South Rock Christian Church: Recent Episodes
South Rock Christian Church
From Bible Study to Worship Services and much more, we're a church in Derby, Kansas looking to help people find and follow Jesus!
Rik Alspaw opens up our new series Transform by speaking about the folly in the idea of Live Your Best Life.
Cameron exhorts us on the goodness of holy work before sending us into the community to serve for our annual Great Day of Service.
Concluding our series, With: Encountering Jesus, Connections Minister Samuel O'Banion preaches over Saul/Paul in Acts 9 and 17.
Andy delivers the penultimate sermon of our With series over John 21 and the forgiven Peter.
Hallelujah, our God is alive! Andy delivers a sermon about the Road to Emmaus as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our series through interactions and encounters with Jesus continues with Matthew 21, Jesus cleaning the temple.
Andy delivers a sermon about the woman caught in adultery from John 8 as we continue our series With: Encountering Jesus.
Our series, With: Encountering Jesus, continues with Andy's sermon over Peter's confession of the Christ in Matthew 16.
Our series With: Encountering Jesus continues with a sermon from Counseling Minister Rik Alspaw about the Syrophoenician Woman in Matthew 15.
With: Encountering Jesus continues with Andy preaching over Mark 4, the calming of the storm.
We ring in the new year and a new series: With. Connections Minister Samuel O'Banion preaches over Luke 2:41-49, Jesus in the temple.
We celebrate the birth of our Savior and conclude our sermon series In Every Season. Merry Christmas!
We continue our series with a look at the Silence of the Intertestamental years and how, even when it seems like God is quiet, He is still present.
The penultimate devotion revolves around the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments.
Teaching Minister Nick Pannone continues our devotion series with a look at the Prophets.
We continue gearing up for Christmas with the continuation of our series In Every Season with a look at the prophets.
We continue our series In Every Season with a sermon about The Law preached by Lead Pastor Andy Jones.
We begin our devotion series with a look at the Fall juxtaposed with the incarnation of Christ.
Teaching Minister Nick Pannone introduces a five-part devotional series in conjunction with our sermon series In Every Season, taking us through Advent.
We begin our Christmas season series In Every Season with a sermon about the Fall from Teaching Minister Nick Pannone.
We celebrate 10 years in this building and 10 years as South Rock Christian Church with a sermon about telling the Gospel story.
Andy delivers a message about giving (time, money, and ourselves) in a continuation of our Now What? series.
We continue our series Now What? with a sermon about the bread and juice that is communion.
We begin our new series Now What? taking a look at what we must do after we believe and follow Jesus. Andy begins with a sermon over worship.
We conclude our two week series Salvation with a sermon about baptism and a call to action.
The audio will sound a bit different this week as we kicked off a quick two-week series by meeting as one body for one worship service in one place at South Rock One in High Park! Andy delivers a message for everyone about the greatest commandment: Love God.
Rik concludes our series over the wisdom of the Proverbs with a look at familial relationships.
As we continue our series through Proverbs, we spend a week on wealth, money, greed, and generosity.
Work, work, work! In this week of our Proverbs series Listen!, Andy talks about good, hard work.
Andy tackles a big topic in this weeks sermon, sexual purity, as we continue our look at the Proverbs.
Pride and humility is the subject we cover through Proverbs in week 6 of our series Listen! Wisdom through Proverbs.
Continuing our series, Andy talks about Proverbs pertaining to the heart, guarding and guiding it.
Continuing our series through Proverbs, Andy delivers a sermon about fear, specifically fearing the Lord.
We continue our series through Colossians with Colossians 3:18-4:1, charges to spouses, parents, children, workers and bosses.
Christ Above All continues as we wrap up chapter two of Colossians talking about Jesus being enough.
We continue our series through Colossians with a look at the Christian maturing process through and in Christ.
Graduate Weekend brings us Youth Minister Colton Leinbach delivering a message about the sufficiency of Christ in Colossians 1:3-14.
We open our new series through the book of Colossians. Andy gives some context for the letter to Colossae before reading it in its entirety!
We concluded our CrossRoads series with this night of reflection and reverence on Good Friday.
Nick concludes our devotion series with a look at Jesus' trial before Romans and Jewish Leadership throughout the four Gospels.
Nick continues our devotion series with a look at Jesus at the Last Supper in Luke 22:1-6.
We continue our Easer series with Andy preaching over the service Christ displayed for us at the Last Supper.
Andy opens up our new series leading into Easter with a sermon over the Triumphal Entry.
Nick teaches over the ability to impact the Church through one gift at a time (1 Corinthians 12:7).
We can make a difference by giving just one dollar at a time, a point Andy expounds on from Luke 21:1-4.
Continuing our series One At A Time, Andy discusses what happens as we make one decision at a time (Galatians 6:7-10; John 3:30; Joshua 3:5).
Our series continues with a look at EGR people, extra grace required, and how it's our job to go the extra mile in those relationships (Luke 10:25-37; Matthew 5:38-42).
Continuing our series One At A Time, Andy delivers a message about being present in order to love people effectively.
Week 2 of our series One At A Time takes a look at the soil we are planted in and what Jesus wants to do in and through us.
Connections Minister Samuel O'Banion rings in the new year with a sermon about loving your neighbor.
Nick concludes our Advent Devotion series by taking a look at St. Nicholas and the Magi.
Andy delivers a message continuing our Questioning Christmas series about Joseph asking, "What do I do now?"
Our devotion series continues with a look at what we imagine Joseph was thinking in hearing his betrothed was pregnant, "What do I do now?"
Questioning Christmas continues as we take a look at Elizabeth and the question, "Why am I so favored?"
Questions don't mean doubt. Nick devotes us to the question and worship of Mary in her hearing the message of the coming Christ.
Week 2 of our series Questioning Christmas focuses on the validity and questions of the Virgin Mary.
We begin our Christmas series Questioning Christmas by looking at the question posed by Zechariah as he and his wife became pregnant.
Nick devotes us to the question Zechariah asks himself--and often the question we ask ourselves--"How will I know?"
We begin the Christmas season by reorienting ourselves to the purpose of it: the incarnation of Christ. Nick will lead us through several weeks of devotions, so tune in every Monday to begin your day, week, and holiday season off right!
Nick continues our Anchored series and shows the importance of anchoring ourselves in the breaking of bread and the importance of regular worship through communion.
We had one, unified service at High Park in Derby where we enjoyed community while listening to Andy deliver a message of anchoring ourselves in fellowship!
We continue the Anchored series with Andy preaching over our need to be in the Word of God with great consistency.
We wrap up our Psalm series with Psalms 148-150 as Andy talks us through the who, what, where, when, why, and how of praising God.
God's beauty is on full display all around us, our series through Psalms continues as Andy speaks over this idea in Psalm 27.
God is still our helper, through the ages for all time. Andy explains how and why in this sermon over Psalm 121.
Andy preaches over Psalm 51 in our series through Psalms, speaking over confessing our sins to God and each other.
Continuing our series through the Psalms, Sam preaches about our Almighty God through Psalm 46.
Our sermon series Psalms: Rejoicing in God's Character continues as Nick preaches over Psalm 37.
Psalm 139 shows us a powerful image of God as our Maker and Creator, Andy expounds on this idea in light of recent national events.
As we continue our series Psalms: Rejoicing in God's Character, Andy preaches over Psalm 22.
Andy opens up our new series, Psalms: Rejoicing in God's Character, preaching through Psalm 1.
What can God do with dry bones? A whole lot more than we think. Andy tells us what to expect when all that is before us is what Ezekiel saw in chapter 37: graves and ash.
As we celebrate graduates this weekend, Andy speaks on what to do when on the precipice of a new stage of life.
Andy wraps up our three-week series called It's Not Over by talking about Jesus' ascension and what our next steps are as the church coming out of the resurrection.
It's Resurrection Sunday! Andy expounds on the hope that only the death and resurrection of Christ can bring to a hopeless world.
We open on an Easter series entitled It's Not Over. Today Andy reads the Scripture and story leading up to Jesus' death on the cross, then expounds on it.
In the second and final week of The Treasure Principle, Andy talks about giving roadblocks and how to overcome them.
Week 9 of Find and Follow Jesus and Andy delivers a message of chasing after Jesus with all our hearts and minds.
Recreation is re-creation. Andy delivers the Find and Follow Jesus week 8 sermon about Sabbath, rest, and how we look more like Him through what we do in our downtime.
Andy delivers a sermon about work and Jesus' effect on how we view and maintain what we do in week 7 of Find and Follow Jesus.
Week 6 of our series Find and Follow Jesus looks at how this mission statement impacts our view and relationship with money.
It's about time! Andy talks us through how Find and Follow Jesus applies to how we use our time.
Find and Follow Jesus week 4 takes a look at the role of Jesus, faith, and church in family life.
Andy continues our series Find and Follow Jesus with a message about love, marriage, and relationships.
In week 2 of our series Find and Follow Jesus, we look at how Jesus impacts our past through our testimony and story.
We begin a new series called Find and Follow Jesus, all about our mission and values at South Rock Christian Church. Andy begins with where our church is headed in 2022 and what it means to find and follow Jesus.
Nick ends our devotion series on Simeon and the love he experienced at his intersection with the Christ child, the same love, hope, and joy we ought to experience today.
Andy concludes our series What Child Is This by talking through myrrh and Jesus as Savior.
Love. By in large the emotion that we ascribe to Christ to why He came for all humanity, so today we devote ourselves to the love of Christ Incarnate.
Today Nick points us in the direction of Joseph, someone we don't often connect with joy but who experienced it nonetheless at the birth of Immanuel, God with us.
What Child is This? week two is all about Jesus as priest and how priestly intervention in our relationship with God was and is continually perfected by Christ.
Joy. An oft-cited and sung sentiment of the Christmas season, therefore Nick shares how joy appears to current or previous afflictions during the Advent.
Nick concludes the week with a devotion pointing us to peace through the life of Zecharias, father of John the Baptist and great uncle to Jesus.
We begin our three-week ramp-up to Christmas with our series What Child Is This? Andy begins this week by talking through Jesus as King.
Peace. Today we devote ourselves to the peace that comes only from God and His Son born in a manger, "God and sinner reconciled."
Nick again discusses hope but in light of Mary, her experience, and how we ought to devote ourselves, like her, to hope.
Andy delivers a sermon over the lifestyle of thanksgiving and the practical ways to go about it.
Hope. A buzzword for the season, but Nick points us in the direction of true hope in the face of brokenness and busyness.
Nick introduces our new bi-weekly devotion series starting now through Christmas Eve where we can slow down and devote ourselves to the reason for the season!
Nick delivers a sermon over Ecclesiastes and Proverbs discussing the biblical need and drive for active contentment in one's life.
The final Sunday of our Basic Training series focuses on prayer and putting together the full armor of God.
Week 6 of our Basic Training series takes a look at Ephesians 6:15 and followers' feet shod with ready shoes given by the Gospel of peace.
With a breastplate secured, Rik delivers the week 5 sermon over righteousness in our Basic Training series.
"Stand firm, then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist." Week 4 of Basic Training is all about truth, what it is and how to find it.
Basic Training Week 3 takes a look at the Word of God--its effectiveness, importance, and use.
This week, Basic Training is all about the enemy. Who it is, where to find them, and how to combat them. Hint: people are not the enemy.
We start a new series at SRCC called "Basic Training," where we walk through Ephesians 6 and some foundational items of our faith. This week, Andy introduces the series and a couple important truths about the battle we enter into as believers.
Week 2 of the series So It Begins, Andy talks about how extraordinary Jesus' life and ministry is and how it impacts the way we live out our faith.
Nick delivers the 31st and final chapter of The Story covering the final chapter of the Bible, Revelation.
As we round out The Story, Sam talks about Revelation, one of his favorite verses, and the final devotion from this series.
Sam spends time in Ephesians unpacking the ever-important sentence, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ."
Andy delivers the week 29 message from The Story covering Paul; his mission, his reaction to opposition, and his message.
Sam tries to find just one thing to talk about in many of Paul's writings and expounds on our need to remember God's promise of eternal life.
In Chapter 28 of The Story we begin to take a look at the church in Acts. Sam points out the implications on our faith of the Apostles persevering to preach the Gospel in the face of trials.
Happy Easter in July! Another holiday this summer as Rik preaches over Chapter 27 of The Story and the resurrection.
Happy Easter! This week we read about the Resurrection and Sam talks about the joy Peter feels when seeing Jesus again--and the joy we ought to as well!
With a variety of choices in this week's chapter, Sam speaks on the prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemene and how that relates to another biblical story and our own lives.
The Rich Young Ruler is sent away sad over his wealth, Sam explains how we can apply this to our walks.
Sam explains the courage and faith of two daughters saved and healed by Jesus and what this has to say about our lives.
Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, Sam challenges us to be more gracious with people who seem directly opposed to us.
Happy Father's Day and Merry Christmas! Andy delivers the sermon this week regarding the start of the New Testament and the coming of the Incarnate King in Chapter 22 of The Story.
Merry Christmas! We enter into the New Testament this week and Sam talks about the incarnation and importance of John's usage of the Greek philosophical idea of λόγος (logos).
Rik delivers a powerful message over Chapter 21 of The Story which takes a look at the returning Exiles and rebuilding of Jerusalem.
The walls of Jerusalem being rebuilt had many enemies and obstacles, but the work continued. Sam explains how Godly work must always continue, no matter what.
Mordecai exhibited an extraordinary act of bravery which led to God using his cousin Esther being used in extraordinary ways for the Kingdom. This week, listen to how Sam sees this playing out in each of our lives.
The reconstruction of the temple was underway but hit a snag after the foundation was laid. Discouragement and fear paused what the Israelites had been called to, this week we look at how we often can do the same.
Paul comes back to exhortation in Philippians 3:1, so Nick and Sam examine what it truly means to count everything as loss and refuse in light of knowing Christ.
On Grad Weekend, we celebrate high school and college graduates through Andy's message over Week 18 of The Story and how Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego served God no matter their circumstances to the end of their lives.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were facing a sudden and painful death for not bowing before an idol, but their response is easily applicable to how we ought to live and pray as they knew their God was the God, no matter what.
Rick brings the word from Week 17 of The Story highlighting what Jeremiah had to say regarding the collapse of Israel and Judah.
Israel and Judah fall, yet Jeremiah shares a glimmer of hope. Listen to how Sam sees this as an opportunity to turn mourning into dancing!
The guys close out Philippians 2 discussing the preachability and applicability of these Scriptures that paint a vivid picture of Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus in faith and community.
Happy Mother's Day! We take a break from The Story and Nick preaches over 2 Kings 4, Elisha and the Shunammite mother.
Sam records outside this week because the chapter, through the sinfulness of the Israelites, reminded him of the faithfulness and love of our God and Father.
Chapter 15 of The Story tracks the message of four prophets to Israel, but Sam concentrates on a moment in Elijah's life to discuss how God can use us to be modern-day messengers like these four men.
Elijah against 450 prophets of Ba'al on Mt. Carmel, listen to hear why this should instruct our own lives and the things or people we serve.
Sam and Nick dive into a few oft-quoted verses, spending time in what it means to "work out our salvation" and "do all things without grumbling or disputing."
Andy tackles Chapter 14 of The Story and shares his thoughts on Rehoboam, Jeroboam, and the kings of the fractured nation of Israel.
When Rehoboam looked for wisdom and information, he looked only at what would back up his own thoughts and interests. Sam discusses how easily this could apply to our own lives and where we ought to look for answers first.
This week on CrossTalk, humility is the word to look out for as we not only talk about humility in our view of self and promotion of others, but the humility of Christ in the flesh, on the cross, and our interaction with Him.
Solomon married a wife...and another...and another...hundreds of times over when he began thinking he knew more about relationships and marriage than God. Rick preaches from Chapter 13 of The Story and explains what happens in our lives when we do the same.
Despite his sinfulness, God spared Solomon's judgment because of the faithfulness of his father, David. In Week 13 of The Story, Sam discusses our own faithfulness and how it might reflect on younger generations. How can we plant seeds of glory and faith to those most impressionable around us?
Philippians continues to deliver as Nick and Sam unpack the topics of heaven, hell, death, and the confidence we can take in what Paul wrote, but more importantly what Jesus did.
He is risen, the tomb is empty! Rick preaches over the power and majesty that is the Gospel truth, the one event by which all of us are made free for eternity: the resurrection of the Christ the Son of the Living God, Jesus.
Nick and Sam look through Philippians 1:12-18 and discuss the lens through which we view grief and trouble as well as the intention and motivation of all those who represent the Gospel.
This week in The Story, Rick goes into 2 Samuel to discuss conflict and how to engage with conflict in a variety of places and relationships.
"In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war...David remained in Jerusalem." Listen this week to hear why Sam thinks these verses tell us about our own lives and what we need to ask ourselves in light of it.
A couple of heavy topics tackled in this episode of CrossTalk including perceiving your emotional reality, koinonia, and the glory of God as Nick and Sam dive into Philippians 1:3-11.
Week 11 of The Story begins the look at King Saul and the rise of David, which points us to the question: are you trying to keep God in a box like Saul or trusting Him completely to be King over your life like David?
David and Goliath, a well-known Bible story, but what did it really take for a teenager to change the world? One. Courageous. Moment. Now it's up to you to do the same.
Welcome to the first audio-only version of CrossTalk, the long-form Bible study with Nick Pannone and Sam O'Banion. In this episode, Nick and Sam cover an introduction of Paul's letter to the Philippians as well as the first two verses.
Nick preaches this morning through 1 Samuel in Week 10 of The Story, taking us through Israel's distortion of God's will and how our own disobedience does the same.
Sam expounds on something called "nominative determinism" as we enter week 9 of The Story covering 1 Samuel.
In Week 9 of our series going through The Story, Rick delivers a sermon over the lives, losses, and extraordinary generosity of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz as well as this family's redemptive implications.
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In week 9 of The Story, Sam looks at the incredible generosity of Ruth and Boaz and asks, "What's stopping us from doing the same?"
Rick's sermon from February 28, 2021, covering the book of Judges in Week 8 of The Story series.
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In this devotion, Sam talks about the cycle found in Judges covered in Week/Chapter 8 of The Story.