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Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount
Eastgate Church Sermons
Weekly sermons from Gary Combs and the preaching team at Eastgate Church in Wilson & Rocky Mount, NC.
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Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Aug 16, 2026
The Receptive Kingdom
A parable is more than an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Jesus’ parables were simple stories drawn from everyday life that revealed the mysteries of the kingdom to receptive hearts. Parables don’t merely …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Aug 9, 2026
From Texting to Praying
We know how to communicate a prayer request. We can send a text, post it on social media, or add someone’s name to a prayer list. But communicating a burden is not the same …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Aug 2, 2026
From Screen to Table
Over the last 2 weeks we have discussed the first two devotions that foster real connection. They are a devotion to God’s Word and to Christian fellowship. Now we come to the third, which …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jul 26, 2026
From Followers to Family
Sociologists have a term for the way many of us live now: “networked individualism.” We have traded smaller, tightly connected communities for sprawling networks of online relationships. We may have hundreds of followers and …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jul 19, 2026
From the Feed to the Word
You can text a friend in seconds, video chat with family across the country, and scroll through hundreds of updates before breakfast. And yet so many of us feel isolated, distracted, and hungry for …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jul 12, 2026
A Discerning Life
We all face decisions that Scripture doesn't answer explicitly. Whom should I marry? Which job should I take? Speak up or stay quiet? Say yes to one good thing, knowing it means no to …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jul 5, 2026
A Transformed Life
Romans 12 tells us to "be transformed by the renewal of your mind." But that naturally raises a question: How? How does someone actually live a transformed life? Have you ever wondered why so …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jun 28, 2026
A Counter-Cultural Life
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to drift? No one accidentally becomes more like Jesus. We don't wake up one day more holy, more prayerful, more loving, or more obedient without intentional …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jun 21, 2026
A Worship-Filled Life
We talk about worship often in the church, but there is often confusion about what it actually means. Many of us reduce worship to singing. But singing is only one expression of something far …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jun 14, 2026
A Sacrificial Life
We have a perfect example of others-focused self-sacrificial love in the person of Jesus. If your instinct is to climb your way to fulfillment in life, then check this out. Jesus didn’t climb his …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jun 7, 2026
A Surrendered Life
There is a gap in every human heart between what we know is right and what we actually do. We make promises we don't keep. We set standards we don't meet. We know what …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · May 31, 2026
The God Who Turns our Sorrow into Joy
We are a forgetful people. We tend to remember our pain more readily than God’s faithfulness. We remember wounds, fears, disappointments, and losses, but quickly forget the ways God has sustained and delivered us. …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · May 24, 2026
The God Who Delivers From Death
In previous chapters, we saw that even when God is not mentioned, He is not missing. God positioned Esther as queen for a purpose she did not yet understand. We saw the crisis unfold …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · May 17, 2026
The God Who Turns the Tables
Have you ever watched someone do wrong and appear to get away with it? Have you ever wondered why the proud prosper, why dishonest people advance, why those who manipulate and wound others seem …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · May 10, 2026
The God Who is Already at Work
This week, as Esther approaches the king and Haman’s plot continues to unfold, something remarkable happens. There are no miracles, no visions, no dramatic interventions—just a series of ordinary events. A banquet. A delay. …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · May 3, 2026
The God Who Calls Us to Speak Up
There are moments in life when following God will cost us something. Moments when standing for what is right puts us at risk. Moments when silence feels safer than speaking, and compromise feels easier …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Apr 26, 2026
The God Who Works Behind the Scenes
Many of us struggle right here. We believe God is real—but when life feels chaotic, when circumstances don’t make sense, and when God seems silent, we start to wonder: Is He really at work …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Apr 19, 2026
The Consummation
We started with creation, where everything was good. Then came the fall, where sin broke everything. We saw the flood, the covenant, the exodus, the giving of the law, the founding of the Davidic …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Apr 12, 2026
The Church
Today we are going to join the disciples and other followers of Jesus in their moment of limbo. They were with Jesus for 3 years during his earthly ministry, they watched him crucified but …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Apr 5, 2026
The Cross (It’s Empty Now)
So far in The Story, we’ve traced it from creation and the garden, through the fall and the flood, to God’s covenant with Abraham; from the exodus and the law, to the conquest and …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Mar 29, 2026
The Christ
If God has come near… do we recognize Him? Because it’s possible to: know the story… but miss the Savior; to be religious… but not have a relationship with God. That was the tragedy …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Mar 22, 2026
The Captivity
Last week, we saw how God established the crown through David, promising an eternal King and kingdom, which pointed to it fulfillment in King Jesus. But today, in The Captivity, we’ll see a devastating …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Mar 15, 2026
The Crown
So far, we’ve seen God’s Rescue Plan in motion: from Creation’s beauty to the Catastrophe of sin; from the Covenant with Abraham to the Commandments at Sinai. Last week, we saw the Conquest of …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Mar 8, 2026
The Conquest
In today’s message entitled THE CONQUEST, we’ll be looking at the story of God’s people finally coming into possession of the Promised Land after 40 long years in the wilderness. We live in a …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Mar 1, 2026
The Commandments
Some of us view the Ten Commandments like a "ladder" that we have to climb to reach God. Yet as we labor to climb it, we either collapse in guilt or puff up in …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Feb 22, 2026
The Crossing (Exodus)
We all eventually find ourselves standing on the shore of our own 'Red Sea.’ We all know what it feels like to be trapped between a past that’s chasing us down and a future …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Feb 15, 2026
The Covenant
Because we live in a "contract world," we often treat God like a "contract God." We feel that if we have a bad week or a season of doubt, the deal is off. We …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Feb 8, 2026
The Catastrophe (Flood)
Have you ever looked at the world and wondered, “How bad does it have to get before God does something?” Violence, corruption, moral confusion… it can feel like evil is winning and God is …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Feb 1, 2026
The Creation (and the Fall)
If we don’t understand the beginning of the story, we will misunderstand everything that comes after it. We won’t understand: who we really are, why the world is so broken, or why Jesus had …
Eastgate Church Sermons - Rocky Mount · Jan 25, 2026
A Vision for the World
Today we’re talking about the HARVEST—how God wants us to have His vision for the world. And what is God’s vision for the world? Jesus tells us in Mark 16:15: "And he said to …
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