The Chapel Cleveland's Podcast

Valley of Vision: The road to accomplishing a vision is filled with peaks and valleys. Ezra 4:21, 24 "So, now issue a decree to make these men stop [work,] that this city may not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me. ... 24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. Valley of Vision: The accomplishing of a...

1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.” 4...

Romans 5:5 | Love of the Spirit -- Slides: The Spirit is not to be feared. He is a good God, who is Himself love. He helps us know and share the Love of Christ!  Who: The Holy Spirit, eternal God. He is love, but He is not an impersonal force.   -He teaches and helps: John 14 -He can be grieved: Ephesians 4:30 -He can be lied to: Acts 5 -He wills and chooses: 1 Corinthians 12:11 -He has joy: 1 The...

Acts 5:12-42 | Don’t Shoot the Messenger  -- Slides: Theme: Faithful, powerful witnesses evoke many different responses.   Authentic apostles… • Were literal witnesses of the resurrected Jesus.   Acts 1:21-22 "Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us-- 22 beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was...

Acts 4:32-5:12 | The Spirit-Filled Church -- Slides:   Four signs of a Spirit-filled church: unity, generosity, gifts, and holiness.   1 Timothy 6:17-18 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. 18 [Instruct them] to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ge...

Acts 4:5-31 | The Power to Speak  -- Slides: Acts 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."   John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”   Slide: Disciples follow Jesus…   T...

Acts 3:1-4:4 | There’s Power in the Name -- Slides:   John 14:11  "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.   Bold witnesses of Christ do ministry “in His name” as an extension of the ministry of Jesus. The “gift” of faith: the supernatural ability to trust God in any circumstance.   There is power in the name of Jesus:  Matthew...

Acts 2:37-47 | Extraordinarily Ordinary -- Slides: Theme: The practices seen in the early church are available to us today.   More evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit: Fruit.   The practices/devotions seen in the early church (“the what”): • The apostles’ teachings   Acts 17:10-11 The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the...

Acts 2:1-41 | Great Expectations -- Slides: “I’m not searching for any new truths. But I do desire some new experiences with the old truths.” Chuck Smith   “There are many who believe in the gifts and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, but they don’t have a strong emphasis on Biblical teaching, nor do they look to the Word to guide their experiences with the Holy Spirit. There are many who have a st...

“The ministry of the Holy Spirit is not a luxury; it is an absolute necessity.” Warren Wiersbe Slide: Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning fro...

Psalm 48 | A Tale of One City -- Slides: 1 Peter: 1:10-11 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. One way that we know that we love someone is that we grow in appreciatio...

Creation observations: - Creation transcends culture. - The Imago Dei is the foundation for the equality of man & woman. - God gave a commission to “them.”         Creation observations: Man was put into the garden to work, and it was “good.” Colossians 3:23-24  Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of...

A Mother’s Day Commission Remember the paradox principle: we must balance biblical truths that may initially seem to be contradictory. Theme: Fulfilling the Great Commission begins at home. Creation observations: Creation transcends culture. Mankind is set apart from all of the rest of creation. The Imago Dei is the foundation for the equality of man and woman. Creation observations: God gave a co...

A Theology of Work and Rest (Psalm 127) — Slides: Theme: Work hard, rest hard, and depend on the Lord for everything. Ecclesiastes 2:11  Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun. Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rath...

Psalm 103 | Talking Back -- Slides: There are times in life when we need to stop listening to ourselves, and start talking to ourselves. Sometimes we need to command our souls to bless the Lord.  Memory is very treacherous about the best things; by a strange perversity, engineered by the fall, it treasures up the refuse of the past and permits priceless treasures to lie neglected, it is tenacious...

Luke 19:29-44 | Just as I Am -- Slides: Jesus brings either salvation or judgement.   Revelation 19:11-16  And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it [is] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12 His eyes [are] a flame of fire, and on His head [are] many diadems; and He has a name written [on Him] which no one knows except Himself. 13...

Psalm 85 | A Psalm of Revival  Theme: His salvation and glory are near, so pray for revival. And don’t stop until you see it.   Exodus 20:3, 5-6  "You shall have no other gods before Me….5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but sh...

A personal story with God requires a real relationship with Him and a constant seeking of Him.   Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.   The sanctuary is no longer a place, it’s in His presence!   Acts 13:1-2 Now there were at Antioc...

Theme: Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.   Genesis 2:10  Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.   Revelation 22:1  Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,   Revelation 11:18-19 "And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath...

Psalm 34 | Fight Fear with Fear — Slides: The fear of the Lord brings joy and freedom in the midst of the cares and fears of this world. -The fear of the Lord makes us worshipers, and worship cultivates a fear of the Lord. -The fear of the Lord keeps God bigger than our circumstances and ourselves. Psalm 47:1-2  Oh clap your hands, all peoples; Shout to God with the voice of joy. For the LORD Most...

Psalm 32 | Hide and Seek -- Slides: Theme: Don’t hide your sins from God. Seek Him through confession and repentance and will you find the blessings of mercy and grace!   Psalm 1:1-3 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Norstand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and...

Psalm 27 | Praying the Psalms -- Slides: Psalm 119:105  Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.   Summary: The power of remembering replaces fear with confidence.   Prayer: Be my light, my deliverance, and my strength. Replace the fear in my life with confidence in You.   Psalm 23:5  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My...

Theme: In the good times and the hard ones, the Good Shepherd is with us.   John 10:11-15 "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12 "He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters [them.] 13 "[He flees] because he is a hired hand and is...

Psalm 22 | A Psalm of Lament: Beauty for Ashes -- Slides: Isaiah 61:1-3 NKJV "The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to [those who are] bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of ou...