Chestnut Mountain Church

We never know what we’re going to face every day. We will face unexpected, unwanted, and uncomfortable pain and circumstances in life. When it seems like life is falling apart, God is working on the brokenness. Looking at the parable of the hidden treasure in Matthew 13, Jesus teaches that unexpected blessings are often found in unexpected events. God will never waste the unexpected, but are we willing to surrender the very thing that is causing pain in our lives so that He can cover it with His grace and love? God wants to use your circumstances and He wants to use you to bring His Kingdom here to earth. Listen to this sermon about unexpected blessings in unexpected circumstances in the third and final part of our Stories series.

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God has a plan for you in His family and in His mission. While He has proven His power through speaking everything into creation, making a way for His people, and wiping out evil in the great flood, He chose to expand His Kingdom differently through His people, including you. Looking to Jesus sharing the parable of the mustard seed and the leaven, be reminded that you are a seed in the hand of an ever-faithful Farmer. You are a seed and leaven in the world. Remember that God sees you, has a plan for you, and has an assignment for you. Listen to this sermon about God’s unthinkable plan to expand His family from small beginnings person to person in the second part of our Stories series.

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In Luke 6, Jesus is speaking to His disciples and a crowd of people, and He shares the parable of the house built on the rock versus the house built on the sand. In His message, Jesus shares that the man with the house on the rock stood firm when the storm came, while the house on the sand was destroyed by the storm. Looking at this message shared to believers by Jesus, we see the importance of applying this to our own lives. We are going to face storms in our lives, whether we believe in Jesus or not. How is our foundation, though? Are we digging deep to make the foundation secure, or is there no foundation? If our lives are not built on Jesus, we will withstand the storms we face in live. Do you know Jesus? Listen to this sermon about checking the foundation of our lives in the first part of our Stories series.

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When we belong to God, our salvation represents a brick in the Kingdom of God. It is our responsibility to go and gather more bricks to place in the Kingdom of God. What does it look like practically to build the Kingdom of God? Look to the children of Israel in the book of Ezra, whom God freed to build His temple; we see how we must keep building His Kingdom, even in the face of the enemy’s disruptions. Listen to this sermon about building the Kingdom of God in the third part of our Belong, Become, Build series, walking through how we seek to accomplish the mission God has called us to at Chestnut Mountain Church.

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While the heart of the church is always going to be that we want people to belong to God and belong here, we have to have the same burning passion to want you to become a mature disciple of Christ. We want you to belong to Him, we want you to belong here, and we want you to mature and become a mature disciple of Jesus Christ. Why is it so important? We’re doing exactly what Jesus commanded us to do. Looking at Jesus’ model of invitation and discipleship, we see how we can fulfill the Great Commission He has commanded us to go and make disciples. Listen to this sermon about becoming a mature disciple of Christ in the second part of our Belong, Become, Build series walking through how we seek to accomplish the mission God has called us to at Chestnut Mountain Church.

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Our mission here is to saturate the world by making disciples. We have three strategies, which are how we are going to accomplish saturating the world by making disciples, and these three strategies are belong, become, and build. We desire for people to belong to God and to belong to the family of God. The word belong embodies the heart of God. Looking back to Adam and Eve and how God desired for them to belong to Him, we see that God continues to pursue us and desires for us to belong to Him despite our sin. God wants you to belong to Him. Listen to this sermon about belonging to God and to the family of God in the first part of our Belong, Become, Build series walking through how we seek to accomplish the mission God has called us to at Chestnut Mountain Church.

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John was writing his letter to believers because many believers had doubts. In 1 John 5, John writes that we can know that we will have eternal life because of how we are saved and the evidence of salvation. As believers, we may be through seasons of doubt as well. In these doubts, how can we know that we are saved, and what is the evidence of salvation? We are saved only by trusting in Jesus. God puts down the hand of grace while we put up the hand of faith. When we’re saved, our salvation compels us to love God, have a desire to keep His commands, and love others. We don’t have to live in doubt; we can live in victory because of Jesus. Listen to this sermon about the evidence of salvation in the final part of our In The Word series, walking through the book of 1 John.

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What is love? If you’re looking for what love is or about to give up on love, don’t give up on love, and John is showing us what love is in 1 John. God is love. Through Scripture, we see that God’s love is show and tell, God’s love is strong enough for the unlovable, and the presence of God is marked by love. Understanding what love is allows us to be loved and go out and share love by loving one another as we have been commanded. Listen to this sermon about what love is in the fifth part of our In The Word series, walking through the book of 1 John.

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As followers of Christ, how do we live in the love of God? We need to embrace the world we live in and love people no matter what. What does it look like to live the way God wants us to? We look to Christ and His love for us; this is the same love we should show others. You can love people well, like Jesus, wherever you are or whatever you’re doing. It requires us to lay down our life. Listen to this sermon about how to live in the love of God in the fourth part of our In The Word series, walking through 1 John.

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As followers of Christ, how can we know who we are, and how can we be sure of this? If you are in Jesus, you are a son or daughter of the King. If we are born-again believers, this is our new identity. If we could focus and grasp the love of God, our lives would look vastly different. This is how we can be sure of our identity. We will be known by what we do and by how we love. Not only can you see that you are born again based on how you love others, but the people around you can, too. Listen to this sermon about our identity in Christ and being sure of it in the third part of our In The Word series, walking through 1 John.

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