Sea Change Sermons

The Danger of Deception Genesis 27:14–24

Satan has many tools — direct attack, temptation, distraction, division — but deception may be the most dangerous of all. Deceived people rarely know they are drifting.

Drawing from the story of Jacob and Isaac, this message examines how spiritual blindness and unchecked appetite create the conditions where deception takes root. When we lose our ability to discern, we become vulnerable to accepting what is false as true — often without realizing it until significant damage has been done.

The remedy is not more willpower. It is saturation in the Word of God, which keeps believers anchored against every wind of doctrine and every scheme of the enemy.

Sea Change Church
 Genesis Series S5E6 
Deceived By What You Perceived 
Pastor Joshua Pigg
 Genesis 27:1-13 
1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me, 4 and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. 9 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. 10 And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.” 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.” 

Genesis 27 opens with four people — Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob — each operating from a distorted perception of reality. Isaac’s physical blindness had become spiritual vulnerability. Rebekah knew God’s promise but took matters into her own hands. Esau had spent years despising the very inheritance he was about to lose. And Jacob, who already held the promise, felt he had to secure it through deception rather than trust.

The sermon’s central warning is simple and sharp: deception doesn’t look wrong. It looks right. Each character in this story had a reason that made sense to them. That’s what made it so dangerous.

This message challenges listeners to examine the places where feelings have quietly replaced truth — where something has been justified because it felt right, seemed logical, or appeared to be working — and to return to God’s word as the anchor for perception.

Future Glory
In The Light Of The Lamb
Pastor Harry Wilson

“In the Light of the Lamb” · Glory Revealed Series, Episode 3 April 26, 2026 · Sea Change Church · Pastor Harry Wilson · Revelation 21:22–27

What does heaven actually look like — and is it anything like how we’ve imagined it?

In the closing message of the Glory Revealed series, Family Pastor Harry Wilson lands in Revelation 21, the second-to-last chapter of the Bible, where John on the island of Patmos sees a vision of the New Jerusalem. No temple. No sun. No moon. Just the Lamb — radiating the glory of God across the entire city, permanently.

Harry traces a three-part arc that’s been building across the series: glory restricted in the Old Testament (hidden behind veils, locked in the Holy of Holies, accessible only to one priest once a year); glory revealed through the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus; and now — glory reigning, filling every corner of new creation without restriction or shadow.

The message reframes heaven entirely: it’s not a location, it’s a person. It’s the unrestricted, all-encompassing presence of God that makes heaven heavenly. And the same Lamb who was slain for the forgiveness of sins is the lamp that illuminates eternity — meaning our present hope runs in both directions, backward to the cross and forward to the city.

Harry also unpacks the open gates of the New Jerusalem — a picture of both radical safety and radical welcome. Every danger defeated. Every nation invited. Entry not based on ethnicity, wealth, power, or moral striving, but on belonging to the Lamb. He closes with C.S. Lewis’s challenge that the problem with human desire isn’t that we want too much — it’s that we settle for too little. And with a practical word: you don’t have to wait for eternity to walk in the light of the Lamb. That’s available now.

Series note: Week 1 covered Moses asking to see God’s glory. Week 2 covered the Transfiguration. This is the final message.

April 19, 2026 
Sea Change Church Future Glory: S1E2 - Echoes of Glory 
Pastor Adam Stadtmiller 
Matthew 17:1-9 ESV 
1 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 4 And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. 7 But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.” 8 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. 9 And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.” 
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“Echoes of Glory” · Future Glory Series, Episode 2 April 19, 2026 · Sea Change Church · Pastor Adam Stadtmiller · Matthew 17:1–9

What does it actually mean to experience glory — and where does ours come from?

In the second message of the Future Glory series, Pastor Adam Stadtmiller takes us to the Transfiguration and treats it as a hinge point in redemptive history — the moment where Old Testament glory formally hands off to New Testament glory. But rather than stopping at the spectacle, he uses the scene to land on something deeply personal: the greatest glory any human being can experience is being accepted by and delighted in by God, as Father.

Working verse by verse, Adam traces three deliberate echoes between Matthew 17 and the Exodus narrative — the six days, the face shining like the sun, and the appearance of Moses and Elijah — showing that Matthew was doing something intentional. The Transfiguration isn’t random; it’s the fulfillment of everything Moses and the prophets pointed to, now embodied in Jesus and surpassing it entirely.

He draws from C.S. Lewis’s The Weight of Glory to make the central case: glory for Lewis isn’t brightness, fame, or achievement — it’s acceptance. The soul’s deepest and most persistent longing isn’t really for heaven as a destination; it’s for God’s approval. To be noticed. To be known. To be welcomed in and have him say, “Well done — come further up, come further in.” And because of Jesus, that approval is already yours.

The message closes with two pointed takeaways: relate to God as an accepting and loving Father no matter what the enemy tells you, and stop practicing image management — because when you know you are a beloved child of God, you don’t need to prove yourself to anyone.

Exodus 33:18-23

18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21 And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”

Show Me Your Glory” · Glory Revealed Series, Episode 1 April 12, 2026 · Sea Change Church · Pastor Adam Stadtmiller · Exodus 33:18–23

What does it actually mean to experience the glory of God — and when was the last time you asked for it?

That question is the engine of this opening message in the Glory Revealed series. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller anchors the whole three-week arc in Moses’ audacious request from Exodus 33: “Please show me your glory.” God’s response — tuck into the cleft of the rock, I’ll cover you with my hand, you’ll see my back but not my face — gives a picture of the Old Testament’s most fundamental problem: God’s glory was real, but it was rare, restricted, and risky. It took a rope around the ankle of the high priest just to retrieve him if he died in the Holy of Holies.

But that’s only the beginning. Adam traces glory through three movements: revealed at a distance in the Old Testament through cloud, fire, and tabernacle; made personal in the incarnation of Jesus, who literally tabernacled (the Greek word for “dwelt” in John 1:14 is eskēnosin) among his people as the new temple of God’s presence; and now, after the cross, available to be lived in, hosted, and participated in by every believer through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The big idea: God’s glory is His manifested presence — and in Christ, it is no longer distant to behold, but a life we are invited to participate in. That’s unique to Christianity. No other religious narrative offers a God who wants to share His glory with you, indwell you, and transform you from one degree of glory to another.

Adam draws from his own experience of feeling physically pressed to the ground by God’s weight during a worship night in Mammoth, and closes with two practical moves: become aware of His glory already around you in creation, and stop chasing human glory — start hosting His. The goal is not status or recognition. The goal is to look more and more like Jesus.

April 5, 2026 
Sea Change Church 
 Easter 2026 
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 
Pastor Adam Stadtmiller 
John 20:11-18 11 
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18  Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.