Paul Spilker

Sep 24, 2024 | yourchurch.com | Kayla Pugh |Nate Irwin |Paul Spilker |Chris Martin

It is now fifty years—half a century—since I began teaching church history. Throughout the years, my approach to teaching the subject has undergone transformation. In the beginning, I concentrated on the dates, persons and events. But as the years have gone by, I’ve added an emphasis on the lessons of church history. I tell my students that church history is more than an academic subject—more than dates and dead people. For the Christian, church history helps us understand who we are.

Sep 17, 2024 | yourchurch.com | Paul Spilker |Greg Palys |Mark Vroegop |Chris Martin

Simply put, REACH is our annual church spotlight on the nations. We look at God’s plan for the nations and our role in that plan, in particular how we might help relieve global gospel poverty. For two Sundays every fall, we hear messages from the Bible about God’s global heart, usually with a guest speaker from one of our missions partnerships. We also hear from our visiting missionaries during morning services, in adult Sunday classes, and in small groups throughout the week.

Jun 25, 2024 | yourchurch.com | Mark Vroegop |Bjorn Carlson |Paul Spilker |Chris Martin

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Jun 18, 2024 | yourchurch.com | Paul Spilker |Chris Skinner |Chris Martin |Bjorn Carlson

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

Jun 11, 2024 | yourchurch.com | Paul Spilker |Chris Skinner |Mark Vroegop |Chris Martin

I almost always cry at baptisms. As I watch men, women, and young people walk out in front of the church to tell their story about how they were a mess but Jesus rescued them, I can’t help but get emotional. Especially after seeing a pastor pray with them, plunge them under the water, and raise them back up. They beam, and it makes me remember what that water really means. So, what does baptism mean? Baptism is one of the most beautiful moments you get to live out as a Christian.