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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Apr 10, 2023
Easter exposes a fundamental misunderstanding many people have about God: that His love must be earned through performance, obedience, or moral striving. Through the story of Peter's denial and his seaside restoration by the risen Jesus, Pastor Bill shows that God's posture toward us has never been conditional. Jesus did not wait for Peter to prove himself — He prepared breakfast, asked three pointed questions, and re-commissioned him. The call is not to impress God but to receive and surrender to a love already demonstrated at the cross, trusting that love, not effort, is what transforms us from the inside out.
Pastor Scott Rodgers · Jul 28, 2019
Drawing from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18, Pastor Scott Rogers warns that spiritual growth can quietly drift into spiritual comparison — a subtle keeping of score that shifts our gaze from God's grace to our own performance. Using Paul's testimony in Galatians, Rogers argues that no amount of religious discipline earns standing before God; only grace does. The call is to pursue growth relentlessly while never graduating from grace, and to keep our eyes fixed on Christ and the cross rather than on how we measure up against one another.