Sunday Sermons from The Village Chapel

The Christ, The Cross, The Call The Gospel According to Luke Luke 9:18-27 The Village Chapel - 01/26/2025 Who do you say Jesus is? This is the most crucial question every human heart must respond to. In Luke 9:18-27, we witness a pivotal moment in the ministry of Jesus and the growth of the disciples. For the first time, Peter confesses Jesus as "The Christ of God" (v. 20). It is after t...

Living a Sent Life The Gospel According to Luke Luke 9:1-17 The Village Chapel - 01/19/2025 The Galilean portion of Jesus’ ministry is drawing to a close. The disciples have witnessed miracles of Jesus’ power and authority over demons, disease, nature, and even death itself. Jesus now calls his disciples and sends them out on a mission to do the very things they have witnessed him doing. Join us a...

Faith in the Waiting: Trusting the Timing of the Unhurried Healer The Gospel According to Luke  Luke 8:40-56 The Village Chapel - 01/12/2025 In Luke 8:40-56, we read the account of two desperate individuals who reach out to Jesus in faith - one a father with a dying daughter, the other a woman who has suffered for years. Despite their urgent needs, Jesus moves with perfect, unhurried timing, demon...

A Savior in the Storm, A Deliverer from the Darkness: The Gospel According to Luke Luke 8:22-39 The Village Chapel - 01/05/2025 In Luke 8:22-39 we read about two miracles of Jesus. The first was when Jesus was with His disciples out on the stormy sea, and the second occurred when Jesus was confronted by a raging, demon-possessed man. In the storm, all seemed lost. In the confrontation with the dem...

Keep Your Eyes on Your Ears: The Gospel According to Luke Luke 8:1-21 The Village Chapel - 12/29/2024 This Sunday we will be diving into Luke 8:1-21 where Jesus teaches the transformative power of truly hearing and living out God's Word. From the women who followed Jesus, the parable of the sower, and the illuminating call that His family is made up of those who hear and obey, Jesus challenge...

Advent Proclaimed: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus  Luke 2:1-20 The Village Chapel - 12/24/2024 Wonder, Worship and Witness Disenchantment. It’s a word that describes much of our modern and post-modern ennui. We live in a world that has turned away from transcendence and perhaps that is why wonder has been eclipsed by cynicism, worship is given to ephemeral pleasures, and witness so often feels hol...

Advent Fully Realized: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus  Revelation 19:11-16; 21:1-7; 22:1-21 The Village Chapel - 12/22/2024 What has Revelation got to do with Advent?  The apostle John wrote with the heart of a pastor, the voice of a poet, the insight of a prophet, and the depth of a theologian. In the book of Revelation, John delivers the promise that the Advent story is not yet complete. In fact...

Advent Fulfilled: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus  Matthew 1:18-2:12 The Village Chapel - 12/15/2024 The Advent season is full of promise and hope, of watching and waiting for the coming of the long-expected Messiah, who will save His people from their sins. In Matthew’s gospel, we read of Old Testament prophecies that are being fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. We watch as the promise of rescue and...

Advent Promised: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus  Isaiah 9:2-7 The Village Chapel - 12/08/2024 Advent is a season of waiting and watching for the promises of God to be fulfilled. The prophet Isaiah, writing some seven centuries before the time of Christ, points forward to the hope of one who would come with the power to set right what had been broken in the rebellion of the Garden. Like our own day...

Advent Foreshadowed: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Genesis 3:15  The Village Chapel - 12/01/2024 The Old Testament presents us with a beautiful tapestry of anticipation, weaving together promises, prophecies, and types that all point forward to and find their fulfillment in Jesus.  As we gather to observe Advent we celebrate the fulfillment of these elements foreshadowing the first appearance of...

Stir Up Sunday! Jeremiah 23:5-6 The Village Chapel - 11/24/2024 Thanksgiving is upon us, and the Advent season lies just around the corner. Many of us will gather with family and loved ones, sing carols, light candles, and reflect on the profound mystery of the Incarnation—when God became one of us. But why did Christ become one of us? How does that supernatural act offer real hope for the brokenh...

Pride and Shame Encounter Jesus The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:36-50 The Village Chapel - 11/17/2024 In Luke 7, Jesus is invited to dinner at a Pharisee’s house. What happens next is both awkward and uncomfortable, yet profoundly beautiful, as Jesus encounters a woman publicly known as a sinner. Pride meets shame, and Jesus reveals the truth of the debt we all owe and the lavish grace on of...

Where Do I Take My Doubts? The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:18-35 The Village Chapel - 11/10/2024 John the Baptist was the last and greatest prophet of the Old Covenant (Luke 7:28). He was given the unique honor of preparing the way for the coming Kingdom of the Messiah, Jesus Christ (Micah 3:1). John had publicly proclaimed that Jesus was the Son of God (John 1:34). He had witnessed the Holy...

Just Say the Word The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:1-17 The Village Chapel - 11/03/2024 Luke 7 opens with two remarkable encounters that reveal Jesus as both mighty and merciful. The first account features a Roman centurion whose servant is near death. He sends a request for Jesus to come and heal his servant. In the second encounter, Jesus meets a grieving widow who has just lost her only so...

Flecks, Fruits and Foundations The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:37-49 The Village Chapel - 10/27/2024   Jesus regularly uses metaphors because he wants to reshape the way we think about ourselves and our lives. He is a Master Teacher, and great teachers give us memorable images that can guide and transform us by guiding and transforming our perception of God, ourselves, and the world. Join ou...

Bearing the Family Image  The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:20-36 The Village Chapel - 10/20/2024   In Luke 6:20-36, Jesus reveals what the life of a disciple looks like in His kingdom. What Jesus teaches will challenge our values, reshape our priorities, and call us to a new way of living. From what the blessed life looks like to the command to love our enemies, Jesus invites us into a world...

Four Unlikelies The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:12-19 The Village Chapel - 10/13/2024 The Bible is brutally honest. There’s no spin machine trying to hide anyone’s moral or spiritual flaws. As we read the Bible, God doesn’t conceal King David’s indiscretions or Elijah and Jeremiah’s depression. God doesn’t downplay Peter, James and John’s bold and brash behavior, or the conflict between Paul...

Missing The Point The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:1-11 The Village Chapel - 10/06/2024   In Luke 6, the rising tension between the Pharisees and Jesus continues to build. At the surface level, the tension concerns the Sabbath, its purpose, and its practice. In his wisdom, Jesus reveals and corrects the harsh legalism of the Pharisees who had turned the Sabbath into a form of slavery. Their r...

Get Used to Different The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:27-39 The Village Chapel - 09/29/2024 Any list of the utterly astonishing things about Jesus of Nazareth must include His uniquely authoritative teachings and mind-boggling miracles, especially His resurrection from the dead three days after His very public death on a Roman cross. But another surprising aspect of Jesus has to be His somew...

The Rightside Up The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:12-26 The Village Chapel - 09/22/2024 What happens when Jesus comes face to face with two men whose lives have been turned upside down by disease and brokenness? How does he respond to them? How does he respond to us when we come to him with our brokenness? Join Pastor Matt as he teaches from Luke chapter 5, and we learn about living in the &q...

From Now On The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:1-11 The Village Chapel - 09/15/2024 Luke chapter 5 opens with an ordinary scene on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd had gathered to listen to the teaching of Jesus as Simon Peter and his team brought their boats ashore after an unproductive night of fishing. Noticing their arrival, Jesus asks to borrow one of the boats so that He mig...

How It All Began… The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 4:14-44 The Village Chapel - 09/08/2024 After the baptism and the temptation of Jesus, we find Him traveling back to His hometown of Nazareth. While there, Jesus made some rather audacious claims in the synagogue and the reception Jesus got was not all “peaches and cream.” As a matter of fact, it ended with Jesus being driven out of town, and t...

The Temptation of Christ The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 4:1-13 The Village Chapel - 09/01/2024 We’ve all felt it’s powerful tug from time to time… but just what is temptation and where does it come from? Is being tempted to sin the same thing as committing a sin?   Why do you think God even allows temptation? And is resistance futile? Or, do we have some tools and some truths we can count on...

Turning and Returning to God The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 3 The Village Chapel - 08/25/2024 What does a repentant life look like? Do we say we’re sorry, ask forgiveness, and then move on? Is repentance a one-and-done kind of deal? How can we say we’re following Jesus when we continue to mess up? In Luke Chapter 3, we meet up with John the Baptist, preaching and baptizing for the repentance...

The Turn of the Tide The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 2  The Village Chapel - 08/18/2024 Have you ever felt like the tide was coming in and rising all around you? Have you ever wondered if the culture we live in is drowning in darkness and confused about the meaning and purpose of life? And perhaps most importantly, have you wondered where God is in all of this? Is God aware and does He care ab...