The Chapel | Sermons

Good morning, I’m Ted Voltmer, one of the pastors here at The Chapel. Have you ever wondered what sets one person apart from another person? Why two people with similar education, background, and opportunities can end up with two completely different... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family. It’s an honor to be with you all this morning. There was once a highly successful entrepreneur who driving with his wife, and they pulled into a gas station. While the car was getting filled up with gas, the guy went in to... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family. So good to be with you today. We are taking this fall to walk through the book of Daniel, which begins at a really dark moment in the history of Israel. In the year 605BC, Jerusalem was conquered by the greatest superpower... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family. Great to be with you today. Last week we started Common Ground 2020, and it has been so encouraging to see all the small groups that are starting up. They’re meeting in backyards; they’re meeting outdoors at the Chapel... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! I hope you’re all enjoying the beginning of fall. What a gorgeous week this has been, hasn’t it? I had some good walks outside with Norma Jean; I had some great hikes—which is where I do some of my best thinking and... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! Great to be with you today. I hope those of you who started school, or who have kids who started school—I hope you’re getting into a little bit of a rhythm and a routine. I know this is such a strange time for everyone, but... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! So good to be with you today. I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. If you were with us last Sunday, you heard my good friend and Chapel elder, Ryan Olsen, preaching the message. I’ll tell you what: for a full-time... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

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Good morning Chapel family! Great to be back with you today. I have a very exciting announcement for you: beginning on Sunday morning, September 13—the Sunday after Labor Day—we will begin offering live church, outdoors at our Lincoln Park Campus... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Well we have been taking the time this summerto read through the book of Proverbsand the wisdom that we've gained from this bookhas given us a chance to receive from it,Proverbs 13-14 calls it the fountain of lifeand as we drink from... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

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Good morning Chapel family! Great to be with you today. I hope everyone survived the storm last week okay! Nothing like a pandemic, and a heat wave, and a tropical storm all at the same time, right? Bring it on—we can take it! But seriously—I know a... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! Great to be with you all today. We’re taking the summer of 2020 to walk through the book of Proverbs, which is all about living life with wisdom, instead of living like a fool. And according to Proverbs, one of the... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! Thank you for welcoming us into your home today. I have to say: it was awesome to see so many of you out on Tuesday night for the outdoor night of worship. To be out there under the open sky, worshiping God, as dusk turned... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! Great to be with you today. I want to take a minute to personally thank everybody who made Chapel Kids Camp at-home edition and the Lockdown Games such a great success this past week. Not the same as it usually is, but we... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family! Great to be with you today. We are so excited for this upcoming week—with Chapel Kids Camp and the Lockdown Games Monday through Friday, and then next Sunday night, the outdoor worship event at our Lincoln Park Campus—it is... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

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Good morning Chapel family! I hope you’re all having a great start to your summer. It was really good to pray with many of you this past Wednesday night—we had an online prayer meeting, in case you didn’t know. And there were about 150 people who... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Good morning Chapel family. Great to be with you today. We are taking the summer of 2020 to walk through the book of Proverbs, which is all about wisdom. Four different times in Proverbs, wisdom is referred to as the “fountain of life.” And that’s... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

Mental health professionals tell us that stress is a very real thing. And when we’re experiencing a lot of stress, it affects us not only emotionally, but also physically, and even spiritually. And here’s the interesting thing: stress doesn’t only... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

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Have you ever noticed that there are certain seasons of life when we seem to learn and grow more rapidly than usual? I’ve heard people say things like, “Man, when I spent that summer backpacking through Europe, I learned so much about myself.” Or... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

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I was thinking last week about all the things we are learning through this pandemic. And I realized: we now know some new words, that we had never even heard of a few months ago. Back in January, if someone told you they were “social distancing,” you... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .

I grew up in a family of four boys. I was the second oldest. And for whatever reason, most of the conflict I experienced was with my older brother, Eric. My weapon of choice was psychological torture; he preferred using brute force. But one way or... Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube .