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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Daniel Goulding · May 20, 2024
In Matthew 6, Jesus corrects people who pray a lot but have missed the heart of it. Using the Lord's Prayer as a model — not a script — He shows that effective prayer begins with a clear picture of who God is: a holy, all-knowing Father who invites us into relationship. True prayer moves us from treating God as a heavenly genie into a posture of familiarity, expectation, humility, and dependency — where the goal is not extracting things from God but drawing closer to Him and being transformed by His presence.
Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 21, 2024
Drawing from Daniel 10 and 12, Pastor Bill argues that the entire book of Daniel is a God-given assurance that history has a predetermined destination under God's sovereign control. Like children on a long car ride, we waste energy asking 'Are we there yet?' instead of trusting the Driver. True wisdom is not knowledge but applied truth — choosing faithfulness each day, redefining 'good days' not as easy days but as days we stayed faithful to God. Because God is both the holy, righteous King who commands our reverent awe and the loving Father who calls us precious, we can surrender to the journey and live with confident, courageous trust.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 28, 2024
Drawing from Daniel 4 and the story of King Nebuchadnezzar, Pastor Bill shows that God is the ultimate ruler over every kingdom — including the small kingdoms we build for ourselves. Pride, whether expressed as arrogance or as running after lesser 'gods' of pleasure, power, and prestige, will always be met with humbling. The loving response of God is not punishment but pursuit — He humbles us so we will choose to trust Him. True humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less, and it is a daily, repeated choice to admit when we are wrong and to surrender our plans to God's purpose.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 16, 2024
Drawing from Daniel 2, Pastor Bill argues that God is sovereign over all kingdoms and all of history, and that the favor He promises His people is not a collection of pleasant circumstances but a peace that surpasses understanding. That peace is accessed not through religious performance or bargaining with God for blessings, but through four acts of practical faithfulness: pursuing community, praying to God, praising God in worship, and putting your God-given gifts into action — even when life is at its hardest.
Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 11, 2023
Drawing from Revelation 3:7-13 and the faithful church at Philadelphia, Pastor Bill argues that the hardest seasons of obedience are not signals to quit but invitations to hold on more tightly. Because Jesus is holy, true, and in sovereign control — opening doors no one can shut — believers can trust His purpose and plan even when life grows harder the more faithfully they follow Him. God's eternal perspective and His unbreakable promises mean that leaning into community, service, and generosity during the struggle, rather than retreating into rugged individualism, is precisely where enduring character, hope, and blessing are forged.
Pastor Bill Bush · May 31, 2022
When the world erupts in violence, injustice, and political chaos, Christians are tempted to respond exactly like everyone else — fixating on policies and containment as the cure. But Pastor Bill argues from Isaiah 6 that our first move must be to see God on His throne, then look honestly at our own hearts, and only then step forward as messengers of the gospel — the only true cure for evil. Containment strategies have their place, but the church's unique calling is to bring the healing that only Jesus provides.
Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 4, 2021
Pastor Bill Bush argues that most Christians misunderstand worship as a tool for recruiting God to their agenda, when in reality worship is a battle weapon forged in surrender. Drawing from Joshua's encounter with the Commander of the Lord's army and the battle of Jericho, he shows that God never joins our side — He is a side, and we must join His. True worship means surrendering first, walking faithfully rather than fixating on winning, and anchoring everything in the cross, the only way from our side of death to God's side of life.