His name was Joseph, but the apostles renamed him after the thing he was known for — encouragement. Pastor Adam traces Barnabas through Acts: the man who sold his land for others, vouched for Saul when no one else would, and gave John Mark a second chance that changed church history.

A new series in Acts. A new question for the congregation: if the people around you asked you to be a busboy, would you be honored or offended? The person they asked in Acts 6 was Stephen. He started at the tables. He ended in the streets, speaking with a wisdom and courage no one could withstand. That’s the invitation.

Peter doesn’t just say you’ve been given a gift — he tells you exactly where it belongs: sandwiched between a mature, praying, loving life and the glory of God. Pastor Adam unpacks what it means to be a steward, not an owner, of what you’ve been given.

Every believer has been given a gift by the Holy Spirit — but given for what, and for whom? Pastor Adam opens 1 Corinthians 12 to argue that gifts were never meant to build a platform, then asks the harder question: is yours sitting unused?

Is your church Spirit-filled? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller reframes the question: the primary evidence of the Holy Spirit isn’t what you can do — it’s who you’re becoming. Fruit is grown. Gifts are given. And only one of them requires abiding.

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 to every power and authority — seen and unseen — through the transformed lives of ordinary people.

In the third message of The Church series, Pastor Adam 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.

Division doesn’t just weaken the church — according to Ephesians 2, it contradicts the entire point of the cross. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller walks through what Jesus actually accomplished: not just saving individuals, but tearing down the wall between them and creating one new humanity. The call to unity isn’t a nicety. It’s the evidence the world is waiting for.

Before anything else can matter — mission, unity, maturity — the church has to settle one question: who are we? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens The Church series in Ephesians 1, tracing what it means to be chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit. Not as doctrine to affirm, but as a foundation to stand on.