Coastal Sermons

Being a follower of Jesus means being a fisherman.  When we are "fishers of men", Jesus ministers through us to grow God's kingdom. 

Join us as missionary guest Wendi Rawls discusses our role as Christians to show others a God who is love and full of mercy and how He can restore and redeem. 

This week we conclude our series entitled “Life or Death” from Proverbs 18:21 focusing on the power of our words.  Today we will look at the heartache of gossiping and how to avoid it.

Join us as we discuss criticism.  In this series we are discussing how our words either bring life or bring death.  This week we take a deep dive into criticism and how we should lovingly use criticism to build each other up rather than harshly tearing each other down.

This week we begin a new series entitled, “Life or Death” from Proverbs 18:21 focusing on the power of our words.  Today we will look at the dangers of complaining and how to fix it.

This week, we wrap up our sermon series, "Well Done" from Matthew 25.  Today, we are looking into the concept of being a servant.  It is easy to have a selfish or short-sighted mindset about ourselves and the others around us.  To shift away from self and focus on others requires a deeper understanding of  God's expectations of us and then live in a way that honors Him by how we lov...

This week we continue our sermon series, “Well Done” from Matthew 25.  Today we are looking at what it means to be faithful to God and what the Bible means when it speaks of a slave and bondservant.

This week we continue our sermon series, “Well Done” from Matthew 25.  Today we are looking at what it means to be good enough and how our goodness or lack thereof impacts our standing with a Holy God and our chances for entrance into heaven.

This week’s sermon concludes our series on parenting entitled Surviving and Thriving .  Parents have an amazing responsibility and opportunity to bring up their children in the way God desires but the teens years can brings some great challenges.  This week's sermon focuses on four principles to help mature young people who will thrive in life and faith in Jesus.

This week begins a 2-week series on parenting entitled Surviving and Thriving. Parents have an amazing responsibility and opportunity to bring up their children in the way God desires. This week’s sermon focuses on some of the challenges of bringing up young children and gives encouragement for those endeavors. The advice is good for all of us but centers on helping families dedicate their childre...

What is your mission?  As a Christian today, we seem to have forgotten that we have a mission.  What does it mean to be the salt of the earth?  How are we to be the light?  We are being called to action, just as Jesus called his disciples to action at Caesarea Philippi.  Join us as we explore the context and history of these teachings of Jesus, and better understand your mission so you can better...

In the last part of our sermon series Deadly Deeds, we take a look at the sin of envy and how discontentment, comparing, and envy steals our joy and what to do to overcoming this destructive attitude.

When we look at greed it is all about building your treasure up for you.  It's about worrying about your needs before others.  Furthermore, it's about building your future.  It's a selfish mindset and it indicates that your master is not God.

In Part 5 of Deadly Deeds, we take a look at the sin of lust and how to overcoming these natural cravings that can become so destructive.

This week of the deadly deeds series, we address the sin of pride. We have a tendency to follow an ‘I felt moment’ and begin to shift our eyes on ourselves, instead of on God. When we lose our priority of God as first, it turns into pride way too often. We combat pride with humility, in particular, valuing others.

In Part 3 of Deadly Deeds, we take a look at the sin of laziness and why it has no place in the life of a Christian, and how we can overcome laziness in our faith.

Today in our series on The Seven Deadly sins, we try to understand why we become so angry and how God wants us to respond to these deep and sometimes uncontrollable feelings.

Sin takes a number of different forms but ultimately separates us from God. We try to replace going to God as our source of life with things that just can’t replace him. As we start a series on The Seven Deadly sins, we discuss the anatomy of sin so we can better understand it and God’s call for our response to it.

Often life’s situations leave us asking the common question - why?  And even though we find assurance that God is in control, we still long for deeper answers to life’S questions.  Although God doesn’t always give us the answers we desire, the Apostle Paul does give us some helps to get us through the dark times.

Often in our faith journey, we encounter detours.  These are the times in our lives when nothing seems to go as planned, or we think we've gotten off-track, or our "plan A" becomes "plan B." What we learn from the scriptures in the account of Exodus 13 is that often God detours our lives to build up our faith in Him.  In His faithfulness to us, he uses detours to prevent u...

What's the worst day of vacation?  We'd all agree it's the last one.  It's the day we have to get ready to go back to our regular lives, our routines, and our jobs.  But the beauty of our spiritual journey is that this trip is one-way.  Last week, we started the story with Lazarus' resurrection, and today we end it with Jesus'.  But there is a distinction.  Lazarus ha...

"Just as we make a decision to surrender money for a vacation, the discipleship journey starts with a decision… a surrender.  A decision to yield one's life to Christ.  Thomas, along with the other disciples, decides he's willing to go to Jerusalem with Jesus even if it means he will lose his life for it.  For many people, Christianity and faith are things they add to their life the...

"In our new mini series we focus on the role of worship and the word in the church service.  When it comes to the word, there's plenty of biblical evidence that suggests that God speaks through those he has called to the office of preacher and teacher.  The question for us is, do we come to church on Sunday expecting to hear the word of God?  What should our attitude be?  What should we...

"In our new mini series we focus on the role of worship and the word in the church service.  When it comes to worship, there's a story in Luke 7 where Jesus communicates that there is a spectrum of worshippers.  There are those who show Jesus respect, and there are those who respond to what Jesus has done in their lives.  The question for us is, "Which one are you?"

So… does prayer change things?  The answer is yes, it does… but only when we do it according to the guidance of the Scriptures.  Rather than praying to get what we want, we must pray that God's will be done and have faith in His plan.