Chi Alpha Uni - Sermon Audio

This week, Pastor Derek finished off one of our favorite sermon series, Lies at Large, speaking more on the third enemy of the soul, the world. While the last two weeks have touched on the lies and desires within our flesh, this week Pastor Derek showed us how the world deceives us through normalizing sin.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek continued our sermon series by speaking on how the flesh deceives us through our disordered desires. He dives into the difference between our strongest desirers and our deepest desirers and helps us discern between the two.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek started the semester off with a new sermon series titled Lies at Large, inspired by a book called "Live No Lies" by John Mark Comer. Pastor Derek explained who the devil is and how he uses lies to keep us from God.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek wrapped up our sermon series, and our fall semester with a powerful message! Looking at Simeon's prophecy over Mary and the "sword that will pierce her soul", Derek explained that when we're faced with inner turmoil, causing us to choose between this world and God, we must look to Jesus.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek gave a message over expectantly waiting. For many college students, their season of life looks like waiting to step into their careers and start the next chapter, but no matter what season you're in the Lord is calling us to be patient and expectantly wait for his guidance.

This Tuesday, Pastor Katie preached a powerful message on surrendering our lives to God. Through the story of Jesus's earthly father and Katie's personal experiences in this matter, everyone in the room left knowing we can choose to surrender and let God lead.

This Tuesday, Pastor KC shared her heart for how we need to be people who cast our worries on the Lord. God is bigger than the things we stress about and is honored when we trust him enough to place our worries at his feet. Matthew 6 tells us not to worry about what we will eat, drink, or wear, for our heavenly Father knows what we need and will provide as we seek his kingdom and righteousness.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek kicked off our final sermon series of 2021, called ‘tis the season! We took a deep dive into Jesus’s true nature of being our meek and lowly savior. If the God of the universe humbled himself to be born a human in a stinky manger, then we can become people who are gentle and lowly at heart, humbling ourself and letting God do the exalting.

This Tuesday, we had a very special guest at Chi Alpha! The former lead pastor, Daniel Quinby, who is now the lead pastor at Sent Church, taught us about the gifts of the spirit. He explains why spiritual gifts are lacking in the western church, what the apostle Paul says about them, and what they're intended for.

This week at UNI's Chi Alpha, Pastor Derek shed some light on the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:4-8 tells us to "wait for the gift my Father promised", which is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and that we will "receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on us". If you want to learn more, check out the podcast!

This week, we talked about the third person in the trinity. Victor Martinez, one of our staff members, walked us through who the Holy Spirit is and how he empowers us to look more like Jesus.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek walked us through what it means to find, feed, and fight for the lost lambs on our campus. This truism is the definition of real responsibility at chi alpha, and is part of our foundational pillars.

On Tuesday, Pastor Jon taught what real community looks like. Community is essential in everyone's life. For a Christian, it's attained through creating fellowship and having intimate relationships by being vulnerable with each other.

This week, Pastor Derek took us through the story of Mary and Martha. We learned more about what intimacy is, why we should pursue it, and what it looks like to have an intimate relationship with God through having real devotion with king Jesus.

On Tuesday, Pastor Derek took us through the story of the rich, young ruler. Hopelessness is often around us, but we were reminded that hope is on the horizon with Jesus, He is our hope, and there is joy in joining His family.

On Tuesday, Pastor Derek took us through the story of the woman at the well. Hopelessness is often around us, but we were reminded that hope is on the horizon with Jesus, He is our hope, and there is joy in joining His family.

On Tuesday, Pastor Derek took us through the story of the Samaritan woman. Hopelessness is often around us, but we were reminded that hope is on the horizon with Jesus, He is our hope, and there is joy in joining His family.

On Tuesday, Pastor Derek took us through the parable of the prodigal son. Hopelessness is often around us, but we were reminded that hope is on the horizon with Jesus, He is our hope, and there is joy in joining His family.

This week, Pastor Derek took us through 2 Timothy 4:7 where Paul talks about how he "fought the good fight" and he "finished the race". Pastor Derek taught us how to finish our race well with the rest of this semester, but also with our college careers. He showed us the importance of running our own race and how much it can impact another person's life.

This week, Pastor Derek took us through Matthew chapter 5 where we learned that we must die to comfort. We learned that we must die to the comfort of our "normal" lives when we go home for the summer so that we can live to persecution. Pastor Derek reminded us that this summer break might be hard as we go home, but we must be okay with being uncomfortable for the Kingdom of God.