Rock Point Church
Pastor Nolan Tjaden · Oct 17, 2026
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Pastor Nolan opened with Dietrich Bonhoeffer's secret seminary, rowed out on a river across from a Nazi airfield. What's a detail from that image that sticks with you?
Read Acts 20:19-23 aloud. What does the Spirit tell Paul to expect as he presses on, and what does Paul do with that warning?
Acts 14:22 says that "through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God." Pastor Nolan warned against mistaking everyday frustration for real spiritual opposition — how might people tell the difference between the two?
Pastor Nolan described evangelism as pulling an unseen war into the present by convincing people to move sides. How does that framing change the way we might think about reaching someone close to us?
Read Acts 20:7-12 aloud. Luke doubly emphasizes that Eutychus was taken away "alive" — what do you make of that detail as a picture of what God's Word does?
Pastor Nolan pointed to revivals that were fueled not by a dynamic personality but by verse-by-verse teaching of Scripture. What might it look like for us to let the Word, rather than a personality, shape our life together?
Pastor Nolan's charge was to fight for "just one more" — one person close to you but far from God — and the church sets a daily 1 p.m. alarm to pray for that person. Between you and God this week, who comes to mind, and what would a first step toward them look like?
Courage to fight from Jesus's finished victory — for hunger for His Word and for the one person each of us is praying toward.
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