This week’s guest speakers are with The Traveling Team, a group that goes from campus to campus exhorting college students to fulfill their role in God’s global plan.
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and/or in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (10/11/2006) we ask ourselves why Christians believe that Jesus is unique among world religious leaders. I (Glen) would like to publicly honor Dr. Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in New York City, for shaping my thoughts as expressed in several points of my message. He’s the bomb and I unashamedly appropriate his insights into the Scriptures whenever possible.
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Hitting the play button above is the easiest way to listen, but if you prefer to download the message you can click the link below: What In Christ Alone
MP3 Length: 33:03
MP3 Size: 14 MB
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (10/4/2006) we ask ourselves what Jesus would likely say to us based upon what he said to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3.
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MP3 Length: 36:09
MP3 Size: 14 MB
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (9/27/2006) we talk about what the Book of Revelation is all about by exploring one of its central passages.
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Hitting the play button above is the easiest way to listen, but if you prefer to download the message you can click the link below: Intro To Revelation: Beauty and the Beast
MP3 Length: 35:50
MP3 Size: 14 MB
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (5/17/2006) we talk about what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit (or baptized in the Holy Spirit, as some prefer to refer to the experience).
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MP3 Length: 40:50
MP3 Size: 16 MB
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (5/11/2006) we talk about three symbols for the Holy Spirit in the New Testament: water, wind and fire. Using these three symbols as markers, we explore most of what the Holy Spirit does in our lives as believers. There is A LOT of Scripture in this message, so you’ll probably want to download the handout (pdf).
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MP3 Length: 33:38
MP3 Size: 13.5 MB
Last week Dr. William Lane Craig spoke on campus about reasons to believe in God and in the resurrection of Jesus. Both lectures were simply outstanding.
I was able to grab some time with Dr. Craig for a quick interview.
In this short clip (hosted by Google Video) , Dr. Craig explains how Christians should go about handling the inevitable doubts that crop up from time to time.
Given his powerful and remarkably persuasive arguments for God’s existence, the first part of his answer might surprise you.
To learn more about Dr. Craig and to read some of his arguments for the existence of God, visit williamlanecraig.com.
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (4/5/2006) we talk about three vignettes from Matthew 9. In the stories, the experts decide that Jesus is immoral (a blasphemer), ridiculous (they laugh at him), and that there must be another explanation for his miracles (he is a pawn of Satan).
These are the same reasons that many mistrust Jesus today–he is a ridiculous figure of dubious morality and there is surely some other explanation for his purported miracles. But in each story, a person or a small group of people demonstrated their faith by asking Jesus for help and they learn that hehas the power to bring forgiveness, health, life, and freedom. He did it then and He can do it now.
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Hitting the play button above is the easiest way to listen, but if you prefer to download the message you can click the link below: Trusting Jesus in the Midst of a Skeptical Crowd
MP3 Length: 23:19
MP3 Size: 9 MB
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (3/15/2006) we emphasize that worship is not a concert, it is a collaboration. It is not about performance, it is about participation. In the final analysis, everyone is on the worship team.
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MP3 Length: 29:24
MP3 Size: 12 MB
There are different ways to categorize these expressions. For example, you could break them down into verbal, physical, and impulsive displays of worship. You could categorize them as inwardly focused or outwardly focused. Which way you mentally group them is irrelevant: what matters is that you remain open to all of them.
Some additional thoughts:
While still an atheist, Lewis had a hard time understanding why God would command people to worship Him. This seemed very petty to Lewis. After converting, Lewis reflected further on the nature of praise.
But the most obvious fact about praise—whether of God or any thing—strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it. The world rings with praise-lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game-praise of weather, wines, dishes, actors, motors, horses, colleges, countries, historical personages, children, flowers, mountains, rare stamps, rare beetles, even sometimes politicians or scholars. I had not noticed how the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds, praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least . . . I had not noticed either that just as men spontaneously praise what ever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: “Isn’t she lovely? Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that magnificent?” The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. My whole, more general, difficulty about the praise of God depended on my absurdly denying to us, as regards the supremely Valuable, what we delight to do, what indeed we can’t help doing, about everything else we value.
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms, pp. 93-95.
In a conference lecture [Mary Jo Leddy] reported that the playwright-president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, was asked why the “Velvet Revolution” against the communists in the former Czechoslovakia was successfully nonviolent—and we might add, why it remains effective when so many other satellites of the former USSR are presently in turmoil. Havel answered somewhat like this: “We had our parallel society. And in that parallel society we wrote our plays and sang our songs and read our poems until we knew the truth so well that we could go out to the streets of Prague and say, ‘We don’t believe your lies anymore’—and communism had to fall.”
Marva Dawn, Worship To Form A Missional Community,(for the original Havel quotation, see Mary Jo Leddy’s address in the volume from the conference Confident Witness—Changing World, ed. Craig Van Gelder (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you’d like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (3/8/2006) we talk about profanity, cursing, expletives, and the Bible. Our words matter to God because our words are windows into our soul. However, this doesn’t mean that there is simply some list of words we are supposed to avoid–the Biblical standard is much higher than that.
There is no MP3 version this week due to recording issues.
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