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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Oct 2, 2023
Every person carries a mental image of God shaped by upbringing, culture, feelings, and hearsay — and those images are often wrong. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas encounter people who filter a genuine miracle through their preconceived gods rather than receiving the truth. Pastor Daniel argues that this is not a problem unique to the ancient world: we do the same thing today. The only reliable corrective is to let Scripture — not culture, not celebrity pastors, not our emotions — reveal Jesus as the exact image of the invisible God, because how we define God will ultimately define how we live.
Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 25, 2019
In John 10, Jesus declares Himself the good shepherd — not merely a moral guide but the genuine, preeminent, only true shepherd — who freely and voluntarily sacrificed His very soul (psuche) to give us real life (zoe). Because His love and sacrifice flow entirely from His own character and not from anything we earn, the deepest barrier to trusting what Jesus can do in our lives is a wrong or incomplete understanding of who He truly is. When we grasp the depth of His sacrifice and His personal knowledge of each of us, our doubts about following Him begin to dissolve.