Coast Bible Church

How do you view money? Pastor Neil speaks on how believers are stewards of what God has given us. And guess what, everything we have comes from God. So what kind of stewards are we and what does Scripture teach us about this?

In lieu of our regular worship service, members of our congregation prayed for a number of prayer requests. Afterward, Pastor Neil spoke briefly on earthly suffering, the purpose of it in a believer's life and how, as believers, we are to live when we go through suffering.

Drawing from Scripture, Pastor Neil teaches on money and the effects it can have on our walk with the Lord. He cautions that an emotional view of money will consume us, and encourages us to pursue a resurrected view of money, considering that "we will be rich when what we have is enough."

In this message, Pastor Tom offers a positive view of the consequences of Adam & Eve's disobedience in the Garden of Eden: it effectively reversed their ability to be "gods." Through their fall, they were reminded, as are we, of our "creatureliness", our absolute dependence on God. In an age of advanced technology, in which science has dramatically altered many of the effects of the curse, Pastor...

What are the pitfalls of electronic communication and what can we do about it? We need to craft our online presence so that we disappear and the Lord Jesus Christ is glorified.

Pastor Tom draws on the story of Hannah's dedication of her son Samuel in the Old Testament to

In the second message of his series, Pastor Neil discusses resurrecting our lives with a view to our work. He reminds us that God Himself works, that He has designed us to work, and that He has given us instruction about our attitude toward work.

In this message, Pastor Neil discusses a life centered on Jesus Christ. He asks us to look at our lives with a view to "resurrecting" them: taking each element of day-to-day life (family, work, leisure, money, etc.) and bringing into it the power of the resurrection, maintaining a spirit of service, and giving each moment to the Lord as an offering.

In his Easter message, Pastor Neil discusses risk, especially the many risks that the Lord took in His great love for us. God is able to use the results of His risks on our behalf for blessing and His good purposes.

Pastor Tom teaches on the concept of "painful grace", a revelatory kind of grace that reveals us to ourselves, and, in turn, can help us to love without judgment.

Pastor Neil teaches on leadership and what Jesus taught it should be. He taught on the religious leaders of that day, the scribes and Pharisees, and used them as examples of what leadership should not be. To lead well is to humble ourselves in humility and serve others; to get on their level. Jesus' example was to wash the disciples feet, a menial job of a servant. A better leader & teacher is one...

Guest missionary, Dave Byers, with Greater Europe Missions (GEM) spoke on Gideon and how he saw himself versus the way God saw him. We, as believers, also need to see ourselves as God sees us; to understand who we really are in Christ. Gideon got a glimpse of who God says he is and it changed everything. He went from a wimp to a warrior. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exce...

Pastor Neil speaks on what Jesus meant when He said to "turn the other cheek". How does that apply today and how do we live that out practically in our lives.

The master (the LORD) is not pleased and will not praise His servants (God's people) for merely doing the basics, so says Jesus in Luke 17:7-10. Yet how many Christians are not even doing the bare minimum of what God asks His people to do - things like faithfully attend church and participate in ministry? Christians are buying into the lies of the world. We are substituting our devotion to Christ...

Pastor Neil answers some common questions about the nature of our enemies, how Jesus's teaching in Matthew 18:15 and Mark 11:25 on forgiveness and resolving conflict relate to His words in Luke 6, and whether a policy of avoiding or ignoring our enemies comports with Luke 6. But this sermon is cut short to address another pertinent matter to the people of Coast Bible Church, in which Pastor Neil a...

When we have enemies Jesus would have us love them. How should we show them love? Jesus explains how with teachings that are radically different from what the world thinks.

Pastor Tom preaches on the "Sermon on the Plain" describing how Jesus read from the book of Isaiah and offers the Kingdom of God to His disciples, explaining how it was to be.

Jesus shows us how focusing on the letter of the Law causes us to miss the opportunity to show grace in the inevitable interruptions of our lives. God would rather have us acknowledge and act in the spirit of the Law than merely obey the technicalities of the Law. How we respond to God's interruptions is perhaps one of the highest indicators of the maturity of our Christian faith.

Jesus ministry was not what anyone in Israel was expecting. They wanted Him to be their king on earth right then, saving them from the oppressive rule of the Roman government. But He came as Messiah, God's Son, the Savior. So, much of Israel missed God's blessing of the Savior He sent and the gospel would go to the Gentiles.

In this message, Pastor Tom contrasts boundaries set by the Pharisees with boundaries established by Jesus. He reminds us to be the kind of people Jesus is looking for: generous Kingdom people.

The apostle Peter obeyed the Lord and cast his net into the sea. Pastor Tom relates that act to the story of Peter's life, and ours, as we have been "caught" in the net of the Kingdom and have now become "fishers of men".

Pastor Neil teaches that the people with whom Jesus aligns Himself are those who, like John the Baptist, are strong in speaking out against sin, yet look to God for their power, giving Him all the glory.

Pastor Tom expounds on Jesus' temptation in the wilderness, illustrating how He models for us that victory in our missions must come from God--on His terms, in His timing.

Using John the Baptist as an example, Pastor Neil illustrates what a charismatic, truly influental person looks like. John may have spoken harshly--even critically--but because his words were Spirit filled, and he behaved unselfishly with godly intentions, people followed him.

In his message, Pastor Tom reminds us that what may seem like ordinary - even difficult - circumstances in our lives are really events through which God is working out His extraordinary plan.