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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Aug 2, 2023
James challenges every believer to move beyond cultural Christianity and ask honestly whether their faith is genuine. Drawing on James 2, Pastor Daniel argues that while salvation is a gift received by faith alone, authentic faith will always produce visible change — good works, transformed priorities, and a life that reflects Jesus. A faith that claims to trust God for eternity but refuses to let Him into everyday decisions is the kind of dead, useless faith James warns about. The call is not to earn God's favor, but to 'get in the wheelbarrow' — to go all in with the One who has already proven His love.
Pastor Bill Bush · May 30, 2021
True trust is both a noun and a verb: a bold confidence that expresses itself in action. Pastor Bill traces this idea through Psalm 119 and the friendship of David and Jonathan, showing that God is the only perfectly trustworthy One because His Word and His ways are one. By anchoring our deepest relationships in a shared trust of God — and by understanding that broken trust requires sacrifice, boundaries, consistency, and faith to rebuild — we can become the kind of people whose ways genuinely match our words, just as Jesus, the Word made flesh, perfectly modeled for us.
Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 25, 2020
Drawing from Galatians 1, Pastor Bill argues that the true gospel is entirely grace to us and glory to God — not a system of ritual performance that earns divine reward. The Judaizers twisted this gospel in Paul's day, and subtle versions of the same twist still trap people today, leaving them either stuck in guilt when they fail or stuck up in pride when they succeed. Embracing the true gospel — that God loves us because of who He is, not what we do — is not merely the entry point to faith but the ongoing foundation for every relationship and every aspect of life in the kingdom.
Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 11, 2017
Drawing from James 1:19–27, the sermon argues that genuine Christian maturity is not about accumulating biblical information but about transformation through obedience. James calls believers to receive God's Word with humility, reflect on it as a mirror that reveals the inner life, and respond by actually doing what it says. The danger facing the church — especially in Western, suburban culture — is auditing the faith: showing up for the lecture without ever engaging, serving, giving, or loving in ways that cost something. True blessing, James insists, is reserved for those who look carefully into God's perfect law and act on it.