The Shepherd's Pulpit

How are you going forward? In today's chapel message, Dr. Ballard takes us to Hebrews 11 to show how important to see that faith is what is real. We are to remember the essence of faith, the examples of faith, and the essential nature of faith.

How is the Lord moving right now? In today's chapel message Tony Levesque took us to Acts 11:19-26 to show the ways that God can move. God can sometimes uses our worst situations to move in powerful ways. God often times uses the church. God sometimes chooses the least likely person. One of the most powerful ways God can move is to change a person's heart.

How can we fight sin? In today's chapel message, Curtis Bailey took us to 1 John 2:1-6 to show how we can fight sin through Christ alone. Jesus is our advocate, He is righteous, and He is our propitiation.

Are you willing to trust who Jesus is? In today's chapel message, Dr. Howell discussed the three greatest dangers and how they are rarely obvious. These dangers are over familiarization, calculations, and fear. With things in the way, we are not able to trust who Jesus is.

What do we need to be when God calls you? In today's chapel message Leo Lytle takes us to Acts 28:26-40 to show how the story of Phillip and the Ethiopian parallels what we to be when God calls us. We need to be available, obedient, and intentional.

Is anyone unable to be used by God? In today's chapel message Dr. Howell speaks on how to Lord uses unlikely people. In 2 Kings 5:1-15 he shows how God works in unlikely ways and God transforms unlikely hearts.

What are you going to do with Jesus? In today's chapel message, Dr. Williams takes us back to the basics by showing us the character of God. In Colossians 1 he shows the seven superiorities of God: image, creator, eternal, sustainer, head, fullness, and reconciler.

How do we make peace with the calling God gave us? In today's chapel message Dr. Hatley took us to Isaiah 6 to show the confession, cleansing, calling, question, and commission of Isaiah and how that applies to God's purpose for our life.

How can we trust God? In today's chapel message Dr. McDill speaks on why it is hard to trust God sometimes. He takes us to Psalm 13 to show how David also had the same experience and how he was able to remember God's love for him.

If you knew your time was short, would you change your choices? In today's chapel message, Dr. Howell takes us to John 3:22-30 to show how John the Baptist decreased so that Jesus could increase. He discusses the three different choices that we make, the choice of faithfulness, obscurity, and purpose.

Have you forgotten yourself and let God be the Lord of your life? In today's chapel message Benji Pyeatt spoke on the life of Peter and showed how Peter had to be broken down to truly follow God and to forget himself.

Why are you here? Are your motives from your own desires or God's call? In today's chapel message Stephen Wyles spoke on 2 Timothy 4:1-6 and the importance of being fulfilled and sustained in God's call. It is important to be content in what it is God has instructed us to do, and to fulfill our ministry.

In today's chapel message, Dr. Martins spoke on Exodus 32:21-25 and emphasized the dangers of surrendering to pressure around us. He also showed how important it is in leadership to not avoid confrontation. We must forgive the transgression and commit our way to God.

Is God's house in ruins while we are busy with our own house? In today's chapel message Matthew Cooksey brought us to Haggai chapter one to show us what it looks like to pursue things in our lives that do not have God's blessing. Why would something not have God's blessing? The question to ask is, is God in it?

In this week's Chapel, special guest Peter Balla came to share his insights and knowledge regarding the Septuagint. He covered the fall and what took place in the garden of Eden.

Do you know that you are in a war? Often times, we live in a way that lies to ourselves, that everything is alright. That is not reality, however, because we are in a war, and the enemy is attacking us. In today's chapel message, Allen Bramlett goes to 1 Peter 5:8-11 to discuss the reality of the war that we are amongst, that we should be vigilant, that we remain steadfast in the faith, and th...

What does it mean to have a heart that is loyal to God? In today's chapel message Dr. Ballard takes us to 2 Chronicles 15 and emphasis King Asa's life to show what it means to have a loyal heart for God. The four points that are indicators for a loyal heart are to seek the Lord, remove idols, restore worship, and reject compromise.

What is love? In today's culture, love has been taken and warped into something that it is not. Considered a feeling, the world views love as an emotion, which is not true. God is love. In today's chapel message, Andrew Hemmingway uses 1 John 4 to show that God is love and how we should let that shape our lives.

In today's chapel message, Devin and Julia Renaud share their testimony about their mission trip to the Dominican Republic. They share the lessons about Jesus that they taught to the kids and the progress in construction on their apartments and church.

In Christ we have the resources to overcome. In today's chapel message, Tony Levesque takes us to 2 Samuel 23 to point out three points that support the fact that we are called to go against the flow for God. You are in God's army, the misfits became David's mighty men, and the unity of the student body in a great spiritual war.

What does it look like to guard the faith? In today's chapel message, Lew Miller speaks on 2 Timothy 2:1-10 to show us in what ways Paul suggests that we guard the faith. He says to pass on faith like a relay race, to suffer like a good soldier, to follow rules as an athlete, to have the patience like a farmer, and to be a prisoner of Christ.

How do we lose our witness as a Christian? In today's chapel message Dr. Howell talks about the life of Saul in 1 Samuel 15:10-19 and shows how we can slip into our own will and not realize it. When we choose our own will over God, or when we love the praise of men more than the will of God, we no longer obey God the way we should.

How many times do we try to get ahead of God? We tend to have an idea of God's will for us but we do not wait for His timing or His method. In today's chapel message, Dr. Sweet takes us to Exodus 2 and 3 to show how Moses went ahead of God in his own time and his own way and wound up in a lot of trouble, and how God gave Moses a second chance. Some truths that were shared today are: God re...

Everyone faces trials and they are serious and inevitable. How can we face trials in a way that still permits us to have peace and hope? Dr. Robertson looks at the pivotal points in the life of Job to demonstrate how to accomplish this. We are to worship God through trials because He never leaves us, our Redeemer lives.

How do we properly represent God? In today's chapel message Dr. Ingalls explains the importance of this as he talks about lying prophets in Jeremiah 23 and how detrimental this was for those who needed to stand on truth. Representing God means proclaiming a message of repentance, standing for truth, proclaiming the message of God, and ministering in true humility not false gravity.