Joy can feel like an elusive reality when life is hard. But God tells us we can have a deep fountain of joy in Him when we choose to place our hope in His promises rather than our circumstances. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians Galatians 5: 16-26 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/khjhc37m3c39wnvkgaclh/ANZotH9_d_Rtzx9J7KS7BmE?rlkey=5ugn2ygvstlt23yiz0lf4bw27&st=47d178ng&dl=0 

God's desire is for his people to be fruitful! God, by his Spirit, produces what he desires in us! Today we dive into our summer series on the "Fruit of the Spirit" with an introduction to these nine character qualities and an exploration of the first quality, which is LOVE. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians 5: 13-26 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus  

Join us this week as we reflect on a year of Grace, Growth, and Kingdom Impact across the central coast! 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus 

Are we actually building community on Sundays, or are we just watching a service alone together? This week, we dive into 1 Corinthians 11 to see why a purely "private faith" is a category error, and how the Lord's Table is a radical call to drop our preferences, love our spiritual family, and proclaim the Gospel as one unified body. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34  📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 

1 Corinthians is full of thorny and tough texts.  In this message, we come to toughest text in our study so far, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, where Paul addresses headship and head coverings.   We can't go around it.  We must go through it.  So let's seek and strive to carefully understand and apply it together.    SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16   📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1

The Apostle Paul wraps up his long discussion of Christian freedom with a "drop the mic" helpful summary that provides Biblical guidelines for everything we do in the all the gray area issues of our lives. 📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 10:23-24, 31-11:1 📝 Download the Message Notes: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1  

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: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 

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: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 

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: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1 

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: https://gracecentralcoast.org/online-campus-1