Date: July 6, 2025

Conflicts between what our culture thinks is right and wrong, and what God has revealed is right and wrong, are inevitable. We can't avoid them, so how should we deal with them? We evaluate three possible responses, and then apply that framework to issues around sexuality and gender.

Date: June 29, 2025

As Independence Day approaches, we looked at some of the functions Scripture says that human government should be about. A lot of this falls under the heading of providing justice. We thought about how we as a nation are doing in fulfilling these functions, and what our response as Christians should be to our government.

Date: June 22, 2025

We continue from where we left off last week in our look at God's view on gender. This week, we considered the whole idea of what it means to be masculine or feminine, and we talked about some common ways Christians approach people who feel like their gender identity doesn't match their biological sex.

Date: June 15, 2025

What does God's Word have to say (or not say) about gender? And what implications does that have for how we related to people in our lives who feel like they're something other than the gender that corresponds to their biological sex? We start to address these questions in part 1 of a two-part sermon on gender and related issues.

Date: June 8, 2025

Speaker: Echo Kayser

Text: Philippians 4:5-9

Fear is a reality in our lives. What do we do when fear goes from helping to protect us to beginning to control us? How do we overcome fear? Echo shares some wisdom from God's Word to help us recognize and overcome this unhealthy fear.

Date: June 1, 2025

Tithing is a practice very familiar and normative to many Christians, while others may not understand it (or like it). In this sermon we examine the issues of tithing by asking and answering some questions about it from God's Word.

Date: May 25, 2025

Text: Genesis 1:26-31, 2:24-25

Our sexuality is an important part of who we are, and we want it to be connected to our core identity in Christ. This week we look at a few verses from Genesis 1 and 2 to begin to recapture God's original design for sex so that we can be integrated, whole people when it comes to our sexuality and our spirituality.

Date: May 18, 2025

There are a lot of diverging views in the wider Church about prophets, prophecy, and prophetic ministry today. What does God say is "normal" when it comes to prophecy? What could it look like for this to be a part of our life together at Chapel in the Pines?