Rockpointe Community Church Randy Tomko

The context in which two or three are gathered is to judge a situation, a distressing circumstance of sin. The promise is that the LORD will be there to help sort it out, to provide discernment and wisdom. Conflict within the church is inevitable. It is, after all, made up of people in all their […]

What does this passage really mean for us? Is it about living our “best life now” or something else? Something more lasting, more eternally meaningful… And really, at the end of the day, in which way do we approach God? Are we focused on what He can do for us, or what we can do […]

We can take a passage like Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”, and throw it around to celebrate a sports victory, career success, or promote another life milestone. But that’s not what it’s really about. This was Paul speaking from prison saying, essentially, that whether I’m down or up, […]

As followers of Christ, somehow even the brokenness and damage of our circumstances gets woven together into a beautiful tapestry that only God can conceive. He uses *everything* in the weaving, even the threads that to us seemed wasted or ugly beyond redemption. That weaving takes time, decades, a lifetime…even if we can’t see it […]

The Scripture tells us that there’s literally nothing new under the sun. Governments rise and fall, societies experience chaos, trends sweep in and out the door just as fast. There have been times in history when spiritual revival has emerged out of the most tense and fraught periods. Could we be poised for that right […]

This scripture, more than any other, is too often misused to claim that Jesus taught not to judge at all. Ever. But nothing could be further from the truth! What Jesus actually teaches is that we should not judge hypocritically. Instead, we should address the sin in our own lives, and then bring loving correction […]