Worship at Spencerville

Send us Fan Mail We 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...

Send us Fan Mail In 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. Bil...

Send us Fan Mail According 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...

Send us Fan Mail In 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...&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Just 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...

Send us Fan Mail After 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 s...

Send us Fan Mail We 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 ABO...

Send us Fan Mail The 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...

Send us Fan Mail Many 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 co...

Send us Fan Mail The 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 worshi...

Send us Fan Mail Would 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...

Send us Fan Mail Change 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 i...

Send us Fan Mail Life 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 les...

Send us Fan Mail The 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...

Send us Fan Mail Most 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 mileston...

Send us Fan Mail We 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, t...

Send us Fan Mail If 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 com...

Send us Fan Mail Are 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 make...

Send us Fan Mail Our 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 ca...

Send us Fan Mail Why 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 as...

Send us Fan Mail There’s something special about the first time you fall in love. No less special is being in love. One author termed the act of love “a passionate understanding of another person.” It takes the head and the heart together to really experience love the way God meant it to be experienced. There is an intimate connection between the human heart and the divine heart. We see this in sc...

Send us Fan Mail God wants each of us to understand His grace and experience conviction both emotionally and intellectually. If we only possess an understanding but lack a first-person encounter with the grace of God available through Jesus, we are incomplete. How do we move beyond simply understanding His grace to encountering His grace? How do we receive the faith tune-up that Jesus promises in...

Send us Fan Mail The second chapter in the New Testament book of Acts holds a story of the disciples experiencing the Holy Spirit in a way that was bewildering to those looking on. They were speaking in different languages—languages that they likely wouldn't have known. Onlookers wanted to know how this was possible? But the disciples knew that with God, all things were possible. They asked a...

Send us Fan Mail The Book of Acts serves as the New Testament record of the early-Christian church being formed and sent out to the world. In the very first chapter, we find a few short sentences which, at a cursory glance, add little to the biblical narrative. Beyond containing the first mention of a nominating committee, these sentences contain two important models for those of us living in the...

Send us Fan Mail "Wanna race?” Most of us remember the thrill of a race as kids racing during recess, or perhaps it was that shot of adrenaline as we lined up on the track during P.E. class. Of course, once a race is decided upon, there are the obvious questions that follow: “Where are we racing to?”, “Where are we starting from?”, and finally, “How do we know when to go?” Ironically, these q...