Chapel in the Pines Sermon Podcast

Date: January 4, 2026 Preacher: Joey Hall Stories shape our lives - for better or for worse. Guest preacher Joey Hall reminds us of the better story God tells that shapes us for the life he intended for us.

Date: December 28, 2025 Text: Hebrews 12:1-3 NOTE: The recording started a little late so the podcast starts as the sermon is in progress. As we had into a new year, how can we follow through on our good intentions to be closer to God? How can we pursue with perseverance his plans and purposes for us? These verses give us some helpful strategies to apply.

Date: December 21, 2025 Text: Luke 1:39-55 Mary's example reminds us that Jesus's birth is good news for everyone who is normal, ordinary, and unremarkable by the standards of this world. He is faithful to lift us up, and in return we exalt him.

Date: December 14, 2025 Text: Luke 1:5-25 Disappointments happen in life. We have unmet expectations. Prayers take way longer to be answered than we think they should. Yet even in our disappointment, God is faithful. He was faithful to the childless Zechariah and Elizabeth, he was faithful to his people as they waited for the Messiah, and he is faithful to us. Note: This week's sermon was roug...

Date: December 7, 2025 Text: Matthew 1:1-16 Matthew highlights people with messy stories as he presents Jesus's genealogy. Their examples give us hope that despite the messiness and even brokenness in our lives, we can be included in God's plans and purposes.

Date: November 30, 2025 Several people share testimonies of what they are thankful to God for.

Date: November 23, 2025 If we want to be healthy instead of dysfunctional when it comes to money; if we want to have financial sanity in a money-crazy world; then we've got to recognize and respond to this truth: Everything we have belongs to God.

Date: November 16, 2025 Despite what you've been told, despite how you have been treated, despite how may have thought of yourself or even acted at times - you are not a consumer . Your identity is not defined by your ability to take, to get, to consume. In this week's message we looked at who God did, in fact, create us to be - in relation to him, to others, and to the world around us.

Date: November 9, 2025 Text: Acts 9:31-43 In the final sermon of our "Unstoppable" series, we are reminded that gospel increase requires empowered witness. These verses illustrate three essential elements of that witness. As a church, we're not meant to pick one or two of these, but "all of the above"!

Speaker: Carole Taylor Date: November 2, 2025 Text: Acts 9:19-31 Saul shared his story with others to tel them about the difference Jesus had made in his life - and we can, too!

Date: October 26, 2025 Text: Acts 9:1-19 From the way Jesus speaks to Saul and Ananias in this passage, we're reminded that Jesus reveals himself to us so that we can reveal him to others.

Date: October 19, 2025 Text: Acts 8:26-40 We get to cooperate with God to share the good news about Jesus with others. The account of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch gives us some helpful starting points for doing so.

Date: October 12, 2025 Text: Acts 8:9-25 Sometimes we can feel like there's something that we should be experiencing spiritually, but we aren't. Others may talk about it, we might see examples of it in Scripture, but it simply hasn't been our experience. This week we considered the good news that we don't have to miss out on anything that God has for us - and we thought about what...

Date: October 5, 2025 Text: Acts 8:1-8 We experience negative, difficult surprises in life - setbacks. We don't get to choose whether they happen, but we can choose how to respond. If we respond well, they can actually prepare the way for God to do great things in us and through us.

Date: September 28, 2025 Text: Acts 6:8-7:50 Individual messengers can be stopped, but the mission of God is unstoppable. The faithfulness of those messengers is a big part of why this is true. This week, we looked at Stephen as an example of what it looks like to be completely faithful, and considered how we can follow his example.

Date: September 21, 2025 Text: Acts 6:1-7 We face bumps and obstacles as we pursue the mission Jesus has given us, and how we respond to those bumps really matters. This week we looked at how the early church faced one of those bumps, and how their response actually propelled their mission forward.

Date: September 14, 2025 We paused the "Unstoppable" series to focus on community and, specifically, our Connection Groups. We were made for community, we need and want meaningful connections with others - but community requires commitment. We looked at several commitments that we need to prioritize if we're going to experience community with fellow believers the way God intends for...

Date: September 7, 2025 Text: Acts 5:12-42 We all want to see seasons of breakthrough in our life with God - for us individually, for people around us, for our church. Those seasons do come; but when they do, there is also often pushback and resistance that we feel. This was certainly the case for the apostles in Acts 5. As we look at their example, we see not only how to persist when that resista...

Date: August 31, 2025 Text: Acts 4:32-5:11 What do our lives produce when our hearts are filled with fear? What about when they're filled with God's grace? In this week's passage we see this contrast lived out vividly, and are reminded that God's grace frees us to live fearlessly.

Date: August 24, 2025 Text: Acts 4:13-31 When we face opposition and obstacles - and we will - how do we respond in a way that doesn't stop us from doing what God has called us to do and going where he has called us to go? We get some help answering that question as we look at the example of Peter, John, and the early Church in today's passage. NOTE: Emergency alerts about a missing person...

Date: August 17, 2025 Text: Acts 3:1-4:12 We have been given a message of salvation in Jesus' name to proclaim. But what does this salvation include? We want to understand the full scope of this salvation that we proclaim - and are meant to experience.

Date: August 10, 2025 Text: Acts 2:36-47 We heard some great testimonies of healing this week, which are included at the beginning of this episode. Then, as we kicked off the "Unstoppable" series, we looked at values that the early Church was highly committed to and think about what it would look like for us to share those commitments.

Date: August 3, 2025 Text: John 6:1-30 "It's not about us" is a transformative realization. Even Jesus said that he didn't do anything on his own, but only did what he saw the Father doing. But how do we do this? This week we looked at how we can begin to cooperate with God and partner with what he is doing.

Date: July 27, 2025 Speaker: Tom Higgins Text: 1 Samuel 3 Guest preacher Tom Higgins talked about the four kinds of priests we see mentioned in 1 Samuel 3, and what that means for us as we think of ourselves as "priests" to God and others.

Date: July 20, 2025 Speaker: Shelah Ball Text: Psalm 23 Guest preacher Shelah Ball brought a great word on what it means that God is our Good Shepherd, and what difference that should make in our lives. Note: Due to a technical issue, the audio starts a few seconds after she started speaking.