The Rock Family Sermon of the Week

All In, All Flame | Higher Ground - Pastor Chris Mitchell

We share Pastor Chris Mitchell’s testimony about being prayed out of darkness and we join together to call prodigal names before God with faith and gratitude. We then move from valley thinking to higher ground, learning how humility, Scripture, and the Holy Spirit reshape our perspective and habits.  • Praying together for prodigals by name and believing for homecoming  • Asking “where are you” in your current season and naming trials honestly  • Seeing higher ground as a spiritual place and a heart posture  • Seeking what is above and setting our minds on heavenly things  • Recognising higher ground through changed identity and secure footing  • Understanding peaks as breakthrough moments and plateaus as formation  • Building habits of going to God first and depending on the Word  • Taking practical steps through holy dissatisfaction, Spirit-led living, and laying aside weights  • Confronting hypocrisy as a weight that blocks growth

All In, All Flame | Jesus' Prayer - Pastor Rusty Nelson

We walk through John 17 as Pastor Rusty Nelson opens the longest recorded prayer of Jesus and shows what is burning in his heart on the eve of the cross. We hear seven anchors for real discipleship: knowing God, being kept, being sanctified, being sent, pursuing unity, longing to be with Jesus, and living in the Father’s love.  • Prayer as an exchange with God, including silence and wordless longing  • Jesus as our great High Priest who intercedes for us  • Eternal life defined as knowing the Father through Jesus  • “Keep them” as protection in the world, not escape from it  • God’s name as identity, authority, character, presence, and covenant faithfulness  • Sanctification by truth rather than pressure from culture  • Being sent as image-bearers on mission in everyday life  • Unity as a credible witness, not denominational uniformity  • Heaven as the goal of salvation, being with Jesus forever  • The Father’s love as the mark we carry into the world

All In, All Flame | Holy Ground - Pastor Scott Silcox

We open up Exodus 3 and treat the burning bush as a pattern for how God gets our attention, shapes our hearts, and forms us into mature believers. We learn to recognise holy ground in everyday life, respond with reverence, let God rebuild our identity, and accept that real encounters often come with a sending assignment.  • Holy ground begins with attention and turning aside from busyness  • God’s presence often interrupts before it instructs  • Reverence as removing what separates us from God, not performing a ritual  • Rejecting two extremes: God too distant to approach or God too casual to honour  • God’s holiness moving toward suffering, revealing compassion and justice  •Ccalling and purpose growing from burden and endurance, not hype  • Insecurity rising on holy ground as an invitation to a divine exchange  • Identity anchored in “I AM” rather than self-validation  • Every encounter carrying the possibility of assignment, asking what God does in us and through us

All In, All Flame | Strange Fire - Pastor Chris Mitchell

We go to Leviticus 10 to confront “strange fire” and why God still requires holiness in our worship and our lives. We connect that warning to New Testament priesthood in Jesus, asking our families to pursue discernment, purity, and Spirit-empowered consistency.  • Prayer over business leaders and those with influence, asking for wisdom, courage and increase  • Nadab and Abihu’s profane fire, why it was not a simple mistake  • God’s holiness, glory and corrective judgment in Leviticus  • The Old Testament priesthood’s role, responsibility and seriousness  • Jesus as eternal High Priest and the once-for-all sacrifice in Hebrews 9  • Living sacrifices today through our bodies, praise, generosity and good works  • Warning signs of “strange fire” as flippancy, laziness and misrepresenting God’s nature  • The need for Holy Spirit baptism and discernment to tell holy from unholy  • The danger of ritual without heart, especially for kids watching our example  • A practical “compass” through core values for family discipleship  • Altar prayer over dads and granddads for filling, fire and spiritual leadership  • A spoken father’s blessing for those who never received one

All In, All Flame | Acceptable Sacrifice - Pastor Scott Silcox

We wrestle with Cain and Abel as more than an old story, using Genesis 4 and Hebrews 11 to ask what makes worship acceptable to God. We confront how rejection distorts our view of God, ourselves, and others, and we choose to re-engage with the Father who keeps pursuing us.  • Celebrating Manna House and the backpack program as worship in action  • Refusing to believe we are more compassionate than the Lord  • Defining acceptable sacrifice through God’s character and our heart posture  • The garden lost but access to God not lost  • Learning that God rejects an offering without rejecting a person  • Recognising faith is often inherited before it is chosen  • Asking what story our children and friends hear from our lives  • Hebrews 11 clarifying Abel’s sacrifice as faith-driven  • Trusting that faith is a posture before it becomes an action  • Seeing first fruits as proof of what we value most  • Naming rejection as a trap that blocks God’s pursuit  • Hearing God’s warning that sin is crouching at the door  • Identifying casual worship and comparison as breeding grounds for harm  • Turning from resentment so we do not miss the intended mark