Seneca Community Church Messages

Join us as Jonny Buisch shares a message from Matthew 18:21-35, "Forgiveness Matters."

3/05/2023 - Seeking - Part 4: God in a Box by Dave Spencer

Everyone longs for a leader they can trust to give them prosperity, stability, and security. We might call them a “knight in shining armor” or, it may sound corny, even a hero. Yet, that’s what we hope for in every election, in our job, in our relationships, in a crisis - you get the idea. It is also what the people way back in the Old Testament longed for in a leader. However, no matter what lead...

When was the last time you had to walk the fine line of accepting a person while not affirming a behavior of a person? What happened? Why do you think it is so hard to live in that tension? What is at stake when we get it wrong? Join us this Sunday for the last installment of this segment of Can't Touch This! Part 13: Alternative Lifestyles. We will see what the Bible says about homosexuality and...

Being alone and/or feeling alone can be so hard to bear. This can be heavy lifting for the single person and sometimes even the married person. Join us this week for Can't Touch This! Part 12: Alone & More Than OK. Paul writes: ...God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others. 1 Corinthians 7:7 MSG Wouldn't be great to see single life and married life as a g...

2/05/2023 - Can't Touch This - Part 11: Love Broken by Dave Spencer

You want to talk about something that can be too hot to touch? How about raising kids? Everybody has an opinion on that and it's easy to be silenced. This Sunday, we will be talking about influencing the kids in your life. This isn't just for parents, it is for all of us.

This Sunday we might find that love can be as hot too touch as submission, but when the two are combined and held well, you will never want to let go of them.

In our message this Sunday, we will be trying to unpack a concept that can be just too hot handle and too prickly to pick up for anyone, but especially Christ-followers. Yet, you can't be in a successful relationship, especially a marriage, without trying to figure what this topic means for a Christ-follower today. That topic is Submission. God inspired Paul to write these words: Submit to one ano...

In our world today, there are many subjects it seems we can’t touch. Subjects that are taboo and have to be kept in the shadows, whispered about, or not talked about at all. That is just not true! They can be touched, they can be spoken of, in the light of God’s Word. Join us Sunday as we jump back into our series, Can't Touch This, and look at what culture may think can’t be touched. We are going...

1/01/2023 - The P-R-P Project by Dave Spencer

Did you have a nickname growing up? What was your least favorite? Why did you get it? Did you have a favorite one? So where are we going with this? Sometimes a Ghost of Christmas Past can show up in the way someone expects us to act and we get a nickname or a label. Sometimes those labels are positive, but the ones that most often would stick to our hearts were the negative ones. In our next insta...

Did you ever steal anything, cheat, or get in some serious trouble as a kid? What happened? (If the answer is no, you might not be telling the truth.) Because of this mistake, or other circumstances in your life, you may have felt or still feel shame ("I did bad, so I am bad"). Join as we look at the story of the shepherds of Jesus' day, the shame they felt, and how the truth of Christ can set us...

12/04/2022 - Ghosts of Christmas Past - Part 1: The Ghost of Past Offenses by Dave Spencer

Join us as Pastor Lynn Kent shares a message about Holiness, our God's most prominent attribute, based on Isaiah 6:1-8.

Who doesn't love the idea of having a morning where you can sleep in? Nothing to do but sleep. It is especially great on a cold, rainy, and snowy morning. But what happens to this concept when "sleeping in" is code for not being engaged? In our next installment of Seeking, we find an environment where everyone is sleeping except one boy. His lack of sleeping in is used by God to change the directi...

It can feel like it is impossible to come back from being crushed in our soul - when there doesn’t seem to be answers for our hurt, when there seems to be nothing that could make us feel better. When we read 1 Samuel 1:10, we can almost feel the helplessness and hopelessness of Hannah. Crushed in soul, Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried—inconsolably. 1 Samuel 1:10 MSG Why? Because most of us...

11/06/2022 - Seeking - Part 1: Helpless and Hopeless by Dave Spencer

10/30/2022 - Can't Touch This - Part 6: Feeling Lucky by Dave Spencer

Why is it that some of the tastiest foods are highest in calories? Why couldn’t a loaded cheeseburger be as healthy as broccoli? It’s just not fair! How do you balance healthy food with the tasty food? And don’t say healthy food is tasty food - especially anything with kale in it! For most of us, the unhealthy and healthy (kale-yuck) conversation has a lot of fun and innocent teasing in it. But ma...

Join us as we have a conversation with our Difference Maker Partners (Missionaries) John & Amanda Herrick. John will also share a message with us: A Heavenly Perspective for an Earthly Journey. This is certain to be a special Sunday!

There are parts of our world that are just so complicated with so many options. As we have seen, some have no wiggle room, but with others we just don't honestly know. When was the last time you genuinely asked, not because you were trying to get away with something, but you really wanted to know, how you can please God with your options? In Part 4 of our series, Can't Touch This, we are going to...

10/02/2022 - Can't Touch This - Part 3B: Overconfidence by Dave Spencer

In our world today, there are many subjects it seems we can’t touch. Subjects that are taboo and have to be kept in the shadows, whispered about, or not talked about at all. That is just not true! They can be touched, they can be spoken of, in the light of God’s Word. Join us as we look at what culture may think can’t be touched. We are going to see not what society or even tradition has to say, b...

Last weekend was a starting point for dealing with subjects it seems we can’t touch. We began by discussing the difference between a Commandment, a Conviction, a Matter of Conscience, a Conjecture, and a Choice and how to use the options we have. In this installment of Can't Touch This, we will see how "option overload" can set us up for confusion and how it can set us up for impact. Remember, tab...