Union Chapel Sermon Library

Proverbs 2:1-11 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wis...

Exodus 16:21-30 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to ba...

Exodus 16:10-20 1. God‘s provision may not be what you expect. God likes being unpredictable, because it makes us trust him more. If you grumble, don’t forget to be humble (God asks us to trust him). 2. You are a participant in God’s provision. Numbers 11:7-8 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed i...

Exodus 16:1-9 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’ s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the fo...

Acts 1:1-8 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of Go...

Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’ s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’ s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this...

John 2:1-11 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone wat...

Luke 7:36-50 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’ s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’ s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them wi...

John 20:24-29 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with th...

Matthew 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always even to the end of the age. Revelation 12:10-11 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the au...

1. The Inward Disciplines • Meditation • Prayer • Fasting • Study 2. The Outward Disciplines (inward realities resulting in outward lifestyles) • Simplicity • Solitude • Submission • Service 3. The Corporate Disciplines • Confession • Worship • Guidance • Celebration Hebrews 10:19-25 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a...

1. The Inward Disciplines • Meditation • Prayer • Fasting • Study 2. The Outward Disciplines (inward realities resulting in outward lifestyles) • Simplicity • Solitude • Submission • Service 3. The Corporate Disciplines Colossians 2:2-7 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know th...

Richard Foster’s book title, Celebration of Discipline, works so well to communicate both the challenge and the joy of being a follower of Jesus. John 15:9-17 Revelation 3:20 “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Spiritual disciplines are the means by which you open the door of your heart...

The Four Great Questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 7:24-29 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house;...

The Four Great qQuestions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 7:13-23 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it....

The Four Great Questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 7:7-12 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which...

The four great questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 7:1-6 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brot...

The four great questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 6:19-34 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy,...

The Four Great Questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 6:5-18 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when...

The Four Great Questions: What is Reality? Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) Who is a really good person? How does one become a really good person? Matthew 6:1-4 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as...

Two principles to help us understand the Sermon on the Mount: Jesus doesn’t always mean what he says. Jesus means what he means. The historical and cultural background helps us understand what Jesus means. 1. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law. Matthew 5:17-20 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell y...

The Four Great Questions: 1. What is Reality? 2. Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) 3. Who is a really good person? 4. How does one become a really good person? Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. “You are the light...

The sermon on the mount is not behavior modification, this is transformation. The Four Great Questions 1. What is Reality? (What can we count on?) 2. Who is well-off? (What is Blessedness? The Good Life?) 3. Who is a really good person? 4. How does one become a really good person? Matthew 5:1-12 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, an...

Matthew 7:24-29 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who...

Luke 9:57-10:3 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom o...