Spirit Church

Spirit Church
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Life can be messy, faith can feel hard, and the world can get loud... but the Spirit of God still speaks. Each week at Spirit Church, we open God’s Word together to find wisdom, hope, and direction for everyday life. Hosted by Brad Straarup — because we believe there’s always more in Christ.Learn more about Spirit Church and upcoming gatherings at https://www.spiritchurch.co

  1. 6d ago

    Why Am I Stressed? | Brad Straarup

    You're not failing. You're carrying too much. Maybe you took the day off and you're still tired. Or you came back from vacation and you're still tired. Someone asks how you're doing and "I'm good" comes out on autopilot, while everything underneath feels one more thing away from cracking. When we asked what you wanted to hear about, stress was one of the most requested topics. So in Week 2 of our series, You Asked For It, Brad takes on the question behind so many tired answers: Why am I always stressed? With a physics equation, a check-engine light, and one empty Coke Zero can. If you've ever felt guilty for being stressed, like it means your faith isn't strong enough, this is for you. If you've ever said "let me check my calendar" when you really should say no, this is for you. If you've ever tried to fix someone who didn't want to be fixed, this is for you. If you've ever thought through every what-if in a future you can't control, this is for you. If you've ever tried to pray your way out of something and wondered why nothing changed, this is for you. And if the pressure in your life isn't going anywhere, the diagnosis, the layoff, the bills, this is especially for you. Because stress isn't a sin. It's a signal. And Jesus never promised to take all the weight off you. He promised you'd never have to carry it alone. Hard pressed on every side. But not crushed. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  2. Sep 21

    How to Win Spiritual Warfare | Brad Straarup

    You're in a fight. Whether you meant to be in one or not. The argument that went ten levels deeper than it should have. The thing someone said three weeks ago that's still running laps in your head. The fear that wakes you at 3 a.m. and won't tell you its name. That's not a bad week. That's a battlefield. When we asked what you wanted to hear about, one topic won by a long shot. So in Week 1 of our new series, You Asked For It, Brad takes on spiritual warfare — without the Hollywood version, and without the obsession. If you've ever wondered whether the devil is actually real, or just a cartoon with a pitchfork, this is for you. If you've ever known something was a lie and still couldn't shake it, this is for you. If you've ever wondered whether what you're walking through is an attack, a consequence, or something God is up to, this is for you. If you've ever had a dream, a moment in your house, or an experience you couldn't explain and never told anyone about, this is for you. If you keep praying about the same thing and nothing seems to move, this is for you. And if you've lost this fight for so long that you've started to believe it's just who you are now, this is especially for you. Because Jesus went to a cross and didn't stay there. He went to a tomb and didn't stay there either. The battle that decides everything has already been won. You don't fight for victory. You fight from victory. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  3. Sep 14

    How Far Is Too Far? (Answering Your Relationship Questions) | Brad & Paige Straarup

    You sent over 60+ relationship questions anonymously. We answered them. Not the safe ones… the ones you'd ask a friend in a parking lot. Some of them were fun. Most of them were just real. So for the last week of It's Complicated, Brad and Paige went through them one at a time, out loud, in front of everybody. For singles: what to do with a season you didn't choose, and what most people get wrong about waiting. For dating: where the line actually is. Not a feeling. A boundary. For married: the questions people wrote down but would never say out loud, and a way to think through all of them. And then one section for everyone, because some things don't belong to a season of life. The thing you keep promising to quit. The thing that was done to you. The parts we usually go quiet on. We didn't go quiet. What the church avoids, the devil invades — and if we won't answer these, somebody else will. Six weeks ago we said it: the world's way makes it complicated. God's way makes it clear. This is what clear sounds like. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  4. Sep 7

    Let’s Talk About Sex | Brad Straarup

    Sex is not gross. It's a gift. But almost nobody hears it that way — because the church has largely gone quiet on it, and the world has not. So we grew up on a set of lies. It's just physical. It's not a big deal. It's private, it doesn't hurt anyone. And once those get you in, a second set keeps you there: this is just who I am now. I'm too far gone. If they really knew, they'd leave. In Week 5 of our series, It's Complicated, Brad has the conversation most churches skip — for the hurting, for the trapped, and for the married. It doesn't start with a rule. It starts with a $20 million violin, and something you would never do with it that you do with yourself all the time. Then Brad goes after the strategy — because nobody arrives at adultery in one step, and the path there is far more predictable than you think. There's a reason the thing you did in private didn't stay private. And there's a reason your body can sign a covenant your mouth never said out loud. Then he takes on soul ties. If you've been taught that every person you've slept with left an invisible cord attached to you, and that freedom depends on finding the right prayer to cut them, stay for this one. The cross was never a pair of scissors. If you've been hurt, there is healing here. If you're stuck, there is a way out. If you're married, there is a standard worth building on — and it's not the one you were handed. Because what the enemy came to sabotage, Jesus came to sanctify. That is what some of you were. Past tense. Naked and unashamed. That's still the goal. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  5. Aug 31

    How to Date God's Way | Brad Straarup

    Dating isn't your problem. Deciding is. You don't have a shortage of options... you have an infinite amount of them. One more swipe. One more app. One more profile. And somewhere in there we stopped asking "is this someone I can build a life with?" and started asking "could there be someone better one swipe away?" In Week 4 of our series, It's Complicated, Brad talks to singles about how to date God's way — and reminds married people they never actually stopped dating. But before the how, hear this: singleness is not a curse to be solved. It's an opportunity for impact. Paul wished everyone were single, because an unmarried person can move. Our God, named Jesus, changed the whole world — and He did it single. You don't need to find a person to find your purpose. So don't let a waiting season become a wasted season. Then Brad gets practical. There's not one verse in the Bible about finding the right one, but there's a whole lot about becoming the right one — before Ruth and Boaz ever found each other, she was already a woman of noble character and he was already a man of standing. He throws out the old list and gives a new one. He names seven red flags, because red flags are warnings, not accessories — they don't turn green, they get more red. And he defines what dating actually is: a process to move through, not a status to sit in. Because you never actually find the one. You choose someone. And the choosing is what makes them the one. Love isn't a feeling you fall into. It's a choice you keep making. That's what covenant is. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  6. Aug 24

    How to Be a Godly Woman | Brad Straarup

    There's nothing wrong with him. And there's nothing wrong with you. You've spent years thinking he was broken. He isn't broken — he's male. He's spent years thinking you were broken. You aren't broken — you're female. God designed you opposite each other on purpose, before sin ever entered the picture. In Week 3 of our series, "It's Complicated," Brad talks directly to the women — and gives the men a picture of who they're called to love and lead. When God said "I will make a helper," the Hebrew word is Ezer — a word God uses for Himself. "My help comes from the Lord." Eve wasn't given to Adam because he was lonely. She was given because he was insufficient for the assignment. And the word that follows, Kenegdo, means corresponding to him — face to face. Not above him. Not beneath him. Not behind him. Across from him. Then sin distorted the design. Brad walks through the four mistakes Eve made in Genesis 3 that women still get pulled into today: The wrong voiceThe wrong focusThe wrong desireThe wrong order "Did God really say?" is still the oldest question in the room. But Jesus died to break the pattern and bring us back to the Garden. Brad closes with four practical marks of a godly wife: She gives respectShe gives helpShe prioritizes her marriage over everything but ChristShe builds her home Stop demonizing God's design. Start walking in it. You were never just the reward for the mission. You're part of how the mission gets done. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  7. Aug 17

    How to Be a Godly Man | Brad Straarup

    Adam was standing right there. ‍ When the serpent showed up in the Garden, Adam wasn't off somewhere else. Scripture says he was with her and he said nothing. A lot of what men carry today traces back to a man who went silent when it was his job to speak. ‍ In Week 2 of our series, It's Complicated, Brad talks directly to the men — and gives the women a biblical standard to look for. ‍ Before Eve was ever in the picture, God gave Adam a work to produce, a place to protect, and a Word to preserve. Before a companion, he got a commandment. Before a woman, he got a Word. ‍ Then sin distorted the design. Brad walks through the four traps Adam fell into that men still fall into today: he was silent, he hid, he blamed, and he struggled with work. And that last one cuts both ways — the workaholic and the man on the couch are not two different problems. They're the same curse with two different symptoms. ‍ If you're hiding something... the browser history, the second account, the debt she doesn't know about, the pornography no one is naming — this message calls it into the light. ‍ But we don't have to follow our great-great-great-grandfather Adam. We can follow the second Adam. Adam was silent; Jesus spoke. Adam hid; Jesus stepped out. Adam blamed his bride; Jesus took the blame for His. ‍ Men, you're not in a waiting room. You're in a weight room. God is forming you. ‍ Manhood begins when you stop waiting for somebody else to take responsibility. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

  8. Aug 10

    The Lies Wrecking Your Relationships | Brad Straarup

    Dating, marriage, sex, heartbreak, singleness — every season of relationships comes with the same question: why does this have to be so complicated? Here's the truth: sin and the world complicate what God designed to be clear. Your relationships were never meant to be this hard. In the first message of our brand-new series, It's Complicated, Brad kicks off our Love, Sex & Marriage series by going back to the beginning — to God's original design for relationships in Genesis. Before the sin. Before the mess. There was an order, an intent, and a plan. Brad exposes the lies the enemy has been whispering since the Garden: To married people… "You married the wrong person." "It shouldn't be this hard." To singles… "You're behind." "The right person will complete me." About sex… "It's just physical." "God is holding out on you." He answers each one with the truth of God's Word. Because God isn't afraid to get His hands dirty. No matter what you've done or how messy it's been, He can breathe life into your relationships too. Stop looking for the right one. Start becoming the right one. LINKS Website: https://www.spiritchurch.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritchurch.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spirit.churchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spirit.church

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Life can be messy, faith can feel hard, and the world can get loud... but the Spirit of God still speaks. Each week at Spirit Church, we open God’s Word together to find wisdom, hope, and direction for everyday life. Hosted by Brad Straarup — because we believe there’s always more in Christ.Learn more about Spirit Church and upcoming gatherings at https://www.spiritchurch.co

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  • Creator
    Spirit Church
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    58
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    Clean
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    © 2026 Spirit Church
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