Sermons from June 2021
Kingdom Crumbs?
Welcome to Chapel City Church! We are so glad that you have come to worship our great God with us today. As we continue through the gospel of Matthew, we have seen Jesus come with the power of his kingdom. Although he has come to seek and save the lost, although he comes teaching and healing, there is a growing divide concerning him. As he promised, those who are his…
Hope of the Nations
Over the course of the last two weeks, we have been confronted with the fact that sin is a matter of the heart. We are unclean not because we touch or eat unclean things, but because our hearts are fallen and sinful. That means that the solution isn’t an external fix or following a list of rules. The only answer is the radical heart transformation that the gospel…
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…
Heart or Habit?
When we talk about worshipping together, what do we mean by that? Is our worship defined by the things that we sing, say and do? As we move into Matthew 15, the idea of real worship will be at the heart of the conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders. They assumed that in doing things that looked right, they could make themselves right with God. Jesus…