The Spirit Chapel Podcast

Last week we set up the premise for this series: That it is up to us to get the "soil" -- which is our heart -- ready for the fruit of the spirit. So, how do we stop growing weeds like anger, bitterness, and disappointment? We look at the first step to ending Satan's foothold in our lives... and the first step to living Life abundantly

Sure, everyone else is talking about New Beginnings… but we’re looking at “New Endings” — and talking about the things that we have in our life that simply have to end in the year 2020 if we are ever to get where we want to be with the Lord. To start the discussion, we look at a very familiar story through new eyes…

 

It’s the week after Christmas. Too early to do a sermon on New Beginnings and Resolutions. Too late for Christmas… so instead we look at what happens AFTER the Christmas manger scene… When Joseph had to flee to Egypt to save baby Jesus’ life. And we discuss the importance of Egypt in the believer’s life.

 

Sometimes we think of Christianity as a religion of Destination… it’s what determines how we will spend eternity. The church seems to have spent much of its time talking about that, and is how evangelism used to be done… the famous: “Turn or Burn” sermons. But, Jesus speaks of a walk with him that is not about just the destination, but about the journey. How do we do that well?

 

Have you ever done something that you felt led by God to do… and it failed? Have you spent hours asking God: “Where were you? I thought we were in this together, and you abandoned me?” Today Pastor Grice walks us through what happened when he recommitted his life to Jesus, and then everything blew up — and what he ultimately learned from his failure.

 

Which seems more weird: Self-proclaimed Atheists who continue to live as though God is real? Or self-proclaimed Christians who continue to live as though He isn’t? This is the purpose of the Jesus Razor — it is designed to cut through deception.

It seems most of the modern day Christian teaching centers around Faith. If your Faith is right, everything will work out fine... But, the Old Testament barely even mentions faith, and Jesus taught about "The Heart" as much as he does "Faith." Is having a right heart a forgotten teaching of the church? And if it is so important, how do you set your heart towards God?

We tend to divide our lives into compartments: there is the work compartment, the home compartment, the family compartment, the church compartment? But is it possible to keep the God of the universe in a compartment in our lives?

It's our anniversary -- and we're starting a new (old) series. This series is based on the first sermon ever preached at Spirit Chapel -- exactly 6 years ago. It is part testimony, part theology, and part movies, as Pastor Mark walks us through critical decisions made that were made -- sometimes for the better, and sometimes not. It's an honest look at the journey that lead to Spirit Chapel in a way that should be applicable to anyone's Christian Journey.

We reach the part of Abraham's faith that seem unfathomable to us -- the sacrifice of Isaac. How did Abraham get to this kind of faith, where he was willing to trust God with everything in his life? How can we build this kind of faith?