GraceLife Sarasota

Do you ever look around at other Christians and assume most everybody else is doing better spiritually than you? Like somehow, they’re winning battles you keep struggling with. Their faith seems stronger. Their life seems cleaner. Their prayers seem more confident. Meanwhile, you’re exhausted just trying to hold yourself together. Or maybe you’re on the other side of that. Maybe life is stable rig...

Have you ever had a moment where life changed so fast it felt like the ground disappeared underneath you? Where suddenly the life you were building, the future you imagined, the things that made you feel stable and secure all started collapsing at once? For a child of God, those moments are deeply spiritual. We start asking questions we usually neglect when life is comfortable. What’s God doing? W...

Have you ever had a moment where life changed so fast it felt like the ground disappeared underneath you? Where suddenly the life you were building, the future you imagined, the things that made you feel stable and secure all started collapsing at once? For a child of God, those moments are deeply spiritual. We start asking questions we usually neglect when life is comfortable. What’s God doing? W...

Fred Packwood interviews the founder and executive director of Urban Youth Justice, Pedro Rodriguez

Have you ever found yourself somewhere you never thought you’d be, asking yourself, “How did I get here?” You didn’t just wake up one morning wanting to rebel against God. Instead, a series of small, seemingly reasonable decisions slowly took you there. Not because you stopped loving Jesus or stopped believing the Bible, but because fear, exhaustion, disappointment, or simply the pressure of real...

Have you ever found yourself somewhere you never thought you’d be, asking yourself, “How did I get here?” You didn’t just wake up one morning wanting to rebel against God. Instead, a series of small, seemingly reasonable decisions slowly took you there. Not because you stopped loving Jesus or stopped believing the Bible, but because fear, exhaustion, disappointment, or simply the pressure of real...

a podcast reviewing chapter one of Dr Joe Davis's latest book "Power For Ordinary People, The Story Of Ruth

As a Christian you’ve had moments where you knew exactly what God wanted from you, but if you’re honest, you didn’t really want to hear it. Maybe it was forgiving someone. Maybe it was telling the truth when lying would have been easier. Maybe it was ending a relationship, confessing a sin, having a hard conversation, or walking away from something you knew was pulling your heart away from God. If...

As a Christian you’ve had moments where you knew exactly what God wanted from you, but if you’re honest, you didn’t really want to hear it. Maybe it was forgiving someone. Maybe it was telling the truth when lying would have been easier. Maybe it was ending a relationship, confessing a sin, having a hard conversation, or walking away from something you knew was pulling your heart away from God. If...

This episode is an introduction to Pastor Joe Davis' new book "Power For Ordinary People, The Story Of Ruth"

If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’ve had those moments when you desperately wanted God to speak, but what came back felt like deafening silence. Those moments can make it feel like life, and even your faith, is starting to unravel. It can be a diagnosis, betrayal, a child making destructive choices, and you feel powerless to stop them. It can be a marriage hanging by a thread, a financial situati...

If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’ve had those moments when you desperately wanted God to speak, but what came back felt like deafening silence. Those moments can make it feel like life, and even your faith, is starting to unravel. It can be a diagnosis, betrayal, a child making destructive choices, and you feel powerless to stop them. It can be a marriage hanging by a thread, a financial situati...

Couldn't join us for worship this week? Life happens! Luckily you can catch the latest sermon or go back and check out any of our past sermons on our weekly GraceLife Sarasota podcast.

Couldn't join us for worship this week? Life happens! Luckily you can catch the latest sermon or go back and check out any of our past sermons on our weekly GraceLife Sarasota podcast.

Couldn't join us for worship this week? Life happens! Luckily you can catch the latest sermon or go back and check out any of our past sermons on our weekly GraceLife Sarasota podcast.

We’ve all had moments where we knew what God said, even believed it, but somehow, it just didn’t feel like enough. Not enough to fully trust what He’s promised. Not enough to build your decision on or hold you up in real life. So, you didn’t walk away from God, I mean that would be silly. But you did start looking for “other options”. Perhaps something a little more practical, a little more immedi...

We’ve all had moments where we knew what God said, even believed it, but somehow, it just didn’t feel like enough. Not enough to fully trust what He’s promised. Not enough to build your decision on or hold you up in real life. So, you didn’t walk away from God, I mean that would be silly. But you did start looking for “other options”. Perhaps something a little more practical, a little more immedi...

We’ve all had certain moments that seem powerful & spiritual. You hear truth, and you feel it. It lands on you, maybe even hits you hard. You agree with it, you know it’s right, and for a moment, it feels like something is going to change… but then life keeps moving, and somehow, nothing does change. If we’re honest, most of us have a growing collection of moments like that, powerful moments that...

We’ve all had certain moments that seem powerful & spiritual. You hear truth, and you feel it. It lands on you, maybe even hits you hard. You agree with it, you know it’s right, and for a moment, it feels like something is going to change… but then life keeps moving, and somehow, nothing does change. If we’re honest, most of us have a growing collection of moments like that, powerful moments that...

Couldn't join us for worship this week? Life happens! Luckily you can catch the latest sermon or go back and check out any of our past sermons on our weekly GraceLife Sarasota podcast.

We learned recently in this series how as Christians, we must be willing have hard, loving conversations with each other. But we often face another kind of moment that will require wisdom and courage… when we are confronted by evil. Have you ever personally been confronted by evil & walked away thinking, “Man, I should’ve taken a stand”? Or maybe you walked away thinking, “I shouldn’t have said th...

We learned recently in this series how as Christians, we must be willing have hard, loving conversations with each other. But we often face another kind of moment that will require wisdom and courage… when we are confronted by evil. Have you ever personally been confronted by evil & walked away thinking, “Man, I should’ve taken a stand”? Or maybe you walked away thinking, “I shouldn’t have said th...

An interview with Toni Lemieux, Program Director of Grace Recovery, Inc. in Sarasota, FL, and member of GraceLife Sarasota.

It’s easy to recognize grace when it shows up as mercy, forgiveness, or as escaping consequences we deserve. We like it when God’s grace sounds like “yes.” YES, to mercy. YES, to blessing. YES, to provision. That’s the kind of grace we like to hear about in sermons, and sing about in worship. But sometimes God’s grace is harder to recognize. Because sometimes, grace sounds like “no.” And those “no...

It’s easy to recognize grace when it shows up as mercy, forgiveness, or as escaping consequences we deserve. We like it when God’s grace sounds like “yes.” YES, to mercy. YES, to blessing. YES, to provision. That’s the kind of grace we like to hear about in sermons, and sing about in worship. But sometimes God’s grace is harder to recognize. Because sometimes, grace sounds like “no.” And those “no...