Rock Point

There is something in all of us that yearns for something bigger than ourselves, yet we live in a culture that questions if God exists or not. Some people have grown up in a Church or family that says don’t question God, and the problem with that is it often leads to weak faith. In this week’s message, we look at the reality that we all need meaning and purpose in life. Meaning is incredibly important and we want to compare what those who don’t believe God exists say about meaning, what Christianity teaches about meaning, and how each theory works in our everyday lives.

There is something in all of us that yearns for something bigger than ourselves. In this series, we will ask important questions essential to life and faith. In this week’s message, we begin the conversation by asking: Can we reasonably believe that God exists? In other words in a world where we can’t see God can we believe He is there?

There is something in all of us that wants to become better versions of ourselves. We want healthy relationships, help growing in our faith, understanding ourselves, and navigating life. In this week’s message, we look at the life of David, a man after God’s own heart, and yet his heart deceived him and led him down the wrong road. In the story, we are invited to look at our own hearts and see why having the right people around us is so important.

There seems to be a natural pull in local churches to start out fighting for the purity of the mission and the purpose of the Church, to be all about God and people. Oftentimes the mission is polluted when the Church begins to focus on success and security over what Jesus has called them to. In this week’s message, we look at how Jesus focused more on the heart of individuals over growing crowds, and how His example helps clarify what we should be fighting for, making disciples.

When religious and non-religious people focus on politics, law, and the justice system, they are often blinded to the complexity of it all. People often feel that politics, religion, and the law of the land can solve the things of the heart. In this message, we look at how Jesus navigated His day's political, religious, and legal realities, and how following Him can help us navigate them in our day.

Looking around culture it seems that we are all drawn to a good before and after story. We can see stories like this in less than an hour on our favorite home renovation series. We love shows like this because it highlights the mess a house was in and the amazing transformation after the project is complete. In this week’s message, we look at a “before and after” story found in scripture, how it invites us to look for the “before and after” in our own story, and how we can share the hope of Jesus with those around us.

The hope of restoration breathes hope into every broken story we face. There is hope beyond this broken world and beyond our broken stories. We see this hope in a God who doesn’t walk away from our mess, instead, He draws near to our brokenness. In this week’s message we look at the idea that if the hope of restoration breathes hope into every broken story we face, we must address the reality that we still have to face the mess and the broken stories yet to come.

Sharing our stories with others is so impactful. Something about our stories, even in the broken pieces, helps us empathize with one another. Our stories help us find meaning in our lives and the things we walk through. In this week’s message, we discover that God never walks away from the broken parts of our story and He invites us into the hope of restoration.

Whenever Jesus talked about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. Jesus described God as a good, kind, just, and gracious King that invites us to enter into the joy of His Kingdom, both now in our lives, and ultimately one day when we die. In this week’s message, we discover the joy we find living in His Kingdom.

Whenever Jesus spoke about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. He knew that deep down we are all looking for someone or something to fulfill us, something that gives us value, so He called it a Kingdom and invited us to find our value in Him. In this week’s message, we discover that God answers this question that we all seem to ask: Is there something worth leveraging your life for - something or someone that will always want you? Is there something that outweighs the cost, the dedication, and the sacrifice it takes to obtain it?

Whenever Jesus spoke about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. In this week’s message we look at an important reality for individuals, the church, and those that struggle with Christianity. Jesus speaks about a dynamic in us that wants to build our own Kingdom and the reality that sometimes we use Jesus as a tool to build our kingdom instead of surrendering to the life found in His.

Whenever Jesus talked about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. In this series, we’ve been looking at what it means to live in His Kingdom here on earth, while we look forward to the hope of His Kingdom in Heaven. In this week’s message, we look at what it looks like to navigate the brokenness of this world and ask the question: If God is good, why doesn’t he remove the evil in our world?

Whenever Jesus spoke about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. In last week’s message, we looked at a story Jesus told that described the message of the Kingdom like a seed that has life in it. In this week’s message, we continue looking at the story of the seed and ask this important question: If the message of the kingdom has the power to change my life, then why am I not changing?

Whenever Jesus spoke about Christianity, He called it a Kingdom. Looking at Christianity through the lens of a Kingdom allows us to see Jesus as a gracious, kind, self-sacrificing King who invites us into the life and hope that is found in His Kingdom. In this week’s message, we look at something Jesus says that speaks to those who believe in Him, and those who struggle to believe if His Kingdom is real.

Whenever Jesus spoke about what Christianity looks like and what living out faith and the invitation to grace, He called it a Kingdom. Jesus calling it a Kingdom provides an easy question to ask every time we bump into a version of Christianity that feels nothing like Jesus: Whose kingdom is this? We can even ask ourselves is this my kingdom or God’s Kingdom? In this week’s message, we look at the culture of God’s Kingdom and how it can positively impact anyone who comes in contact with it.

Whenever Jesus seemed to talk about what Christianity looked like He called it a Kingdom. Jesus taught that life, hope, meaning, purpose, joy, and peace can be found in His Kingdom. In this week’s message we ask the question: If Jesus called it a Kingdom, how do we enter it? We discover that Jesus answers this question clearly in a few different ways, and when put together we see how we can experience the life, hope, and peace that comes from living in His Kingdom.

Our understanding of God is so important because so often without realizing it our view of God can be flawed based on our upbringing, culture, or church experiences. The God Jesus knows is a God that is good, trustworthy, generous, and unconditionally loving. In this series, we will be asking important questions people tend to ask whether they’ve put their faith in Jesus, or just wondering what Christianity is all about. The questions we are asking are: If I’ve discovered the God Jesus knows and I’ve placed my faith in Him, now what? How does faith impact my life? Or what does it mean to be a Christian and is it more than just being forgiven and going to heaven one day?