Grace Life Church of Naples
Grace Life Church of Naples
All Scripture is God-breathed, entirely trustworthy and sufficient to equip believers to live a life pleasing to the Lord. We believe in the sovereignty of God and the doctrines of God’s grace.
Episodes
Remembering That God Is on His Throne
Recorded: October 4th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteWe have so many questions about God’s activity in our lives—questions about prayer, our problems, our plans, and how we practice our faith. Today, we look at how much of our confusion about God’s involvement in all these things would evaporate if we simply reminded ourselves that, in all things, God is always on His throne.
The Mirror of God’s Word
Recorded: September 27th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteJames likens the Bible to a mirror, and today, we are looking at why the Bible is best understood and used when we think of it as a mirror.
Satan’s Assault on Your Mind
Recorded: September 13th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at how and why Satan assaults our minds and how we can protect ourselves from his attacks. Satan’s strategy is to lead your mind astray from Christ so that your discernment of truth is diminished, allowing him to sell you a lie. If he can do that, he can lead you into sin and ultimately establish a stronghold in your life.
Your Mission in the Marketplace
Recorded: August 30th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteTwo-thirds of Americans do not find their jobs fulfilling. But for the believer, it’s not just a job; it’s a place where we have been called to glorify God. Today, we will see that answering God’s call to fulfill our mission in the marketplace is more about living out the Gospel than it is about talking about the Gospel.
Lessons from a Thief
Recorded: August 23rd, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at a parable of Jesus concerning a dishonest man who, nevertheless, has qualities that Jesus finds commendable and worthy for believers to imitate.
When Jesus Is Everything to You
Recorded: August 16th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteThe Bible speaks of different degrees of knowing God. The first level is where you know God exists, but you want nothing to do with Him. The greatest level is where you personally know God, and your relationship with Him is nothing short of a love story. Today, we look at these different levels and the biblical evidence that will be present in your life when Jesus is everything to you.
God’s Will & Open and Closed Doors
Recorded: August 9th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteMany believers imagine that open and closed doors are the means by which God guides His people. However, the Bible is clear that there are open doors we should not go through, and there are closed doors that we should knock open through prayer. Today, we look at the principles contained within this complex subject and at the divine plan God wants His people to follow so that they may know His will regarding how to respond to a door, whether it is open or shut.
As You Think, So You Thank, So You Live
Recorded: August 2nd, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at Psalm 26:3, which teaches that the way you think determines whether you live with thankfulness or bitterness. In turn, this entirely determines your actions.
Our Last Song Should Be Our Loudest
Recorded: July 26th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at Psalm 71, where David cries out to God because he is being slandered and is under the threat of assassination. However, in this psalm, he looks back on a lifetime of praising God and shows us how, regardless of our circumstances, we can do the same and, therefore, ensure that our last song will be our loudest.
Who Are the True Worshipers?
Recorded: July 19th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking primarily at the necessity of true worship and the nature of a true worshiper.
What Does God Want from Me?
Recorded: July 12th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIf you ask the world what the purpose of life is, you will receive a variety of answers. Indeed, even if you ask the Church, you may receive a variety of answers. However, the Bible makes it all very simple. In today’s passage, we will examine God’s description of what He wants from our lives, because if we get that right, then our entire life will have been a success.
See, I Am Doing a New Thing
Recorded: July 5th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteThis morning, we take note of the fact that although God’s character and purposes never change, His methods do. Today, we are looking at God’s instructions for when He brings about a great change in our circumstances.
The Approachable Father
Recorded: June 28th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, having spoken last week on the trustworthy Father, we look at how the cross, the character, and the credentials of Jesus all loudly proclaim how approachable He is, even to the worst of sinners.
The Trustworthy Father
Recorded: June 21st, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this Father’s Day sermon, we look at Psalm 25, where David lays out the major areas in which God can be fully trusted and gives the reasons why He can be trusted. Knowing that God is trustworthy will radically affect your walk with Him and your growth in Him.
Why Does God Make Us Wait?
Recorded: June 14th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at the importance of waiting on God for His answer to our prayers, the reasons why He often makes us wait, and the disaster that comes from not waiting on God.
When All Your Efforts Have Failed
Recorded: June 7th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at the occasion when Peter sat dejected and told Jesus that he had toiled all night and caught nothing. This passage explains exactly what to do when all your efforts have failed.
How to Ride Out the Storms of Life
Recorded: May 31st, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at an experience Jesus’ disciples had when they faced a crisis so severe that they thought they were going to die. From this passage, we learn lessons about trouble that will enable us to ride out the storms of life.
The Friend Everybody Needs
Recorded: May 24th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at 1 Corinthians 16:13–14, where Paul tells us how to be the friend everybody needs. It turns out that his comments also describe why Jesus is the perfect friend to us.
Four Conditions for Effective Prayer
Recorded: May 17th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteThere are great promises that God has made that are unconditional. However, His promises to answer prayer are conditional. Today, we are looking at the four conditions that God gives. If you meet these simple conditions, your prayer life will produce dramatic results.
How to Make a New Start
Recorded: May 10th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we will look at the challenges Nehemiah faced in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and the great difficulties he had to overcome. In the text, we discover God’s instructions for how to make a new start.
Safe in God’s Hands
Recorded: May 3rd, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at why the believer’s soul and salvation are perfectly safe because he or she is in God’s hands. God’s Word says so much about how His hands guarantee our eternal security, but we have narrowed it down to 42 Scriptures.
Keeping Your Passion for God
Recorded: April 26th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteThe first commandment tells us that the most important thing to God is that we serve Him out of a passionate love for Him. This may seem like an impossible goal to reach, but in Romans 12:11, Paul tells us how to get there. This is what we are examining today.
Fighting for What God Has Already Given You
Recorded: April 19th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are going to look at the principles contained in the account of a man named Caleb, who had to fight for something God had given him 45 years earlier. Sometimes we do not receive what God wants for us because, as James says, “We do not have it because we never asked for it.” Other times, the reason we never receive what God has for us is because, like Caleb, a mountainous task lies before us—one that is filled with opposition and difficulty—and we do not want to make the effort. This second reason is what we will be looking at today.
What Great Faith Looks Like
Recorded: April 12th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, through the story of the Canaanite woman, we are shown the anatomy of a faith that will not be discouraged until it obtains from God what it came to Him for.
Remembering the Resurrection
Recorded: April 5th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we look at John chapter 14, where Jesus is speaking to His heartbroken disciples on the night before His crucifixion. His divine counsel of comfort consists of telling them to ‘remember the resurrection.’ Jesus shows them how grasping the truth of the resurrection by faith brings a comfort that is sufficient for any sorrow.
Christ’s Triumphant Entry
Recorded: March 29th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we examine the profound claims Jesus was making when He entered Jerusalem on a donkey, and we compare what He did that day to how He enters the heart of an individual.
How to Pray Effectively
Recorded: March 22nd, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we examine the many Scriptures that describe actions and attitudes that can hinder your prayers from being answered. Eliminate these, and your prayers will be far more effective.
There’s a Purpose in Your Pain
Recorded: March 15th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we take note of the fact that the Bible teaches that God always has a purpose in our pain. We examine His divine plan for addressing our pain and how to progress from pain to praise.
The Strength of the Believer
Recorded: March 8th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are examining why so many Christians lack the strength to resist certain temptations, share their faith, and have peace in the midst of their trials. This strength comes from one place alone, and God clearly tells us how to obtain it.
The Ways We Are to Witness
Recorded: March 1st, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteMost believers understand witnessing to include sharing the gospel or their testimony, but the Bible mentions numerous other ways that are vital to how Jesus Christ is perceived in the world.
How to Sap Your Spiritual Strength
Recorded: February 22nd, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteMany Christians would like to have more zeal, faith, and holiness, but these often seem unattainable. Today, we are looking at the life of Samson to examine the actions and attitudes that drained his strength—and will drain ours as well.
Faith’s Fight to the Finish
Recorded: February 15th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we examine Jesus’ final command to believers before He heads to the cross. It is God’s grand call to faithfulness.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Recorded: February 8th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are looking at the statement that Jesus makes in Mark chapter 12 when He turns to a scribe and says, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” What does that mean? We are examining the evidence that a person is being drawn near to Christ by the Holy Spirit.
When Lot Lingered
Recorded: February 1st, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteGenesis tells us that the Old Testament character Lot hesitated to respond to God. Had it not been for God’s grace—grace that dragged him and his family out of the city of Sodom—he and his entire family would have perished under God’s judgment. In this message, we examine Lot’s spiritual condition, which helps explain why so many believers today are sinfully slow to respond to God.
When God Feels Distant
Recorded: January 25th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteMany people are asking the question, “If there’s a God, where is He? Why doesn’t He reveal Himself?” Many believers also wonder why God feels so distant at times. Today, we are looking at the Bible’s clear response to this frequent inquiry.
Why We Are to Witness
Recorded: January 18th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteBelievers often shrink from the topic of witnessing, largely due to a misunderstanding of what is being asked of them. Today, we examine this issue in order to alleviate fear and to introduce believers to this joyful activity—one that has the potential to bear fruit for eternity.
Devout But Deceived
Recorded: January 11th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday, we examine the vast majority of Jesus’ admonitions, which are aimed at religious people who believe they are on their way to heaven but who are, in fact, horribly deceived. We also look at the only remedy for these churchgoers whose appearance of godliness is a total sham.
A Portrait of a Perfect Person
Recorded: January 4th, 2026Dr. Paul BazalgetteJames 3:2 says that if anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man. Today, we examine what God says about the proper use of our tongues, so that in the future we may better aim for spiritual maturity.
The Witness That You Walk With God
Recorded: December 28th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn today’s podcast, we examine the second commandment: to love people. We observe how this commandment naturally flows out of obedience to the first commandment—to love God. Consequently, loving others is the evidence that one is truly obeying the first commandment. We also explore what God means when He calls us to demonstrate His love to others.
The Christ We Are to Copy
Recorded: December 24th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday we are looking at Matthew 12:18–21, which gives us a wonderful description of Jesus. As numerous texts tell us to be imitators of Christ, we will briefly examine these characteristics and demonstrate how these attributes can—and should—be adopted into each believer’s life.
The Way of Christmas
Recorded: December 21st, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn the decade before followers of Christ were called “Christians,” they were known as “the Way.” Today, we look at what the Bible says to show that Christianity is not a club to join, but rather a “way”—a new way of life.
Can You Follow Jesus and Reject Paul?
Recorded: December 14th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday we are responding to individuals who are creeping into the visible church claiming to follow Jesus while rejecting the teachings of the Apostle Paul. By examining the internal evidence of Scripture, we will appeal to forty-one different passages to demonstrate that the Apostle Paul’s preaching and teaching are, indeed, the inspired Word of God.
Keeping the Door Shut to Temptation
Recorded: December 7th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday we are examining two things related to temptation. First, we will consider whether the temptation of Jesus was a real temptation—could He have sinned? Second, we will examine the two major instructions Jesus gives on how to keep the door shut to temptation.
Understanding the Nature of Temptation
Recorded: November 30th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday we are looking at a text that lays bare the anatomy of temptation, explaining exactly how Jesus Christ, in His humanity, was able to overcome temptation—and how we can as well.
The Anatomy of a Thankful Person
Recorded: November 23rd, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteToday we are looking at the biblically prescribed characteristics that naturally produce thankfulness in a believer—thankfulness that both blesses the believer’s life and glorifies God.
From Failure to Forgiveness
Recorded: November 16th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we examine the critical areas of weakness displayed by Peter that foreshadowed his eventual denial of Jesus. We also look at the amazing grace of Christ that not only restored him but is also available to us.
Practicing Christ’s Patience
Recorded: November 9th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we explore the necessity for believers to exercise divine patience in order to do the will of God. We also consider how we are to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in developing this level of patience, and how God is at work both in us and through us as we practice it.
Arguments for a Post-Tribulation Rapture
Recorded: November 2nd, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteSome time ago, we looked at the arguments for a pre-tribulation Rapture. You can find that sermon on our website (gracelifechurchofnaples.org) or on our YouTube channel under the title “The Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church.” Today, we are looking at the other side of the argument. While presenting the post-tribulation view, we will also examine the pre-tribulation counterargument. May God bless you as you study His Word.
The Seeds of Peace
Recorded: October 26th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteLast week, our message was titled ‘Where Christ Rules, Peace Reigns.’ Today, we are continuing with the topic of how to experience God’s peace, regardless of the crisis you are in.
Where Christ Reigns, Peace Rules
Recorded: October 19th, 2025Dr. Paul BazalgetteIn this sermon, we are examining the simple, personal adjustments we must make in order to enjoy the marvelous gift of God’s supernatural peace—a peace that flourishes regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in.