Chapel in the Pines Sermon Podcast

Date: January 5, 2025 Speaker: Aaron Bull Text: Luke 17:1-10 Guest preacher Aaron Bull brings some great reminders and challenges regarding forgiveness.

Date: December 29, 2024 Speakers: Sean and Jessica Cole Text: Matthew 13:1-23 Sean and Jessica give an update on their lives and the situation in Israel, as well as looking at some principles from the Parable of the Sower.

Date: December 22, 2024 Because of Jesus, we can expect justice - so we work for it and wait for it.

Date: December 15, 2024 Because Jesus came at Christmas, we have the hope of victory - over sin, opposition, even over death itself.

Date: December 8, 2024 In this first sermon in our Advent series, we look at a few different Scripture passages to see that because of Jesus, we have the joyful hope of new beginnings. Plus, I share several interesting facts about the carol from which our series title is taken, "O Holy Night."

Date: December 1, 2024 Several of the Chapel family share what they are thankful to God for as they reflect on this past year.

Date: November 24, 2024 Text: Psalm 136 In this final sermon in the Vital series, we look at the importance of thankfulness from Psalm 136.

Date: November 17, 2024 A reminder of why it matters that we tell others about Jesus, and some vision casting for how we are going after this in 2025 through a yearlong, churchwide emphasis on evangelism called "Beyond."

Date: November 10, 2024 Text: Psalm 27 In this Psalm we are exhorted to "Be strong and take heart" even while we "Wait for the Lord." How do we do this? How do we wait courageously? Psalm 27 highlights three disciplines we can choose into, while we are in waiting seasons, that can help us wait courageously.

Date: November 3, 2024 Text: Psalm 100 Other psalms deal with the difficulties and confusion of life. But Psalm 100 is the song for when it's time to celebrate and give thanks to God! At the heart of this celebration is an appreciate for who God is. This week we look at two qualities of God highlighted in Psalm 100 that give us cause to celebrate him.

Date: October 27, 2024 Text: Psalm 40 Worship is what we do in response to God's deliverance in our lives and in anticipation of what he will do to deliver us once again.

Speaker: Echo Kayser Date: October 20, 2024 Text: Psalm 103 Echo continues our series "Vital: Cultivating a Flourishing Life" by looking at the benefits we receive from God and how we should respond to them.

Date: October 13, 2024 Text: Psalm 66 We're back in our series "Vital: Cultivating a Flourishing Life" as we consider what we should do when our prayers are answered and God brings us through really hard seasons. Once that's happened, then what do we do?

Date: October 6, 2024 We took a break from our series in the Psalms to talk about how we can have peace in this election season, even though so many people around us - and maybe we ourselves- feel anxiety and animosity when thinking about politics.

Date: September 29, 2024 Text: Psalm 102 When we're in a weak and wearying season, God's Word shows us how to complain well. A good, honest lament (complaint) will lead to health and hope.

Date: September 22, 2024 Text: Psalm 141 God is the one who protects from our own evil desires and the attacks of evildoers.

Date: September 8, 2024 Text: Psalm 19 As we consider God's revelation in nature and in Scripture, we should have both a "Wow!" and a "Whoa" response.

Date: September 8, 2024 Text: Psalm 23 Because God our Good Shepherd and Great Host is with us, we lack nothing we need for a flourishing life.

Date: September 1, 2024 Text: Psalm 139 This is the second sermon in our series "Vital: Cultivating a Flourishing Life." In it we look at a familiar psalm to see how we should respond to the pervasive presence and knowledge of God in our lives.

Date: August 25, 2024 Text: Psalm 1 This is the first sermon in a new series in the Psalms called "Vital: Cultivating a Flourishing Life." In Psalm 1, we get an answer to the big-picture question of how we can experience the best life possible.

Date: August 18, 2024 Text: Exodus 35-36 As the people of Israel prepared to build the Tabernacle, they gave so extravagantly that Moses has to restrain them from bringing more. What would it look like to become this kind of a "more than enough" community?

Date: July 28, 2024 Text: Galatians 6:11-18 This is the final sermon in the "Jesus + Nothing" series in Galatians.

Date: July 21, 2024 Text: Galatians 6:1-10 What does a righteous, Spirit-empowered community look like? How does it act? In this passage we see three ways that we show love for others as we live by the Spirit.

Date: July 14, 2024 Text: Galatians 5:13-26 In this tenth sermon in our Galatians series, we see how the righteousness that Jesus has provided for us is practically applied in our lives.

This is the comment about the attempted assassination of President Trump and our prayer for our country. Date: July 14, 2024