Grace Central Coast

The first Sunday of the new year here at Grace Central Coast, we call Covenant Renewal Sunday.  It's a Sunday where we take time to renew our covenant commitment to the Lord and our covenant commitment to one another.  This year, our challenge comes from 1 Samuel 7.   📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 7:1-10 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

We are living in a world that has been radically and profoundly changed by the Gift of Jesus, but most of us don't know it! As we conclude our INDESCRIBABLE series, we consider how Jesus is a world-changing gift. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 13:31-35 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org

Have you ever noticed how every character in the Christmas story shares the Gift of Jesus with someone? It's reminder to us that the Good News of Jesus is a gift to be shared. So let's think together about why we don't share the gift of Jesus and explore how we can. 📖SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 2:8-18 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

Have you opened a gift only to discover it contained lots of other gifts? That's Jesus! And one more reason why Paul calls him God's INDESCRIBABLE gift. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians 4:3-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

One of the reasons Jesus is God's INDESCRIBABLE gift is because Jesus is the most surprising gift in all history. No one saw God's Savior coming the way he did. But our familiarity with the Christmas story means we often miss it's surprises. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 1:26-35, 2:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

Christmas is not a random event on a timeline. It is the epicenter of all human longing, seeking, and meaning! The interwoven tapestry of all scripture, history, and spirituality have all promised the coming of our King. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 45:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

How do you see the local church? How does God see the local church? How we see the local church is vitally important, because our view of the church will determine our commitment to the church and to one another. Paul continues his fight to unite God's people in the local by teaching us who we are and all that is ours in Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 📝 Download the Message N...

As we continue our MESSY CHURCH study of First Corinthians, we come to a bunch of helpful and humbling reminders for a church family and for church leaders as Paul continues to dismantle the factions and unite the church around the Gospel. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 3:4-15 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

God's design and desire for his people is spiritual growth and maturity. We learn here that the Corinthian Christians aren't growing up. They are still spiritual babies. This is true for some of us, too. Paul here reminds us that God has given us all we need to grow as he challenges us to GROW UP!  📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast...

Paul reminds the Corinthians, and us, to forsake worldly wisdom and rest our faith solely on the power of the good news of Jesus Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 1:26 – 2:5 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org  

God uses a "foolish" and "weak" message, means and people to save perishing people. Why? We explore that question as we continue our "Messy Church" series in First Corinthians. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org 🔊 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show

In the first four chapters of First Corinthians, Paul calls the divided church of Corinth to a renewed unity around the Gospel. In 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 he tells us WHY the Gospel is a all supreme and all sufficient basis for the unity of God's people. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 🔊 Listen on Spotify: http...

Paul loves the Messy Church at Corinth because God loves the Messy Church at Corinth. It's because Paul loves the church that he won't leave them in their mess, but leads them forward to become all that God has declared them to be. And it doesn't take him long to jump write into one of the core issues plaguing the church. The church is divided. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 📝 Downlo...

We close out our BY FAITH vision series with Paul's extraordinary prayer for the church in Ephesians 3:14-21 and here we discover we can live by bold risk-taking faith for God! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Ephesians 3:14-21  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 

Hebrews 11 tells the stories of everyday people whom God called to live by faith. He invited them to believe, act, and watch him move. We can take great encouragement today from their faith as God invites us to do the same. SCRIPTURE READING: Hebrews 11:1-16 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

The Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25 is both surprising and challenging as we kick off our 2025 Vision Series titled "By Faith."  SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 25:14-30 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

🎥 🍿 We close out our Reel Grace series this summer with a look at the Gospel shadows in the 2024 indie action, comedy, Thelma.  📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Leviticus 19:32, Job 12:12, Proverbs 16:31, Proverbs 20:29, Proverbs 23:22, 1 Timothy 5:1-4, and Isaiah 46:3-4 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

When asked about the most important issues of the day, Jesus reframes the conversation to be about the most important issue of all: the state of our souls. With great love and patience, Jesus urges us to repent while we still can. SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 13:1-9 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

Jesus calls someone a fool, and it's not because of anything they did... In doing so, Jesus teaches us that every aspect of our life can be given to the glory of God. SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 12:13-21 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

In this parable Jesus calls out the religious leaders for abandoning God, resulting in His bold claim to be the cornerstone. This was not received well then, how will you receive it? SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 20:1-19 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

In perhaps Jesus' most famous parable, he lays down a radical call to show mercy to those in need. It's a story loved by almost everyone, but lived out by very few. Today we explore what it looks like to answer this call through the power Jesus provides. SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 10:25–37 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

🎥 🍿 We jump back into our 2025 Reel Grace summer series to explore the Gospel Shadows in the 2024 courtroom drama, Juror #2. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 98 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus

In one of Jesus' most famous parables we see a comparison between a religious leader and one of the most hated sinners of his day. By comparing their prayers Jesus shows us what it really looks like to find forgiveness and be accepted by God. SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 18: 9-14 📝 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org

Jesus' parable of the wedding banquet shows us that the Kingdom of Heaven is an invitation to a feast we could never earn, but are freely invited to because of His love. The question is, will we reject it, fake it, or truly accept it and come dressed in the righteousness Christ has provided? SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 22: 1-14 Download the Message Notes: gracecentralcoast.org