Spiritual Warfare

Pastor Ron Merrell · May 12, 2025

In Matthew 6, Jesus gives His disciples not a formula to recite but a model that reveals the essential ingredients of prayer: remembering who God is as Father, aligning ourselves with His kingdom and will, bringing our needs before Him, seeking and extending forgiveness, and leaning on Him as our protection. Pastor Ron argues that this ongoing, conversational rhythm of prayer is one of the most powerful practices available to us — capable of pulling us back inside God's will, changing our hearts in the middle of ordinary frustrations, and opening our eyes to the people and purposes God has placed around us.

Pastor Rocky High · Apr 13, 2025

Pastor Rocky High closes Rock Point's series on the armor of God by focusing on the only offensive weapon Paul names: the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17). Drawing on textual criticism, fulfilled prophecy, and the nature of Scripture itself, he argues that the Bible is battle tested, offensive, defensive, and transformative — and that Christians who wield it faithfully will experience real victory against a very real spiritual enemy who wants to kill, steal, and destroy everything God has given them.

Pastor Bill Bush · Apr 6, 2025

Drawing from Ephesians 6:16-17, Pastor Bill challenges believers to stop being led by their emotions and instead act on their faith in Jesus (the shield) while guarding their minds with a salvation-rooted perspective (the helmet). Faith is not a feeling or an amount — it is an action taken in trust toward a Person. And that action is never meant to be taken alone; locking shields in community is how God's people advance together against the enemy's attacks of doubt, fear, and deception.

Pastor Hunter Jones · Mar 30, 2025

In Ephesians 6:13-15, Paul calls believers not to give up in the face of spiritual opposition but to actively put on the armor God provides. Pastor Hunter Jones walks through the first three pieces of that armor — the belt of truth, the body armor of righteousness, and the shoes of peace — arguing that each piece addresses a specific tactic of the enemy: deception, moral vulnerability, and fear of sharing the gospel. The call is not passive faith but deliberate, daily gearing up for the battle every Christian is already in.

Pastor Phil Whetstone · Mar 24, 2025

In Ephesians 6:18-20, Paul reveals that prayer is not merely a supplement to the armor of God but its foundational base layer — the Under Armour beneath everything else. To win the spiritual battle we face, we must learn to pray in step with the Holy Spirit, pray on all occasions, pray specifically and multi-dimensionally, persist without giving up, and intercede for boldness in ourselves and others. God's arm is never too short, and our prayers outlast even our own lives before His eternal throne.

Pastor Hunter Jones · Mar 17, 2025

In Ephesians 6:10-13, Paul closes his letter to the church at Ephesus with an urgent reminder that every follower of Jesus is engaged in a spiritual battle against a real enemy — not flesh and blood, but Satan and his forces. Pastor Hunter Jones argues that to take this battle seriously, believers must perceive the enemy's activity in their lives, plug into God's power as their only sufficient source of strength, put on God's armor in community with other believers, and proceed from the victory that Jesus already secured on the cross rather than striving for a victory that is already won.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Feb 26, 2024

Drawing from Numbers 11, Pastor Daniel Goulding shows that envy — fueled by comparison — is one of the enemy's most effective tools for robbing believers of the abundant life Jesus purchased for them. When the Israelites became fixated on what they lacked, they grew blind to God's miraculous daily provision, began to misremember their slavery as desirable, and ultimately rejected God as their provider. The same pattern threatens us today: envy blinds us to God's past goodness, His present provision, and His promises for our future, making contentment — learned through worship and trust in Christ — the essential antidote.

Pastor Bill Bush · May 29, 2023

Drawing on lessons from his father, a decorated combat veteran of three wars, the pastor challenges Christians to move beyond passive, benefit-seeking faith and engage as active soldiers in the spiritual battle God has called them to. Using five military principles — embracing difficulty, maintaining a combat rhythm, holding plans loosely, refusing to whine, and acting with courage despite fear — he argues that genuine discipleship means choosing hard things, centering plans on God's purpose, and stepping out in faith whenever the Lord's will gives the green light.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Mar 13, 2023

Using the story of Ehud — a left-handed, physically deformed Benjamite whom culture had written off — Pastor Daniel argues that the very weaknesses we are tempted to hide are precisely what God wants to leverage. Just as Ehud's left-handedness allowed him to conceal a weapon the guards never searched for, our failures, disabilities, and painful histories are not disqualifiers but divinely designed tools. When we stop feeding the cycles that oppress us, remember God's past faithfulness, and allow Him to wield our weakness, what the world sees as defeat becomes the kingdom's greatest weapon — just as the cross itself demonstrates.

Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 31, 2022

Drawing from Ezekiel 37's vision of the valley of dry bones and Paul's armor of God in Ephesians 6, this sermon argues that God specializes in bringing life out of hopeless, dead-end situations. However, experiencing that resurrection power requires three responses from us: listening to God's Word even when His instructions seem pointless, looking to God's power with patient faith rather than demanding our own timeline, and living through the Holy Spirit by surrendering to Him and putting on the full armor of God so we are prepared for the spiritual battle we so easily ignore.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jun 26, 2022

Drawing from Exodus 17, Pastor Daniel shows that the name Yahweh Nissi — 'God is our banner' — means God does not simply fight our battles for us while we stand passively on the sidelines. Through the story of Moses on the hill, Joshua in the field, and Aaron and Hur holding up weary arms, the sermon calls believers to become aware that a real spiritual battle is happening, to actively engage it through prayer and community, and to do so in the power of Christ, whose outstretched arms on the cross are the ultimate fulfillment of that banner.

Pastor Pat McCalla · Aug 15, 2021

Every person is engaged in a spiritual war against a powerful, real enemy — the devil — who was once a brilliant angel cast from heaven for pride, and who now hates humanity not because of who we are but because of whose we are: children of God. His battle plan is to steal, kill, and destroy through a three-step strategy of isolating, instigating, and annihilating. Yet because Jesus declared 'It is finished' on the cross, believers do not fight from a place of defeat but from a place of victory already secured.