Grace Baptist Church | Cape Coral

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his exposition of Judge with Chapters 9:1 through 10:5. Once again the tragic cycle of turning from God is repeated. The Israelites recurrently cast God in their own image believing God thinks like man thinks. Instead, and...

Jared Puls offers both teaching and encouragement in his treatment of Philippians 2:14-16 entitled The Celestial Accent. It is the language, and delivery of the language, that should provide an accent to the speech of a Christian. Just as a southern...

Pastor Tom Ascol returns to the Book of Judges (8:1-35) to teach a message entitled The Dangers and Inadequacies of Success. We all recognize the tragedy in failure and work hard to avoid that. However, success comes with its own problems. Success...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues his teaching in Judges and Gideon in particular in a message entitled Judges7:1-25, With God, Weakness is Strength. The overarching theme of this passage is that a powerful God, not weak man, is the One at work. He uses His...

Pastor Jared Longshore, in a message entitled “Rejoice in the Lord,” opens God’s Word to Philippians 3:1-11. Christians may recognize the need, even the responsibility, to rejoice but may oftentimes fall short. With a three part plan Pastor Longshore...

Pastor Tom Ascol continues in his series in the book of Judges with “Gideon: The Unlikely Warrior,” Judges 6:1-40. Again the cycle of turning from God, God’s discipline, the people crying for deliverance, and God’s rescue is evident in this passage...

Pastor Jared Longshore opens God’s Word to 1 Peter 2:4-12. Here he finds proof for Christians that “You Are God’s People.” Not only are believers God’s people but the passage helps them understand the peculiarities of who and what they are. This...

Pastor Tom Ascol teaches “A Dramatic Salvation” as he expounds on Judges 4:1-5:31. This message looks at the historical account under the leadership of Deborah and Barak in Chapter 4 while Chapter 5 gives the theological interpretation of the events...

Pastor Tom Ascol finds in Judges 3:12-31 “An Unlikely Deliverer of Undeserving People.” The picture presented in this portion of Scripture points to an even greater Deliverer of other undeserving people. In this passage God provides the judge Ehud to...

Pastor Tom Ascol uses Judges 3:7-11 to address “How Our Covenant God Loves His People.” In this passage God reveals His steadfast love for His people, love that disciplines, rescues, and keeps. Furthermore, the passage provides insight into God’s...

What is most important to you when you worship God? If you were to list those things that are really essential for you to participate in worship, what would they be? Is it a certain style of preaching? Is it a certain translation or version of the...

Pastor Tom Ascol completes his messages on the introductory portions of the Book of Judges in a sermon entitled “Generation Degeneration.” In today’s portion of Scripture, Judges 2:6-3:6, the cyclical nature of Judges is readily apparent: People rebel...

Pastor Tom Ascol begins a series on the book of Judges explaining Chapter 1, v. 1 through Chapter 2, v. 5. He develops the message using the theme that partial obedience to God is actually disobedience to the whole of God’s revelation. The context of...

Pastor Tom Ascol introduces a series of messages on the Book of Judges with this overview entitled “Half-hearted Devotion to a Whole-hearted God.” He noted the cycle of sin, judgment, and salvation evident in the book. The Israelites seemed to have...

Pastor Jared Longshore looks to 2 Peter 1:1-15 to help believers understand the virtue of godliness. He challenges believers; how would they answer if asked if they were godly? Peter taught that God powerfully provides for the godly growth of...

Pastor Tom Ascol addresses John Chapter 21 as he closes his series on John’s Gospel. The disciples were in Galilee, responding to Jesus’ direction (Matthew 28:10). At least three of the seven disciples were fishermen by trade. Therefore, it was not...

Pastor Tom Ascol, in an Easter message entitle “Raised from the Dead,” addresses John’s Gospel Chapter 20:1-31. The resurrection of Jesus Christ changes everything, particularly the realities of both history and the future as well as man’s standing...

Pastor Tom Ascol addresses John’s Gospel, Chapter 19:16b-42 in a message entitled “Crucified, Dead, and Buried.” Reminding his congregation that John’s purpose in writing his gospel was “that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God...

Pastor Jared Longshore addresses Colossians 1:24 through 2:5 in a message entitled “Discipleship: A Faith-filled, Joyful Struggle.” In this passage Paul lays out the process of disciple-making. This process is one to which all believers are called...

Pastor Tom Ascol addresses John’s Gospel Chapter 18 verse 28 through Chapter 19 verse 16 in a message entitled “A Clash of Two Kingdoms.” The message contrasts the differences between these two kingdoms, the kingdom of man and the Kingdom of God. In...