Chapel Hill Bible Church - Sermons

Right now, truth be told, is your life marked by ownership or stewardship of your finances? What are some specific ways you would love Jesus to grow you in generosity in 2026... include your time and talent? Eternal life is found in following Jesus, forsaking the financial gods our world tempts us with. Today’s passage reveals just how dangerous the love of money is and how it can quickly define our lives and even the state of our souls.

In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, Jesus teaches us that God’s massive heart for us transcends all human ideas about fairness. Though it sounds appealing on the surface, this is a difficult truth, confronting us on the ways live for our own prestige and compare ourselves to others. In this passage, we will come face to face with a generous God who invites us into a new vision of what it means to be His people in a world where status and competition rule the day.

In Ephesians 3:14–21, Paul pulls back the curtain on how he prays for the church—and it may not be what we expect. Rather than focusing on circumstances or outcomes, Paul prays for inner strength, deep roots in Christ’s love, and a growing grasp of the immeasurable riches of God’s grace. This prayer reveals what truly matters for the health and maturity of God’s people. As we listen in on Paul’s words, we learn not only what to pray for a church, but how God delights to work powerfully within His people for His glory and their good.

For our last Sunday in Advent, we looked at Jesus as our Savior in the birth narrative in Matthew. It is a brief passage and one that contains the whole Bible in a sense. Jesus is our promised, incarnate, Savior, the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.

This third Sunday of advent, we focus on Joy and the work of Christ as our King. God had told Israel they could have a king, but the catch is he had to be totally different than the kings of the nations. He had to be a pastoral king, a fatherly king, the king that served the purposes of the kingdom. Kingship is a really big theme in the Bible, and unfortunately in the Old Testament there are a lot of broken examples. But at the end of the day, they pointed to the perfect King. And we will revel in Him this Sunday.