Sermons on Obedience
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 & 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 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 1: The Faith of Abraham
Welcome to Chapel City Church! As we continue to move through Hebrews 11 in the coming weeks, we are going to encounter the lives of the patriarchs. These are the founders and pillars of the Jewish people and culture. Remember that the audience is being pulled back toward the law, toward the old…
Faithful Living in a Faithless World: The Faith of Noah
Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week we introduced Hebrews 11 with the foundations and first examples of faith. What is faith and what does it do? Faith is confident expectation, even while we wait to possess the promise. And the result of faith is obedience. This week we look at the next…
A Faith that Perseves
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we return to our study in the Book of Hebrews, and we will finish working through chapter 10. The last time we were here, we went through a serious warning passage. The author makes it clear that if you turn away from Christ, there is no hope of salvation in anything else. But what is the alternative? When they were first saved,…
Joyful Obedience
Welcome to Chapel City Church! For the better part of ten chapters, the author of Hebrews has helped us understand how Jesus is better than anything. He’s developed a beautiful Christology, an understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ. But, up to this point, we haven’t seen many commands to follow. That begins to change as we head into the last…
Starting Strong
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This is our final worship service of 2025, and it’s amazing how fast the year has gone. As we look back on the year that was, we know that God was faithful through every victory and every trial. Once again, we stand on the brink of a New Year. We have plans, goals, ideas of what might be, but we know that God holds our future securely…
Family Wisdom, part 3
Welcome to Chapel City Church! For the last two weeks we have been working our way through family wisdom from the Book of Proverbs. We have seen how husbands and wives are called to live wisely with one another, and last week we were encouraged to parent our children according to wisdom. This week we will cover the third and final portion of family wisdom- Wisdom for…
Family Wisdom, part 1: Husbands and Wives
Welcome to Chapel City Church! A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Rutledge helped us think through what it looks like to be wise in our friendships. This week we will begin to work through wisdom within our family relationships, specifically as husbands and wives. Although Proverbs is not an exhaustive manual on the specific functions and roles within a marriage, the book…
The Way to Wisdom
This week we will open up the Book of Proverbs as we lay the foundation for our summer series. When we worked through James, we saw that God promised to give wisdom to those who ask for it. The primary way that God grants wisdom to his people is through his inerrant, authoritative, inspired word. The Book of Proverbs will show us what it looks like to live in practical…
The Path to Joy
Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we will continue to look at what genuine faith produces in the lives of believers. Experiencing joy, and all aspects of the fruit of the Spirit are one way we see how saving faith changes us in our daily lives. But what is our part in receiving this gift in the midst of circumstances that are not joyful, or peaceful. Today we…