The Rock Family Sermon of the Week

It Is Well | Peace - Pastor Christian Lake

We tell a true story of feeling stranded and anxious in a strange city, then watch God provide in a way that points straight to kingdom culture and belonging. We connect “It Is Well” faith to shalom, covenant, and Jesus’ authority over chaos so perseverance does not cost us our peace.  • Shifting the goal from preparing to suffer to persevering while still pursuing peace  • The Aaronic blessing as a covenant framework for security, favor, grace, presence and peace  • Shalom defined as wholeness and right standing with God, including the insight that shalom can read as “it is well”  • Why peace is not the absence of chaos but security through it, from Noah to Job to Jonah  • Sea and dragon imagery as a biblical picture of chaos and the enemy’s strategy  • Jesus calming the storm and walking on water as authority over chaos and revelation of divine identity  • Revelation’s ending as the final defeat of chaos, where the sea is no more  • Prayer, communion, and the new covenant as the ground of our peace in Christ

It Is Well | Prayer - Pastor Scott Silcox

We talk about what it feels like when Jesus seems quiet in the middle of chaos, and why God’s delay is not the same as God being late. We trace the storm in Mark 4 and learn how suffering can form a stronger prayer life that builds endurance, trust and a steady faith that others can see.  • Celebrating Freedom Conference fruit, deliverance, baptisms and hunger for God  • Naming the feeling that Jesus is asleep on the boat  • Reading Mark 4:35-41 and facing the question “Do you not care?”  • Reframing delay as purposeful formation, not abandonment  • Learning the prayer of lament, honest grief aimed at God  • Learning the prayer of surrender, releasing control we cannot keep  • Recovering intercession as standing in the gap for others  • Practicing trust when circumstances contradict it  • Embracing silence when pain is too deep for words  • Shifting from quick relief to prayer of formation and true victory  • Noticing “other boats were with him” and how our response affects others

It Is Well | Perseverance - Pastor Christian Lake

We wrestle with miracles, unanswered prayers, and the kind of perseverance that forges real faith when life hurts.  • Inheriting a legacy of prayer across generations  • Refusing the idea that hardship always means secret sin or weak faith  • Paul’s thorn and God’s answer that grace is sufficient  • Redefining faith as loyal allegiance that holds under pressure  • Job as a test of endurance and integrity with our lips  • Faith forged like gold through trials and refining  • Church history examples of perseverance under persecution and illness  • Miscarriage, grief, and the shock of gratitude in suffering  • Perseverance as a group project and a warning against suffering in silence  • Expectation as hope that waits and acts differently  • Rejecting entitlement that assumes God is withholding good  • tThe Holy Spirit interceding when we do not know how to pray  • “It Is Well With My Soul” as a picture of steady trust

It Is Well | Patience - Pastor Scott Silcox

We hold joy and sorrow in the same week and still trust God’s hand on the page. We slow down long enough to let the Holy Spirit help us interpret our pain so patience can do its full work. • A child learning to read as a picture of how we rush past meaning • A week of wedding celebration alongside deep grief • Psalm 139 and the conviction that God authors our days • Punctuation as a metaphor for spiritual patience and divine timing • Structure that brings clarity when life feels chaotic • Rhythm that slows us so transformation can sink in • Boundaries that protect purpose and pull out destiny • Pauses that reveal intention and prevent misreading suffering • James 1 and the hard command to count trials as joy • The comma in Jesus’ words to the thief as a picture of destiny

Palm Sunday | Sent To The Uttermost - Pastor Scott Silcox

We wrestle with why Palm Sunday swings from celebration to crucifixion, and we let that tension expose how easily our expectations can distort who Jesus is. We choose surrender over control so the Holy Spirit can empower us to live as bold witnesses to the ends of the earth.  • Palm Sunday as a test of expectations and allegiance  • Psalms 2 as a warning and a promise about the nations  • Jesus on a donkey as humility over domination  • Unmet expectations turning into rejection and distance from God  • “We have no king but Caesar” as replacing Jesus with substitutes  • Acts 1:8 as the call to wait for power and then witness  • The Holy Spirit’s power as fuel for testimony not performance  • Purpose requiring surrender not full understanding  • Giving away what God has done to be filled again  • Practical mission paths through work, serving, and church outreach