 2022 | Acts 4:23-35 The events of our world are not outside of the sphere of God’s control, even when enemies of God do things.

October 16th, 2022 | Acts 4:1-22 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

October 9th, 2022 | Acts 3:1-26 God is more interested in our willingness to be a miracle than our desire to see a miracle.

October 2nd, 2022 | Dr Eric Sandras You have never met a person whom God does not love. Really, never have you ever.

Sept 25th, 2022 | Melinda-Joy Mingo The desire to do the Father’s will must be greater than our fears, approval from others, and discomfort.

September 18th, 2022 | Greg Lindsey There is no limit to what Jesus can do through me.

September 11, 2022 |Jonathan Cleveland When God’s Kingdom comes to earth as it is in heaven that means the experience of God’s love and grace and favor for you, for me, and for people we would exclude or hate.

September 4, 2022 The Holy Spirit has never been focused on undoing the differences between us. The Holy Spirit is focused on bringing Jesus and his Kingdom into our differences.

August 28th, 2022 | Jonathan Cleveland Develop a sort of inner circle of people who care more about Jesus and the Kingdom of God than anything else.

August 14, 2022 | Jonathan Cleveland No person should ever have to worry about being welcomed by God’s people who know the grace of Jesus and see the image of the God they love in every person.

August 22, 2022 | Jonathan Cleveland “The Kingdom of God moves forward because God is in it and he moves it forward – our job is not to wield power but to be responsive.”

August 8, 2022 | Jonathan Cleveland The legacy of this church will be defined by our faith in Jesus and by the ways we step into the good works that God prepared in advance for us to do.

July 31st, 2022 | Danny Oertli We know that God has a name for us, fights for us, and the God of Hope fills us with the music of the Holy Spirit. But, where do we find hope? Here’s the thing: hope isn’t a feeling. Hope is a person. And, hope has a name: Jesus.

July 24th | Laura Parker Following Jesus is a journey, not a formula, and it does lead to the miraculous… But what is the Actual Miracle?

July 17, 2022 | Kaitlyn Schiess God sets the standards for all rulers, and God’s standard is justice.

July 10 2022 | Yemi Mobolade God is up to something in our nation, world, and in His church. King Jesus is on the move, the Kingdom of Heaven is breaking forth, Jesus is rebuilding his church, and the ones who breaks forth are seizing it.

July 3rd, 2022 | 10:30AM Despite our differences, because of Jesus we belong to God and we’re going to love each other as if we were one.

If we want to be ChristLike we also should fight to remain present with others and not run from potential awkwardness or discomfort.

Love demonstrated just absolutely recklessly in the face of deepest vulnerability.

June 12, 2022 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. – Francis of Assisi

Jesus is committed to his own growth, development, and learning.

May 29 2022 Hear the story of what God is doing through The Remnant Generation in Africa. How God prepared the world for us. God knew where we would thrive in where you were meant to be. We are where we are supposed to be.

The prophets teach the utter hopelessness of all human societies, and they teach the intense beauty of God's Kingdom.

Soft-hearted people are more likely to hear from God.

Apocalyptic literature reveals the character of the God who exists outside of time and gives us hope for right now.

God never asks us to make up for what we've done. Only Jesus can fully atone for our sins!

Jesus, the fountain of living water, is the only thing that can satisfy our thirst.