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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Feb 17, 2025
Drawing from Acts 1:8 and Rock Point's own 23-year story, Pastor Bill argues that the indwelling Holy Spirit is never merely a personal gift — it is the propulsive power for outward mission. Just as the early church exploded from 120 people in Jerusalem to hundreds of thousands across the known world in 25 years, believers today are called to move out with the gospel in their own Jerusalem and to the ends of the earth. The partnership with Mission Essex in England illustrates what that looks like in practice: Spirit-filled people pouring their people and resources into places that desperately need the good news of Jesus.
Pastor Brent Hatchett · Jan 6, 2025
Ephesians 1 declares that before time began, God chose and adopted us into His family — not because of anything good in us, but because of His own goodness and grace. Being 'in Christ' means we have been made holy (set apart for God's specific person and purpose) and equipped with every spiritual blessing, including the Holy Spirit and an eternal inheritance. That identity demands a response: wholehearted, faithful obedience — giving Jesus total access to every area of life as we anticipate the day He returns to set all things right.
Pastor Daniel Goulding · Feb 20, 2023
Drawing from the story of Esau trading his birthright for a bowl of stew in Genesis 25, Pastor Daniel Goulding warns that every person carries God-given appetites — for success, respect, possessions, comfort, achievement — that sin has distorted. Left unchecked, these appetites exploit desperation, manufacture urgency, and blind us to the larger story God is writing through our lives. The sermon calls followers of Jesus to reframe their desires against the vision God has for them, rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, and refuse to trade an eternal destiny for momentary gratification.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 23, 2022
In Romans 7, Paul diagnoses the exhausting inner battle every believer faces: the old sinful nature and the new creation are at war, and no amount of willpower or self-reformation can resolve that conflict. The law reveals the problem but cannot fix it. The only way forward is recognizing that the old self is already dead — it is not who we truly are in Christ — and surrendering the fight to Jesus, whose Spirit provides the power to live the life God calls us to. That fuller answer waits in Romans 8, but the honest reckoning of Romans 7 is essential preparation.