Grace Central Coast

Grace Central Coast is a Gospel-centered, multi-campus church doing all we can to help people find and follow Jesus. Thanks for listening. We'd love to hear how God's Word and the Gospel have encouraged your heart. Let us know at info@gracecentralcoast.org.

Does It Build Up? 05/10/2026

Does It Build Up? As we make countless decisions around how to spend our time, talents, money and our lives, we most often ask "Is it legal? Does God allow it?" 1 Corinthians 10 teaches that's the wrong question and points us to an altogether different question to ask as we make these decisions. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:14-30 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/41219830

Take Heed, Lest You Fall 05/03/2026

Take Heed, Lest You Fall Paul's warning to the Corinthian church serves as a warning for us to remember the past failures of God's people in order that we guard our own lives and flee from idolatry and stay faithful to Christ. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:1-14 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/41082235

Run to Win 04/26/2026

Run to Win Paul uses sports analogies to continue his encouragement to the church of Corinth to be Gospel focused. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/41007220

Giving Up to Win 04/19/2026

Giving Up to Win How does the Apostle Paul choose to exercise his Christian freedom? By giving up his rights to win as many to Christ as possible. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40915705

Trading Worldly Rights for Spiritual Rewards 04/12/2026

Trading Worldly Rights for Spiritual Rewards Why does Paul refuse payment for his church ministry? Should all pastors do the same? Paul teaches us that while we are afforded many rights, we are called to use (or forfeit) everything and anything for the sake of the gospel. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:1-18 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40804450

By a Man Has Come the Resurrection of the Dead 04/05/2026

By a Man Has Come the Resurrection of the Dead The world looks one way from ground level. But it looks very different when we get up above it. In 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, the Apostle Paul takes us higher and invites us to see the earth-shaking, life-changing, future-shaping impact of Jesus' resurrection. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 15:17-28 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40727100

Love Builds Up 03/29/2026

Love Builds Up Just like some of the Christians in Corinth, we are those who fight for our personal rights and freedoms. Paul here in 1 Corinthians 8 teaches that for those who love God, Gospel love trumps and must shape the exercise of our rights freedoms. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40646430

Concerning Divorce and Remarriage 03/22/2026

Concerning Divorce and Remarriage Like the Corinthians, we are a MESSY CHURCH filled with messy people who are living messy lives. We, like them, need clear Biblical instruction on the messy issues around marriage and divorce. 1 Corinthians 7 provides a guide! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, 39-40 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40561485

Value of the Lost 03/15/2026

Value of the Lost In Luke 15, Jesus tells stories to teach hard-hearted religious people how much God values lost people. Jesus’ teaching here challenges each of us to ask, “How much do I value the lost?” 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 15:1-3 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40484310

The Opportunity of Singleness 03/08/2026

The Opportunity of Singleness Why does Paul celebrate singleness? Why does he call it a gift when many see it as a curse? Paul elevates the singles in the church by pulling back our focus to see that devotion to God matters more than any relationship status. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40344770

God's Good Gift of Marriage 03/01/2026

God's Good Gift of Marriage After warning about the dangers of sexual immorality in chapter 6, Paul now highlights several principles for marriage in the first part of chapter 7. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:1-10 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40257425

Living and Loving in the Mess 02/22/2026

Living and Loving in the Mess Today, we step back from the tough details of 1 Corinthians 5 & 6 to provide some pastoral reflections, clarification, encouragement, and application from these chapters for our church family living and loving in the mess. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5:7-13, 6:11 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40179175

You Are Not Your Own 02/15/2026

You Are Not Your Own In 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, Paul returns to the delicate and dangers area of sexual immorality and, again, grounds his teaching in the Gospel, all that God has done for us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 📝Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40103630

Why Not Rather Be Wronged? 02/08/2026

Why Not Rather Be Wronged? The Christians in the Corinthian church are suing one another in civil courts! Its another area where they aren’t living or applying the Gospel together.Here we see how Paul challenges them with the Gospel to live differently. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/40022785

The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in the Church 02/01/2026

The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in the Church 1 Corinthians 5 highlights both the seriousness of sexual immorality in our own lives and seriousness of sexual immorality in the church. This passage provides guidelines for how a church is to deal with ongoing, habitual, unconfessed, public sin. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39939870

The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in Our Lives 01/25/2026

The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in Our Lives In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul begins to confront and correct some MESSY sexual sin in the Corinthian church. As we dive into this vulnerable subject, the place to start is to explain what “sexual immorality” is and why it’s so serious in the sight of God. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39853210

Fools for Christ's Sake 01/18/2026

Fools for Christ's Sake In one last effort to call the Corinthian church to humble unity centered on the gospel, Paul exposes how their love of worldly honor is completely at odds with the way of Jesus. He then calls them to imitate his example for the sake of their unity together. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:8–21 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39753640

Gospel Leadership 01/11/2026

Gospel Leadership Everywhere we look, we see a crisis in leadership: selfish leaders, harsh leaders, failing leaders. But leaders in God's kingdom and church are called to be different. What do leaders shaped by and centered on the Gospel look like? Paul models it and teaches us in 1 Corinthians 4. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 4:1-7 📝 Download the Message Notes: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39678545

Covenant Renewal 2026 - Returning to the Lord with All Your Heart 01/04/2026

Covenant Renewal 2026 - Returning to the Lord with All Your Heart 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 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39595605

A World-Changing Gift 12/28/2025

A World-Changing Gift 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39538915

A Gift To Be Shared 12/21/2025

A Gift To Be Shared 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39476740

A Life-Changing Gift 12/14/2025

A Life-Changing Gift 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39388525

A Surprising Gift 12/07/2025

A Surprising Gift 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 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39296270

A Promised Gift 11/30/2025

A Promised Gift 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39115385

We Are God's Temple! 11/23/2025

We Are God's Temple! 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 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39129420

Humbling Reminders About the Church and Its Leaders 11/16/2025

Humbling Reminders About the Church and Its Leaders 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 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/39039435

Developmentally Arrested 11/09/2025

Developmentally Arrested 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/38952230

Nothing but Jesus Christ and Him Crucified 11/02/2025

Nothing but Jesus Christ and Him Crucified 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/38852300

God's Pleasure in Saving Through the Preaching of the Cross 10/26/2025

God's Pleasure in Saving Through the Preaching of the Cross 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: /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/38773010

The Word of the Cross 10/19/2025

The Word of the Cross 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 /episode/index/show/gracecentralcoast/id/38626815

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