A Gift To Be Shared
Grace Central Coast
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:
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A Life-Changing Gift
Grace Central Coast
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:
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A Surprising Gift
Grace Central Coast
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
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A Promised Gift
Grace Central Coast
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:
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We Are God's Temple!
Grace Central Coast
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 Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1
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Humbling Reminders About the Church and Its Leaders
Grace Central Coast
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
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Developmentally Arrested
Grace Central Coast
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:
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Nothing but Jesus Christ and Him Crucified
Grace Central Coast
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:
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God's Pleasure in Saving Through the Preaching of the Cross
Grace Central Coast
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: 🔊 Listen on Spotify:
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The Word of the Cross
Grace Central Coast
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: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xYvYtojVuUzWxtXpP1sPt?si=e8a42c2a539847ab
info_outlineJesus 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
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