Sea Change Podcasts

Storm Proof continues in James 4:7-10, four short verses packed with commands: submit, resist, draw near, cleanse, purify, mourn, humble. Pastor Joe Brandi, Sea Change’s pastor and missionary, preached this week and let the weight of the passage land. The key words are obedience, repentance and gospel, and the big idea is simple: God commands us to obedience, we repent of our sin, and we tur...

Storm Proof continues in James 4:1-6, and James does not ease into it. He opens with a question: “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?” His first readers were Jewish believers scattered along the Roman roads into cities like Ephesus and Rome, far from the rhythms and support of Jerusalem and surrounded by temples that offered a very different way to live. Over time th...

Storm Proof returns for a second season in the book of James, a letter that reads like the Proverbs of the New Testament: practical, direct, and short on patience for a faith that never reaches the hands. Martin Luther famously dismissed it as an epistle of straw for how much it talks about what believers actually do. James 3:13-18 sets two kinds of wisdom side by side. One comes down from above....

The series closes where the covenants land: on the other side of the cross, where giving is no longer commanded at all. The first week sat with the patriarchs, before any law existed. The second worked through the Mosaic law, where a tenth was required and failure carried consequence. Here in 2 Corinthians 9, Paul writes to a church under the New Covenant, and the word that governs the whole passa...

The second message in The Spirituality of Giving moves from the patriarchs to the law. Deuteronomy 14:22-29 sits inside Moses’ instructions to a people about to enter the land, and it hands generosity a calendar: a tenth of the yield of the field, set apart year by year, carried to the place God would choose for his name to dwell. Under the Mosaic covenant, giving became a way of life rather...

Opening a new series on the spirituality of giving, Pastor Adam goes back before the Law, before the tabernacle, before any command to tithe, to the first recorded act of worship in the Bible: Cain and Abel bringing offerings to the Lord in Genesis 4. Neither brother was commanded to give. They did it freely, and Scripture ties God’s regard not just to the offering but to the giver himself,...

The Ordinary Call of Elisha · Elijah: From Drought to Downpour , Episode 4 · September 13, 2026 · Sea Change Church · Pastor Adam Stadtmiller · 1 Kings 19:19-21 Elijah finds his successor not on a stage but in a field, plowing with twelve yoke of oxen. Pastor Adam opens the message with a caution against our “now, now, now” instincts: just because God lays a mantle on someone doesn&#82...

Picking back up inside the cave on Mount Sinai, Pastor Adam draws a sharp distinction that shapes the whole message: hearing God’s word is not the same as encountering his presence. When God asks Elijah, “What are you doing here?”, Elijah answers honestly, and almost entirely truthfully, except for one line: “I, even I only, am left.” Pastor Adam names that line for w...

Picking up right where last week’s message left off, Pastor Adam returns to Elijah mid collapse: fed twice by an angel, about to set out on a forty day walk to Horeb, the mountain of God. Rather than rushing to the wind, earthquake, and fire that make this passage famous, Pastor Adam slows down to trace exactly how Elijah got there, arguing the setup matters as much as the encounter itself....

Coming out of a twelve week vision series that ended with a charge to go and change the world, Pastor Adam opens a new eight week series in 1 Kings with a word of grace before another word of activation. Season one of Elijah ended with fire falling on Mount Carmel. Season two opens in a very different place: fear, flight, and a prophet under a broom tree asking God to let him die, hours after the...

Closing out this twelve week series through Acts, Pastor Adam turns to a married couple mentioned six separate times across the New Testament: Priscilla and Aquila. Ordinary tentmakers, they were living an established life in Rome until Emperor Claudius expelled every Jew from the city, an edict that displaced them into Corinth and, without their knowledge, directly into Paul’s path. Pastor...

Two weeks after Stephen and Philip, Pastor Adam introduces a third ordinary believer whose character became so defining it replaced his name. Born Joseph, he’s known throughout Scripture only as Barnabas — “son of encouragement” — a nickname given to him by the apostles themselves. In Acts 11, unnamed believers scattered by persecution take the risk of preaching to Gentiles for t...

Fresh off last week’s look at the seven ordinary men chosen to serve in Acts 6, Pastor Harry turns to one of them by name: Philip. In Acts 8, the Spirit pulls Philip out of a thriving, city-wide revival in Samaria and sends him to a single stretch of desert road, to a single person — an Ethiopian court official reading Isaiah in his chariot. Pastor Harry frames the whole message around a sim...

Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens a new series in the book of Acts with a question aimed directly at the congregation: if the people around you — not the leadership, the people — asked you to be a busboy, would you be honored or offended? It’s a sharper question than it sounds. Because the person they asked to bus tables in Acts 6 was Stephen — a man so full of the Spirit and wisdom that when he...

Gift Sandwich · Rooted in the Spirit , Episode 4 · July 19, 2026 · Sea Change Church · Pastor Adam Stadtmiller · 1 Peter 4:7–11 Peter doesn’t hand out spiritual gifts in a vacuum. In this closing message on the gifts of the Spirit, Pastor Adam walks through 1 Peter 4:7-11 to show how carefully Peter frames the gift he’s about to describe — sandwiched between three verses on Christian m...

Every believer carries a gift from the Holy Spirit — not a select few, not the spiritually elite, every single one. In this message, Pastor Adam opens 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 to make a case that runs against the grain of how most of us think about spiritual gifting: gifts were never meant to highlight gifted people. They were meant to reveal the Gift-Giver. The message slows down on a single Greek v...

John 15:1-17 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, un...

Campus Pastor Joshua Pigg opens with a single question pulled straight from John 15: Are you qualified to bear fruit? The setup comes from his own Navy enlistment — a process he expected to be a quick signature that turned into months of medical evaluations, uniform inspections, rack standards, and shoelace directionality. Qualification, it turns out, is always more involved than anticipated. But...

Galatians 5:15-26 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But...

Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens the new series with a question the church has been asked countless times: Is your church Spirit-filled? His answer reframes the question entirely. The Pentecostal definition — tongues, healings, works of power — isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. Paul’s letter to the Galatians places the fruit of the Spirit before the gifts, and for good reason: you c...

Sea Change Church The Church S1E4 – The Purpose of The Church Pt. 4 Mission Pastor Adam Stadtmiller Ephesians 3:7-13 7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bri...

In the series finale of The Church , Pastor Adam Stadtmiller arrives at the fourth and final purpose — Mission — and immediately reframes what that word means. Mission isn’t the program or the outreach event or the sandwich line, though it can include all of those. Mission is something far larger: the Church functioning as God’s masterpiece on display, making His manifold wisdom known...

Sea Change Church The Church S1E3 – The Purpose of The Church Pt. 3 Maturity Pastor Adam Stadtmiller Ephesians 4:1-7 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is o...

In the third message of The Church series, Pastor Adam Stadtmiller takes up the third of four church purposes — Identity, Unity, Maturity , Mission — and reframes what maturity actually means. The goal of the church, he argues, is not attendance. It is conformity to the person of Jesus Christ, a distinction that sounds subtle but changes everything about how a believer lives. The sermon’s th...

The Church S1E2 - Unity and a New Humanity Pastor Adam Stadtmiller Ephesians 2:11-18 11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, h...