Reach Church

About Reach Church

Welcome to the weekly podcast of Reach Church led by Pastor Tyler Schoenberger. To learn more visit our website at https://reachchurch.online/ or download the Reach Church App. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach all people with Nothing But Jesus click here: https://subsplash.com/u/-JXH5TW/give

Publisher

Reach Church

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Oct 2020

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

239 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Privileged

   Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "Privileged" on Sunday, October 18, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware! Most of us carry a complicated relationship with money. We want more of it, worry about losing it, and rarely feel like we have enough. But Scripture challenges this mindset directly. Ecclesiastes 5 warns that those who love money will never be satisfied with it, and that the relentless pursuit of wealth brings more obligations, more anxiety, and ultimately more loss. Paul reinforces this in 1 Timothy 6, describing the love of money as a root of all kinds of evil, capable of pulling people away from their faith entirely. The deeper danger is not money itself, which Scripture often calls a blessing, but what wealth tempts us to believe about ourselves. Like a high wall in our imagination, as Proverbs 18 describes it, wealth creates the illusion that we are in control of our own lives and futures. Jesus addressed this directly in Luke 12 with the parable of the rich fool, a man who worked hard, saved diligently, and then built bigger barns to store it all for himself. God called him a fool, not because he saved, but because his entire focus was on accumulating for himself with no thought of being rich toward God. Everything we hold onto for ourselves alone is ultimately a total loss. But what we invest in something eternal outlasts us. The churches of Macedonia, described in 2 Corinthians 8, understood this deeply. Living in extreme poverty and severe trials, they gave beyond what they could afford and actually begged for the privilege of doing so. That posture was rooted in something profound: the recognition that Jesus, who had everything, became poor so that we could be made rich in the ways that truly matter. Generosity, rightly understood, is not an obligation or a guilt-driven response. It is a natural overflow of grace. When you truly believe that you are already rich because of what Christ has done, giving stops feeling like a loss and starts feeling like participation in something eternal. The early church grew not through programs or polished presentations, but through a contagious culture of generosity rooted in that conviction. True privilege is not defined by what you have or what you can accumulate. It is defined by what you are free to give. And because of Jesus, you are already rich enough to be the most generous person in the room.

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   11 Oct 2026

   God’s Not Mad at You

   Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "God’s Not Mad at You" on Sunday, October 11, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware! Many Christians carry a quiet, unspoken belief that God is disappointed in them, that He is keeping score and growing impatient with their failures. This belief shapes how they pray, how they worship, and how they see themselves before God. But a closer look at Scripture reveals something radically different. The writer of Ecclesiastes describes a distant God who might be provoked to anger, a picture that leads to a kind of fearful, tip-toeing faith. Jesus, however, reframes the entire relationship. He calls His followers to simple honesty, letting their yes be yes and their no be no, rather than dressing up empty promises with religious language. At the heart of the gospel is a truth that is difficult to fully absorb but absolutely essential: God's disposition toward those who are in Christ does not change based on performance. Colossians 2:6-7 describes believers as rooted and built up in Him, not constantly at risk of losing His favor. Romans 8:1 declares plainly that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because Jesus already bore every punishment for every sin on the cross. When He said it is finished, He meant it. The Holy Spirit may grieve over sin because of the harm it causes, but grieving is not the same as condemning. What actually produces lasting change in a believer's life is not fear of punishment but an understanding of God's kindness. Romans 2:4 makes this clear: it is His kindness that leads to repentance, not His anger or threats. When we fail, the right response is not to pull back from God in shame but to run toward Him, trusting that His love is not contingent on our performance. First John 4:18 reminds us that perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment, and the punishment has already been fully paid. God is not mad at you. He is for you, working in you, and His love in Christ is settled, permanent, and unchanging.

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   4 Oct 2026

   Nothing Left to Prove

   Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "Nothing Left to Prove" on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware! Most of us are quietly keeping score. Whether it is career success, social media followers, or how our kids are doing, comparison is a constant undercurrent in daily life. Ecclesiastes 4 cuts to the heart of this struggle, revealing that much of our toil and striving is not really about building something meaningful. It is driven by envy of the person next to us. And while laziness is never the answer, the Bible is clear that working simply to outcompete others leads to exhaustion, emptiness, and ultimately isolation. The relentless pursuit of winning the comparison game costs us the very relationships and community we were made for. The root of this problem runs deeper than habits or culture. It goes all the way back to Genesis, where humanity was offered the chance to gain significance on its own terms, apart from God. We took it, and ever since, we have been striving to earn what we were always meant to simply receive. Author Ernest Becker captured this well, describing how people pile up achievements and possessions to satisfy what he called an ache for cosmic specialness. That ache is real, and no amount of winning the comparison game will ever fill it. The gospel is the only thing that truly addresses this ache. Romans 5 declares that through faith in Jesus Christ, we have been justified and now stand in grace. Our worth is not determined by our stats, our accomplishments, or other people's opinions. God has already declared the verdict: we are His sons and daughters, adopted into His family, fully known and fully loved. The more that truth sinks into who we are, the more we realize we genuinely have nothing left to prove. There is no magic formula for getting there. It simply requires returning to the good news again and again, letting it go deeper and deeper, until the striving begins to lose its grip.

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