God's Love

Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 20, 2025

In Ephesians 3:14–21, Paul prays that believers would be empowered from the inside out by the Spirit, rooted and grounded in the love of Christ. The sermon argues that most people try to earn God's presence by doing good things first, when in reality transformation only flows from letting Christ make His home in the heart. Until we truly grasp how wide, long, high, and deep God's love is — breaking the lies that He doesn't love us, that His love won't last, and that our identity is still defined by sin — we cannot live the full, overflowing life God intends, nor trust Him with our personal 'wheelbarrow' moments.

Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 7, 2023

Pastor Bill calls Rock Point to recover clear vision of two foundational commands Jesus gave His followers: the Great Commandment (love God, love others) and the Great Commission (go and make disciples). When believers truly see how much Jesus loves them, that love overflows outward in sacrificial mission. Blurry vision — caused by life's distractions, fears, and pressures — causes people to disengage and feel guilt rather than joy. But with clear eyes and a full heart, rooted in the gospel, followers of Christ can move forward in sacrifice and mission and cannot ultimately lose, because Jesus Himself goes with them.

Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 31, 2021

Pastor Bill Bush argues that the Ten Commandments were never meant to be a contractual honey-do list between humanity and God. Rooted in a relationship God initiated before any commands were given, the commandments reveal His very character — He is love — and are designed to show us our inability to earn His favor, our desperate need for a Savior, and ultimately to drive us toward responding to the love Christ demonstrated on the cross. Living out the commandments flows from loving God and loving others, not from trying to fulfill obligations in order to earn blessings.

Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 25, 2019

Drawing from the book of Malachi, the sermon argues that every failure to obey God — from halfhearted worship and dishonored marriages to cynicism about His justice — traces back to a single root: doubting that God truly loves us. The six disputes in Malachi reveal a pattern in which Israel's skepticism of God's love cascades into dishonoring His name, defiling the marriage covenant, denying His goodness, and ultimately despising His ways altogether. The answer is not trying harder out of guilt or fear, but genuinely receiving the unfailing love God demonstrated when Jesus — the Word made flesh — came to free us, bearing all human guilt on the cross.

Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 31, 2019

Drawing from John 16:25–33, Pastor Bill shows that Jesus' final words to His disciples before the crucifixion were not empty encouragement but a genuine offer of peace and joy grounded in three irreducible human longings: love, faith, and hope. Because Jesus has already overcome the world — past tense, permanently — believers are not fighting for victory but from it. The cross is the flag on the hill, the symbol that declares the war is won, and communion is the recurring invitation to lift our eyes to that hill and take heart.