The Rock Family Sermon of the Week

All In, All Flame | Pastor Rusty Nelson

You can do a lot of “right” things and still drift from the one thing Jesus wants most: love that stays alive. Pastor Rusty takes us into Revelation 2 and the message to the church of Ephesus, a community praised for hard work, endurance, and testing false teachers, yet confronted with a piercing line: they lost their first love. That tension feels uncomfortably current for anyone who has served faithfully, stayed the course, and still sensed their heart cooling off. We follow the image of Jesus walking among the lampstands like a priest tending the fire, then trace the Old Testament pattern of consecration and anointing. Blood prepares the ear to hear, the thumb to serve, and the foot to walk straight. Oil empowers what redemption has made possible, pointing to the Holy Spirit as daily supply, not yesterday’s memory. Along the way, Pastor Rusty unpacks why Ephesus mattered, how truth and love must stay together, and why orthodoxy without intimacy turns into religion. The takeaway is practical and personal: keep the oil flowing and keep the wicks trimmed. Fresh prayer is intimacy, not a punch clock. Trimming the wick means letting God deal with the slow char of pride, offence, bitterness, distraction, wrong motives, and spiritual fatigue so our lives give light instead of smoke. If you’re hungry to be all flame again, press play, share this with a friend, and subscribe and leave a review so more people can find it.

All In, All Flame | Tend The Flame - Pastor Scott Silcox

We challenge the way we talk about the Holy Spirit by reframing fire as God’s confirmation rather than our performance or a Sunday-only moment. We leave with a clear responsibility to tend the flame through surrender, purity, and steady daily obedience.  • The Holy Spirit brings the fire while we bring the sacrifice  • The meaning of all flame as being consumed by God’s presence  • Leviticus 9 and why fire signals approval and confirmation  • Recognising that not everything burning has God’s approval  • Asking what interference crowds out the flame  • Trimming the wick as a picture of removing buildup and neglect  • Choosing consistency over intensity through daily maintenance  • Refusing to chase the effects of fire without responsibility  • Pentecost as a mobile altar and an internalised temple life  • Purity as wholeheartedness and removing competitors for his affection

All In, All Flame | Carry The Flame - Pastor Scott Silcox

Pentecost is not a strange side story we can ignore. It is the day the Church is born, the day God puts His Spirit in His people, and the day ordinary believers become witnesses with real power. Pastor Scott Zilcox kicks off our All Flame series by asking a blunt question: what does “All Flame” actually mean if we are not truly dependent on the Holy Spirit? We get pastoral and practical about the state of the local church, including the uncomfortable truth that we can get really good at sermons, worship sets, systems, and even “cool” Christian culture while drifting into doing ministry without the Holy Spirit. We talk about why Pentecost belongs in the centre of God’s plan, why misused spiritual gifts should not make us dismiss the Spirit, and how the Church loses its foundation when it treats the Spirit like an optional add-on. From Acts 1 and Acts 2 to the larger Bible storyline of God’s presence and fire from Eden through the tabernacle, temple, prophets, and Jesus, we trace why God’s goal is not just to be near us but to live in us. Then we bring it all the way into everyday life with a sharp contrast: before Pentecost the disciples cast lots, after Pentecost they live in partnership, “it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us.” That is an invitation to stop rolling the dice with decisions and start asking, listening, and waiting.

It Is Well | Presence - Pastor Britt Silcox

We close the It Is Well series by redefining God’s presence as personal friendship that holds our joy steady even when life stays hard. We look at Abraham, Moses, and Jesus’ words in John 15 to show how closeness with God reshapes prayer, suffering, calling, and everyday choices.  • Defining God’s presence as relational closeness, not a mystical idea  • Naming the cost of distance with God, from empty worship to crisis-driven prayer and accusation  • Tracing the Bible’s throughline of God wanting to dwell with us  • Learning trust, surrender, and radical obedience through Abraham’s friendship with God  • Seeing Moses refuse the promised land without God’s presence  • Moving from fearful obedience to sharing God’s heart through intercession  • Hearing Jesus call us friends, not servants, and reveal the Father’s intentions  • Finding help in Romans 8 when we do not know how to pray, the Spirit interceding in weakness  • Connecting calling to places of pain where prayer partners with God’s work  • Choosing God as the reward, asking for His glory and receiving joy over heaviness

Next Gen Sunday 2026

We hand the mic to three young adult speakers who challenge us to stop living motivated and start living all in. We call ourselves back to going with the gospel, abiding in Christ as our source, and serving people the way Jesus does.  • The Great Commission as a command for every believer  • Bold evangelism rooted in love for people  • Compassion as empathy plus action  • Abiding in Christ as the only true vine  • Resisting false vines like distraction and busyness  • Treating prayer and Scripture as a relationship – not a task  • Being the hands and feet of Jesus through service  • James 4:17 and the weight of ignored good  • Rehearsing the story of faith in the home  • Striking the match by surrendering comfort and control