Sermons on Heart
Chasing Rest
Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week we began to work through the second warning passage of the book. The author loves the people that he writes to, and wants to make sure that they don’t miss out on the precious promises of God. The generation that left slavery in Egypt headed toward a land of promise, but died in the wilderness because of their hardened,…
While It’s Still Today
Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week Charlie opened up chapter three inviting us to consider Christ. Jesus was presented as being better than Moses, as the builder of the house is worthy of more honor than a servant in the house. But that reference to Moses would immediately move the audience to thinking about a particular time in their shared history. And that…
Wisdom & Worship
Welcome to Chapel City Church! As we work our way through the book of Proverbs, our goal is to put wisdom into practice. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and our greatest desire is to worship God with our whole lives. But what does worship look like? How do wisdom and worship overlap? If we know that wisdom is more than a collection of facts, then it makes…
The Heart, the Wellspring of Life
Last week we considered an encounter between Jesus and the Pharisees, in which Jesus exposed their hypocrisy and vain worship. But we are left in the middle of the story. What does everyone make of this? What do the disciples think? What do the scribes and Pharisees think? What about the onlookers? How will they…
A Tree & its Fruit
This week we will move back into Matthew 12. The people have been given every proof that Jesus Christ is the promised messiah. But the crowds are skeptical and the Pharisees are openly hostile. They know that he has power, but they have now claimed that his power is drawn from Satan himself! Jesus has condemned them for speaking against the Holy Spirit, but why does it…