Rock of Ages Lutheran Church, Payson, Arizona (WELS)

Acts 3:11-20 ● 2024-04-14 ● Easter Series: Resurrection Goal ● Print ● Listen Surrounding the Chernobyl disaster area in Ukraine is a 1000 square mile exclusion zone. There are signs and barriers warning of the danger and death that can result from radiation exposure. Even after 37 years it remains so radioactive that it is deadly […]

Acts 18:1-11 ● 2024-04-07 ● Easter Series: Resurrection Goal ● Print Audio Transcription ● Listen He rose back to life to live forever. He accomplished everything he said, and he showed it. He was alive. The woman saw him. They proclaimed it. And yet, what do we see happening? The first thing that happens that […]

Job 19:23-27 ● 2024-03-31 ● Easter Series: Resurrection Goal ● (print transcription) ● Listen I see a lot of family here today. One of the things that people like about festivals and holidays and church celebrations is spending the time together with their church family, and if possible, with their family. That’s not always possible for […]

Psalm 42 ● 2024-03-29 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Listen 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my […]

View Isaiah Series. – Listen to audio Isaiah 50:4-11 The Servant of the Lord is Innocent of Any Wrong When a guilt offering was made in the Old Testament, God required the sacrifice to be without blemish or defect. The prophet Malachi would decry the people for their contempt in offering up blemished animals for […]

Mark 14-15 ● 2024-03-24 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Listen to service audio segments

Hebrews 5:7-9 ● 2024-03-17 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Print ● Listen One of modern life’s frustrations is the concept of being put on hold. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the routine when you call some businesses. You are trying to resolve an issue or ask a question, […]

Ephesians 2:1-10 ● 2024-03-10 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Listen As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who […]

View Isaiah II Bible Study Series – Listen [note: recorded Dec 7, 2023, posted Mar 7, 2024] Review Isaiah 49:8-26 Find a way this section points us to salvation by faith and not by works. What surprise “problem” will Israel have? How will this “problem” occur? Use verses 49:15-16 to comfort someone who feels like […]

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 ● 2024-03-03 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Print ● Listen You might have seen how it’s been in the news lately. Artificial intelligence is really starting to take over. And what a lot of people complain about is how it has the ability to distort reality. Maybe you’ve […]

Mark 8:31-38 ● 2024-02-25 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Listen Have you ever wanted to hide something about your job? There are so many movie plots and storylines based around someone becoming embarrassed because of their job. In some places it can be devastating to be ashamed of your employment status. […]

Romans 8:31-39 ● 2024-02-18 ● Lent Series: A Religion Like No Other ● Listen

Joel 2:12-19 ● 2024-02-14 ● Ash Wednesday ● Listen

2 Kings 2:1-12 ● 2024-02-11 ● Epiphany Series ● Listen When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went […]

Isaiah 40:27–31 ● 2024-02-04 ● Epiphany Series ● Listen ● Watch Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel,“My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?28 Do you not know? Have you not heard?The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one […]

Deuteronomy 18:15-22 ● 2024-01-28 ● Epiphany Series ● Listen 15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the […]

Jonah 3:1-10 ● 2024-01-21 ● Epiphany Series ● Listen Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” 3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go […]

1 Samuel 3:1-10 ● 2024-01-14 ● Epiphany Series ● Print ● Listen Children are well known for having selective hearing. You know how it is. Maybe you’re sitting at a fast-food restaurant or waiting for a checkout line and there is the kid who is getting into trouble. Their mom or dad say, “Corey, please […]

Psalm 2 ● 2024-01-07 ● Epiphany Series ● Listen ● Print Czar Nicholas II is called the “last czar of Russia.” He held autocratic power and held onto it tightly. At a time when his rule was questioned, and his failures were mounting, people grew increasingly upset at him and wanted him to relinquish his position […]

James 4:13-17 ● 2024-01-01 ● New Year’s Day ● Listen