The Price Chapel Podcast

Jesus’ disciples devoted their lives to building up the church, modeling the values and patterns of healthy discipleship. In this week’s message, we conclude our discipleship series with a focus on the final phrase in our definition of a disciple: Strengthening God’s Church. This commitment is foundational to Price Chapel’s core values: Worshipping God, Biblical teaching and preaching, Fellowship...

Disciples of Jesus continue following him by sharing the good news of the gospel message. As his followers we are witness of God's grace and power in our lives and so we share it with others. There are three steps to sharing the gospel. First, we need to understand the gospel message. Second, we must be clothed with the power of God. And third, we must be willing to embrace the risk.

In the Gospel of Luke, three different men come to Jesus with a desire to follow him, yet Jesus turns them away, each for a different reason. There is a cost to discipleship that we often don't consider. What will it cost? For some it's their sense of security, for others the priority of relationships, and still for others its time. Regardless the cost, following Jesus yields a life marked by incr...

Discipleship is a core aspect of being a Christian. A disciple is someone who loves God and others by following Jesus, sharing the gospel, and strengthening God's church. So much of the Bible and Jesus' own teaching is on the topic of relating to others. We often lack empathy for others because we are overwhelmed by the size of the problem. But as we follow Jesus, our capacity grows and his discip...

Disciples are marked by a radical love for God. But, our capacity to become disciples hinges more on our desire to obey than our desire to learn. In Luke's gospel we see glimpses of Jesus calling Levi to join the twelve. In Levi's story we see the markers of true discipleship based on radical love: leaving everything behind, celebrating Jesus, inviting friends to the table, and repentance.

The call to be a disciple of Jesus is the greatest honor you can receive. A disciple is someone who loves God and others by following Jesus, sharing the gospel, and strengthening God's church. Our goal in the church is to be a community with a disciple-making culture as Jesus commands in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).

Election season is a particularly challenging time in church and public life due to the rhetoric that political campaigns employ to win citizens' votes. God's people have a long entangled history with political parties, politicians, and policies because Christian faith speaks into so many matters of public life. From the last few election cycles here are 5 lessons to guide your political engagemen...

How do we get where we want to be when it comes to honoring God financially? It begins by creating margin in our lives. Margin-less living is what causes the strain and stress of life whether financially or relationally. Without margin, it is difficult to respond to God's calling in our lives and meet the needs of those He has put in our lives. We can achieve this margin by adjusting our financial...

There are 5 competing priorities for the use of our money; Live, Give, Owe (debt), Owe (taxes), Grow. When anyone becomes dominant over the others our finances veer into unhealthy places. In the push and pull that happens in our financial management our relationship with God and being good stewards of the resources he has blessed us with always centers us squarely in healthy fiscal wisdom.

There are 4 Hs in financial wisdom. This week we focus on Habits and the 5 Biblical principles to forming healthy habits that offer guardrails to frivolous or irresponsible spending. These habits create buffer in our lives when our wants go beyond our means and they break the power that money has over our lives; so that it serves us rather than the reverse.

The Bible talks a lot about money; in fact, 11 of Jesus' 39 parables touch on finances. Meaning, how we handle our money is a discipleship issue if we are going to be followers of Jesus. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches that where your treasure is your heart will be also (Matthew 6:21). This is because money can become a spiritual stronghold in our lives hindering growth in our journey tow...

Moses passes the baton of leadership to his willing and competent younger assistant, Joshua. Passing the baton of leadership is a challenge for any family, organization or country. What qualities qualified Joshua for leadership? Moses recognized Joshua's faith, his hunger, and his maturity.

Twice the Israelites confront Moses questioning God's provision in the desert, specifically about water. On each occasion Moses cries out to the Lord and God gives instructions. Comparing and contrasting these experiences gives us insight into our own struggles and how we engage with God. These stories demonstrate that we honor the holiness of God by trusting in His methods of provision. God provi...

At a pivotal moment in Israel's history God gives Moses the Ten Commandments. This set of laws contain the building blocks of a healthy public life. Each command brings with it an expectation of what could be if we choose to heed God's wisdom for mankind.

You would think being delivered out of slavery would bring a sense of freedom and joy, a timed marked by celebration and exuberance, but the Hebrew camp is filled with grumblings and discontent. We all have bittersweet times in our lives, moments marked by joy and pain. These moments reveal the true condition of our souls and the temptation is to project this discontentment onto the leaders in our...

We're excited to bring an interview with our own International Worker (IW), Aubrey Amyx. Aubrey has spent the last year in the African nation of Guinea. She serves on an Alliance team providing childcare and early preschool education specifically for Timothy & Jessica Chapman's two boys, but also for several other IW families in Guinea. Aubrey's role is expanding as she heads back this August to b...

Moses encounters God at the burning bush and walks away with the calling of leadership on his life. Moses' identity appears to be in shambles after half a life of not finding a foundation to rest it on. As God places the mantle of leadership on him Moses squirms under the weight of the task by seemingly disqualifying himself for the role. Then he turns his questions of identity inside out, asking...

Moses is one of the greatest figures in Biblical history. He's revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Very little is written on his early life, yet, these years appear to have set the stage for the character he would need in leading God's people out of slavery in Egypt to the boarder of the Promised Land.

We don't receive a manual for how to live life, so it's no surprise that we have little direction or purpose in how we approach life. Yet God designed us with purpose in mind. Knowing your God-given purpose brings clarity to life. Your purpose is your specific contribution to the body of Christ, within your generation, that causes you to totally depend on God and authentically display his love tow...

We've all been there, tired, eyes heavy, speaker droning and then our head begins to nod as we fall asleep in church. Though most of us don't fall to our death out a third story window as we do and non of us have had the Apostle Paul's words beckon the breath-of-life back into our lungs as the young man in Acts chapter 20 experiences.

As the Apostle Paul preaches the gospel message in the city of ancient Ephesus people begin to respond by believing and following "the Way." This resulted in the status quo of the city being disrupted. As we unpack this story we can easily see the many ways that Jesus usurps the systems, structures, and evils of this world when He is the authority in our lives.

As Paul engages with the people of Athens on Mars Hill, a place designed for debate and dialogue, Paul's gut, his grit, and his grace help him tell a better story about the God the Athenians were missing out on. This contextualized message enables Paul to preach the gospel in such a way that a small group of believers is formed and a church is born in Greece. Paul's example is a helpful tool as we...

Paul deals with two churches in the book of Acts with different attitudes toward engagement with the good news of Jesus. The church in Thessalonica, as we learn from Paul's letters to it, was prone to laziness; meanwhile, the Berean church was known for its noble character. This tension highlights a struggle we have today, of constantly taking the easy path. Hunger and Hustle are the antidotes to...

Mother's Day highlights many emotions for mothers. This year, guest speaker, Nikki Jeffs shares about the unique parenting struggle sourced from guilt and shame. Guilt that we're not doing enough or the right things and the shame that keeps us from change. But the gospel message, and relationship with Jesus provide hope for what can be. Nikki dives into the story of the woman in Luke 7 that washes...

Culturally, safety is a high value. We care about keeping ourselves safe, our kids safe, our things safe. But what happens when following God leads us into places of danger. The Apostle Paul routinely walked into danger, not for the adrenaline rush, but because he knew the safest place to be was in the center of God's will.