Coastal Church Podcast

<p>Today we have more voices competing for our attention than ever before. In today’s digital culture the average person hears over 5000 media messages per day compared to 300 forty years ago. More than ever, we must be discerning about what we listen to. It is not just what we listen to, but how we listen and process what we heard that determines our success in life.</p>

<p>The book of Mark is a fast paced, action filled, account of the life of Jesus reaching out to the world to come and follow Him.</p>

<p>Join Pastor Dave as he delivers a practical message on how to hear God's voice.</p>

<p>Pastor Dave's Classic but Timeless Message on Traps</p>

<p>Pastor Dave Koop interviews Gordon Pennington on the highs and lows of his faith walk.</p>

<p>Psalm 23 is a classic text and one of the most well-known passages in the Bible. In this Psalm we see how the Lord, our Shepherd, reaches out to us.</p>

<p>Merriam-Webster defines reach as: to move one’s hand in order to get or touch (someone or something), to try hard to achieve or succeed at (something), the action or an act of reaching, an individual part of a progression or journey.</p>

<p>God takes our lives and cleans us for a destiny that is bigger than we can ever imagine. In every stage of our lives, God continues His refining process, so we can be used for greater things.</p>

<p>As we leave the year 2018 and begin the adventure of 2019 it is important to know God’s peace is with us to guide, strengthen and protect.</p>

<p>The only invitation from God to anyone to come and visit Mary and Joseph and the infant Jesus is to a group of shepherds. They were common people on the bottom of the social ladder of that day, perhaps the last people that you'd expect God o send as the first VIP guests to see His son.</p>

<p>We may not be able to choose our family history, but we can choose where we get our identity from.</p>

<p>Coastal Church's Christmas Grand Service 2018 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre</p>

<p>The light in Christmas was given to bring us out of darkness and to guide our lives.</p>

<p>Christmas is not only a time to look back and celebrate when Jesus came to earth, it is also a time to look ahead. For as sure as His first arrival was clearly prophesied, so too, is His return.</p>

<p>When we are angry because God’s ways don’t make sense, the best thing we can do is listen, for He is about to reveal what is in our heart and what is in His heart.</p>

<p>Like Jonah, God will give us another chance to serve Him when we choose to obey Him.</p>

<p>Jonah, like many of us, wanted to give up on what God had for him, but God intervened and did not let him quit.</p>

<p>There are times God will speak to us and ask us to do things we don’t want to do. We then have a choice: obey or disobey. We can always find a ship sailing in the wrong direction and run; but we won’t run from the Lord, but INTO the Lord.</p>

<p>Simon Peter was an ordinary man that Jesus called to be extraordinary. Simon, literally “a reed” became Peter, literally “a rock,” through the transforming power of God’s love. As we end our series on Good or God, we see in Peter’s story how God calls our potential out of us, so we can become more than what we were before.</p>

<p>Never before in history have we had access to so much information and opportunity. To navigate these times, we will require discernment to choose between right and wrong, truth and error, good and evil.</p>

<p>The Bible calls us to be holy, just as God is holy. (1 Peter 1:15,16 )The question is: where do we get the strength or fuel to live a holy life in a broken world?</p>

<p>Gratitude is more than saying, “thank you” when someone gives you something. What it takes to turn the words, “thank you” into gratitude is the genuine feeling of appreciation from the heart.</p>