Sermons From The Chapel

Sermons From The Chapel

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Enjoying Our Portion: Ecclesiastes 5 - Stephen Muldrow

In Ecclesiastes 5, Solomon reminds us that enjoying life begins with having a right relationship with God. The gifts, experiences, and blessings we receive are meant to be enjoyed, but we can only truly appreciate our portion when we recognize the Giver and approach Him with reverence. Join us as we consider what it means to enjoy the life God has given us, find contentment in His provision, and keep our relationship with Him in its proper place.

The Vanity of Relationships: Ecclesiastes 4 - Dustin Hunziker

What happens when the relationships we need most are the very relationships that can hurt us most? We were made to share life with other people, to have someone who knows us, helps us when we fall, tells us the truth, celebrates our victories, and stays when life gets hard. Yet Ecclesiastes 4 reminds us that even our best relationships can disappoint us, change, and eventually be separated by death. So where do we find the faithful Friend our hearts are really longing for? Ecclesiastes points us toward a longing that only Jesus can ultimately satisfy. He is the Friend who does not abandon, betray, or fade away. Come explore the beauty, pain, and limitations of human relationships, and discover why our deepest need for companionship finds its answer in Christ.

Enjoy Your Rainy Day!: Ecclesiastes 3 - Stephen Muldrow

Enjoy your rainy day! Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that life is filled with changing seasons: times to laugh and weep, build and tear down, live and die. But beneath all those seasons is a God who remains sovereign and good, and who has set eternity in our hearts. As we explore this familiar passage, we’ll look beyond the temporary rhythms of this little life to the hope of the resurrection. Because we serve a living Lord, this life is more than worthwhile, and even the rainiest days can be received with hope as we trust the God who holds every season in His hands.

The Vanity of Labor: Ecclesiastes 2:18-26 - Dustin Hunziker

In Ecclesiastes 2:18–26, Solomon turns from the vanity of pleasure to the vanity of labor. What happens when we spend our lives working, building, accomplishing, and accumulating, only to die and leave it all to someone else? The worker disappears while the work remains, and Solomon wrestles with the painful reality that we cannot ultimately keep what we spend our lives building. Yet the passage does not call us to stop working or abandon enjoyment. Instead, Solomon points us to a better way: receive the fruit of our labor as a gift from God, enjoy it while we have it, and refuse to make work, achievement, legacy, or pleasure our ultimate hope. The question is not simply how hard we work, but what our work is ultimately for. In Christ, we are reminded to invest our lives in what death cannot take away, laboring for the Lord and trusting Him with the fruit of our work.

Eternity or Vanity? Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 - Stephen Muldrow

In Ecclesiastes 2:12-17, Solomon turns from the pursuit of pleasure to the pursuit of wisdom and considers the sobering reality that both the wise and the fool ultimately face the same end: death. If everything we accomplish eventually fades away, where can we find lasting fulfillment? Solomon’s meditation takes him to a dark place as he confronts the limits of wisdom and the vanity of life under the sun. Yet for the believer, death is not the final word; Romans 8:23 points us toward the hope we await: the redemption of our bodies and the fullness of what God has promised. This sermon considers whether our hope is found in what inevitably passes away, or in the eternal hope that God has secured for his people.

The Vanity of Pleasure: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 - Dustin Hunziker

In Ecclesiastes 2:1–11, Solomon sets out to answer a question every human heart eventually asks: What would finally satisfy me? Having found that wisdom could not give him what he wanted, he turns to pleasure and gives himself over to laughter, wine, possessions, accomplishments, wealth, and every desire his eyes could find. And remarkably, Solomon succeeds. He gets what he wants, enjoys what he has pursued, and then steps back to consider it all. His conclusion is not that pleasure is bad, but that it cannot bear the weight of being our ultimate good. This passage exposes the restless heart that keeps looking for the next thing to make us happy. Good gifts become cruel masters when we ask them to give what only God can give. But the answer is not to abandon joy. In Christ, we are called away from counterfeit pleasures and brought into the presence of God, where there is “fullness of joy” and pleasures forevermore. Solomon ran the experiment for us. The question is whether we will learn from what he found, or spend our lives asking vapor to give us eternity.

The Breath of Life: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 - Dustin Hunziker

What if the problem isn’t that life is meaningless, but that we keep expecting temporary things to give us something permanent? In Ecclesiastes 1:1–11, the Preacher introduces us to hevel: breath, vapor, smoke, something real, but fleeting and impossible to grasp. Generation after generation comes and goes. The sun keeps rising, the rivers keep flowing, and the world keeps turning, while our brief lives pass away. So what are we supposed to make of a life that is so precious, yet so temporary? Ecclesiastes doesn’t invite us to despair, but to see life rightly. Our lives are fleeting, but fleeting does not mean meaningless. We cannot make this life last forever, but we can receive it as God’s gift, enjoy it while it lasts, hold its blessings loosely, endure its hardships without despair, and live faithfully before the God who stands beyond it. And in Jesus Christ, we see the ultimate answer: the eternal Son entered our fleeting world and through His brief earthly life accomplished an eternal salvation.

Ecclesiastes Overview - Stephen Muldrow

Ecclesiastes is not ultimately a book about meaninglessness or hopelessness, but about putting the cares and pursuits of this world into their proper perspective. The Teacher honestly wrestles with the frustrations, uncertainties, and fleeting nature of life “under the sun,” yet he repeatedly points us beyond what is temporary to the God who is sovereign over it all. Rather than teaching us to despise this life, Ecclesiastes helps us receive its ordinary joys as gifts from a good God. There is beauty in work, relationships, food, pleasure, and the simple moments of life. But those gifts were never meant to bear the weight of being ultimate. When we trust that God is in control, we can let go of our desperate attempts to control life ourselves and learn to enjoy what He has given us. Ecclesiastes calls us to live faithfully, gratefully, and joyfully in the present while resting in the God who holds both our lives and eternity in His hands.

Psalm 98: The Lamb and His Reward - Dustin Hunziker

Psalm 98 brings our journey through the Christ-centered Psalms to its fitting conclusion: worship. The Psalm begins with God’s people singing a new song because the Lord has won a marvelous victory, expands outward to the nations, and finally summons the whole creation to rejoice before the coming King. The salvation accomplished in Christ reveals both God’s mercy and His righteousness, gathers worshipers from every nation, and points forward to the day when Christ will make all things new. But what is the ultimate goal of it all? Not merely that we are saved, or even that we are happy. The goal is that the Lamb receives the reward of His suffering; a redeemed people from every tribe, language, people, and nation, worshiping the King who purchased them with His blood. Christ has come, Christ has conquered, and Christ is worthy. So the church sings now by faith, knowing that one day the nations and all creation will join the song when the King comes again.

Psalm 116: Thanksgiving and Praise! - Stephen Muldrow

Psalm 116: Thanksgiving and Praise What does a heart transformed by God’s grace sound like? Psalm 116 answers that question with joyful gratitude. The psalmist looks back on God’s faithful deliverance and responds with thanksgiving, praise, and a renewed commitment to walk before the Lord. His worship is not merely private but public, declaring God’s goodness before His people. In this sermon, we explore how the believer’s response to salvation is one of grateful obedience and joyful worship. We will consider what it means to “take the cup of salvation” as an expression of embracing God’s covenant mercies and why those who have experienced God’s steadfast love cannot help but call upon His name, fulfill their vows, and proclaim His praise. Psalm 116 reminds us that God’s saving grace always produces thankful hearts and lives that glorify Him.

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