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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 10, 2025
Drawing from 1 Corinthians 12, Pastor Bill argues that every Christian has been supernaturally gifted by the Holy Spirit — not for personal benefit, but for the good of the whole body. Just as a human body cannot function with missing or idle parts, a church cannot be healthy when its members sit and soak without using their gifts. When believers understand they are built to belong, built to need one another, and built to give themselves away in agape love, they step into the full, intentional life Jesus died to give them.
Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 3, 2025
In Ephesians 4, Pastor Bill Bush argues that the Christian life is not a solo journey but a united calling lived out through the body of Christ. God has uniquely gifted every believer for service, and those gifts only reach their full purpose when surrendered to the shared mission of the church. Maturity, identity, and the supernatural work of God all flow from choosing unity over uniformity and service over self — because Jesus has already loved us, redeemed us, and called us to point others to Him.
· Sep 12, 2022
Using the Great Commission as his anchor, the pastor challenges believers to move beyond passive church attendance into deliberate, whole-life discipleship. True faith in Jesus is expressed through four areas of intentionality — testimony, time, talent, and treasure — and the refusal to engage in any of them reveals either misplaced doubt or misplaced trust. Money, in particular, is not merely a fundraising issue but a faith-forming one: where we invest our treasure, Jesus says, our hearts will follow. The church exists to go to 'them' so that 'them' can become 'we,' and every believer is called to be personally invested in that mission.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jul 25, 2021
Drawing from 1 Peter 4:1–19, Pastor Bill Bush argues that following Christ in a suffering world requires two deeply counterintuitive responses: living by faith rather than feelings, and being an active, serving member of the church community rather than a passive consumer. Just as turning into a skid is the only way to regain traction on an icy road, adopting Christ's attitude — choosing God's will over personal comfort, loving the church community deeply, and deploying your spiritual gifts in service — is the only way to gain real spiritual traction and experience the life God designed for you.
Pastor Pat McCalla · Aug 10, 2020
Jesus' declaration in Matthew 16:18 that He would build His 'ecclesia' — a gathering of called-out people — frames everything Paul teaches about spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12. Because the Holy Spirit indwells every believer, He also equips each one with a specific, divinely chosen gift. Those gifts are not personal possessions to be hoarded or ranked; they are given to the gathered body so that every part functions together, interdependent like a human body, advancing a movement that not even the gates of hell can stop.