Union Chapel Sermon Library

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...

Ephesians 4:11-16 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back an...

Matthew 16:13-20 NIV When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed...

John 15:9-17 Sermon in a Sentence: Our lives are full of opportunities to both give and receive sacrificial love. 1. The Model of sacrificial love is The Life of Jesus. John 15:9-10 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. Hope is found in the measure...

Genesis 3:6-13 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and...

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not e...

Ephesians 5:21-6:8 The more you focus on feeling loved yourself, the more empty you will be. Ephesians 5:21 is the key to understanding this entire passage. “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” applies to everyone. Dallas Willard: “The Way of Jesus knows no submission outside the context of mutual submission of all to all.” Submission is giving and receiving for the sake of Christ....

The UC staff share some of the stories of what God did throughout the week of SERVE 2024.

Scripture for a Time of Transition I Corinthians 1: 3-9: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you, so that you are not lacking in any gif...

II Timothy 3:10-17 For many years, theologians, philosophers and pastors like myself have been watching with alarm our nation’s slide into “post-truth” moral relativism and the rejection of biblical morality. This is nothing new to human history. Twenty-seven centuries ago, the Lord warned his people: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light, who put bitter for swe...

Mark 15:33-34 Mark 15: 33-34 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) Four basic causes of depression: Biological 
There are numerous causes: chronic pain, hormonal change, imbalance in your brain chemicals just to...