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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Hunter Jones · Jun 22, 2026
True worship is not simply an emotional experience we seek on a Sunday morning — it is the culmination of a daily life cycle with God. In Psalm 119, the psalmist models six repeating stages: engaging God's Word, walking in obedience, enduring war (resistance), waiting on the Lord in dependence, experiencing the 'wow' of God's grace showing up, and pouring out worship. Each completed cycle sends us back to the Word at a deeper level, producing praise that is genuine, powerful, and unstoppable.
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 25, 2024
Using the strange Old Testament account of Balaam and his talking donkey in Numbers 22, Pastor Daniel argues that God is always speaking to His people — primarily through Scripture — and that our inability to hear Him is rarely God's silence but rather our own rebellion, distraction, or willingness to rationalize compromise. When we walk in disobedience, God loves us enough to frustrate our path as a whisper calling us back. The path to hearing His voice again runs through humility, asking forgiveness of those we've hurt, and genuine repentance — turning around and aligning our will with His.
Pastor Bill Bush · Aug 30, 2022
A genuine follower of Christ is called not merely to know about Jesus, but to pursue an ever-deepening, personal knowledge of Him — the kind the apostle Paul described as surpassing everything else in value. The primary means of that knowing is God's Word, which is alive, powerful, cutting, and exposing. Like a surgeon's scalpel, it gets to the heart of every problem, produces spiritual energy, and calls us to rest not in ceasing activity but in surrendering to God's will — so that His power can work through us and we can take the baton of faith and pass it on.
Pastor Bill Bush · Dec 19, 2021
Drawing from Romans 4 and the life of Abraham, Pastor Bill challenges the congregation to examine whether their faith is rooted in God Himself or merely in the outcomes they expect from Him. Using Abraham as the model, he argues that genuine, lasting faith trusts in who God is rather than what He delivers, anchors itself in God's Word rather than wishful thinking, looks beyond circumstances rather than getting stuck in them, and chooses worship over worry — producing a faith that does not waver even when life completely stops working.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jun 13, 2021
Drawing from 1 Peter 1:13–2:3, Pastor Bill Bush challenges believers to embrace being 'set apart' — the true meaning of holiness — rather than letting suffering, frustration, or worldly desire 'set them off' onto a path away from God. Because Jesus paid for our salvation with His own blood, we are called to respond not with force or self-preservation but with disciplined love for one another, guarded speech that flows from a pure heart, and a deep, daily craving for God's Word. This set-apart life is not earning God's favor but living out the calling we have already been given — and it is the only path to real, lasting hope.
Pastor Pat McCalla · Aug 24, 2020
Drawing from Jesus' wilderness temptation in Luke 4, this sermon argues that the Holy Spirit and the Bible are inseparable partners in the Christian life — each protecting, correcting, and directing the believer. Just as Jesus, full of the Spirit, defeated Satan three times by quoting Scripture, so followers of Jesus today experience God's power most fully when they combine the Spirit's leading with consistent, trusting engagement in God's Word. The sermon challenges listeners to stop taking the Bible for granted and to commit to daily reading for thirty days.