UNW Chapel

Kara Stromberg, Superintendent of the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church, shares about how our suffering and trials form us.  Chapel Date: 3/6/24

Kendra Q. Dodd, UNW's Sr. Director of Career, Leadership, and Experiential Learning, shares about how distractions can keep us from living according to our true purpose.  Chapel Date: 3/4/24

Dayton Dodge, our Assistant Director of Worship Arts and Spiritual Formation Programs, shares about how Jesus' miracles point to God as a creator, healer, and provider and thus function as speech acts that expand the Kingdom of God. Chapel Date: 2/28/24

Dr. Gregory Coles, author, speaker, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender in Boise, ID shares about his journey as a celibate, gay, Christian and about the importance of self-denial in our discipleship.  Chapel Date: 2/21/24

Darrin, our Director of Spiritual Formation Programs, shares about Jesus' invitation to ask for things in prayer, and about the questions that can arise when it feels like our prayers remain unanswered.  Chapel Date: 2/19/24

Dr. Ken Castor joins us in chapel again today to share about how God invites us to shelter in the Kingdom of God.  Chapel Date: 2/14/24

Dr. Ken Castor, Family and Next Gen Pastor at Wooddale Church, shares about the differences between the kingdom of this world and the Kingdom of God.  Chapel Date: 2/12/24

Youth ministry educator and trainer, Tiger McLuen, talks about staying focused in a distracting world.  Chapel date: 2/7/24

UNW's head volleyball coach, Beth Wilmeth, shares stories of how God has led her to pursue using the national spotlight of team success for His glory. Chapel Date: 2/5/24

Dr. Hoornbeek, President of University of Northwestern and Northwestern Media, borrows from the world of Daniel, Jeremiah, and the Israelite exiles in Babylon to explore God-honoring leadership in a secular world.  Chapel Date: 1/29/24

Bret Hyder, UNW's new Vice President for Student Experience, shares how living a godly life is both the best adventure and the hardest thing we can do in the world.  Chapel date: 1/22/24

Darrin, our Director of Spiritual Formation Programs, shares how in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus challenges our desires, our attitude, and our loyalty when it comes to money and possessions.  Chapel date: 1/17/24

As followers of Jesus, we are a part of a world-wide movement of celebrants.  We, here,  join with people groups and cultures all over the globe, who sing this time of year, of the glory of our newborn king. Listen in as the UNW community celebrates by singing songs and hearing readings in English and in other heart languages from some of our own UNW students. Chapel Date: 12/13/23

Pastor Dave, from Church of the Open Door in Maple Grove, shares about the "gravitational pull" of Jesus. Chapel date: 12/11/23

Listen in as the UNW community joins together for a reflective and prayerful Advent service.  Chapel date: 12/6/23

Lead Pastor of Trinity City Church in St. Paul, Bryan Lair, shares with us how the habit of distinct worship (personal devotions, Scripture readings, fellowship, etc.) forms all of life to be an act of worship.  

Pastor Caitlyn, Senior Pastor at Knox Church in Minneapolis, shares about how in the Kingdom of Heaven, we can experience God's compassion even though his timing and movement in the world is often different than how we would prefer it.  

Darrin, our Director of Spiritual Formation Programs, shares the second message in a 2-part series on The Lord's Prayer.  Darrin explores how the second half of the prayer should help us more fully understand what a heart aligned with God's will should ask for in prayer.  Chapel Date: 11/27/23

Assistant Director of Worship Arts and Spiritual Formation Programs, Dayton Dodge, shares the first talk in a 2-part series on The Lord's Prayer. Dayton shares that the first half of The Lord's Prayer should help us realize the need to align our "prayer posture" in accordance with God's Kingdom and will.  Chapel date: 11/20/23

Darrin, our Director of Spiritual Formation Programs, shares about Jesus' relationship to the Old Testament law and how he instituted a New Covenant, one where the law is written on our hearts.  Chapel Date: 11/8/23

Darrin Geier, our Director of Spiritual Formation Programs, interviews Katie Claunch, Grace Pompilio, and Wedu Theophilos who serve as student leaders in our Spiritual Formation area.   Chapel Date: 11/1/23

Intense health struggles have dominated Markus's life of twenty-plus years--and thus his family's as well.  Together, he and his mother Deb tell their story.  Chapel date: 10/30/23

Drew Zuehlke, Pastor of Hope Community Church in Columbia Heights, shares what it looks like to be someone who shows the goodness of God, pushing back the darkness in your own life and with the people God has placed around you.  Chapel date: 10/18/23

Dayton Dodge, our Assistant Director of Worship Arts and Spiritual Formation Programs, shares about the Kingdom value of being "salt and light" in this world.  Chapel date: 10/16/23

Local pastor, Joelle Hassler, brings a fresh perspective about what it means "to be in the world but not of the world."  Chapel Date: 10/11/23