Coastal Church

#PreventBurnout

“In fact, what's most dangerous about becoming fried, I know this from experience. gone through burnout a few times, in my role here. A few times. Twenty one years, it's happened a few times. You begin quitting things that God actually told you are for you. You begin getting rid of things that God called you to. Like Moses, you begin sending your family away for the sake of your job. You begin getting so busy that you haven't paused to get into the word or to pray.”

#LoveIsOurMission

“That's why he sent Jesus. He loved you so much that he was willing to pay for your sins with his son. And so, I'm grateful for that. And as a as a church family, that's what we are. As a church family, we we believe God is our boss, love is our mission, and people are our passion. And so we will be love, not just wearing the t shirt. We will be love living the truth and speaking the truth, doing it all in love so that the world can be transformed by the power of Jesus.”

#PrayerAndPurpose

“Paul was in prayer. Ananias was in prayer. And because they were both praying to the same God, the same God supernaturally was communicating to both of them the same thing. And the beauty of it is that when God calls us, it is not a one way street. He he tells us something to do, but he has already gone ahead of us to do even more work to make the work that we are going to do actually prone for success.”

#LoveTheAuthor

“My wife has written me many love letters, since we first started going out when she was 13 and I was 14, which is just a few summers ago. I keep those letters, and sometimes I take them down from the attic. I read them over again, and we... We'll read them together. We we need to do that again sometime. Right? And so we'll read them. I don't throw them away. I I want the letters. I wanna remember. Right? I'm not in love with the letters. I'm in love with the author.”

#HolySpiritTransformation

“I'm grateful that when we put the holy spirit in charge of our lives, he doesn't just change our behavior, he changes our desires. Amen. It doesn't mean we don't have to try anymore. Those of you who go to celebrate recovery, you're just among the very obvious situations of that. All of us have things that we struggle with that we have to surrender to Jesus. But when we fully surrender, he transforms not only the behavior, but the desires.”

#GodIsInControl

“At some point, the children begin to realize that they are not actually in control of the vehicle, and they get frustrated. They turn the wheel, and I don't slam into the the the aisle, the the shelving, And they get frustrated. At some point, children of god, we have to realize that it's our father who's moving us. We have to realize that whatever little devices we've created to feel like we're in control is all in your head because there's only one who's in control.”

#HealthyBoundaries

“This is what happens. Now some of you identify with my little dog. You've been hurt so many times when people get close. You start gnarling, growling, and sometimes some of you even bite, metaphorically speaking, I hope. We have to decide that we're not gonna allow our previous slavery to abuse to flavor our future blessings. You have to decide that not everyone is bad. In fact, if you begin setting healthy boundaries, you begin to realize I can trust some people. Isolation says I can't trust anybody. Good boundaries say I can trust some people.”

#TrustHisTiming

“when you surrender to the timing of Jesus, you may not understand it, but you trust the one who does. It's hard to trust stuff you don't understand. That's why Hebrews describes faith as putting our trust in things we can't see. And so when when we're ready, when our faith has grown to that level, we are able to trust in his timing even when we don't like it. We give Jesus control because we trust. He knows things we don't know. He sees things we don't see, and so we surrender to his timing.”

#SpeakPromises

“Speak over your problems, these truths. When we see this in the scriptures, god is saying, breathe. I'm gonna breathe life into them, into these dead bones. He's gonna he's saying, I'm gonna do now what I did back at creation and breathing life into Adam. I'm gonna create life from lifelessness. And so god tells Ezekiel, repeat this prophetic word over the dead bones. Don't repeat your problems over your problems. Repeat god's promises over your problems. Stop rehearsing and repeating the problems. Begin rehearsing and repeating the promises of god. We have to get out of our heads and into his words.”

#WrestleAndEmbrace

“the devil would love for you to believe that when you have questions about your faith or questions about the way God operates, that you only have two options. And that's either to deny those questions and pretend you don't have them or to deny your faith and walk away. Habakkuk's teaching us that there's a third option that's way more healthy because neither of those first two leave you with any relief or hope. But the third one is to both wrestle and embrace. Wrestling is not less spiritual. It means that you're willing to ask god the tough questions that, by the way, spoiler alert, he already knows are on your heart.”

#ListenToTheSavior

“Peter's current interpretation, even though the wind and waves were real, his interpretation about whether or not Jesus could, in fact, help him walk on water towards Jesus began to be false when he began to sink. The wind and waves are shouting, drown, give up, you'll never make it. Jesus is saying, come to me. He never stopped that command. Come to me. Never let the storm reinterpret what Jesus is saying. Every time we struggle, if you struggle in your marriage, don't listen to the chaos, listen to the savior. If you're struggling in your parenting, don't listen to the chaos. They'll move out someday. Listen to the savior. If you're struggling at work, you getting it? Listen to the savior. Build on that.”

#FromDoubtToDeclaration

“My Lord and my God. Doubting Thomas became declaring Thomas because Jesus didn't run from Thomas's doubt. He engaged him in his doubt, and he said, do what you do what you need to do. Go ahead. Touch my wounds and then stop doubting. Let's move on from here and get on to what's next. Would you stand with me? I'm gonna invite you to stand, and we're gonna sing in just a minute. Our per team's gonna come forward because we wanna provide an opportunity for you to make the decision no matter whether you're going through doubt, whether you're going through struggles, to put your faith in Jesus. Maybe you're gonna put your faith in Jesus for the first time. You don't know all the answers, but you're gonna trust him right now.”

#KingdomOpposition

“And anytime that you begin moving the kingdom of forward sorry, the kingdom of God forward, you're encroaching on his territory. And so if you if you surrendered to God and you're like, man, everything seems to be, like, backwards and against me and things are, like, difficult and that doesn't mean you need to change course. It might mean that you've gotten into enemy territory and you're taking fire. And so when God leads you to do something for the kingdom and you begin moving into new areas, opposition is realistic is a realistic expectation.”

#DeepEndFaith

“``And when life throws you into the deep end, you can't learn to swim at that moment. And so while you can touch would be a great time to allow your heavenly father to teach you how to swim spiritually. It would be a great time. Now some of you are like, too late. I'm already drowning in the deep end. God bless you. And that's an awesome position to be in. You wanna know why? Because you don't think you can swim when you're drowning. Unless your name is Sarah, you know that you need help. And so that's a blessed place to be. So I want to challenge you to to deepen your faith to go out, to be able to go outside of the shallow end of faith.”

#SavedByGrace

“``I am invited into the salvation relationship. I am invited into redemption. It's kinda like if you have a teenager who just wants to keep testing the laws of gravity. They're not sure they believe it as a concept. They're pretty sure they can jump from the roof into the pool and nothing's gonna happen. Doesn't matter if they acknowledge the law or not. They're going to respond to gravity, gravity is going to respond to them. Salvation exists whether or not you acknowledge it, but it is there for you to acknowledge. So receive through faith alone. All we have to do to be saved is step in and take it and say thank you, Lord, for doing the thing I could not do. You cannot perform CPR on yourself to somehow gain spiritual life. Salvation is God resurrecting the spiritually dead. It is a gift received, not earned.”

#FaithOverFame

“``But this is what I want you to hear. There's a very small chance that your son or daughter may go pro in whatever sport they play, there's a 100% chance that your son or daughter will stand before God one day. There's a 100% chance that they need to hear the love of Jesus. So I'm not telling you. I'm not saying quit all sports and do all this. No. I'm I'm saying that we tend to make really good things be the ultimate thing. So while practices, games, performances, achievements matter, none of them matter more than helping our children know and follow Jesus.”

#JesusIsSufficient

“``So what changed? It was still a problem. The crowd didn't get smaller. The crowd didn't get richer. And even if they did get richer, even if there was enough money, Publix doesn't take orders that big without at least 72 hours of notice. The lunch wasn't suddenly enough until it reached Jesus. The miracle didn't happen because the lunch was finally enough. The miracle happened because god is sufficient. The miracle happened because Jesus isn't bound by human impossibilities. The miracle happened because the offering reached the hands of a savior who already has more than enough.”

#RaiseUpLeaders

“The point is you are training not next generation. You're training the present generation of the church. You look around like these kids aren't just here on Wednesday nights, consuming. They're serving. They're leading. Honestly, they make you look bad. They're taking notes in my sermon. Last week, I had people texting and emailing me. I missed that. It was kind of a there was a lot in a little time. And there was some that are like, hey. I missed this. Can I get the the other point? We sent 49 kids to Camp RealLife. Eight of those made decisions and got baptized. Children of pagan parents are professing Jesus and becoming peer leaders. Can't say anymore because we're live.”

#GrowthTakesSteps

“Growth is walking in that direction. You gotta take steps. You can't just stand there. In fact, if you just stand there and you've turned around, you just changed where you're looking. The Holy Spirit may be like, you probably didn't actually repent. You probably didn't actually You may be doing this. I'm coming, Lord. You know? But repentance is turning around. Growth is when we take steps in the right direction. At the end of this passage, it says that if we respond to the holy spirit, if we respond to the scripture, then we will live a blessed life.”

#TakeThoughtsCaptive

“What does that mean practically? It means the moment we're frustrated, take a moment. We take that thought, that frustration, that negativity, whatever it is, and we hold it here in our mind. We take it captive as the word of God says. And we say, is this thought of God? I'm not saying frustration. I'm not saying negative things. I'm not saying that these aren't aren't real. I'm saying as you take that frustration, that negativity in your mind and you hold it there, when you wrestle with it for even just a second and it flows back out of you, what direction does it take?”

#OrnamentalFaith

“It may be pretty, but in the end, it nourishes no one. If you have faith that looks really good but doesn't do anything, that's not real faith. Alright. Sorry. It's gonna die. You you ever do those science experiments? You talk negatively to it? This thing's totally gonna die. Things just gonna die. You better take it home. Better take it home and take it to maybe doctor Kayla's here after, take it to counseling. And, it's just beware of ornamental faith.”

#ImageBearerMission

“we have failed. What I'm saying is every human being bears the image of God. And so if we want them to fully realize who they are, who God made them to be, and who they can be in Christ, we gotta stop trying to distract them with things that aren't our key mission of introducing them to that God who stamped his image on their heart.”

#GodGivesTheBox

“But, you know, sometimes we'd go to God like we do like the six year old comes to mister Seth. We want just a cookie, just something small to tide us over. Could we just get a snack, Lord? Could you just get me through the week? Could you please just just enough, Lord? Just just a little smidgen, a pinch. And we saw as we read in our key verse, he's able to do more than you ask. He's able to do more than you can possibly think. I'm grateful that sometimes when we got we ask God for a cookie, he hands us the whole box.”

#BelongInChrist

“Christ's love was never meant to be experienced in isolation. A believer in isolation is dysfunctional because Christ's plan for us is to be a family. Not because he wants you here every Sunday with your butt in the seat so that we can count you and praise God for you. No. He wants you here because he has a plan and a mission for you. And it's not pastor Seth Who's the only pastor here? Each of you.”

#StrengthFromWithin

“Real strength doesn't just come when you hustle harder, push through, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. These are all great things, a necessary fact of adulting. Right? But when you've reached the end of that, if you don't have strength from within, you are empty. You are depleted. You have nothing else left. And so how do we find strength to keep going? We find that strength through the holy spirit who gives us inner strength.”

#GodIsStillWriting

“Have you ever been stuck in a story you didn't choose? Yeah. You don't always get the easy way out. But I want you to know that just like my story, your story is a love story. Because God loves you and he is weaving things together. He is weaving your story together. He is connecting dots. Now as it turned out, you know, things worked out pretty good for that phone call. And there are some as it turns out moments just waiting for you if you're patient enough. So even if it feels like you're stuck in a story you didn't choose, God has not dropped the pen. He is still writing. Your story is not finished.”

#VesselOfHonor

“I do want what's best for them. I do love my enemies, not because I somehow dredged it up inside of me and manufactured it, but because I surrendered to the process that was happening. Our final thought is being a vessel of honor, it's not about perfection. It's about preparation. Being perfect as my holy father doesn't mean I did it. It means I surrendered to it. The process that happens day by day, thought by thought, emotion by emotion, breath by breath some days. Not because of my partner, not for my partner, but because of my relationship with Christ and what he is doing in me. Let us pray.”

#StrongerTogether

“Don't just let yourself go under and give up before crying out to him and saying help. Crying out to a counselor and saying, please. Ecclesiastes chapter four verse 12 says, a person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer. See where this is going? And then it goes even further, three are even better. For the triple braided cord is not easily broken.”

#SurrenderToJesus

“Listen to the Holy Spirit this morning. Now even there at your seat, you can rededicate, you can make a decision, hey, from here on out, I'm not gonna keep looking for the sugar, I'm gonna go after the savior. From here on out, I'm gonna commit to allowing God to be the boss of everything. This isn't about doing, being perfect or good behavior. This is about surrendering your life to Jesus once and for all.”

#GodsLifeguard

“Everything I say here is not meant to condemn, is not meant to judge because God doesn't put these red flags in place to limit you or to take the fun out of relationships. The the best lifeguard in the world, our heavenly father, does this to protect you. There is freedom within his guarded areas, within his protected areas. The bondage comes when we depart from the guarded areas and do our own thing.”

#GodRescuesYou

“That word actually has has the literal meaning of being dragged. And it's not like God's gonna drag you to himself against your will. It's that he's rescuing you, and you can't make the distance. You can't travel to him. He has to go and rescue you. And he's not waiting for you to get your act together. He's coming because he loves you too much to leave you where you're at.”

#PrayerBridgesHearts

“Jesus is saying that prayer is the bridge between your brokenness and righteousness. Prayer is how you prepare your heart to receive him when he walks in. Prayer will soften your heart. It will cause you to reconsider things. Actually, prayer will help you to see the impending destruction even more clearer so that you know your need for the savior when he shows up. Prayer is necessary for the life of a believer.”

#FindHopeInJesus

“If you're in a dark place right now, God, I pray for those who are in darkness right now. Maybe they've lost hope. I pray you would feel the presence of God right now. I pray that you would feel the peace of God right now. As the choir sings one more verse, there's still time for you to come and connect with Jesus. Of course, you can connect there at your seat, But perhaps this burden should be shared and not carried alone as we sing.”

#CalledByJesus

“we hear? He's called by? Jesus. Okay. Do you know that everyone that the Holy Spirit invites you to speak to and give the gospel has already been called by? Jesus. You're not cold calling for Jesus. This isn't a spiel, you know, earn full time pay with part time work. Right? You know, this is not a multilevel marketing scheme. This is the savior who can deliver you out of spiritual death, out of hopelessness.”

#ShineNotShout

“You are not here to shout and condemn and cancel the world. John chapter three verse 17. It'll be on the screen. God sent his son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. So if God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, he didn't send you either. Shouting never removes darkness. Shining will.”

#GenerosityGrows

“That's the pattern of generosity that God calls us to and he even lets us know the end of the story that if you pattern your life after this, God's gonna give you more so that you can get not so you can buy the the Ferrari. Okay. I'm sorry. Wrong channel. He's gonna give you more so that you can give more. Giving is good for the giver. And really giving the joy you get from giving has to be better than the Ferrari. Solomon says all the riches in the world didn't make him happy. But I wonder if a Ferrari would. I just need to know, Lord. No. We already know. We don't have to test things out with the bible already says, hey, Tony, you waste your time.”

#ComeToJesusRest

“Jesus, he doesn't just say, hey. Figure it out. Here's some principles. Jesus says in Matthew chapter 11 verse 28, he says, come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Now this isn't just talking about financial burdens. We come to Jesus with so many burdens. I just want you to know that even if you don't remove all the chaos from your life, even if you're still struggling financially after implementing godly principles, there is someone who will walk with you carrying those burdens and he will give you rest. You can have peace in the midst of chaos.”

#SurrenderEverything

“he's not saying it's a struggle to serve both. He's saying it's impossible. He's saying and in this, in the passage we read earlier, he's saying that if you serve me, if I am your master, all the rest will fall into order. It doesn't mean I'm not a TV preacher telling you give give God your money and all of a sudden everything's gonna no. I'm saying the things that matter. The things that matter, God will make sure you have. If you surrender not just your finances, but everything to him.”

#BaptizedAndTransformed

“``Here's what baptism means. And if you put your faith in Jesus Christ, you now have a relationship with God bought, paid for by the blood of Jesus. His sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for us to have peace with God. Now when you get baptized, that is a outward expression of the transformation that's already happened in your heart. When you put your faith in Jesus, the Bible tells us that your old ways are gone, that you have died to your old life, and now you're resurrected in Christ to live a new life in him. When that happens, you're transformed. End of story. But then God calls us in obedience to get baptized, to publicly proclaim our faith.”

#SingingWhatYouCantSay

“``Now you probably didn't write those words in your journal this morning. You might not have prayed those words in your chair time this morning, but you come into a room and someone's already written the words for you, and we vocalize them together. And there's something powerful that happens when you sing what you couldn't say. You couldn't speak those words because maybe of what you're going through, but you can sing those words. It happened to be on the set list, but the Holy Spirit made it fit with what you're going through. Singing has power. In singing the words of truth, the song seems to penetrate the heart deeper in ways that even the sermon can't. And so we sing to participate with the power of God through song.”

#WorshipEvenIf

“``say, even if we know God has the power. Right? This is what we always say when we pray for healing. God, I know you have the power. I believe we it's okay to pray and say, God, I need you to heal me. Not like we know you could if you wanted to. He wants to. But will he? We're waiting. And we don't understand all the workings of God. So when he doesn't, we get upset. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego say, even if God decides not to save me from this flame, even if I die today for my faith, I'll continue to worship him and no one else.”

#JesusLovesYouAlways

“``the good news is God loves you so much that no matter where you've come from or what you've done, he loves you so much that he sent his son to die for your sins so that you could have peace. He's not like, hey, would you get your crap together and then we can hang out. No. He actually we like to say, Jesus doesn't just love us out of hell. He loves the hell out of us. And that's that's the blessing of walking with him. And so for that reason, we live surrendered to him, the way, the truth, and the life.”

#RiseAndPray

“You wanna try something new. Set your alarm a little earlier in the morning and then don't hit the snooze. I know. It's amazing. It's monumental. I know you never thought of that. Don't hit the snooze. Spend time with God during that time. Whatever it is, whatever your time is, you you can choose. Set that time. Begin seeking God for whatever it is that you need for him. Begin basking in his presence.”

#ThriveSpiritually2026

“So I want you, as your pastor, I want you to seek God. I want you to grow. I I want you to thrive spiritually in 2026. I don't want you to just show up to church regularly. I don't even want you to show up to church regularly and serve and do all these things. I want you to grow. I want you to grow deeper in your faith, and I want your perspective to grow wider.”