Chapelwood Sanctuary Podcast

The Way of Unity: Walking Through Valleys of Disagrement: God's Dream and Gift

Beyond the Horizon - Chapelwood's Vision for the Future: The perception of many at Chapelwood is that we are in a continual season of discernment with little changes in the scope of our work. Nothing could be father from the truth. The season of listening culminated in clarity of our core values, our mission, and our "Why". It also gave us clarity in where God is leading us. There has been a lot o...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Return: Return to the Table: Regarding communion, Wesley wrote that, “This is the food of our souls: This gives strength to perform our duty, and leads us on to perfection” (“The Duty of Constant Communion,” I.3). When we come to the table, we are invited to experience the grace of God and receive spiritual nourishment and healing. At the table we encounter the true Bread of...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Go: Go Home: Sometimes the Lord sends us away to live as missionaries. More often, God authorizes and equips us to be mission minded on our home turf. How do we live as ‘sent’ people every day?

Chapelwood Road Trip - Go: There are times when we go somewhere we don’t want to go…we make wrong turns, experience unfavorable circumstances, or end up with traveling companions who drive you crazy. God offers grace upon grace, allows us to turn around, saves us from trouble, and changes our hearts towards others. So Go…even when you don’t want to go!

Chapelwood Road Trip - Go: A Postcard from Paul: “A Postcard from Paul”: The outlook going into a road trip is always so bright and exciting, but circumstances happen on a road trip that change the course of the narrative. The story will unfold as to how one runaway, thieving servant on a road trip to Rome finds himself confronted with the message of the Gospel through an imprisoned Paul. This run...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Go: The Tenacious Traveler: Sometimes we feel as if we’re struggling to get where we’re going. It’s as if something or someone is standing in our way (and it’s usually us). Life has a way of throwing us curve balls, but God has a plan for each of us. And at some point, we all have to decide that nothing is going to keep us from living out God’s plan. In Acts 8:26-40 we read...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Go: Traveling Songs

Chapelwood Road Trip - Sent: Sent to SUMMIT: Part of being sent is to know where you are coming from. The “sending" is happening not only to those who will go, but also to the body of people who are responding to God’s voice by sending a group.

Chapelwood Road Trip - Sent: The First Church Fight: Despite Jesus’ words to the contrary, the early church “holed up” in Jerusalem. There, they suffered the first “church fight” when the Greek Christians felt their widows were not receiving fair and equal treatment. This results in the appointment of seven deacons, one of whom is Stephen. After the death of Stephen, all but the apostles flee for...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Sent: The Four Great Commissions: Based on Mortimer Arias' book, The Great Commission: Biblical Models for Evangelism, we will explore evangelism and disciple making by looking at the Great Commission in each of the four Gospels. When all the commissions are brought together, we see the fullness of what we are sent to do. Matthew lifts up “growth,” Mark lifts up “proclamatio...

Chapelwood Road Trip - Sent: Sent to the Promised Future: One of the most interesting transitions in the Old Testament is in Genesis 12:1. Up until this point, the story has been the story of all humanity. But that story has ended in barrenness. The family of humanity has played out its future and has nowhere else to go. Barrenness is the way of human history unless God intervenes. Human power alo...

The Transforming Power of Worship: Luke 6:39-49 These verses provide opportunity for considering how the practice of worship relates to character formation. In worship, Christians regularly confess their own sins, acknowledge their own faults and failures, and are reminded therefore that their own eyes are not free of debris. In worship, the people of God encounter the prophets with their demands...

"Peace" Is a Verb: Real peace with God is a verb. It is more often a sweat-blood-and-tears process that requires of us an active cultivation of our relationship with God. It means having constant contact with God; thus, each person has to construct how she or he will build, maintain, and sustain her or his relationship with God.

Senior Service: Love Deeply: Each year the graduating high school seniors come together to plan, prepare, and present a worship service. This year, their theme was "Love Deeply."

Look . . . How They Love One Another: The Church must be the place where we love one another deeply and choose to live for each other. We should care as much about the lives of others as we do our own. In Jesus’ grand closing prayer of John 17, he prays for this. This way of love is to be the mission of future generations of Christians. It is what sets us apart from the rest of the world. We shoul...

Now You Are God's People: This sermon will help us rediscover our core identity in God. We are indeed royalty and we must remember who we are. But remembering alone is not enough. When we remember who we are, it leads to action. Peter says that we are like living stones that are built into a spiritual house. Our claim of royal identity doesn’t lead to an attitude of privilege. It leads to action r...

A New Beginning: Freedom in Forgiveness: Can I Live Free?

A New Beginning: Freedom in Forgiveness: Can I Forgive Others?

A New Beginning: Freedom in Forgiveness: Can I Forgive Myself?

A New Beginning: Freedom in Forgiveness: Can God forgive me?

The Cry: From Plea to Praise

The Cry: Christ on the Cross

The Cry: Disorientation

The Cry: Do Not Be Afraid