The Price Chapel Podcast

There's a difference between Freedom and Liberty. The Biblical word for freedom is more closely associated with our modern understanding of Liberty. As we celebrate the 4th of July and 250 years since the birth of America, we explore how the Spirit of God frees us to see and reflect God's glory making us more like Jesus.

Jesus has set us free from so many things, yet we fail to live in that freedom. Christ has set us free from condemnation for our sin, from earning God's favor, from religious performance. When we resist the freedom that has been bought for us, we stop "running the race" of faith, foul attitudes grow, and religious performance takes the place of earnest worship. We have the choice to run into the f...

King David's father, Jesse, shaped David's life in important and impactful ways, as father's do. What lessons can we draw from the example that Jesse sets for fathers in parenting?

David is an International Worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. This Sunday's interview with Pastor Alex shares about his calling and journey to heading to Taiwan this June. He'll be working through an Alliance church to teach conversational English and share the gospel through relationship. Plus, he's takes a shot at bald and balding pastors ;) and answers some rapid fire questions a...

Micah was a prophet of God, the same God that his audience worshipped. Yet there was a difference between how these two groups practiced their faith. Just as Micah's audience, we ought to be careful not to worship a god made from our own imagination, but instead worship God as revealed in scripture. The God of Micah is the God of Light, who is a Shepherd, who is Forgiving, Merciful, and Faithful....

The history of the work of the Christian church in America is complex. It is both filled with incredible stories of reform, as well as fraught with the negligence of the physical needs of the vulnerable. The problem exists when we don’t balance the justice, mercy, and humility in the ways we live our faith. Micah’s prophetic words call the justified (God’s people) to do justice.

The real consequence of humankind’s sin was separation from the presence of God. Guest speaker, Pastor Jared Huntsinger, deep dives into the Bible’s picture of God’s presence and the movement of God through Biblical history. Unfolding how we experience God’s presence today.

Prophets played an important role in the kingdoms of Israel. Their responsibility was to relay God's word to the leaders and people. Often this looked like calling out the ways in which the people had strayed from following God's direction. Micah's words were often unpalatable for this reason. Political leaders didn't like him, but when they did listen, as King Hezekiah did it resulted in blessing...

Micah is an important minor prophet that lived during the collapse of Israel's short-lived dynasties. His prophetic words called government leaders to righteous action in the midst of rampant corruption that had plagued the people of Israel. Corruption had infected national worship, economics, and was even among Micah's peers, the prophets who "spoke for God." Yet in the midst of the great evil th...

This is Annual Family Meeting Sunday. We look back at what God has done through Price Chapel over the last year and look forward to plans for the coming year. And in a short devotional thought we look at 3 lessons from the book of 2 Timothy.

When grief feels final and hope smells like decay, what happens when Resurrection itself walks into the cemetery? In the Gospel of John, chapter 11, Jesus delays, weeps, and then calls a dead man out of the grave—exposing the gap between what we say we believe and what we actually trust Him for. This story confronts the quiet places we keep sealed off—the parts of our lives that “stink” of sin and...

This Palm Sunday, we explored Hebrews 4:14-16 and the reality that Jesus also experienced temptation in every way we do. Instead of taking the easy way out, He rejected the shortcuts offered by the devil and chose a different path. Rather than grasping for power, Jesus responded with patience and obedience. He embraced the cross and invites us to do the same. In God's kingdom, we don't win by winn...

Fasting is the primary and historic practice of the season of Lent. The practice of fasting can introduce significant discomfort to our lives, but the fruit of fasting builds our faith. Our faith is built by saying no to ourselves; by replacing our will with God’s; and by increasing our hunger for God.

Prayer is an integral practice in our spiritual lives. It is the primary pathway for humans to connect with God. We believe that the Bible speaks of a God who is real, who is personal, and who is relational. One who invites us into communion with Him. Communion with God through prayer means turning our attention toward His presence with us. Jesus models how we should approach God in prayer through...

What can separate us from the love of God? Nothing. Why does God have our back in this way? Because he’s invested; he died for us, he justifies us, he was raised from the grave for us, and because Jesus loves us. And what makes us doubt His love? Paul implicates the source of this doubt; trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or sword. Nothing can separate us from the God who i...

Our All-Knowing God is working out all things for our good. This idea is profoundly present throughout scripture, particularly today's verses in Romans 8. Yet, this idea sometimes doesn't sit squarely with our experiences. When the Apostle Paul pens these words about God's handiwork he meant something deeply grounded in the character of God that we must understand. God is at work, but we have a pr...

International Workers, David & Aleah Nishizaki share the stories of what God is up to in the deaf world. David and Aleah are concluding an almost 9 year season of ministry among the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in Washington D.C. advocating, empowering and raising up leaders in the deaf church to share the gospel locally and around the world. This next season of ministry puts them on a traje...

Prayer, communing with God, is a core aspect of Christian faith. In Romans 8, Paul outlines 4 truths about prayer that we need to be aware of as we approach God. First, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. Second, the Spirit helps us when we don’t know how to pray. Third, the Spirit intercedes through wordless groans. And fourth, the Spirit intercedes for us in accordance with the will of God.

Earthquakes and natural disasters are reminders that everything in creation is not as it should be. Romans 8 identifies these experiences as the groaning of created order as in the pains of child birth. Paul highlights 3 truths regarding creation: creation is frustrated; creation will be liberated; and creation looks to humanity.

There’s a popular belief that everyone is a child of God. Yet, the Bible does not teach that we are the biological product of a Heavenly Father or Mother. These ideas come from extra-Biblical sources. Though we are made in God’s image, according to the Genesis story, we are born into a kingdom of darkness and are therefore enemies of God. In the midst of this state, God’s love meets us where we ar...

God cares for our bodies and wants to bring life to them. Paul, the author of Romans 8, contrasts the realm of the flesh with the realm of the flesh. The believer lives by the realm of the spirit. Living according to the flesh leads to death. Life according to the spirit brings resurrection power and the promise of healing. So, the believer puts into practice the ongoing work of putting our sin to...

Your mindset will impact your mental health positively or negatively. Paul uncovers the mindset Christians have access to. Our mindset expresses our basic nature as Christians or Non-Christians. Our mindset has eternal consequences. Our mindset concerns our fundamental attitude toward God. Jesus provides a pathway for the Spirit of God to renew our minds, transforming how we think and engage with...

Paul writes a pivotal letter to the church in Rome. This book called Romans, contains the most central doctrines of the Christian faith. In Chapter 8 Paul unpacks how the gospel message offers us an opportunity to truly become alive in Christ. We struggle with sin and yearn to be set free. But it is only the power of Jesus on the cross that could break the power of sin and death and set us free.

When someone "Brings the Receipts" they are bringing the proof that they were right, their prediction was correct; and God brought the receipts in the birth of Jesus. "The Purpose Receipt" is about God declaring the purpose of the coming Messiah centuries before Jesus even walked the earth. These prophecies explicitly tell of Jesus purpose to bring salvation from the earthly and eternal consequenc...

When someone "Brings the Receipts" they are bringing the proof that they were right, their prediction was correct; and God brought the receipts in the birth of Jesus. The "Place Receipt" is about God's plans superseding our own plans. The biblical characters Ruth, Samuel, and Joseph all had their own plans for how life was supposed to go, but God disrupted them all in the little town of Bethlehem....