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Send us a textWe live in an age where it has never been easier to take up the mantle and speak out for a cause one believes in. As Christians, we sometimes feel that this is our calling! Unfortunately, many have opted to use their platform to "cancel" others or incite division. This phenomenon isn't new, and it isn't divinely ordained. In this sermon from our series from the book of Acts, Pastor Chad Stuart looks at Paul and Barnabas and their ministry to the people of Iconium in Acts 14:1-28. What was their reaction to the mob mentality of that day? How can we learn from their response to be better witnesses for Jesus today?DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person

Send us a textIn Jonah 4, we find Jonah angry with God. However, he isn’t angry about what God has done but rather what He hasn’t. God has spared the Ninevites, showing them favor despite Jonah’s wishes to see them punished and destroyed. As God reveals why, we’ll see how Jonah’s view of God’s goodness is hampered by many of the same pitfalls we wrestle with, even today. We welcome back Dr. Bill Knott, editor of the Adventist Review, as he shares a message titled, “In the Shadow of God’s Goodness.”DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to hear your s

Send us a textAccording to our video analytics, most of our weekly viewers watch this service from the relative comfort of the United States, where religious freedom is still protected. However, for many other places globally, living as a Christian means accepting a remarkable amount of risk. At its core, Christianity is a calling to a life of risk. A willingness to embrace risk to live out and speak about Jesus and His countercultural Gospel message.On a scale of 1 to 10, how risky does your life feel? Is God calling you to something greater, which involves stepping out in faith and accepting a higher degree of risk? Listen in as Pastor Matthew Piersanti shares a message in our series from the book of Acts titled “It’s Worth the Risk.”DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.o

Send us a textIn the ninth chapter of Acts, Luke details the conversion story of Paul from an ardent persecutor of Christians to a devout follower of Christ. What does Paul's conversion tell us about God's willingness to meet us where we are? We invite you to listen as Pastor Matthew Piersanti continues our series from the New Testament book of Acts titled, "In Transition..."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to hear your story, feedback, and how we can better serve you.Spencerville Church website: https://spencervillechurch.o

Send us a textJust as the printed page, radio, and television were once the technological frontiers for the gospel message, we now have internet-based platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as well. Is the use of these new evangelistic tools something that someone else will do? Or do each of us play an individual role in using these media to distribute and live out the gospel message? Join us as Pastor Chad Stuart shares the latest message in his series from the book of Acts titled "To the Ends of the Earth."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the

Send us a textAfter a few weeks of stand-alone messages, we return to our sermon series from the New Testament book of Acts. We welcome Pastor Matthew Piersanti back to the Spencerville pulpit as he leads a study from chapter 8. In this message, we'll encounter a sorcerer who has dedicated his life to Christ while still struggling with a deep desire that is typical to us all. What is his struggle, and how can we overcome these same pitfalls in our own lives?DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to hear your story, feedback, and how we can bette

Send us a textWe invite you to join us in worship as we come together to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class of 2021 and how God has continued to lead and bless them. Pastor Andrea Jakobsons returned to the Spencerville pulpit on May 29 to lead our baccalaureate worship service at Spencerville Church with a message titled "Succeed With Him."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to hear your story, feedback, and how we can better serve you.Spencerville Church website: https://spencervillechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.fac

Send us a textThe dictionary defines holiness as "to be holy, or a state of sanctity." Unfortunately, more common definitions used in everyday language find the word or its root in phrases that are less than complimentary, like "holier than thou." Even little catch-word phrases like "holy moly" belie the true definition of the word. What is holiness, actually? Why is the call to holiness important in the life of the Christian? Join Pastor Kandace Zollman as she shares a stand-alone message this week titled "In Search of Holiness. Or Not."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on

Send us a textMany Christians desire to travel to the Holy Land to walk in Jesus’ footsteps. However, we don’t have to travel thousands of miles to walk in the steps of Jesus. Matthew 25:34-40 gives us insight into how this can be done. "Whatever you did for the least of these…you did for Me.” Is there a change that takes place in us when we serve others in this way? What would a church community look like where serving others is a priority for every member? We invite you to worship with us as Pastor Chad Stuart delivers a stand-alone message titled, “Sanctified Through the Least of These.”DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE

Send us a textThe process of recognizing and honoring the women in our midst follows an example set for us in Scripture. God-honoring women have a long legacy of influence in both the Old and New Testaments. It’s appropriate to pause and reflect on this during our worship service. We should not only do this on Mother’s Day but make it our practice to honor women all year long. Join us in worship as Pastor Chad Stuart honors the ladies of the past and present in a message titled "They Left a Legacy."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to

Send us a textWould you be willing to suffer for others to hear about Jesus? The apostles consistently chose the mission of the Gospel above their own personal welfare—even being willing to die so that they would have an opportunity to share the good news. Philip, a deacon in the early church, set an example of what it means to “gossip the gospel.” As we continue our sermon series from the book of Acts, we invite you to listen as Pastor Chad Stuart shares a message titled, "Gossiping the Gospel."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLINE!If you're on social media, we'd enjoy the opportunity to connect! We want to hea

Send us a textChange is inevitable when growing a family beyond the parents. Family life can become even more complicated when you move to a situation where the kids outnumber the parents. It's the same with churches. When the size of the family grows, the challenges grow as well. We must learn to change—we must adjust. To be clear, this is not a phenomenon unique to Spencerville; we see it in the early Christian church. How did the apostles address this need for change? What did church leadership do that their culture didn't expect? Hint: it builds on last week’s message regarding distraction... We invite you to listen in as Pastor Chad delivers the latest message from our series from the Book of Acts titled "Growth=Challenges=Change."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://

Send us a textLife in the modern world is full of distractions—something that keeps us from accomplishing our mission—from accomplishing the primary task at hand. Noted Georgetown professor and author, Cal Newport, cites studies in his latest book that the average white-collar worker accomplishes only 1 hour and 15 minutes of undistracted work in a given day. Distraction is unfortunately no less prevalent in the church. However, distraction within the church is not new. Acts 5 depicts a bevy of forces, instigated by the devil, to stop the spread of the gospel by distracting Jesus' disciples. How did they respond? How were they able to stand against these distractions? The answer to these questions may surprise you. Listen in as we continue to explore and study the book of Acts through a message from Pastor Chad Stuart titled, "The Devil's Distractions."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church f

Send us a textThe story of Ananias and Sephira in the book of Acts can seem out of place at first glance. After all, the story sees God using instantaneous divine judgment again Ananias and Sephira for their bold-faced deceptions toward God and the young Chrisitan church. Although this tragic incident involves money, there's more to it. It's also about authority and our willingness to give God all authority in our lives, holding nothing back. Are we prepared to give ourselves in full and complete surrender to God? If you've ever questioned the Biblical accounts of God's divine judgment and considered them to run counter to a God of love and grace, this is a message you won't want to miss. Listen and worship with us as Pastor Chad Stuart as he shares the next message in our series from the Book of Acts titled "Disrupting the Glorious Progress."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the chu

Send us a textMost of us have heard the idiom about getting up on the right side of the bed. When we wake up positive and ready to face the day, we must have gotten up on the right side of the bed. It's based on an old Roman belief that is steeped in superstition. At this point, you might be asking, "What does this have to do with Easter?"Easter is one of the two pivotal milestones for Christianity (the other being Christmas). One celebrates the birth of Christ, and the other, the resurrection that follows His death. As Christians, we talk a lot about Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross—how His death saves us. However, what is it saving us from, and just as importantly, what does it save us to? Could there be a blessing in the meaning found within Jesus' death? We invite you to worship with us as Pastor Chad Stuart shares a special Easter message titled “The Right Side of the Resurrection.”DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to

Send us a textWe never expected that Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church would not be able to gather in person for over a year. Yet here we are—385 days since we last met in person. To be clear, worship has not stopped. In fact, it has continued to grow in exciting, new, and different ways. But the building has remained closed. We've been unable to gather corporately. In some ways, there is a similarity between our year-long exile and what we read about the Jewish experience scripture. No, ours wasn't as long, nor likely as troubled, but it still feels a bit like a return from exile nonetheless.In scripture, God used exile to remind His people of their need for reform—of their need to turn back to Him. Similarly, we've had time over the past year to reflect on this same need.We are in the early phases of regathering after an exile of sorts. Even though we rejoice as we return to the sanctuary, we recognize that our community is different from a year ago. There will be some who do not retu

Send us a textIf the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we need each other. However, this concept is not new. Before His return to heaven, Jesus gave humanity two gifts—the gift of the Holy Spirit, and the gift of His church. In doing so, Jesus himself told us that our faith will die if we become detached from a community of faith. Over and over the Bible contrasts life in spiritual community with those who are not. How can we discipline ourselves to depend on God more fully? Why is doing so literally the most important calling for the Christian? We invite you to listen as Pastor Matthew Piersanti delivers the message from our series from the Book of Acts titled, "The Discipline of Dependence."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team me

Send us a textAre you boldly speaking the name of Jesus in your everyday life? Do you speak of him at work? At home? On the phone with friends? Do you consider Jesus to be the source of everything in your life? In a world that's increasingly less comfortable with speaking about matters of faith, the Bible calls us to do exactly that. However, there's a key to speaking boldly that makes all the difference. What is it? Join the Spencerville Church in worship as Pastor Chad Stuart shares a message from our multi-part series from the Book of Acts—a message titled, "No Other Name."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET'S CONNECT ONLIN

Send us a textOur needs are not invisible to Jesus. On the contrary, He sees ALL of our needs and responds in the way that is best for us. Unfortunately, our human hearts are less in tune with the needs of others. Because of sin, prejudice, and indifference, we often fail to respond to those for whom we could have an impact. How can we remove these blinders and align our hearts with God? How can we get past our indifference, learning to serve others with the same faithfulness that Jesus shows us? Listen in as Pastor Matthew Piersanti as he shares this week's message titled, "God Will Feed Your Need."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with you. Reach out through our website at https://spencervillechurch.org/contact, and a team member will be in contact at your convenience. Yes! We offer in-person and online Bible studies.LET&a

Send us a textWhy do we do good deeds for others? Is it possible to believe in social justice and still speak about salvation in the name of Jesus? Modern culture seems to paint a picture of social justice that asks us to do good for others while abstaining from any attempt to proselytize or "convert" them. However, when Jesus performed acts of service, it was about setting Himself aside for the sake of others, so that their lives would be improved, but also that he might also show them that he was their Savior. Are we called to do the same? If yes, how do we navigate acts of service that address an immediate human need while also addressing a person's eternal reality? Listen as Pastor Chad Stuart leads our study from the book of Acts titled "True Disinterested Benevolence."DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE?If you're searching for a warm, welcoming place to grow your faith, Spencerville is the church for you! Have questions about studying the Bible? We want to journey with yo