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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Daniel Goulding · May 13, 2024
In Matthew 5 and Luke 10, Jesus exposes humanity's tendency to find loopholes in God's commands — loving only those who look, vote, and believe like us — and raises the bar to an impossible standard: love your enemies, be perfect as your Father is perfect. This impossibility is the point. Jesus, the true Good Samaritan, has already paid the ultimate price for broken humanity. Our call is not to be the hero, but to receive what He has given us and steward it faithfully as innkeepers — leveraging our time, treasure, and testimony to care for the people He brings into our lives.
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 20, 2022
Romans 12:9-21 is not a checklist of rules to perform but a portrait of the love Christians are empowered to live out as a direct overflow of receiving God's agape love. Pastor Daniel Goulding argues that genuine, non-hypocritical love — expressed at work, in generosity, toward enemies, and in community — is only possible when it flows from a transformed heart surrendered to God. Because God has already secured the outcome, believers are freed from vengeance and self-protection and can simply love people well, trusting the Holy Spirit to do the changing.