Latest Pastor joe davis Podcast Episodes
The Legacy of the Desperate w/ Pilgrim Benham @ GraceLife Sarasota
GraceLife Sarasota - July 14, 2024 16:33 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGod often uses our desperation to showcase his glory & power.
Dr. David Sutton @ GraceLife Sarasota
GraceLife Sarasota - July 07, 2024 16:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Matthew 5:37
The Unseen King (Esther) No.4- Everybody Loves Esther
GraceLife Sarasota - June 30, 2024 16:35 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat kind of church would GraceLife be if everyone was like Ganon or Chris? Stunning, good-looking, great personality? Would our church be bigger, and more appealing? Would more people be drawn to Mt Lockwood Ridge? Listen, people like Chris, Gannon & myself, we are so tired of carrying that burd...
The Unseen King (Esther) No.3- Drama at The Party
GraceLife Sarasota - June 23, 2024 16:34 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRaise your hand if you have ever made an unwise, foolish, or just downright sinful decision. Have you experienced earthly consequences from those choices so severe that you felt there was no way back? Have you ever wrestled with the potential earthly, spiritual, and eternal impact your own free w...
The Unseen King (Esther) No.2- The Most Powerful Man in the Word
GraceLife Sarasota - June 16, 2024 17:18 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow many of you have ever played chess? What are the two most important pieces on the board? The King & Queen. These two pieces are all-important; everything centers around them, and where they are dictates the flow of the game. These two pieces on the chessboard are controlled by the players, wh...
The Unseen King (Esther) No.1- The Big Picture
GraceLife Sarasota - June 09, 2024 17:09 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever felt like God was missing? You believe in God, you have faith, but you can’t see Him in your situation? We have faith, but we can’t help the fact that we feel this way as if God has gone silent & He’s nowhere to be found. We’ve all been there. We’ve been perplexed, suffering, fright...
Why God's Word Is Reliable
GraceLife Sarasota - June 02, 2024 16:42 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBefore we begin our new series in Esther, I wanted to take a week to talk about GraceLife’s stance God’s Word. With so many new faces, I think it’s important to take one week to explain why we do what we do here. A biblical church is characterized by unwavering confidence and trust in the Bible a...
Test Your Faith (James) No.22- Healing & Restoring, Pt.2
GraceLife Sarasota - May 26, 2024 17:47 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLook at the person next to you. Imagine for a moment you saw real signs this person was clearly drifting from God. Maybe you became aware of obvious signs of sin or immorality. Maybe gathering with us had become sporadic. If it's someone in recovery, perhaps you are seeing evidence their recovery...
Test Your Faith (James) No.21- Healing & Restoring, Pt.1
GraceLife Sarasota - May 19, 2024 16:45 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDo you know people who just seem to have a special gift and commitment to pray for other people? If you’re like most of us, like me, several names quickly come to mind, and one of them isn’t your own! These are people we turn to, because it just seems they take prayer seriously. Their prayers see...
Test Your Faith (James) No.20- Prayers, Praise & Oil
GraceLife Sarasota - May 12, 2024 21:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings(JAMES 5:13–15) IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SUFFERING? LET HIM PRAY. IS ANYONE CHEERFUL? LET HIM SING PRAISE. [14] IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. [15] AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE ON...
Test Your Faith (James) No.19- Be Faithful To The End
GraceLife Sarasota - May 05, 2024 17:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever wondered if your faith is strong enough to endure real persecution & suffering because you follow Jesus? I’m not talking your garden variety 1st world American “bad day”, I’m talking about real suffering. Do you have what it takes to be faithful to Jesus no matter what circumstances...
Test Your Faith (James) No.18- The Money Test
GraceLife Sarasota - April 28, 2024 18:55 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI want to start off today with a warning to any & all the KC chiefs fans out there who may hear this sermon. Something’s been bothering me. I've had enough of your constant bragging about Patrick Mahomes & all your winning. This is a firm warning to all of you, to tone it down, and depart from yo...
Test Your Faith (James) No.17- Future Plans
GraceLife Sarasota - April 14, 2024 17:24 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom" - Psalm 90:12 Even though Moses tells us to number days. We get comfortable, coast, and we assume our lives will be long, full, & lasting. But really, even a long life is short, maybe 70 years, more if we’re lucky. Many lives are mu...
Test Your Faith (James) No.16- Evil Church Judges
GraceLife Sarasota - April 07, 2024 17:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHas someone ever unfairly judged, slandered, or gossiped about you? How did that make you feel? I remember as a member of a church staff being publicly slandered with false accusations. It was devastating for me and my family in ways you can’t even imagine. To this day I still carry baggage from ...
Resurrection Hope
GraceLife Sarasota - March 31, 2024 16:25 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever felt like you are going the wrong direction in life, like you’re on a road you aren’t supposed to be on? As followers of Jesus, this is what it feels like, what happens, when we put too much hope in earthly things. When we’ve let our passion for earthy things become our primary desi...
Resurrection Hope (Easter 2024)
GraceLife Sarasota - March 31, 2024 16:25 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever felt like you are going the wrong direction in life, like you’re on a road you aren’t supposed to be on? As followers of Jesus, this is what it feels like, what happens, when we put too much hope in earthly things. When we’ve let our passion for earthy things become our primary desi...
Test Your Faith (James) No.15- Repentance Sunday
GraceLife Sarasota - March 24, 2024 16:49 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLast week was a hard sermon, as James taught us to look within ourselves for the cause of fights within the church. Our selfish, individualistic, arrogant pursuit of our own desires & passions put us at odds with each other, and with God. It was a tough message, but James provided a beautiful, so...
Test Your Faith (James) No.14- Church Fights
GraceLife Sarasota - March 17, 2024 18:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever witnessed, or been part of a fight in church? Maybe not fists, but words? I’ve seen church fights over some pretty crazy things, sometimes over little things, and other times big things. I’ve seen church fights over what version of the Bible should be preached from, even what time t...
Test Your Faith (James) No.13- What Wisdom Looks Like
GraceLife Sarasota - March 10, 2024 17:31 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWisdom is the guiding force, directing our decisions. The kind of wisdom we embrace determines the choices we make. In its simplest form, there are only 2 kinds of wisdom. There’s earthly wisdom and there’s Heavenly wisdom. Earthly wisdom starts off ok. It's alluring, promising, satisfying. Even ...
Test Your Faith (James) No.12- Watch Your Mouth
GraceLife Sarasota - March 03, 2024 17:58 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCan you remember the most hurtful things people have ever said to you? I can quote them perfectly. I remember many, where I was, who said it, their exact words, and how I felt, decades later I can remember every detail. Some of these things were 20, 30, 40 years ago. Isn’t it amazing how easily w...
Test Your Faith (James) No.11- Is Your Faith Useless?
GraceLife Sarasota - February 25, 2024 17:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA few weeks ago, I highlighted some popular spiritual phrases that are cheap, pointless, and powerless. Phrases like “follow your heart”, find inner peace, sending positive vibes, adjust your okra… I mean Chakra, etc. These are non-biblical phrases spoken by those who think they’re spiritual but ...
Test Your Faith (James) No.10- Hypocritical Judges
GraceLife Sarasota - February 18, 2024 18:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI find it painful and embarrassing when my own hypocrisy is exposed. Yet, there's a part of me that takes a peculiar satisfaction in identifying hypocrisy in others. Especially the hypocrisy of those who have accused me of hypocrisy. I am very good at spotting your hypocrisy. In fact, as a good p...
GraceLife Baptism Sunday
GraceLife Sarasota - February 11, 2024 18:31 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized. One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to atta...
Test Your Faith (James) No.9- Fake Spirituality
GraceLife Sarasota - February 04, 2024 17:27 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever heard someone say, “I’m not religious, but I am very spiritual”? What does being spiritual even mean? And what makes them spiritual? I guess it’s because they say they are. That’s really all you need to do to be spiritual. For many, that’s the extent of religion or spirituality, Its...
Test Your Faith (James) No.8- More Than Hearers
GraceLife Sarasota - January 28, 2024 18:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow do you think the American church is doing with providing opportunities for people to hear the Gospel? Can you think of any other time in church history with more creative, engaging, resources of biblical content. We have thousands of conferences & seminars offering fresh perspectives on how t...
Test Your Faith (James) No.7- Human Anger
GraceLife Sarasota - January 21, 2024 17:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you ever heard someone claim their anger is “righteous”? I’ve got an example of my righteous anger this week. Last Wednesday, driving to church down Tuttle, I came to the best-designed intersection in human history. You know the one where there’s a red light for Ringling, then 26 inches furt...
Test Your Faith (James) No.6- Perfect Gifts
GraceLife Sarasota - January 14, 2024 17:13 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"You therefore must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48) This verse from the Sermon on the Mount seems so out of place w/everything Jesus said about grace, mercy, & forgiveness, doesn’t it? Is this verse one of those verses you piously acknowledge, but secretly think… “...
Salt & Light by Guest Speaker Phil Alba
GraceLife Sarasota - January 07, 2024 18:46 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put i...
Test Your Faith (James) No.5- Your Heart's Desire
GraceLife Sarasota - December 31, 2023 19:42 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis won’t be comfortable, but its good for us to squirm sometimes, as we test our ropes of faith, right? What would life be like if you were given everything your heart desires? What if all your dreams come true? Would it make you happy? Would you be fulfilled? Would you be completely satisfied?...
GraceLife Christmas Eve Service
GraceLife Sarasota - December 24, 2023 17:59 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause gr...