Episodes

  • Revealing Christ: Beauty, Goodness, and Truth for a Disenchanted World

    Revealing Christ: Beauty, Goodness, and Truth for a Disenchanted World
    Jan 4 2026
    We’ll begin with a foundational question: What exactly is Christ’s mission—and where do we fit within it?

    In the Book of Acts, Christ’s mission is the restoration of God’s kingdom. The disciples seem concerned to know when, but Jesus redirects their attention to how. In fact, Christ empowers His church to be active agents in the restoration of His kingdom.

    Acts traces that mission from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, and in doing so, it helps us locate ourselves in God’s unfolding story. We are not waiting for the mission to begin. We are living at the ends of the earth—called to faithful witness amid hardship, uncertainty, and hope.

    This message explains why the entire series is vital. The rest of the series will explore to a world that has become resistant to Christianity.
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  • A Discerning Life

    A Discerning Life
    Dec 28 2025
    What does it mean to live a discerning life as a follower of Jesus in a confusing and hostile world?

    In this sermon, we explore Paul’s call in Ephesians 5 to live wisely, redeem the time, and understand the will of the Lord. As Christians grow in maturity, the life of faith often becomes harder, not easier. Discernment becomes essential for navigating suffering, cultural pressure, personal failure, and the tension between what feels right and what is truly righteous.

    This message examines how God’s vision for our lives is not the elimination of difficulty, but the redemption of it. We are invited into a lifelong process of spiritual formation where character matters more than comfort, faithfulness matters more than success, and love and holiness walk together.

    Through Scripture, pastoral reflection, and practical wisdom, this sermon addresses:
    • Why spiritual growth requires intentionality
    • How to discern God’s redemptive purpose rather than just circumstantial relief
    • The difference between worldly wisdom and spiritual wisdom
    • Why Christians are called to redeem the time in an evil age
    • How forgiveness, holiness, and love reveal God’s wisdom through the church

    This message is grounded in Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and the broader story of God’s transforming work in His people through Jesus Christ.

    Whether you are entering a new season, facing unresolved pain, wrestling with failure, or seeking clarity for the future, this sermon invites you to slow down, think deeply, and live intentionally within God’s redemptive purposes.

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  • Love Goes Small (Advent 2025, Part 5)

    Love Goes Small (Advent 2025, Part 5)
    Dec 21 2025
    This Sunday we’ll reflect on a surprising truth at the heart of Christmas: God chose small.

    When God came to confront the power of Caesar, He did not arrive with armies or fanfare. He came as a baby—born in obscurity, laid in a feeding trough, announced to shepherds.

    In a world that equates size with significance and power with worth, Luke 2:1–20 shows us something radically different: love moves downward before it changes anything.

    In Love Goes Small, we’ll explore how
    • Jesus became small for the sake of love
    • Jesus remained small rather than chasing popularity or power
    • And how God still works through what the world overlooks

    If you’ve ever wondered whether small acts of faithfulness matter—or felt discouraged because your life seems insignificant...this message is for you.

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  • The Father's Joy (Advent 2025, Part 4)

    The Father's Joy (Advent 2025, Part 4)
    Dec 14 2025
    Advent does not rush us past the dark.
    It teaches us how to wait.

    This Sunday we will open Romans 15:7–13 and reflect on The Father’s Joy as Paul points us to a joy that rises from God’s faithfulness and fills His people with hope.

    Paul reminds us that God keeps His promises, welcomes us in Christ, and forms a people whose life together becomes a witness to the world. Even as we wait, God is at work shaping us through hope, peace, and joy by the power of the Holy Spirit.

    If you are carrying questions, weariness, or longing this Advent season, this message is for you.
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  • Where the Morning Star Rises (Advent 2025, Part 3)

    Where the Morning Star Rises (Advent 2025, Part 3)
    Dec 7 2025
    What will you be found doing when the Lord returns?

    Peter writes that we want to be “found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight” (3:14 NLT).

    Will you be found this way?

    In this week’s Advent message, we’ll explore how our lives can grow in the qualities that lead to that kind of peace and purity. Peter shows us that these things don’t appear suddenly in a crisis—they are cultivated over time.

    This Sunday we’ll hear from Peter that peaceful lives arise when we live in hope of the coming Day of Righteousness.


    If you are looking for a church in Saint Petersburg that is rooted in Scripture, focused on Jesus, serious about the kingdom of God, and committed to authentic community, we would love to welcome you. Gulf Coast Community Church is a gospel formed, gospel shaped church pursuing formation, culture, mercy, outreach, and unity throughout St Pete.

    Whether you are new to faith, returning after hurt, or looking for a church that feels real and grounded, this message is for you.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church
    555 76th Avenue North Saint Petersburg FL
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  • Living in Hope of the Returning King (Advent 2025, Part 1)

    Living in Hope of the Returning King (Advent 2025, Part 1)
    Nov 30 2025
    Fog surrounds us - political fog, cultural fog, personal fog - and many are losing their way. But Christian hope is like a lighthouse that guides us into safe harbor.

    This week begins the Advent season. Advent means waiting. People in history had to await Jesus’ first coming. We now await His return. We will explore Jesus’ parable in Luke 19, a story about a nobleman-soon-to-be-king, fearful servants, bold servants, and the question that still confronts us today:

    Will we risk living fully for the King we cannot yet see?

    Join us in worship as we discover how a Christian hope transforms not only our lives, but the world!



    If you are looking for a church in Saint Petersburg that is rooted in Scripture, focused on Jesus, serious about the kingdom of God, and committed to authentic community, we would love to welcome you. Gulf Coast Community Church is a gospel formed, gospel shaped church pursuing formation, culture, mercy, outreach, and unity throughout St Pete.

    Whether you are new to faith, returning after hurt, or looking for a church that feels real and grounded, this message is for you.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church
    555 76th Avenue North Saint Petersburg FL
    gulfcoast.community

    🎧 Watch and listen to more sermons here
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  • An Unshakeable Kingdom (Cultivating Gratitude Part 4)

    An Unshakeable Kingdom (Cultivating Gratitude Part 4)
    Nov 23 2025
    Life feels shaky for all of us at times. Jobs feel uncertain, finances feel tight, relationships get complicated, and the world around us seems unstable. Hebrews 12 tells us the truth behind all of it. God is shaking what cannot last so that what cannot be shaken will remain.

    In this message from our series Cultivating Gratitude, we look at what it means to trust God when everything else feels unstable. Through Scripture and a personal story of job loss and financial pressure, we learn that the kingdom of God is the only foundation that will still be standing when everything else falls.

    If you are looking for a church in Saint Petersburg that is rooted in Scripture, focused on Jesus, serious about the kingdom of God, and committed to authentic community, we would love to welcome you. Gulf Coast Community Church is a gospel formed, gospel shaped church pursuing formation, culture, mercy, outreach, and unity throughout St Pete.

    Whether you are new to faith, returning after hurt, or looking for a church that feels real and grounded, this message is for you.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church
    555 76th Avenue North Saint Petersburg FL
    gulfcoast.community

    🎧 Watch and listen to more sermons here
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  • The Church as a Community of Lepers Made Whole (Cultivating Gratitude Part 3)

    The Church as a Community of Lepers Made Whole (Cultivating Gratitude Part 3)
    Nov 16 2025
    The joy of healing was, in large part, the joy of restoration to the community.

    So it is with us. We are a community of lepers made whole, grateful not just for our physical and spiritual health, but for Christ’s ability to bring us together. We must see each other as gifts!
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