Chapel Hill Bible Church - Sermons

In the first 3 chapters of the Bible we hear of God's marvelous creative work as He brings chaos into order and breathes life into the dust. But, 3 chapters later, He is actively "de-creating" what He created as He opens the floodgates of the heavens to destroy all life and mankind... with exception to a small remnant. In today's passage, we explore the story of Noah and the ark and God's faithful...

On the brink of the flood account, Geneses 6:1-8 reveals the utter depth of the heart of humanity and the heart of God. With sin and death at its all time worst, God holds humanity to account for their sin, but God never loses sight of His promises.

Genesis 5 is one long genealogy. But that does not mean it fails to be pertinent. It is pertinent in a special kind of way. Genesis 5 is the story of God‘s faithfulness, to keep his Word and his promises as we get ready for the story of Noah and the flood. And in the middle of the story is a departure from the pattern of the genealogy, the story of Enoch. It is a strange story. A wonderful story....

The Mission of God leads to the commission of the church - to make disciples. This Sunday, for part 2 of our Made for Mission week, we will look into the assurance and the promise that empower us to faithfully obey the commission.

Made for Mission week begins this Sunday as we look into the question, "What is the Mission of God?" Our hope and prayer is that God would use our time together in His Word to align us to His will and purpose for us as individuals and as His church.

When sin is not repented of, it intensifies and even enculturates. But grace is too stubborn to give up.

This Sunday, we kick off the next section in our series in Genesis - chapters 4-11. Now that we've looked at all the layers of Genesis 1-3, it is time to see how the story plays out East of Eden, in exile. Unfortunately, the curses of Genesis 3 begin to weave into the story of Adam and Eve and their descendants. Genesis 4:1-16 is the story of sin's first actions, involving distrust in God, envy, l...

In the book of Luke, we see an account of two men who live vastly different lives and how Jesus intersects with them during an important time. We will discover the one thing that He wants us to know and how that one thing can change everything about how we live today. What should we know in order to live a life of purpose and meaning, to make an impact, and to leverage our influence with the gifts...

Ten times in 1 Corinthians the apostle Paul resorts to the expression "Do you not know? ..." In other words: the Corinthians should have known better. We will look at two of these instances. The Corinthians had forgotten that God was in their midst, and we are no different: we tend to forget that, too, God's plan, however, has always been to be in the midst of his people, powerfully making things...

In his letter to the church in Philippi, the Apostle Paul reminds them that despite suffering and persecution they are to be encouraged through the power of the Spirit. Why? To humbly love one another through service and to be unified in one accord as they worship Jesus. It’s also here that we see one of the most vivid accounts of Jesus’ character as He defines humility while obeying the will of G...

Ezra and Nehemiah led God’s people when the problems were similar to ours—difficulty in trusting and obeying God, strife and division, and challenges from the prevailing culture. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah show how a Godly community arose following exile. We see God’s hand leading to miraculous reconstruction of the temple and city of Jerusalem. We watch an impoverished Jewish remnant grow in...

“Behold your God.” This is God’s message to his people in exile. We behold our God in all of his glory in his paradoxical character - he is simultaneously the mighty king and the gentle shepherd. We behold God’s glory in comparison to creatures - there is no one and nothing like him. Most importantly, we behold God’s glory in the face of his Son, Jesus Christ. What if, in 2023, we resolved to seek...

It's not too often that Christmas Day falls on a Sunday! We hope you'll make time in your Christmas morning plans to worship with us for an intimate, energetic, joyful family service at 10 am. Come in your Christmas jammies and enjoy some hot chocolate, carols, a short devotional by Pastor Jay, and gifts for the kids.

A memorable Christmas experience that our entire community and your whole family can enjoy! From start to finish, be brought into the message of the season through live Christmas music, relevant & hope-filled message, and a community candlelight experience.

This week we continue the Advent theme of waiting. We might call this God's gift of forced expectation, so that we actually live in light of the end (rather than for the immediacy of superficiality of the present). To that end, we are taking a bit of a detour in 1 Peter. For reasons I will explain on Sunday, this book makes sense for us to peruse in terms of Advent. The Well has been studying it....

Advent largely reminds us that waiting is the disposition of the Christian life. We are called to live fully for God, to serve His purposes, and to do good works, yes and amen, all the while we are waiting for something all of that is preparing us for and pointing us to... the arrival of our King. Sometimes we forget that. For the powerful, we can forget that and use our money and influence to fro...

The birth narrative of Jesus Christ is filled with beautiful hints of how God has orchestrated all of history to make a way for his people. Join us as we delve into Luke 2 in celebrating the Lord's coming!

A bilingual message on the story of Christmas from the perspective of Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist and aunt of the Lord Jesus.

The Bible often refers to God's promises as His covenant. That word is really important and a lot of other essential matters hang on that word. It appears 295 times in the Bible. If you have been watching the story unfold as we have studied Genesis 1-3 and the story threads all the way to Revelation, you will notice something extraordinarily important - God keeps all His promises and all His promi...

Picture yourself entering a once glorious palace that has fallen into disrepair. It obviously used to be grand but now it’s in tatters – parts of it looked bombed out, there is vandalism, furniture is in decay, fabrics are thread bare. A question haunts you: what happened here? How did it get this way? Moses is answering that question to his contemporaries – and us. Yet another layer of Genesis 1-...

Last week, Pastor Roddy showed us that we must pray for God's will to be revealed, God's name to be glorified, and that we should pray for our ultimate good - which is to know God Himself intimately. This week we will glean from the book of Revelation that a cry for Jesus to return must involve our deep prayers for Jesus to fulfill his global mission to save his people. Mission and prayer for Chri...

The final prayer in the Bible is one that points to the culmination of all things. It is one of the main cries of the entire Bible narrative yet is often ignored by Christians in their private and corporate lives. Join us as we delve into this brief prayer and learn some guiding principles while being challenged to long more and more for Christ's return.

The environment has gotten a lot of press since the early 80's, particularly how population growth and our technologies negatively affect it. I think most of us love a good vista or sunset, but should we go beyond just a nice devotional moment to consider what our Christian responsibility is toward the created order? Does the Bible call us to more intentional living as caretakers of the world? I t...

This week we will be concluding our 3-part mini-series within our series on Genesis on what it means to be human by looking at the topic of ethnicity and race. We will learn from Scripture how ethnicity factors into our identity as God‘s people, how sin has fractured the human race, and how the local church is to participate in God’s overall plan of redemption of becoming the “one new humanity” in...

In this week's sermon, we will take up what Genesis teaches us about marriage AND singleness. But then we need to talk about what we do if our situation is compounded by the fact that we are not only sexually broken in general, but we experience things like same sex attraction or gender disassociation. Our time will be quite practical and I hope very formational as we consider what it looks like f...