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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Caleb McMains · Jul 9, 2025
Drawing from John 9, the book of Job, and Romans 5, Pastor Caleb challenges the deeply human instinct to equate life's hardships with divine punishment. He identifies three kinds of valleys believers face — disobedience, obedience, and no clear reason — and shows that in each case God's purpose is not retribution but transformation and intimacy. The Christian worldview is unique in giving redemptive meaning to pain, and God's promise throughout Scripture is that He never walks away from those who are suffering.
Pastor Hunter Perry · Jan 24, 2024
Drawing from Daniel 3, Pastor Hunter Perry argues that God calls His people to radical, unconditional obedience — not obedience contingent on a favorable outcome. Through the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he shows that obedience will sometimes feel lonely, will disappoint people around us, and will cost us something real. Yet in each of those pressures, God is present, God is pleased, and God is glorified — ultimately freeing us, if not always from our circumstances, then eternally through them.
Pastor Bill Bush · Aug 11, 2019
Anxiety floods us with 'what ifs' and drives us toward fearful, self-reliant decisions, while depression tempts us to give up entirely. The answer is neither escape nor willpower, but a reoriented pursuit of Jesus Himself. Drawing on Philippians 4:6-9 and the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Pastor Bill argues that God's peace — a peace that surpasses all understanding — is not found by avoiding life's fires but by fixing our eyes on the One who enters the fire with us.