Grace Baptist Church | Cape Coral

Pastor Conrad Mbewe, visiting from Zambia, continues in his New Year’s exhortations looking at Colossians 1:15 – 20 in a message entitled “The Priority of Christ for the New Year.” Often we think in terms of years—we finish 2016 we start 2017—which...

Conrad Mbewe, pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church, Zambia, Africa, opens God word at John 3:16 with a message entitled “God’s Indescribable Love.” This love is at the root of our greatest need for our seeking peace, joy, acceptance. We need His love. In...

Pastor Tom Ascol’s Christmas message, entitled “Jesus Is God with Us,” centers around the virgin birth of Jesus Christ taught in Matthew 1:23. Matthew had lived and worked with Jesus for three years as an apostle. He knew Jesus. He was familiar with...

Pastor Tom Ascol considers John 1:1, 14 in a Christmastime message entitled “God Has Come to Us.”  With proper reflection, today’s verses aid believers in not falling prey to losing reverence for the God of all creation. While it is true that we are...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on the book of Ecclesiastes with a message, “Coram Deo,” developed around Ecclesiastes 6:10 – 7:14. To this point the book and its author, the Preacher, have examined life as it is apart from God. Yet we all live...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on the book of Ecclesiastes with a message centered on Chapter 5, Verse 8 through Chapter 6, Verse 9, entitled “The Love of Money.” Money and wealth can easily become too important in our lives. Jesus tells us “No...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on Ecclesiastes with a sermon on Chapter 5, Verses 1 through 7 entitled “Worship God Reverently.” Worship matters to God, He cares what we think of Him and how we act out those beliefs. Unfortunately, true...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on Ecclesiastes with a message on Chapter 4:7-16 entitled “One Is the Loneliest Number.” American culture often makes heroes of rugged, self-reliant individuals. While it is true that individual effort overcoming...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on Ecclesiastes with a message centered on Chapter 3:16 through Chapter 4:6 entitled “Work and Wealth in a Fallen World.” Injustice, oppression, and hopelessness have characterized the life of countless numbers...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on Ecclesiastes with a message on Chapter 3:1 – 15 entitled “God Rules Our Times.” Time is a fascinating concept. It unfailingly moves on, people can remember the past but not the future. Things happen and cannot...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on the book of Ecclesiastes with a message entitled “A Meaningful Life in a Fallen World” centered on Ecclesiastes 1:12 – 2:26. Ecclesiastes takes an honest look at things people do in order to make their lives...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his series on the book of Ecclesiastes with a sermon entitled “No Profit from Toil” explaining Ecclesiastes 1:3 – 11. “All we are is dust in the wind” is the theme to a popular ballad of the 1970’s. That theme echoes the...

Pastor Tom Ascol begins a series on the book of Ecclesiastes. The message, entitled “Real Life in a Fallen World” based on Ecclesiastes 1:1 – 2, provides both an introduction and first lessons. A main point of the whole book is that life is...

Pastor Jared Longshore finishes his series on the book of Galatians with a message centered on Chapter 6 entitled “Boasting in the Cross of Christ.” Paul teaches leading a Christ-centered life of obedience comes by focusing not on the futility of...

Pastor Jared Longshore continues his series on Galatians with a message entitled “Walk by the Spirit” centering on Galatians 5:16 – 26. This passage offers a strategy for fighting sin in our lives. There is instruction regarding walking in the Spirit...

Pastor Jared Longshore continues his series in Galatians opening to Chapter 5:1 – 15 with a message entitled “Standing Firm in Freedom.” Christian freedom today is seemingly always under attack just as it was in the Galatian church. Judaizers had...

In a message entitled “Free Children of God,” Pastor Jared Longshore continues his Galatians series teaching from Galatians 4:21 – 31. Christians, freed by grace from the strictures of the Mosaic Law oftentimes seem to want to revert to that law...

Pastor Jared Longshore continues in his series on Galatians opening the Bible to Galatians 4:12-20 with a message entitled “Christ Formed in You.” Work is nothing new for humans. God gave man work in the Garden even before the Fall. However, on...

Pastor Jared Longshore continues his series in Galatians with a message entitled “The Way to become Sons of God” centered on Galatians 3:15-4:11. There is a terrible lie sown deeply into our societal thinking. It declares we must earn what we get. Yet...

Pastor Tom Ascol opens God’s Word at 2 Timothy 3:1-17 in a message entitled “God’s Word for Godless Times.” Rapid social changes are occurring in our nation many of which affect the freedom to practice religion. One need not look far to see instances...