Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we turn the page to chapter 12 in the Book of Hebrews. We have spent the last several weeks looking at faith in the lives of God’s people from generation to generation. Last week, our author reminded us that none of those faithful men and women received the fullness of God’s promise; the eternal hope that we join with them in waiting for. But that leaves us with a question- now what? If faith […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we come to the end of Hebrews 11 and our study of faith. We have seen what faith is and what faith does. Last week we saw the victories of faith, even in lives that were less than perfectly faithful. This week we will work through a difficult reality. There are times when faithful obedience brings pain rather than what we would normally think of as triumph. Some conquered kingdoms and received their […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! We have worked through some very familiar territory for most of Hebrews 11. Giants of the faith have lived obediently, providing stories that most of us are familiar with. This week we will begin to work through some lives that might be less familiar to us. The faith is the same, but the circumstances aren’t necessarily what we would expect. Why would God highlight the faith of fearful men?  Why call attention to people who […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we will continue looking at the faith demonstrated during the time of the Exodus. The children of Israel had known hardship and slavery. Pharaoh was cruel and powerful. Yet Moses led God’s people out of Egypt without fearing the king. That’s only possible because of what they knew to be true about the power of God. By faith they kept the Passover, a time when the blood of a lamb would stand in their place […]

This week we will move forward in time roughly 400 years. We have looked at the faith of the fathers up to the life of Joseph. By the end of Genesis, 70 people go down to Egypt with the promise of becoming a great nation and, one day, returning to the Promised Land. But after 400 years, a new king is in power and the people are enslaved. In this context, we are introduced to Moses, the next man that the […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! For the last several weeks we have looked at the life of Abraham through the lens of Hebrews 11. As he matured in his faith, he came to the point where he believed that God would be faithful to His promises, even if they seemed impossible. But how would those promises move from generation to generation? Abraham dies in faith, but so do Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. How do those men demonstrate their faith in the […]

We have been working our way through Hebrews 11, and the last few weeks have focused on the life of Abraham. We know that he responded obediently when God told him to leave his home, and we know that he waited patiently but imperfectly, for God to be faithful to His promises. It can be difficult to wait for the good promises of God, especially when we might not see the fullness of those promises in our lifetime. But what […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week we started looking at the faith of the Patriarchs, particularly as demonstrated in the life of Abraham. God made Abraham the recipient of remarkable covenant promises: land, seed, and blessing. Those promises changed the way that he lived, and the decisions that he made. This week, we aren’t focusing on a new piece of the narrative. Instead, we are going to work through the idea of hope and waiting. Because the reality is […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! As we continue to move through Hebrews 11 in the coming weeks, we are going to encounter the lives of the patriarchs. These are the founders and pillars of the Jewish people and culture. Remember that the audience is being pulled back toward the law, toward the old way, toward abandoning their hope in Christ for what is familiar and acceptable. Any argument that says Jesus is better must deal with the giants of Hebrew […]

Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week we introduced Hebrews 11 with the foundations and first examples of faith. What is faith and what does it do? Faith is confident expectation, even while we wait to possess the promise. And the result of faith is obedience. This week we look at the next example of faith driven obedience- the life of Noah. We know that he built a big boat, but do we understand how faith made that possible? What […]