Lifecoast Church

Do guardrails really work? Pastor Mike & Holly share several of the guardrails they've built into their lives from the dating years, money, fighting and parenting. Your guardrails may look a little different, but the bigger lesson is the need to be intentional about setting up guardrails. You'll thank yourself for doing so some day, as God blesses you with a rich marriage.

The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
-Proverbs 27:12

Contrary to popular opinion, God does not want something from you, he wants something for you. And nowhere is that more true than with your finances. Then why are we so insistent on separating our faith and our finances? What kinds of guardrails need to go up in order to protect us from financial disaster?

If there is one area in your life that absolutely needs some guardrails, this is probably it…our sexuality! Sexual Disasters are the most difficult to recover from….as we carry the baggage of our mistakes, or others, with us for a very long time. Guardrails in this area are the most needed, but it is the most resisted area of all.

Fortunately, the Bible is pretty clear on how we should approach it: FLEE!

Join Pastor Mike as he gives us some guidelines for establishing Guardrails in this area of our lives!

Friendships are powerful things. They're great, but dangerous. You drop your guard with your friends. You become less careful. And as a result, you're easily influenced, drawn toward the acceptance you find. Because of this vulnerability, it would be smart to develop some guardrails. It's not an easy…

Nobody plans to wreck their marriage. Nobody plans to ruin his or her finances. Nobody plans to struggle with an addiction. What steps do you take to make sure these things don't happen? You can tell yourself that you'll "be careful," but we all know that doesn't protect us. Today Pastor Mike shows us the importance of guardrails and how God wants to use them to make sure we live victoriously for Him!

If the world is to know that we are Jesus' disciples by our love, then what does that love need to look like? We all have limits to our love for others, especially if those "others" are our enemies. Its natural. But Jesus shows us how to have a love without limits, even for our enemies, by looking at people in a different way. As we close the series, we learn one of the most important truths of our journey - What does a love that changes the world look like?

Looking for loopholes comes naturally. Whether it's eating all of our vegetables or being home by curfew, no one has to teach us that there is a difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Jesus had a new perspective on rules and loopholes. Today Brian Kingsley shows us that the difference between a Christian and a Disciple may be the one question we ask ourselves each day!

Many times we do not realize how we communicate to others who we are or what we believe. And if the world were to look at the Church, it certainly would be confused by the message we are sending by how poorly we communicate. Chris Irwin shows us how Jesus, the perfect, eternal expression of God's love to us, communicated with a perfect balance of grace and truth, and how we can use love to do the same to a word around us.

In this series we are looking at the difference between the terms "christian" and "disciple," and what our true mandate is as followers of Christ. Today Pastor Mike compares modern day Christianity to the one-a-day vitamins. Many think that if we just "add" Jesus to our already chaotic and unhealthy lives, everything will get better. The problem is that Jesus never wanted to be an additive to our lives. He actually wanted to "subtract" from them...and change them altogether. True discipleship is when we live to make Him greater, and us less.

"Christian" is a brand that can be good, bad, attractive, or repelling. It's a loaded label no matter whom you ask. But where did the word come from? And did it come with instructions?

Today Pastor Jeff reexamines the word "Christian" and revisits the one thing Jesus wanted his followers to be known for. Does this characterize who we are?