Sermons by Matt Round
Running with Love, part 2: Love & Marriage
Welcome to Chapel City Church! As we continue working through Hebrews 13, we will see love play out in several different contexts. This week, we see what love looks like in marriage. The author gives one brief verse to the idea of honoring marriage, but we know that we could spend months working…
Running with Love, part 1: Love for Others
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we open up the final chapter of Hebrews. As he closes his letter to a people he loves dearly, our author has some important final points to make. In the coming weeks, we will work through brief points of practical application. And right at the beginning, we are reminded that love is the heart motivation behind all of these things.…
Fear & Faith: A Tale of Two Mountains
Welcome to Chapel City Church! We know that the consistent message of the Book of Hebrews has been that Jesus is better. Earlier in the book, we saw that he was better than Moses, the lawgiver of Israel. Moses was a faithful steward in the house, but Christ is the builder of the house. This week we will see a comparison that brings us back to that time of Moses and the…
Pursue These Things
Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week in our study through the book of Hebrews, we learned that the Lord disciplines those He loves. The Lord’s discipline conforms us to the image of His son and will be painful at times. But we need to endure knowing that His correction produces holiness and the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Considering this, we should strengthen…
Running Through Pain
Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week we thought through what it means to run the race set before us. We have the encouragement of the lives of faithful saints who have gone before us. We must guard against sin and encumbrances that would prevent us from running well. Ultimately, we are called to fix our eyes on Jesus Christ, the one who calls us, goes before us, and…
Running the Race
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we turn the page to chapter 12 in the Book of Hebrews. We have spent the last several weeks looking at faith in the lives of God’s people from generation to generation. Last week, our author reminded us that none of those faithful men and women received the fullness of God’s promise; the eternal hope that we join with…
Faith in Action, part 2
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we come to the end of Hebrews 11 and our study of faith. We have seen what faith is and what faith does. Last week we saw the victories of faith, even in lives that were less than perfectly faithful. This week we will work through a difficult reality. There are times when faithful obedience brings pain rather than what we would…
Faith in Action, part 1
Welcome to Chapel City Church! We have worked through some very familiar territory for most of Hebrews 11. Giants of the faith have lived obediently, providing stories that most of us are familiar with. This week we will begin to work through some lives that might be less familiar to us. The faith is the same, but the circumstances aren’t necessarily what we would…
Faith & the Exodus, part 2
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we will continue looking at the faith demonstrated during the time of the Exodus. The children of Israel had known hardship and slavery. Pharaoh was cruel and powerful. Yet Moses led God’s people out of Egypt without fearing the king. That’s only possible because of what they knew to be true about the power of God. By…
Faith & the Exodus, part 1
This week we will move forward in time roughly 400 years. We have looked at the faith of the fathers up to the life of Joseph. By the end of Genesis, 70 people go down to Egypt with the promise of becoming a great nation and, one day, returning to the Promised Land. But after 400 years, a new king is in power and the people are enslaved. In this context, we are introduced…
Faith of the Fathers, part 4: Anticipating the Promise
Welcome to Chapel City Church! For the last several weeks we have looked at the life of Abraham through the lens of Hebrews 11. As he matured in his faith, he came to the point where he believed that God would be faithful to His promises, even if they seemed impossible. But how would those promises…
Faith of the Fathers, part 3: A Faith that Surrenders
We have been working our way through Hebrews 11, and the last few weeks have focused on the life of Abraham. We know that he responded obediently when God told him to leave his home, and we know that he waited patiently but imperfectly, for God to be faithful to His promises. It can be difficult to…