Episodes

  • Can You Hear the Cry for Help? (Cultivating Generosity Part 16)

    Can You Hear the Cry for Help? (Cultivating Generosity Part 16)
    Jun 28 2026
    Paul's journey to Macedonia (Acts 16:6-40) begins with an unexpected vision: "Come over and help us." But who is really crying out for help?

    A wealthy businesswoman? A trafficked slave girl? A Roman jailer?King Jesus' Jubilee comes to every corner of society—but it doesn't come without cost. As people are set free, others willingly bear suffering so that life might reach them.We live in a world filled with cries for help. Do we have ears to hear them, hearts disturbed enough to care, and faith to follow where the Spirit leads?Join us in worship this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and discover how Christ still forms His people to bring His Jubilee to a hurting world.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church 555 76th Avenue North Saint Petersburg FL gulfcoast.community 🎧 Watch and listen to more sermons here gulfcoast.community/resources 🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple ▶️ Watch on YouTube and be challenged to love in a way that makes Jesus visible to the world. Subscribe and share this message of hope. Follow us for more sermons: 🌐 gulfcoast.community 📍Instagram & Facebook: @gulfcoastchurch
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  • The Grumble Crawl How One Bad Day Can Make You Forget a Hundred Mercies

    The Grumble Crawl How One Bad Day Can Make You Forget a Hundred Mercies
    Jun 21 2026
    When we interpret God's faithfulness through our wilderness instead of interpreting our wilderness through God's faithfulness, grumbling becomes inevitable.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church 555 76th Avenue North Saint Petersburg FL gulfcoast.community 🎧 Watch and listen to more sermons here gulfcoast.community/resources 🎧 Listen now on Spotify or Apple ▶️ Watch on YouTube and be challenged to love in a way that makes Jesus visible to the world. Subscribe and share this message of hope. Follow us for more sermons: 🌐 gulfcoast.community 📍Instagram & Facebook: @gulfcoastchurch
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  • Why Does the Gospel Make People Angry?

    Why Does the Gospel Make People Angry?
    Jun 14 2026
    Not all opposition is a sign that something has gone wrong. Sometimes it is evidence that God's kingdom is advancing. A gospel that doesn’t threaten the status quo is probably not proclaiming the reign of a new King.

    In Acts 13–14, Paul and Barnabas proclaim Jesus as King, and the result is escalating resistance. They are mocked, expelled, pursued, and even stoned. Yet every attempt to stop the Gospel only carries it farther. The old kingdom resists, but it is no longer the true government of the world.Join us Sunday as we consider why, where Christ is proclaimed, Jubilee is decreed... and where Jubilee is decreed, opposition arises.
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  • Jubilee Distorted (Cultivating Generosity Part 14)

    Jubilee Distorted (Cultivating Generosity Part 14)
    Jun 7 2026
    Distorted Jubilee | Galatians 5:1
    What does it mean to truly live in the freedom Christ purchased for us?
    In Galatians 5:1, Paul declares:

    "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free."
    Y
    et many Christians find themselves pulled back into old forms of bondage. Some return to legalism and performance, trying to earn what Jesus has already secured. Others drift back into the patterns of the flesh, finding comfort in old habits, sins, and ways of thinking. Still others allow fear, social pressure, and division to distort the unity Christ created.
    In this message, Samuel explores how the churches of Galatia faced these same temptations and how Paul's words still challenge us today.

    📖 In this sermon:
    • The danger of spiritual recidivism and returning to old bondage • Peter's compromise and the threat of social pressure • Why legalism can never save or justify us • The difference between freedom and self indulgence • Walking by the Spirit instead of the flesh • Christ's work of redemption and true Jubilee freedom • How a Jubilee community reflects the freedom of Jesus
    Whether you struggle with performance, people pleasing, legalism, addiction, fear, or old patterns of sin, this message points us back to the freedom found in Christ alone.

    📍 Gulf Coast Community Church 555 76th Avenue North St. Petersburg, FL

    🌐 Visit us online: https://gulfcoast.community

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  • The Conflict of Kingdoms (Cultivating Generosity Part 13)

    The Conflict of Kingdoms (Cultivating Generosity Part 13)
    May 31 2026
    One kingdom runs on power, control, scarcity, and the praise of men.

    The other runs on generosity, shared lives, and the Jubilee reign of Jesus.In Acts 11–12, Luke places these two kingdoms side by side. One is represented by Herod's throne. The other by a weak but praying church, a generous community, and a prisoner who walks free.Join us this Sunday in worship as we continue Cultivating Generosity: Becoming a Jubilee Community and explore what happens when the kingdom of Jesus collides with the kingdoms of this world.
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  • A Rushing Mighty Wind

    A Rushing Mighty Wind
    May 24 2026
    This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost.

    In Ezekiel 37:1-14, the prophet is brought into a valley filled with dry bones. Not merely dead bones, but long dead. Scattered. Bleached. Hopeless.

    And then God asks: “Can these bones live?”

    This vision is far bigger than many of us realize. And it’s not about individual resurrection. It is about God breathing life back into a dead and scattered people.

    This Sunday we will explore how Ezekiel’s vision finds its fulfillment in Pentecost – In the rushing mighty wind of Acts 2 – and what that means for the church today.

    Pentecost is not the end of the story.
    It is the beginning of new creation.

    Join us in worship this Sunday as we celebrate the Holy Wind of God that still breathes life into God's people today.
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  • A Beautiful Gazelle, A Militant Ram, and a Holy Wind (Cultivating Generosity Part 12)

    A Beautiful Gazelle, A Militant Ram, and a Holy Wind (Cultivating Generosity Part 12)
    May 17 2026
    This Sunday we continue our series about Becoming a Jubilee Community with one of the most important turning points in the entire New Testament.

    It begins with a woman quietly caring for widows in Joppa.
    It moves to a Roman military officer stationed in Caesarea, the very symbol of enemy occupation.

    And then the Holy Spirit falls in a way that changes the boundaries of God’s people forever.

    Along the way we will wrestle with questions like:

    Who truly belongs among God’s holy people?
    Can God love our enemies?
    How does Jesus' kingdom advance?
    Join us in worship this Sunday as we explore Acts 9:32–11:18 together and see Christ’s mission to restore the kingdom to the ends of the earth enter its ultimate phase!
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  • Jesus Takes Captivity Captive (Cultivating Generosity Part 11)

    Jesus Takes Captivity Captive (Cultivating Generosity Part 11)
    May 10 2026
    A violent persecution breaks out in Jerusalem. Saul drags men and women off to prison. The church is scattered.
    And yet the gospel spreads even further.

    In Acts 8–9, we will watch Jesus reclaim captives in unexpected places:

    Samaria, the long-lost northern kingdom,
    a wounded and excluded Ethiopian eunuch,
    and finally Saul himself—the captor who becomes captive to Christ.
    Along the way, we will see a kingdom that moves not by coercion, but by the Spirit… a Savior who joins people in their suffering… and a baptismal family large enough to unite former enemies, outcasts, slaves, and persecutors into one people.

    Join us this Sunday as we continue our series Cultivating Generosity: Becoming a Jubilee Community and explore how Jesus “takes captivity captive” in order to set people free.
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